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[Marcail0825]

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@hennypenny wrote:

The link between fracking and earthquakes is strong!

Fracking injects chemicals into the rocks that enter the water aquafer. It is a very dangerous practice. We do have a voice!

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Yes @hennypenny we do have a voice and more of us need to speak up!

[Nataliesgramma]

I live in Ohio and we were getting small earthquakes once a month. "They" assured residents that it was NOT due to the fracking until we had a 4.1 and people close to the fracking site had quite a bit of damage. The community got with our representatives and had it stopped....and guess what....not ONE earthquake in 2 years since!!

[newziesuzie]

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@Nightowlz wrote:

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@newziesuzie wrote:

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@Nightowlz wrote:

Well 200 earthquakes in Tx does not compare to all the earthquakes Ok has been having due to drilling. Ok has more earthquakes then any place in the world or that's what they are saying.

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@Nightowlz

My post and the article does talks about 

the 160-fold increase in Oklahoma earthquakes.

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@newziesuzie I read the article. From going to never having earthquakes to having the most in the world caused by drilling. I know people have been hurt & homes damaged. I don't know what those people are doing since insurance will not cover their damage. We have not had any damage in our area. It's an odd feeling with the ground beneath your feet moving.

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@Nightowlz

That's very sad. 

I wonder if the damage is even fixable.

😔

[newziesuzie]

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@MickD wrote:

Oh and there are two documentaries on HBO......gasland 1 and 2 ....tear jerkers...

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@MickD

Thanks!  I'll look those up.

[Noel7]

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@newziesuzie wrote:

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@Nightowlz wrote:

Well 200 earthquakes in Tx does not compare to all the earthquakes Ok has been having due to drilling. Ok has more earthquakes then any place in the world or that's what they are saying.

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@Nightowlz

My post and the article does talks about 

the 160-fold increase in Oklahoma earthquakes.

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I've been following this for quite some time now and I put up a couple of articles on it.   Like Global Warming and Climate Change, many people have their head firmly planted in the sand no matter what scientists say

[151949]

They have been fracking in the SW USA since the 1960's . Before people get all bent over a study they should at least read up and get educated about the topic.

[dooBdoo]

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151949 wrote:

They have been fracking in the SW USA since the 1960's . Before people get all bent over a study they should at least read up and get educated about the topic.

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          @151949, Perhaps you are the one who needs to "read up and get educated about the topic," or at the least read the article in the OP.    It addresses the problem going back to the 1960s, and the associated damage caused since then, and states:

"...Geologists have known since the 1960s that pushing fluids into the ground can set off quakes.

In 1961 crews drilled a deep well at a chemical weapons plant outside Denver, known as the Rocky Mountain Arsenal.

Within months after workers started pumping hazardous waste into the well, residents felt tremors.

More than 700 small to modest-size quakes shook the ground between 1962 and 1966.

A local geologist named David Evans noticed that the volume and pressure of the injections corresponded with earthquake rates.

In a 1966 paper he concluded that the well was likely to blame for the quakes. “It is believed that a stable situation,” he wrote, “is being made unstable by the application of fluid pressure.”...."

[nun ya]

You can't fracture rock fornations below the earth and not expect it to shift

We won't know the full ramifications until it's too late. 

[Noel7]

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@151949 wrote:

They have been fracking in the SW USA since the 1960's . Before people get all bent over a study they should at least read up and get educated about the topic.

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@151949

I'm pretty sure most people here know more than you know about the subject.

But please feel free to tell us how you have concluded that poisoning the water isn't a bad thing for those in some fracking areas.

[nun ya]

fracking in the 60's is not the same fracking today. 

BTW, we had 5 small earthquakes in 24 hrs here in my county in Pa last month. The fracking company shut down operations.