{"id":144126,"date":"2015-03-04T18:12:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T18:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=144126"},"modified":"2015-03-04T18:12:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T18:12:33","slug":"oklahoma-knew-fracking-caused-earthquakes-stayed-quiet-appease-energy-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/environmental-news\/oklahoma-knew-fracking-caused-earthquakes-stayed-quiet-appease-energy-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma knew fracking caused earthquakes but stayed quiet to appease energy industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma has suspected for years that fracking caused earthquakes, but they stayed quiet about the connection under pressure from the oil industry.<\/p>\n<p>The Oklahoma Geological Survey (OGS) finally admitted a possible link in more than a year ago between oil and gas extraction and the recent outbreak of earthquakes in the state \u2014 which last year experienced 1.6 quakes per day of magnitude 3 or greater.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s three times as many as California.<\/p>\n<p>The OGS joined a U.S. Geological Survey statement in October 2013 that found human activity, including wastewater disposal, could be a \u201ccontributing factor\u201d in the surge in earthquakes.<\/p>\n<p>That angered the state seismologist\u2019s boss, University of Oklahoma President David Boren, and oil executives, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1060014342\" target=\"_blank\">according to emails obtained by EnergyWire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2015\/03\/oklahoma-knew-fracking-caused-earthquakes-but-stayed-quiet-to-appease-energy-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma has suspected for years that fracking caused earthquakes, but they stayed quiet about the connection under pressure from the oil industry. The Oklahoma Geological Survey (OGS) finally admitted a possible link in more than a year ago between oil and gas extraction and the recent outbreak of earthquakes in the state \u2014 which last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,6,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-144126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-environmental-news","9":"category-sicence-technology","10":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}