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Ohio: Fracking waste led to earthquakes
AP ^
| 3/9/2012
| Julie Carr Smyth
Posted on 03/09/2012 1:04:30 PM PST by castowell
A dozen earthquakes in northeastern Ohio were almost certainly induced by injection of gas-drilling wastewater into the earth, Ohio oil and gas regulators said Friday as they announced a series of tough new regulations for drillers...
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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: fracking; naturalgas
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..."almost certainly induced" tells me it's not definitive. So, let's pile on a ton more regulation!
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posted on
03/09/2012 1:04:38 PM PST
by
castowell
To: castowell
More made-up BS to stop energy production.
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posted on
03/09/2012 1:05:33 PM PST
by
achilles2000
("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
To: castowell
Global warming deja vu all over again.
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posted on
03/09/2012 1:07:26 PM PST
by
Joe the Pimpernel
(Islam is a religion of peace, and Moslems reserve the right to behead anyone who says otherwise.)
To: castowell
Bunch of bureaucratic parasites looking for an excuse for their paycheck....
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posted on
03/09/2012 1:10:31 PM PST
by
mo
(If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
To: castowell
I have four words for those regulators:
Freeze In The Dark.
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posted on
03/09/2012 1:16:01 PM PST
by
KittenClaws
(A closed mouth gathers no foot.)
To: castowell
Where there is a quake there is stress. A lot of little quakes is much better than one big one.
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posted on
03/09/2012 1:17:06 PM PST
by
DManA
To: castowell
Really?
Are we in a Superman movie? Now we can cause earthquakes?
We better raise everybody’s taxes so we can study how to stop them and figure out how earthquakes are the “fault” of humans.
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posted on
03/09/2012 1:19:52 PM PST
by
Tenacious 1
(With regards to the GOP: I am prodisestablishmentarianistic!)
To: castowell
If oil wells create earthquakes what about all the water wells in this country? Should they be banned?
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posted on
03/09/2012 1:21:16 PM PST
by
McGruff
(Sarah Palin: I voted for Newt.)
To: castowell
We don’t need regulations as Fracking is almost certainly safe.
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posted on
03/09/2012 1:23:12 PM PST
by
Usagi_yo
To: castowell
"aftershocks"
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posted on
03/09/2012 1:27:12 PM PST
by
Doogle
(((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: Tenacious 1
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posted on
03/09/2012 1:28:44 PM PST
by
Doogle
(((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: castowell
To: castowell
A dozen earthquakes in northeastern Ohio were almost certainly induced by injection of gas-drilling wastewater into the earth, Ohio oil and gas regulators said... Ok, then drill all along the San Andres fault. Release the pressure gradually, so there isn't a major earthquake in San Fransicko and LA.
Oh, wait...
5.56mm
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posted on
03/09/2012 1:33:57 PM PST
by
M Kehoe
To: castowell
A trivial tremor for a huge supply of gas,, sounds worth it to me. I must have missed the devastation and deaths in Ohio.
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posted on
03/09/2012 1:42:45 PM PST
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
To: castowell
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posted on
03/09/2012 1:58:50 PM PST
by
tumblindice
( our new, happy lives)
To: castowell
Yeah, and CO2 from human activity caused global warming...errrr...climate change.
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posted on
03/09/2012 2:01:28 PM PST
by
JimRed
(Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
To: castowell
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posted on
03/09/2012 2:01:53 PM PST
by
lacrew
(Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
To: Tenacious 1
We better raise everybodys taxes so we can study how to stop them and figure out how earthquakes are the fault of humans.Create a problem, create an industry solving it. That's how I believe all that computer virus stuff got started...
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posted on
03/09/2012 2:05:24 PM PST
by
JimRed
(Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
To: castowell
almost certainly ——
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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posted on
03/09/2012 2:27:05 PM PST
by
Freddd
(NoPA ngineers.)
To: castowell
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posted on
03/09/2012 2:52:38 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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