Some OK Residents Notice Their Reps Do Not, In Fact, Give A Shit Re. Quakes, Fracking Or Them

[hatrack]

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Instead of doing that, state legislators passed SB 809 in May last year. The law limits the ability of local governments to regulate oil and gas operations. Now only the governor and the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC), the agency that regulates the state’s oil and gas industry, can take any meaningful action. The new law follows Texas legislation passed a few months after Denton residents approved a ban on fracking, negating the initiative.

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Moore opened the town hall with a presentation that claimed fracking isn’t part of the earthquake problem, it is only injection well use. He suggested finding alternative ways to dispose of the fracking industry’s wastewater. Some in the audience hissed when he suggested finding a way to recycle the waste by spraying it on crops, as is being done in California. Then he proposed sending the wastewater to Texas. Sharon Wilson, Earthworks Gulf Coast representative, quickly let him know that Texas doesn’t want it.

Someone asked what it would take to get a moratorium on injection well use, and wanted to know who is in charge. Moore said Gov. Mary Fallin is the only one who holds power to call for a moratorium. But Fallin, who didn’t attend either meeting, had previously stated that matters related to the earthquakes are in the OCC’s hands, and she has faith that it has the situation under control.

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Moore claimed he wants to stop the earthquakes as much as the next person, because his wife is not happy about them either. He hopes that the wife of the Speaker of the House is upset, too, suggesting the wrath of politicians’ wives might kick the legislators into action. “You are late to the party, whether your wife is upset or the Speaker of the House’s wife is upset,” Cathy Meadows, a resident of Edmond, told Moore. “Fracking may not cause earthquakes, but you cannot frack without producing this dirty water,” Meadows said. “And until there is a comprehensive affordable plan to deal with this water, why do you not support a moratorium?” she asked Moore. “This is an issue that will turn a red state blue,” Meadows warned, drawing a standing ovation.

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http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/01/19/fracking-industry-linked-earthquakes-oklahoma-crack-political-party-lines

[abelenkpe]

1. Wait wait wait....

California is spraying their crops with fracking waste water?!

[hatrack]

2. Why yes! The oil companies say it's perfectly safe!

I'm sure we can trust them to do the right thing!

[abelenkpe]

4. Ugh

So sick of business advising and running the government with no input from citizens. Do other areas do this as well? Is there away to avoid buying food sprayed with fracking wastewater?

[packman]

3. That's what I love about Red state people

After they get stomped on by the Republican elephant - either thru finding out their air is polluted, their water fouled, their social services cut, etc. - it suddenly dawns on them, "Hey, maybe the Democrats were right after all."

It all comes down to that old adage, "It's O.K. when it happens to you, but when it happens to me - that's entirely different."

[Delmette]

5. Oklahoma turned blue?

I'll believe it when I see it.

I lived there 30 years ago and in all that the time they have only gone from red to redder.