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Oil & gas execs 'pressured' Oklahoma geologists not to reveal fracking-quakes link

2015-03-05 17:26:19| Electronics - Topix.net

Newly-obtained emails reveal that Oklahoma geologists were pressured by oil industry big-shots not to push on with their assessments of possible links between earthquakes in the state and hydraulic fracturing industry, most often referred to as fracking. More than a year since a sharp spike in earthquakes in the region, which coincided with fracking for oil and gas, the Oklahoma Geological Survey say there might be a possible link.

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