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Oklahoma Earthquakes Are a National Security Threat (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A Bloomberg article makes the case that the U.S. must consider the earthquake situation in Oklahoma a national security threat. The town of Cushing, OK is small — fewer than 10,000 people. But enough oil is stored there at times to eclipse the entire U.S. daily usage. "The oil in Cushing props up the $179 billion in West Texas Intermediate futures and options contracts traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange." In the wake of the September 11th attacks, government officials posted guards near the giant storage facilities; they're that important to the U.S. economy.
Unfortunately, the rising seismic activity in Oklahoma is putting those tanks at risk. The article argues that if a terrorist attack would threaten national security, so must an equally devastating natural disaster. This raises major questions for the legality of fracking, which has been linked to the increased number of earthquakes striking Oklahoma over the past decade. "Last month the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, which oversees oil and gas, ordered wells within three miles to shut down entirely and those between three and six miles from the town to reduce their volume by 25 percent."
Unfortunately, the rising seismic activity in Oklahoma is putting those tanks at risk. The article argues that if a terrorist attack would threaten national security, so must an equally devastating natural disaster. This raises major questions for the legality of fracking, which has been linked to the increased number of earthquakes striking Oklahoma over the past decade. "Last month the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, which oversees oil and gas, ordered wells within three miles to shut down entirely and those between three and six miles from the town to reduce their volume by 25 percent."
Coastal liberals will mock the oil industry and talk about corporate welfare, while instructing their portfolio managers to diversify.
Redstaters will continue the narrative that nothing bad will happen because God loves America the best.
High school and college students will continue to be taught that there's no such thing as causality.
And in 20 years, everyone will wonder why nobody saw the end coming.
A large oil tank farm is an example of infrastructure that can be threatened by a number of disasters, from tornados to terrorism. But as soon as you say "fracking", the swarms of small earthquakes that lubrication of shallow rock strata can create suddenly become much more important than other threats that are historically worse in the region. You can get the same effect by dropping "nuclear" into any discussion.
Its a problem. A big one.
But are we going to start arresting earthquakes and sending them to Gitmo now?
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Hope you hicks get blown away. We can at least use your land to grow crops.
Earthquakes caused by fracking will destroy a large part of the oil that is produced by the process. Fracking is still a new and untested technology, at least to the depths they are pushing. Toxic, acidic water tables and unnamed chemicals being pumped thousands of feet below your feet. No one in America is kicking up a fuss apart from a few small communities affected by this so you fully deserve the hell it will bring.
Those 2-3 richter scale earthquakes could cause devastation. The security guards' "best Dad" coffee cups might fall onto the floor and break.
The 4.5 scale quake might even set off the alarms!
This raises major questions for the legality of fracking, which has been linked to the increased number of earthquakes striking Oklahoma over the past decade.
This isn't true. Even the EPA has been forced to admit that freaking is safe.
Duh. Because we know the fissures could rupture a portal and release the Kaiju. Read. Your. Bibles.
Pretending this is my office full of bitter coworkers..
Don't listen to the pundits.
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Only taxation can be curbed building new structures. Since taxes will be used to protect Cushing oil reservoirs, funds need to be given away to the oil company which owns this structure.
Also, additional gas consumption tax should be added to each and every gallon of fuel.
Electric cars need to pay mileage tax, since they do not pay their fair share of taxes.
For those who do not drive and, thus, do not consume oil directly, a special tax needs to be added because in order to receive necessary revenues, we need everyone paying taxes (just like Obamacare taxes).
Amish, nuns, Congress can be exempted from the requirements of this socially fair and needed law.
get the TSA after them. That'll fix it.
The terrorist attacks (by general politics, delivering weapons into regions of conflicts, by anonymously murdering people).
And the earth-quakes (by fracking).
Solution is simple for both cases - learn to behave in a civilized manner.
What cheek! How dares that planet threaten our national security! It's time to declare a War on Earth!
Wait... haven't we already?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
These are private oil storage facilities. If they are being threatened by human activity, this can be sorted out in the courts. If they are being threatened by natural disasters, insurance and diversification can sort it out. Furthermore, we have insane amounts of oil in the "strategic petroleum reserves" all across the country, which could easily absorb even a total loss. There is absolutely no reason for the US government to get involved in this; it simply amounts to crony capitalism. It is even more idiotic for a president and administration intending to reduce carbon emissions to subsidize the oil industry in this way.
What kind of retarded, twisted definition is the US govt. using to declare that random people and things are "national security threats"?
Lets not store important resources like this on fault lines! K thx bye.
Oklahoma earthquakes are abotu as much a security threat as Oklahoma drivers. How much sensationalization and overreaction can people tolerate?
Oklahoma Earthquakes are caused by wastewater injection wells, which are in need of regulation. Since the U.S. Congress are a bunch of weenies and won't pass anything rational, and since the Oklahoma government is largely owned by Oil and Gas, there won't be much done to resolve this until there is an expensive earthquake. It's not rocket science.
Perhaps we should take oil off the futures market?
That way, if the worst happens, we won't have to worry about it collapsing, because it won't be there to collapse?
I'm so burned out on TSA and warrentless wiretapping & security theater... that now i actively root for anything that is a threat to national security.
This country really would benefit from losing its national security blanket. Its time to man up & grow a pair America.
Fuck you and your national security too. Bring on the earthquakes!
Could we please begin to distinguish the activity of underground wastewater injection from fracking, the actual extraction of oil & gas?
As I understand it, the scientific consensus is that these earthquakes are the result of the former (which I consider the ultimate in 'sweeping under the rug'), not the latter.
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That is all. I have spoken.
Whether it is oil or coal we rarely hear any good news. We are building such a complex and interwoven national structure that we are ever more in danger from minor issues causing a cascade of very harmful events. Obviously we need to get both oil and coal out of our way of life as both lack any way to control their negative effects. Keep in mind that the city always spreads like a cancer ruining the more rural areas. It seems that we must consider making energy consumption a very local affair so that when system failures do occur in order to have an energy system that we can actually protect.
The summary doesn't say it, but the issue here is fracking. This talk of "National Security" is a diversion from that. They're shutting down wells near a storage site because of fear of earthquakes. That should be national news and cause a complete re-evaluation of the dangers of fracking. It's similar to how Wall Street executives spend billions lobbying against climate change while publicly acknowledging it in their SEC filings. It's about carefully controlling a narrative.
I hate to admit it but I can't complain too much. I live in a major city. Fracking doesn't effect me. My drinking water's clean and it doesn't hurt my property values. Meanwhile if I adjust for inflation gas is as cheap as it was when I was in high school. That's the only thing that's kept my head above water inflation wise. I know I'm being a NIMBY, and I should probably do something about it, but hell, what am I suppose to do? What I really wish is we could get the "Save the Whales and the Rain forests" idiots to shut up long enough to talk about environmental issues that impact us immediately. Like smog that causes asthma.
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The earthquakes have won!
You can get the same effect by dropping "nuclear" into any discussion.
I wish people would take the threat of gigantic boulders from outer space more seriously. The very existence of the human race is at stake.
It seems like the much greater danger is the huge impact from the gigantic leap you took from fracking quakes (still unproven) to anything near a quake powerful enough to disrupt tanks strong enough to hold thousands of gallons of liquid - not to mention how much inertia those tanks have that is it's own resistance to quake damage.
A leap of that magnitude much have incalculable waves of every released on landing - thus I think we can all agree the frothing anti-fracking mind is the real danger here.
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Sounds like a problem of the energy companies, for the energy companies.
NOT a national security issue.
Terrorist attacks are considered exceptional events that indicate a total breakdown in civilization and its safeguards.
Natural disasters are not exceptional at all. The tank farm operators can move the damn farm.
What were they saying, hmm?
And how does it change the fact that fracking has started and then within months, the number of earthquakes in the area shot up thirtyfold?
What EXACTLY do you think you are saying, because, frankly, your post says FUCK ALL. It just has a sneering whine at everyone else for not being as "smart" as you.
The recent hurricane in Mexico managed to miss any large cities. But if it had it had enough power to actually completely level a major city. If one of these super hurricanes smacks Miami, New Orleans or even New York it would bankrupt our nation.. I doubt that much of anything would survive wind gusts over 230 mph. with sustained winds of 200 mph.. But the sick part is that it is only a matter of time. Hurricanes will strike. They always do and with these super storms we all are in danger. So it is not just oil reservoirs but storms that could easily collapse our nation as well as other nations. And it gets worse. I seriously doubt that unless homes and businesses spent millions to harden themselves that new homes could even be built that could hold up to such storms with any confidence at all. And here we are with nothing at all being done to really protect our nation. We have denial over rising seas, global warming and the hazards of extracting too much water from the ground or fracking. People need to understand that such a strike by a major storm would take down the insurance industry which in turn would bust the banks as well as Wall Street leaving the masses with no pensions and no replacement for their dwellings or businesses. We have a very real chance of a financial holocaust triggered by such an event. And no having gold coins tucked away will do you no good at all. You simply can not eat gold or silver.
'national security threat' bs Jew meme. There is no 'national' or 'security' except for Jews.
The first post is fact but vague, also the vague 'corporations' jew psy ops to cover up, the large corporations are All owned by Jews. The 'customers' are now over a hundred million immigrants who don't give a shit along with 'welfare' scum parasites, that is how the jews continue to take what's left before they finish thier big cull of everyone else but the chinese idiots they chose as slaves. They've already killed over one billion while ameriscums sat and sit still on their asses. Now it's idiot ameriscums turn to be slaughtered.
The 'government' is a jew fraud and has been since the beginning. Idiots have given trillions to mass murderers who are now spraying us with nano chip chemtrails and soon viruses to kill by race. Jews are a RACE.
They've been spraying and controlling the weather for almost a decade, more so as more of the hundreds of thousands of bogus 'towers' have been put up, they caused 'katrina' they cause the droughts, storms, floods. jew monsanto control of the food supply. The towers everywhere are part of the chemtrail/weather weapon system. They are NOT 'cell' towers. All cell is satelite. If you fell for the fake 'alternative media' bs and 'haarp' bs it's disinfo. The towers are the weapon system, direct wind, cause lighting, also - earthquake. The towers cause the low on off hum you hear at night. The jews stole inventions from Tesla and killed him like hundreds of others, and hundreds of million in fraud 'wars' for jew world takeover paid for by slobbering 'tax' dupes who sit listening to bogus jew 'govt' and jew fraud 'scientists' fake 'climate' change' false opposition bogus arguing when they Know we are being sprayed and they control All 'climate' now. Idiots ingored, failed to get off your ass now and stop them. You've already been far more than 'chipped'.
The supposed 'scientists' that spew on 'climate change' are Lying JEWS and co-cons. The jew CHEMTRAILS and TOWERS everywhere now dictate the 'climate,' the jew fraud 'government' spraying us with nano chips has also formed fiber optics inside everyone but jews, they made the nano chip self assembling particles so they don't form inside jews who are race, a separate genetic group, but do form inside the rest of us. The nano chip fiber optics so the jews control everyone else by 'wireless' 'Ipv6 internet of things', 'smart grid' scum bs. 'wireless' was never for your benefit.
-archive.org/details/DontTalkAboutTheWeather_451 The haze in the air is nano chips, other content- www.willthomasonline.net/Nano_Chemtrails.html - the contents far more than described, we're breathing the nano chips, other content. For 'wireless' brain surveillance, control by 'smart grid'.
They also sprayed a virus that's going to kill other races but not jews. newworldwar.org/chemical.htm - ignore notes at bottom, skip rest of site.
On the jews, so I don't have to rewrite it all, there is post of mass fact, links you will Not find on your own no matter how hard you search, for info/ links see this thread -
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/10/24/1946258/judge-tosses-wikimedias-anti-nsa-lawsuit-because-wikipedia-isnt-big-enough
click show all comments button - and slide bar over. if only side bar over can show '0 hidden' when there are still hidden posts. see 'jew' posts. jew trolls 'score' up posts to hide real posts. Under my posts example jew troll bs to cover up the mass of info in my posts. copy this and those posts to re read, get off the web it's a trap. No one is coming to 'save' you. We're being Sprayed. The storms, drought, earthquake now caused by their weapons. Don't bother searching, All the bogus 'chemtrail' and other sites are run by them to distract from the jew or keep you 'following' so you don't actually do anything to stop them before they kill, here. You'll see in other 'jew' posts in other thread and links show who is behind it, their mass of lies about themselves and our history and their mass murder coming here now. Half the posts you see are computer generated, most of the others are jew trolls. see other thread, -give links to others, make your own tribes -
notice 'flag' slapped on the article. Dupes don't know the 'flag' is Jew symbolism, the 'star' symbol, 'red stripes', all of it. When idiots die for jew fraud 'wars', the jew fraud 'govt' 'drapes them in the flag', the final insult. Idiots who die for jew world takeover deserve it, and people who sit on their asses now as you're being sprayed f deserve what's been done to you and will deserve what coming the more you sit. More info in post above. also search 'freemason symbols, then jew freemasons. All sites are put up by jews, so don't get caught up, just see symbols, all the symbols shit around you aren't freemasons, they're jews. Jews started the freemasons to control 'business' who just use their little 'networking' bs don't realize they're useful idiots to be discarded by the chemtrail virus coming same as everyone else. That's how the jew controls. The run all 'groups' so people don't make their own and stop the jew. Others did the real work, built and paid for this territory, yet stupidly let the jews make up their phony 'government' and 'founders' bs and name bogus 'states', slop their jew symbolism all over. It's yours to take back. Fail and you pay the price. There is no 'hiding' from nano chip chemtrails or 'wireless' 'smart' grid' or their drones and chemtrail virus.
The 'flag' is a jew symbol. All the bogus 'country' flags made up by them, see the 'star' on the bogus 'russian' flag. mass murderers, now spraying you. freedom is natural anarchism and making your own tribe.
You paid for the jews to have trillions in weapons, they killed a billion people now they're spraying you. See rest of 'jew weather weapons' post and see/go to other thread ref in it.
Those 'rich whites' are not nordic whites. You point to jews, it's far more than 1% there are millions in the tribe from the richest to the less rich they all do their part in the scheme to take the world and they have, all that's left is to cull this territory and that's getting underway now.
The jews are a Race, the 'white' skin ashkenazi are part sephardic, bred with nordic whites to blend in and do their schemes. They are most all 'whites' in media, 'govt' the 'corporations', your fake smiley 'jew' neighbor fake sniveling their 'holo' bs to keep the fraud going while their plans finish off. other posts above has info. go to thread in the post, many links on others threads show how big the situation is. Jews are a race, they are not nordic whites, it was jews 'who brought the slaves to america' - by walter white archive.org. ignore dbs notes dumped onto the article he's a jew. The jews do the schemes, blame everyone else, bash general 'whites' and hide behind everyone else. See other posts and this thread
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/10/24/1946258/judge-tosses-wikimedias-anti-nsa-lawsuit-because-wikipedia-isnt-big-enough
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the 'jeezus' bs was made up by jews so idiots 'turn the other cheek' 'love your enemy' suicide by jew, also the mohammed' fables so jews control and use other races to kill each other while they made up their own religion for their Jew Race to take over the world. The 'jeezus' bs was forced on the unwilling by racial jew constantine' then tortured into people in the 'inquisitions' which tortures were done by racial jews.
No excuse for anyone to continue swallowing the suicide, and now idiots have more slavery by jews, idiot 'phones' every 'tech' the 'wireless' bs, it was never for your benefit. Nano chip chemtrails, chemtrail virus. Get off your asses or die.
see - jew weather weapons - post above.
the jew are not just a religion, half in the scum tribe don't even bother with it, they are a Race. see other post and thread in post
While the greed pigs make money hand over fist before stealing away in the dead of night, leaving nothing but destruction (and dead-end, labyrinthine LLC shell companies) in their wake.
Great plan!
Jews / Judaism is not a race. If you have a learning disability you may not understand the chart.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_population#Table
You jew troll scum distraction is a Zero. Your scum jewikipedia is full of shit as are you. You Jews are a RACE. The reason you're spewing your 'not a race' bs is so dupes don't realize you can be recognized by your FACES.
Others, go to this thread -
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/10/24/1946258/judge-tosses-wikimedias-anti-nsa-lawsuit-because-wikipedia-isnt-big-enough
click load all comments, slide bar over. Just like on this thread scum jews 'scored' up their own posts and computer generated crap to push my way down the thread when they originally were near the top, also note the scum jews distracting from my posts. I'm not going to rewrite it all here. You would Never find the information in my posts on your own now, beside most info being wiped off the web, the information took years of work. Time is short, copy the 'jew weather weapons' post further up, also the posts on the other thread to re read, give links to others -
The jew trolls loaded up more bs computer generated posts, 'scored' up posts to push my posts down thread. Scum jews desperate to distract.
- others, see 'jew weather weapons' post further below