Texas Oil Tycoon: We Aren't Having More Earthquakes, Just Better Earthquake Detection [View all]

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Texas Oil Tycoon: We Aren't Having More Earthquakes, Just Better Earthquake Detection

by 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 — they’re 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:

“What’s happened is that we’re monitoring (seismic activity) closer,” Pickens said. “Until a few years ago, we were monitored out of St. Louis, Missouri. And that’s 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; we’re having another earthquake’ — the earth is moving all the time, that’s not unusual.”


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