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Panich52

(5,829 posts)
Mon Feb 2, 2015, 06:43 PM Feb 2015

Fracking quakes in OK not OK (except w/ drillers)

Lori Montgomery reports for WaPo that residents of Oklahoma are, as one put it, “frustrated and scared” by an exponential increase in seismic activity linked to fracking. But “in a state founded on oil wealth, officials have been reluctant to crack down on an industry that accounts for a third of the economy.”

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Fracking quakes in OK not OK (except w/ drillers) (Original Post) Panich52 Feb 2015 OP
The oil and gas companies do not care if he whole state crumbles redstatebluegirl Feb 2015 #1

redstatebluegirl

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1. The oil and gas companies do not care if he whole state crumbles
Mon Feb 2, 2015, 07:10 PM
Feb 2015

As long as they get all of the oil and gas under us. They have bought and paid for our Governor and legislature. They have made sure the rest of us are to poor to put up a fight.

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