Debbie Wasserman Schultz on fracking in debate with Tim Canova

[CajunBlazer]

164. So you agree that the quakes were not caused by fracking - thanks

So now that drillers are prohibited from reinserting that water into old wells, the quake problem Oklahoma will dissipate assuming that is what caused the quakes in the first place, which is by no means certain. This reinsertion method of disposing of waste is being used other areas of the country without causing the quake problems and there is no evidence that inserted waste water is polluting aquifer which are much closer to the surface and separated by thousands of feet of solid rock.

Now the drillers in Oklahoma will have to figure out how handle that waste water without reinserting it into old wells. There are solutions to that issue:

http://www.waterworld.com/articles/wwi/print/volume-28/issue-5/regional-spotlight-us-caribbean/fracking-wastewater-management.html

Fracking is not going away. There to much money involved and it is too important to our national and environmental well being. Natural gas is now so cheap that power plants are converting to it and the coal companies are going out of business. (I don't need to tell you that burning natural gas is far superior to burning coal in cutting green house gases and pollution.) Our country is becoming self sufficient in oil so we becoming less and less dependent on middle east sources, lessening our need to get involved militarily in that region. Europe will become less dependent on Russian sources, effecting the Russian economy and allowing us to work more easily with our European allies to check Russian expansion ambitions without military action.

Since fracking is not going away, we concentrate our efforts on regulating the process to insure that it doesn't cause environmental damage rather than wasting our time beating our heads into a solid brick wall.