Earthquake

[FlyingV77]

So your going to take the word of the "scientists" that are on the payrole of the oil/gas companys, when they say that the oil/gas co didn't do it. As for the earthquakes in DFW, we sit on a major stress fault in the middle of the plate, that has been inactive for as long as people have live here. We've only had them sence they started fracking in this area. How fracking affects it is this.. high presser going in. Changes the balance, then the pressure is reliced up setting it further causing the ground to settle and "quake". Same prenciple as when a house foundation settles and cracks. Now go do your own reserch, I don't get paid to educate people.

[circmand]

So your going to take the word of the "scientists" that are on the payrole of the oil/gas companys, when they say that the oil/gas co didn't do it. As for the earthquakes in DFW, we sit on a major stress fault in the middle of the plate, that has been inactive for as long as people have live here. We've only had them sence they started fracking in this area. How fracking affects it is this.. high presser going in. Changes the balance, then the pressure is reliced up setting it further causing the ground to settle and "quake". Same prenciple as when a house foundation settles and cracks. Now go do your own reserch, I don't get paid to educate people.

There were earthquakes along that major fauly in 2008 and 2009 before fracking even started there. There is some research that the quakes during the process was caused by salt water disposal wells drilled in the area but the studies have determined that it had nothing to do with fracking. The very name MAJOR STRESS FAULT tells you quakes are just a matter of time. It's a good thing you are not the one educating us as the words are pressure not presser, released not reliced, principal npt prenciple and research not reserch. Perhaps these misspellings are the reason the sites you go to for information are full of quack science as real scientists probably can spell the words correctly.

[Osteomata]

That strikes me as a rather bad strawman. The COGCC is pretty independent, and has pissed off the oil and gas industry with some rule rewrites since their reorg a few years back. Their report on this subject is comprehensive, and is consistant with many other studies regarding the threat of ground water intrusion by fracking. Put up against your evidence, which consists of a carefully selected scene from a film, then yes I will go with those evil scientists. You do yourself no favors by adding in the the earthquake theory, the silliness of which allows people to dismiss what might be legit concerns in the rest of your argument. I think it is possible that evidence may come up that reveals some danger from fracking, but right not it is not solid at all, and natural gas is certainly preferable to coal, particuarly mountain top removal coal mining, in terms of ecological impact.

Having said that, circmand's reference to the evil "ecoidiot" fabulists and their propoganda is rather onesided, its not like the most powerful industries in the world, of which oil and gas is surely one of them, don't produce enormous amounts of clearly self serving BS PR, and in my book far more of it.

So your going to take the word of the "scientists" that are on the payrole of the oil/gas companys, when they say that the oil/gas co didn't do it. As for the earthquakes in DFW, we sit on a major stress fault in the middle of the plate, that has been inactive for as long as people have live here. We've only had them sence they started fracking in this area. How fracking affects it is this.. high presser going in. Changes the balance, then the pressure is reliced up setting it further causing the ground to settle and "quake". Same prenciple as when a house foundation settles and cracks. Now go do your own reserch, I don't get paid to educate people.