A state worse than Texas?

[NICE MOBIUS]

I know, surely there can't be, right?

Fracking is OK: http://gu.com/p/4fkfd?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Oklahoma!

It always passes under the radar because of the stupidity and sheer scale of stories of its larger neighbour...

But the way it's treating fracking is seriously dumb. Come to think of it, OK is that dumb state that didn't build tornado shelters despite being in tornado alley and all those people died a few years back - seriously dumb!

Not forgetting the Oklahoma bombing, so clearly full of right-wing crazies!

We don't have any OK posters do we? I imagine they're too stupid to understand the internets, so we're probably safe...

I'd have a field day if I knew we had some 'Backwards Texans' on poly!

[Dinner]

Fracking is fine as long as they are regulated to make sure the ground water sources are not contaminated. Go shag a sheep, you Welshman.

[giblets]

Mississippi seems pretty bad.

[Alexander's Horse]

Australia

[Ben Kenobi]

Illinois.

[Kidlicious]

Does Washington DC count?

[Ben Kenobi]

Not a state.

[Dinner]

Australia

Actually, you guys got ranked #2 in quality of life recently.

[Alexander's Horse]

we cheated, we're bad, very bad

[NICE MOBIUS]

Fracking is fine as long as they are regulated to make sure the ground water sources are not contaminated. Go shag a sheep, you Welshman.

Clearly you didn't read the link

[Egbert]

This is the nicest thing Moby has ever said about Texas.

[NICE MOBIUS]

I believe you are not wrong.

I did find San Antonio to be a nice place overall when I visited.

[NICE MOBIUS]

Kid is from Oklahoma! It all makes complete and utter sense!

[The Mad Monk]

Fracking, hydroelectric dams, wells (gas, oil, and water), and carbon sequestration can all cause earthquakes. So why the concentration on fracking? It's only turned the economics of fossil fuels upside down, after all.

I listened in fascination to a presentation from earthquake scientist Christian Klose at the 2006 American Geophysical Union fall meeting in which he showed how coal mining was responsible for earthquakes, including the most-damaging ever in Australia. (The 5.6-magnitude Newcastle earthquake of 1989, though relatively small by international comparison, killed 13 people.) The removal of coal, rock and, especially, water from underground can cause enough stress to trigger an earthquake, Klose said. Other potential earthquake triggers he mentioned were oil and gas extraction, creation of reservoirs behind dams and, he conjectured, sequestering carbon dioxide underground.

Read the rest here.

I remember reading up on this in my Structural Geology course back in...1990? Back then it was all about the dams...and a hazardous waste injection site at an Army chemical weapon disposal facility. Anyhoo, the upshot is that anything that can stress or lube an old fault can start it up again.

[Dinner]

The removal of coal, rock and, especially, water from underground can cause enough stress to trigger an earthquake

Actually, it did not cause any stress. Before the over burden was removed things were at equalbrium was far as pressures were concerned. By removing the over burden they caused a classic unloading earthquake.

You can also have loading quakes where you put a lot of new weight onto a system thus changing the stresses and causing a quake. Dams do this not to infrequently.