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=</p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman">http://grist.org/news/oklahoma-scientists-pressured-to-downplay-link-between-earthquakes-and-fracking/</font></p><h1 class="article-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.9375rem; margin: 0.2rem 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-rendering: optimizelegibility; line-height: 1.2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://grist.org/news/oklahoma-scientists-pressured-to-downplay-link-between-earthquakes-and-fracking/" class="hover-no-underline" style="text-decoration: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(101, 101, 101) !important; background: transparent;">Oklahoma scientists pressured to downplay link between earthquakes and fracking</a></h1><p class="article-excerpt" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 1rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Oil company execs and university bigwigs leaned on the Oklahoma Geological Survey so it wouldn’t blame quakes on fracking techniques.</p><p class="article-excerpt" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 1rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Oklahoma has been experiencing an earthquake boom in recent years. In 2014, the state had 585 quakes of at least magnitude 3. Up through 2008, it averaged only three quakes of that strength each year. <i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Something</i> odd is happening.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But scientists at the Oklahoma Geological Survey have downplayed a possible connection between increasing fracking in the state and the increasing number of tremors. Even as other states (<a href="http://grist.org/news/ohio-blames-frackers-for-earthquakes/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=update&utm_campaign=socialflow" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(191, 115, 64); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">Ohio, for example</a>) quickly put two and two together and shut down some drilling operations that were to blame, OGS scientists said that more research was needed before their state took similar steps.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Now, though, <a href="http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060014342" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(191, 115, 64); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; background: transparent;">emails obtained by EnergyWire reporter Mike Soraghan</a> reveal that the University of Oklahoma and its oil industry funders were putting pressure on OGS scientists to downplay the connection between earthquakes and the injection of fracking wastewater underground. In 2013, a preliminary OGS report noted possible correlation between the two, and OGS signed on to a statement by the U.S. Geological Survey that also noted such linkages. Soon after, OGS’s seismologist, Austin Holland, was summoned to meetings with the president of the university, where OGS is housed, and with executives of oil company Continental Resources. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Continental CEO Harold Hamm was a major university funder, while the university president David Boren serves on Continental’s board</span>, for which he earned $272,700 in cash and stock in 2013. From <a href="http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060014342" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(191, 115, 64); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">EnergyWire</a>:</p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0.5625rem 1.25rem 0px 1.1875rem; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(111, 111, 111); font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“I have been asked to have ‘coffee’ with President Boren and Harold Hamm Wednesday,” [Holland] wrote in an Nov. 18, 2013, email to a co-worker.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">The significance was not lost on his colleague, OGS Public Information Coordinator Connie Smith.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“Gosh,” Smith responded. “I guess that’s better than having Kool-Aid with them. I guess.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">A meeting with such powerful figures in the state would be intimidating for a state employee such as Holland, said state Rep. Jason Murphey of Guthrie.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“Wow. That’s a lot of pressure,” said Murphey, a Republican whose district has been rattled by numerous quakes. “That just sends chills up your spine if you’re from Oklahoma.”</p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Oklahoma geologist Bob Jackman, who has tried to get the word out about the connection between fracking and the quakes, recalls Holland saying last year that he couldn’t do the same. According to Jackman, Holland, when pressed, blurted out, “You don’t understand — Harold Hamm and others will not allow me to say certain things.”</p><p>==</p>

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professor chair paid for by fertilizer/sludge</p>

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