A Dot on the Map, Until the Earth Started Shaking (hydraulic fracking)

[XemaSab]

Everybody around here is getting used to the earthquakes, and that does not sit well with Dirk DeTurck.

He sent out 600 fliers and made, well, had to be around 100 phone calls, trying to attract people to his meeting on earthquake preparedness. And yet on a recent Tuesday night, he stood in the local school cafeteria and looked out at only a dozen or so people, including two women from the local extension homemakers club who had scheduled their own meeting on the topic a couple of weeks later.

“I think people are getting comfortable,” said Mr. DeTurck, a former Navy mechanic. “I mean, they have in California. They’ve become real comfortable with the shaking.”

Whether they have become comfortable is debatable, but the people of Guy, a town of 563 about an hour north of Little Rock, have had to learn to live with earthquakes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/us/06earthquake.html

[The Wielding Truth]

1. The lack of regulations on fracking disgusts and frightens me.

[howaboutme]

2. Americans are apathetic robots to our media masters

and too lazy to get off their ass to attend a school board meeting, because they might miss Dancing with the Stars, or the Super Bowl.

[Nihil]

3. Screw 'em.

>> But researchers with the Arkansas Geological Survey say that while there
>> is no discernible link between earthquakes and gas production, there is
>> “strong temporal and spatial” evidence for a relationship between these
>> quakes and the injection wells.

>> And so the people of Guy, like Betty Baker, 73, will continue to ride out the
>> swarm. Ms. Baker, one of the handful of concerned residents at Mr. DeTurck’s
>> meeting, said she had never felt the quakes, though her dog Teddy seemed to
>> jump on the bed at odd moments. She had, however, heard the booms.
>> “But I live near a machine shop, so I’m not sure if it’s there,” she added.
>> “That machine shop does make a lot of racket.”

I think Mr.DeTurck needs to sell up and move out of the area
so that the stupid bastards who are incapable of understanding
his warnings just FOAD on their own. No point in him continuing
to waste his time & effort; might just as well take the chance to
get the best price he can on his property by selling to some of
the sheep in the area.

:shrug: