Texas, Oklahoma Divided Over How To Handle Earthquakes Linked To Oil Drilling
Oklahoma and Texas have been experiencing a rash of human-caused earthquakes. It happens when oil and gas wastewater gets pumped underground in the wrong places and disrupts faults. Oklahoma officials have cracked down on wastewater injection; Texas is apparently uninterested in doing much. That could mean a lot more quakes given that the country's biggest oil reservoir has just been discovered in west Texas.
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November 29, 2016 at 04:22AM
Environment
Thứ Ba, 29 tháng 11, 2016
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