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Quakes may mean legal issues for oil companies
2015-02-01 23:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Topeka Capital-Journal: The shaking comes suddenly. The quakes last night were two quick shocks and they were probably within a quarter second of each other, Frank Smith explains. Smith lives about 10 miles east of Anthony, a small town southwest of Wichita. Early Tuesday morning, he once again felt a tremor, as he has so often during the past year. Smith is convinced the earthquakes are caused by the oil and gas operations that have proliferated in his part of the state in recent years. Increasingly, state government...
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Could Fracking Cause Quakes? Scientists Disagree Over Recent Texas Swarm
2015-01-15 22:35:08| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
A swarm of recent earthquakes that has rattled residents in and around Irving, Texas, has sparked a disagreement among seismologists over how to determine whether fracking could be to blame. On the one side, the seismologist for the regulatory agency overseeing the state's oil and gas industry said he sees no connection between the two.
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Lawmakers Hear Proposals for Confronting Man-Made Quakes
2014-08-27 12:05:51| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
After a surge in earthquakes across Texas over the last several years, state regulators are considering their options.
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'Houses are bouncing;' quakes trigger controls on Oklahoma oil industry
2014-08-09 13:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Inside the small U-Haul rental office in Guthrie, Oklahoma, Tami Boxley routinely deals with something that once was rare: the rattling, booming roll of the earth. In the last week alone, residents of Guthrie, pop. 10,191, have felt five quakes rock the town a half hour's drive from Oklahoma City. The most recent rippled through Friday after lunchtime, duly recorded on the "QuakeWatch" application many residents have loaded onto their smartphones. The local newspaper runs a weekly column updating...
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Debate continues over cause of Oklahoma quakes
2014-07-25 13:39:13| Electronics - Topix.net
What's causing Oklahoma's constant quakes? An oil and gas industry geologist made the case Wednesday Mother Nature is to blame, but a national expert tells KOCO otherwise.
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