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The Link Between Fracking and Oklahomas Quakes Keeps Getting Stronger
2015-04-06 21:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: Over the last few years, Oklahoma has experienced an insane uptick in earthquakes. As we reported in 2013, the count exploded from just a couple per year back in the mid-2000s to over a thousand in 2010, growing alongside a boom in the states natural gas drilling industry. There is now a heap of peer-reviewed research finding that Oklahomas earthquake swarm is directly linked to frackingnot the gas drilling itself, but a follow-up step where brackish wastewater is re-injected into disposal...
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