Texans want frackers to stop causing earthquakes

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http://grist.org/news/texans-want-frackers-to-stop-causing-earthquakes/

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Some North Texans who have been enduring a months-long flurry of earthquakes want the shaking to stop — and they believe that means putting an end to a controversial fracking practice.

“Is somebody going to help us?” one resident asked the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates gas and oil drilling, during a hearing on Tuesday. “I’ve heard of tornado alley. I’ve never heard of earthquake alley.”

The dozens of residents who traveled to Austin for the hearing want frackers barred from injecting their wastewater underground at high pressure. Scientists have linked the practice to earthquakes in other regions.

[yeoman6987]

1. How awful for the residents

I would imagine it would be annoying to have mini Earthquakes all the time, but I doubt that Fracking is going anywhere. If we want this practice to be banned, more Americans need to step up and I just don't see the passion for tracking to end. I think it has more to do with ignorance on what tracking really is and what it does and how it could or doesn't damage the environment. Too many unanswered questions and for some reason not a big issue for Americans to take under they wings.

[truedelphi]

2. Our entire nation is about to lose its environment.

The documentary "Gaslands II" put out a map or two on how much of our country will be under attack from fracking, and it is a significant amount.

If we had a Free Press, doing its job, and not the bought and paid for media we currently have, the young film producer behind Gaslands series would be on the evening news 24/7 until the fracking issue was totally revealed to the public, and the frackers are then thrown to the wolves.

Instead, we have Al Sharpton interviewing former PA gov Ed Rendell about Chris Chirstie and the lanes of NJ highway being shut down for four days.

Sharpton knows who is buttering is bread, and who really owns the network he is on. So why not have the current day King Of Texas Frackdom come on to explain how evil Christie is!

Our comedians prefer to make fun of the bozo mayor of Toronto, or the evils of one corrupt man in New Jersey. And meanwhile, community after community in Texas is lost to the terrible ill effects of the "Gaslands." And many of the homeowners there have no one to sell their property to when they finally move away - as who is going to buy a property where the water is not safe, where the foundations crack from mini earthquakes, where the air is filled with toxins, some of which smell awful, but other toxins, equally dangerous, are not detectable except with specialized equipment?