2nd December 2016, 6:22 AM
Yes, Oklahoma state government IS responsible for it. That's a fact, and we just can't seem to vote those responsible out of positions of power. It would be better off if Oklahoma abandoned fracking entirely, but I'd take a complete ban on wastewater injection (by which I mean the second part, where they take the waste they get along with the precious oil and just shove it back into the earth when they're done, which appears to be the main source of instability leading to earthquakes). They are reducing it, which has resulted in a reduction in quakes already, but it isn't enough. There is no reason they should have to dispose of that waste water by just jamming it deep into the bedrock. They could bury it in mines dug into Black Mesa for all I care, but find some other way to get rid of it!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)