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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTexas Oil Tycoon: We Aren't Having More Earthquakes, Just Better Earthquake Detection
Texas Oil Tycoon: We Aren't Having More Earthquakes, Just Better Earthquake Detectionby Jen Haden at Daily Kos
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/27/1388256/-Texas-oil-tycoon-We-aren-t-having-more-earthquakes-just-better-earthquake-detection?detail=twitter_sf
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Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens, who made his fortune in the oil and gas industry, was the featured guest at a Southern Republican Leadership Conference event this week in Oklahoma City and he made several jaw-dropping statements that would have been laughable had the topic not been so serious. Among them:
Wastewater wells and fracking have nothing to do with theyre not even earthquakes, he told KFOR news anchor Kevin Ogle, who interviewed the oilman from Holdenville before a crowd of 300 guests at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference.
Let's stop there for a moment to offer clarification. Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey most definitely believe there is a connection. Now, back to T. Boone Pickens and his response when asked about the wastewater injection-earthquake connection:
Whats happened is that were monitoring (seismic activity) closer, Pickens said. Until a few years ago, we were monitored out of St. Louis, Missouri. And thats where we got the triggers. Now we come in with the monitors and low and behold we have got all of these Oh my God; were having another earthquake the earth is moving all the time, thats not unusual.
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Texas Oil Tycoon: We Aren't Having More Earthquakes, Just Better Earthquake Detection (Original Post)
applegrove
May 2015
OP
Typical sociopath...change context of the narrative so your pawns cannot reality test. Liar.
applegrove
May 2015
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applegrove
(118,778 posts)1. Typical sociopath...change context of the narrative so your pawns cannot reality test. Liar.
Last edited Wed May 27, 2015, 09:43 PM - Edit history (1)
Stallion
(6,476 posts)2. As a Lifetime Texan that is Complelte Bullshit
I didn't even know it was possible to have an earthquake in Dallas area until 5 years ago. Now I actually detect the movement a couple of times a month