Oklahoma well she's a rockin'. 420 tremors of 2.0 in the week of Feb 12 to Feb 18.
Oklahoma has averaged about 11 measurable tremors per year in the past. In 2013 there were 291. In 2014 there had already been 250 before last weeks outbreak. What's rockin Oklahoma? Many areas of the U.S. have experienced heavier then normal seismic activity around areas of heavy drilling and fracking, although the process cannot be definitively fingered as the cause. But Oklahoma? It's not known as one of the big fracking sites around the country. So what's rockin' Oklahoma?
Thanks to highly conservative, affair having, governor Mary Fallin, Oklahoma has become the dumping ground for the wastewater that is produced during the fracking procedure. Geophysicists find strong evidence that the tremors are being caused by the injection under high pressure of the waste water from fracking operations being deposited under ground in Oklahoma.
Well Rick, you know that you can get personally involved... you can turn your lights off, turn down your thermostat and put on a heavy sweater and turn off the TV, you are watching way to much MSNBC... or you could write the president and tell him to quite gutting the coal industry and open up new coal fired plants until a real energy alternative is available.
ReplyDeleteIt's the Tea Party's fault Rick.
ReplyDeleteTornadoes.
ReplyDeleteCaused by Bush.