My moonbat SIL has been told that fracking causes earthquakes. She believes this.
that was a projected possible cause of the Oklahoma earthquakes a couple of weeks ago, that appeared in the MSM. ......I worked with a Thai Chemist a few years ago....he had gone home to Thailand a few months after the Boxing day earthquakes in 2004 and subsequent tsunamis...and he was informed by his relatives that everyone knew it was Yankee imperialist dog oil drilling that caused that subduction zone earthquake.
A friend of mine told me that as well. I immediately LOLed and then realized, by the look on his face, that he was totally serious!
• Fracking contaminates drinking water. One claim is that fracking creates cracks in rock formations that allow chemicals to leach into sources of fresh water. The problem with this argument is that the average shale formation is thousands of feet underground, while the average drinking well or aquifer is a few hundred feet deep. Separating the two is solid rock. This geological reality explains why EPA administrator Lisa Jackson, a determined enemy of fossil fuels, recently told Congress that there have been no “proven cases where the fracking process itself has affected water.”
Look at all the earthquakes all over the world. I had no idea we were doing some much FRACKING!