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should wind power companies pay for all the birds they kill?
In a similar manner to how John Snow isolated the cholera-contaminated water pump in 19th-century London.
Should fracking companies pay for damage caused by fracking created earthquakes? This of course assuming that it is proved that fracking is causing earthquakes.
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I say yes.If I drive my car into someone's home and cause damage then I would be held liable. So why shouldn't the fracking companies be held liable for the damage caused by their activities?
Who gave them permission to conduct their operations?
The Texas State legislature, for one.
So why should they pay damages for something the govt gave them permission to do? Does anyone believe that studies weren't done prior to getting permission? No doubt in my mind that a risk assessment was done.
Sure, if you can prove that cracking caused the earth quakes.
can you show that government gave them permission to damage the environment and create conditions where earthquakes would occur?
https://www2.usgs.gov/faq/categories/9833/3428
United States Geological Survey confirms it: Fracking causes earthquakes | ExtremeTech
This business is highly regulated, and clearly has a lot of govt involvement. So why do you think they should be fined?
It is pressure from waste water injection, not a big hammer making cracking.
Do try and research before posting.
Knowledge can be very helpful.
Nowhere in those links does it say the government gave permission to fracking companies to damage the environment and cause earthquakes.
Nowhere in those links does it say the government gave permission to fracking companies to damage the environment and cause earthquakes.
You're not very serious.
It also doesn't say in those documents that the company intended to cause earthquakes. Intention means more than the law these days, just ask the FBI director and Hillary
How much pressure is forced into the formation? Oh, and it isn't waste water.
Fracking doesn't cause earthquakes. Why are liberals anti science?
Scientists: Fracking Is Not Causing Earthquakes | The Daily Caller
Hornback and fellow SMU researchers found that wastewater injection wells, not fracking itself, are behind the rise in earthquakes in North Texas. Oil and gas companies take brine and other substances out of the ground when extracting fuels and then inject the waste from that process back into the ground.
The huge increase in oil and gas drilling has forced billions of wastewater underground in recent years. The EPA and states regulate the disposal of wastewater into underground wells — before 1985 companies could dispose of this water in state waterways.
Underground wastewater storage is an improvement over disposing of such waste in waterways, but the large increase in wastewater storage is being linked to increases in magnitude three and larger earthquakes. The U.S. Geological Survey notes that from “1973–2008, there was an average of 21 earthquakes of magnitude three and larger in the central and eastern United States.”
“This rate jumped to an average of 99 M3+ earthquakes per year in 2009–2013, and the rate continues to rise. In 2014, alone, there were 659 M3 and larger earthquakes,” the survey notes.
It's also called flow back..
Please try again after exhaustive research.
Fracking doesn't cause earthquakes. Why are liberals anti science?
Scientists: Fracking Is Not Causing Earthquakes | The Daily Caller
Hornback and fellow SMU researchers found that wastewater injection wells, not fracking itself, are behind the rise in earthquakes in North Texas.
This Marxist communist anti corporate site says otherwise
Forbes Welcome
OH WAIT!!!!! Thats from Forbes - self admitted CAPITALIST TOOL. :doh:lamo
Lol. From your article
Which fracking companies still do thus rendering your point moot.
(as the OP asks about fracking companies, not fracking itself)
As even your own terrible source says, it's caused by the injection of waste water in deep wells. As a result of fracking.
As multiple people have told you already.