Rachel Maddow: Earthquake-rattled Texas town begs state to shut down fracking wells

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Rachel Maddow: Earthquake-rattled Texas town begs state to shut down fracking wells
By David Ferguson
Friday, January 24, 2014 10:18 EST

In the segment below from Thursday night’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” Maddow told the story of a Texas town shaken by a series of earthquakes. Now, geological evidence is indicating that the natural gas mining technique hydraulic fracturing — also known as “fracking” — may be to blame.

Over the past year, a number of rail car accidents involving crude oil have dumped hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into neighborhoods, rivers and woodlands. Proponents of pipelines have capitalized on the accidents as an occasion to champion their method of moving crude oil from where it is drilled to where it is processed.

“Undercutting that argument, of course,” Maddow said, “is the mind-numbing number of pipeline spills that have also soiled big swathes of the country recently.”

“Sort of a ‘pick your poison,’ right?” she continued. “Do you want the exploding rail car behind Door Number One or the potentially exploding pipeline behind Door Number Two? Well, what they’re getting in Texas right now is an extra heavy dose of Door Number Two.”