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comment by bioemerl

Isn't this a good thing though? Large numbers of small earthquakes become routine and are built around. Single large ones destroy cities.

We all are yelling about this being bad now, but I almost imagine that a hundred years down the line we will look highly at the accidental discovery of lubricating the planet. (and, yes, I understand that it doesn't quite work like that)





user-inactivated  ·  3616 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, except Oklahoma didn't have an earthquake problem previously. So it wasn't at risk of city destruction.

bioemerl  ·  3616 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I assume that, being that there are now minor earthquakes, that Oklahoma would be having one large earthquake issue sometime in the future. That energy will be there regardless of fracking.

user-inactivated  ·  3615 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I figured. You'd have to run a cost-benefit based on the probability of that happening, to see whether it should be a significant factor in judging this fracking stuff.