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<blockquote data-quote="Hobbes" data-source="post: 2720213" data-attributes="member: 3371"><p>&#8710;&#8710;&#8710; Finally, people are beginning to admit the waste injection wells are the culprit.</p><p>Even the OGS and the CC are slowly edging toward admitting it privately, they just won't say so publicly because of the pressure exerted on them by the Oil and NG lobby.</p><p></p><p>There don't seem to be any professional lobbyists at the capitol representing the property owners though.</p><p>People with property damage or just tired of having their children wake up at night to a shaking house are their own lobbyists but they don't seem to get their own seat at the table at the CC or a private meeting with the president of OU and the head of the OGS.</p><p></p><p>Money and lobbyists run this state so I don't expect to see this problem fixed until we have a temblor exceeding the 5.6 back in 2011.</p><p>That is exactly what the USGS is predicting too. A 6.x earthquake that creates significant and widespread property damage along with personal injuries.</p><p></p><p>Instead of some kind of reasonable regulation of where injection wells are allowed, we get house and senate legislation to eliminate municipal and local control over drilling and give that local authority to the CC.</p><p>I guess we know who the CC works for.</p><p></p><p>The personal injury lawsuits have started though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hobbes, post: 2720213, member: 3371"] ∆∆∆ Finally, people are beginning to admit the waste injection wells are the culprit. Even the OGS and the CC are slowly edging toward admitting it privately, they just won't say so publicly because of the pressure exerted on them by the Oil and NG lobby. There don't seem to be any professional lobbyists at the capitol representing the property owners though. People with property damage or just tired of having their children wake up at night to a shaking house are their own lobbyists but they don't seem to get their own seat at the table at the CC or a private meeting with the president of OU and the head of the OGS. Money and lobbyists run this state so I don't expect to see this problem fixed until we have a temblor exceeding the 5.6 back in 2011. That is exactly what the USGS is predicting too. A 6.x earthquake that creates significant and widespread property damage along with personal injuries. Instead of some kind of reasonable regulation of where injection wells are allowed, we get house and senate legislation to eliminate municipal and local control over drilling and give that local authority to the CC. I guess we know who the CC works for. The personal injury lawsuits have started though. [/QUOTE]
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