Oklahoma passed a bill preventing municipalities from passing laws banning fracking just when scientists proved fracking causes earthquakes.
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Chicken-Fried News: Hamm bungler
Oklahoma tycoon Harold Hamm made headlines yet again — this time, he said fracking doesn’t cause earthquakes.
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Chicken-Fried News: Science, schmience!
Harold Hamm still denies that fracking causes earthquakes, despite scientific research by the U.S. Geological Survey.
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News briefs: Suspension rates, downtown hike and more
Suspension rates Superintendent Robert Neu (pictured at right) called the district’s high suspension rate — especially among minority students — an unacceptable culture of sorting students that he plans to stop. During a press conference last week, Neu, who became superintendent of Oklahoma City Public Schools last year, discussed a recent internal discipline audit and […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Moving on
Oil tycoons, including Harold Hamm, want you to just ignore all those earthquakes we keep having.
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Chicken-Fried News: Shaky ground
Some jerks demolished some of Stop Fracking Payne County’s signs, and they aren’t happy about it.
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Cover story: For good or bad, Oklahoma is an energy state
From earthquakes to the state budget, the energy sector is as much a part of our state as natural gas and oil is to the ground under our feet.
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BLOG: Fallin creates council to look at earthquake causes
Gov. Fallin announced a new council to look into the rise of earthquakes and the possible connections to oil and gas activity.
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Letters to the Editor: Aug. 7, 2014
Who’s to blame? Donald Smith (Commentary, Letters, “No war,” July 16, Oklahoma Gazette) wishes to remind those of us with “short memories” that the United States sent troops into Iraq at the order of George W. Bush. I wish to refresh his memory and ask him if he remembers 9/11. Does he remember which Middle […]
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What the frack?
Amberlee Darold, who previously worked as a contracted geophysicist for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, was added to the University of Oklahoma-based state agency to conduct research with fellow seismologist Austin Holland. Even having a second seismologist on the staff — which also includes scientists studying water, coal and other geological pursuits — hasn’t seemed […]