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The article in question studied waste-water injection wells, not oil and gas production wells. The author is not saying that fracking causes earthquakes, but that water that is permanently injected...
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There are nearly 700,000 disposal wells in the US, the vast majority predating hydraulic fracturing by decades. It's been known for a long time that a very few of these cause seismic activity. When...
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Heat is used to combat high viscosity, not low permeability. Two very different issues.
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You don't quite understand what kind of pressure 13,000 feet of head exerts, huh? Anyway, the article at hand makes it clear that they are talking about disposal wells causing seismicity. Anybody even...
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"...you don't have one without the other". What total nonsense. There are 700,000 disposal wells in the country, most of them several decades old. They were used before fracking, and will be used if it...
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Fracking definitely not the cause. As the study in question makes abundantly clear, waste disposal wells are the cause, not oil and gas production wells.
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Texas is an "at will" state. You can be fired at any tome, for any (or no) reason.
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