{"id":7202,"date":"2022-02-09T17:17:45","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T17:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7202"},"modified":"2022-02-09T17:17:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T17:17:45","slug":"texas-went-big-on-oil-earthquakes-followed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7202","title":{"rendered":"Texas went big on oil. Earthquakes followed."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Seismologists say that one of the state\u2019s biggest industries is upsetting a delicate balance deep underground. They blame the oil and gas business \u2014 and particularly a technique called wastewater injection \u2014 for waking up ancient fault lines, turning a historically stable region into a shaky one, and opening the door to larger earthquakes that Texas might not be ready for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state is finally trying to change that. In December, the Texas Railroad Commission \u2014 the state agency that regulates oil and gas operations and no longer has anything to do with railroads \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jpt.spe.org\/rrc-suspends-water-disposal-injection-in-section-of-permian-basin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suspended wastewater injection at 33 sites<\/a>&nbsp;across a region where more than half a million people live. This is a notable turnaround for the Railroad Commission, which until recently&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/interactives.dallasnews.com\/2016\/seismic-denial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">did not acknowledge<\/a>&nbsp;a link between oil and gas operations and earthquakes, and might be a sign of just how serious the earthquakes have gotten.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22891806\/texas-earthquakes-oil-gas-drilling-wastewater-reinjection\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22891806\/texas-earthquakes-oil-gas-drilling-wastewater-reinjection<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Seismologists say that one of the state\u2019s biggest industries is upsetting a delicate balance deep underground. They blame the oil and gas business \u2014 and particularly a technique called wastewater injection \u2014 for waking up ancient fault lines, turning a historically stable region into a shaky one, and opening the door to larger earthquakes that Texas might not be ready for.<\/p>\n<p>The state is finally trying to change that. In December, the Texas Railroad Commission \u2014 the state agency that regulates oil and gas operations and no longer has anything to do with railroads \u2014 suspended wastewater injection at 33 sites across a region where more than half a million people live. This is a notable turnaround for the Railroad Commission, which until recently did not acknowledge a link between oil and gas operations and earthquakes, and might be a sign of just how serious the earthquakes have gotten.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1379,1218,1234,576,21],"class_list":["post-7202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-earthquake","tag-gas","tag-natural-gas","tag-oil","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7203,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7202\/revisions\/7203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}