America's Potential Planned Disaster

We hear a lot about the destruction of Texas but no one talks about the destruction of Oklahoma. Cushing Oklahoma is considered the Saudi Arabia of America because there is more oil stored there than any other place in North America. The place is also experiencing a lot of earthquakes. Since 2008 the state has gone from averaging from 2 a year to now 2 a day. The experts reported that the dramatic increase of the quakes is because of the disposal of waste water from the oil production process known as hydraulic fracturing   or fracking.

Jake Walter is   the State Seismologist from the Oklahoma Geological Society. He has been tracking the steady increase of earthquakes happening over the last decade. There are thousands of oil wells all over Oklahoma and is the place that has a lot of faults in some of the deepest sedimentary rocks. In order to work the machines in the wells a high volume of water has been injected into the wells. All that water is working its way into the fault lines deep in the earth causing it to slip and cause an earthquake. With the exception of Alaska, Oklahoma has become the most schismatically active state in America. We could only blame ourselves for being so greedy for the disturbances. Keep Oklahoma as farmland and leave the deep earth alone.

The earthquakes are clearly happening where the injection wells are working. The earthquakes have become more severe with time to be at least a 5.0 in intensity. The hazards are very real and we should be more concerned about the impact to us. The threat to infrastructure in the cities have not stopped the oil rich companies to even curtail oil production. They don’t care about the environment just profits. Trump supports this environmentally disastrous policy for companies.  If the government won’t stop this than who will? Must Americans put on their protest shoes everywhere all the time?  We don’t have time. We have to work and feed our families.

Shale Oil Production in the United States has skyrocketed over a thousand percent since the year 2000 now even more with the support of a more oil friendly administration. We all thought Trump would hire big business leaders to help America and not to help destroy America for profits. Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson was the former CEO of ExxonMobil so you know he doesn’t want to stop fracking. The oil industry now has 32,000 miles of new and planned pipelines in the works all across North America. Maybe if they had water pipelines across America there wouldn’t be so many forest fires or flooding issues. The controversial Dakota new access pipeline has already leaked gallons of oil in this past April. The entire promotion of more oil production is already proven to be both catastrophic to our environment and health.

Luckily the leaks hasn’t impacted our drinking water yet. The Missouri River by Standing Rock, North Dakota would be very vulnerable to pollution if the pipelines leaked badly.  The river waters are close along the shores of the water towers and treatment plants. Who designed this nightmare waiting to happen for America? The pipeline threatens the water supply carrying 550 thousand barrels of crude oil daily. Our political system says it is all legal. When did Americans vote for this? We can’t continue under this dangerous path to even more destruction of our states. What does Trump mean when he says America first? America first to fail?

There are currently over 150 major pipelines in the works planned to be built all over the country. Is this the kind of jobs we want to just possibly put our lands and lives into even more jeopardy? Pipeline protests are springing up too across America but how effective can protests be if our entire government is being represented by oil barons like Rex Tillerson? You can’t drink oil, keep it in the soil is the protest chant. The fight for clean water is a battle for the soul of our nation. We see how Texas is now suffering from the lack of drinking water due to the hurricane disaster there. All people in our nation must protect and preserve our precious God given water supplies.