Oklahoma Earthquakes Are a National Security Threat

Bloomberg News | 10/23/2015 | Matthew Philips

[Crazieman]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-23/oklahoma-earthquakes-are-a-national-security-threat : Link Only, per outdated copyright law.

[Crazieman]

So, without any evidence, all news articles now cite fracking on earthquakes as settled science. Apparently it is a settled template.

Note how the article also cites 'toxin laden water' when a recent study disputed the claim the water is toxic at all.

[sheik yerbouty]

stop plate tectonics!

[Crazieman]

Every credible scientist knows a water pump can move a tectonic plate.

Elementary!

[lacrew]

Let me get this straight. For the last 40 years, our need for oil has forced us to deal with criminal mid-east dictators and commit tens of thousands of troops to the region....

And the one technology that could get us off this hellish merry go round is really a security threat?

Lib logic

[SWAMPSNIPER]

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

H.L. Mencken

[Smokin' Joe]

So, without any evidence, all news articles now cite fracking on earthquakes as settled science. Apparently it is a settled template.

Oh, absolutely! Look at the bazillions of earthquakes in North Dakota where thousands of wells have been fracced.

Um, uhhhhhhh.... nevermind.

It is one of the most seismically stable areas of the continent.

[clearcarbon]

"Oklahoma Earthquakes Are a National Security Threat"

After the first Persian nuke takes out bloomberg news, fracking might get a little more respect.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Fracking has been going on since the 1930s. Why wasn’t it a problem back then?

[moose07]

I believe it had the less emotive name of Hydrolic extraction.
Sounds less terrifying than “ Fracking! “

[mazda77]

Parked next to a guy who had one of those Got Science? stickers on his car. As I was getting out, he was about to get in and I pointed to his sticker while asked him if that was science of consensus or science of fact.

What fun it is to ask simple questions.

[Gaffer]

One day, government and their proponents will be saying "People only use resources and air, and they expel waste that has to be treated and CO2 that is killing our planet. Those among us who are not contributors to society and producers should give up their place so the rest may prosper."

I should note that "voting" won't be a factor anymore that is considered "contributing". When government is fully consolidated, votes won't be needed and neither will the people government pandered to in order to get where it is.

[Dusty Road]

Or in the Permian Basin of West Texas.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Canadian Frackmaster and other similar outfits have been in this business for decades up in Western Canada.

[G Larry]

Hey Bloomy!!!

Do you write much about ISLAMIST TERRORISTS threat to National Security???

[JEDI4S]

I had forgotten what a wonderful word hobgoblins is.

It seems to describe masses of left-wing scum and villainy including Rinos and other supportive vermin.

And just in time for Halloween!!!!

Once we have fumigated the GOP and are in control...we may refer to the Rino wing and its’ new party the H O B !

No offense to the “HOBBIT COMMUNITY”. I loves me some Hobbit...

(They are very tasty if you cook’em right!).

[Patriot Babe]

Wait! just one minute, I thought Obama is the major National Security Threat.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***1930s. Why wasn’t it a problem back then?***

It was! The 1930s were the driest and hottest on record in the oil producing areas of the USA. And the cause was fracking!
Yes, I pulled my proof from where the sun don’t shine.

My proof is just as good as today’s proof! prove me wrong!

Sarc/off

[BwanaNdege]

The theory about the mechanism in Fracking that causes earthquakes is that the fluid lubricates the fault, making slippage easier and thus generating "Swarms" of micro-quakes.

If this is true, this is a very good thing! The tectonic plates are going to move in relation to each other. At the boundaries where they abut the adjacent tectonic plate there has to be slippage which causes the earthquake. If there are myriad small slippages due to a fracking-lubricated interface, we get "swarms" of minor to minuscule quakes.

If there is no fracking lubrication and no small quakes continually relieving tension, then it just builds and builds over the decades. When the fault finally slips an event with a technical, scientific name occurs.

It's called

The Big One

[Sequoyah101]

Never mind the Nemaha Ridge or that the epicenter of the quakes is well below the depth of wells in the area.