[sagar]

Boo freakin hoo. Move to the States that don’t allow fracking.

[Spktyr]

Good luck with that. Houston tried to do the same thing with the state’s supremacy clause on firearms by banning gun shows. They got slapped down by every single level of the court system as the clause is clearly written and ended up having to pay a huge fine.

Then they had the gall to come ask the state legislature for money to fill the hole in their budget caused by their deliberate defiance of state laws passed by the state legislature. You can probably guess what the answer of the annoyed legislators was.

[Vendome]

Witches on broomsticks and goblins.....

Oooohhhhhhhhhh!!!!

[bakeneko]

“I had a crack pipe, then boom!! Whole house shook Lawdy!! What was that?!”

That’s probably the extent of the ‘complaint’.

[ASA Vet]

The oil companies should abide by the desire of Reno, TX.
Oil and oil products are evil so eliminate all of them from Reno.

[PIF]

And the epicenter of the quake was located where?

[thackney]

Reno, a community about 50 miles west of Dallas

Reno, Texas is about 100 miles Northeast of Dallas.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Reno,+TX/Dallas,+TX/@33.2277927,-97.3160694,8z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x864a58ab2a65145d:0x80fcf6d5e9e622ca!2m2!1d-95.4624548!2d33.6631622!1m5!1m1!1s0x864c19f77b45974b:0xb9ec9ba4f647678f!2m2!1d-96.8009781!2d32.7802618

I guess the author thinks the fault lines that have existed long before the State did in the area just magically appeared without any prior earthquakes.

[Vermont Lt]

Just because it was the first earthquake “recorded” doesn’t mean it’s the first earthquake ever.

[justlurking]

Fracking doesn't "cause" earthquakes. Tectonic plate shifts cause earthquakes.

Fracking may "lubricate" the fault, so that smaller earthquakes happen more often. But, the alternative is: let the pressure build up, and released in one big earthquake.

I think I would choose smaller earthquakes, more often.

[Lazamataz]

A Texas hamlet shaken by its first recorded earthquake last year and hundreds since then is among communities now taking steps to challenge the oil and gas industry's traditional supremacy over the right to frack. Reno Mayor Lyndamyrth Stokes said spooked residents started calling last November: "I heard a boom, then crack! The whole house shook. What was that?"

Lyndamyrth can frack off.

[dearolddad]

With all the fracking going on in Japan and Alaska I’m surprised they don’t have a lot more quakes.