Red Alert from Alberta’s Fracking Earthquake Warning System | The Tyee

In fact Alberta researchers have recommended a tougher traffic light system for geothermal projects than the one currently regulating fracking. It would trigger a major evaluation of operations when 1.5 magnitudes occur and shut down the operation at 3.5 magnitude with the goal of keeping all tremors at low magnitude.

When it's not oil-related, regulations are tougher?

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which blasts apart rock with high pressure streams of water, sand and chemicals, has made Fox Creek one of the most seismically active areas in the province.

Love this. I love how fucking natural gas extraction has fucked with the only good thing ABOUT northern Alberta, in that while it's cold, dirty, flat, dry, brown, bingeing on the resource tit and thus Very Albertan, at least it's got no earthquakes. Alberta's addiction to crude and dirty resource income has now given the people of Fox Creek earthquakes.

I'm sure there was more, here, but this bit really fed into the bias grown from living in Calgary and High River for 8 years.