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A comment on Drilling Reawakens Sleeping Faults in Texas, Leads to Earthquakes. Parent comment

Re:Drilling Reawakens Sleeping Faults in Texas, Leads to Ear... by munk-a on Friday November 24, 2017 @05:05PM (#15773275)
So to reword the title to be accurate in your eyes would

> Current Drilling Techniques Reawaken Sleeping Faults in Texas

work? The injection of water is part of how they currently operate, if there are other ways for them to drill then society should decide whether the increased costs are worth it but... how they currently drill is causing this issue.

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Re:Drilling Reawakens Sleeping Faults in Texas, Leads to Ear... by exabrial on Friday November 24, 2017 @05:16PM (#15773323)
That's incorrect; as the OP said, how they drill is not the alleged issue.

I think you mean how they "produce". Two completely separate things. There are many production methods. Wells can be drilled in several ways, and several different kinds of production can happen on them.

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Re:Drilling Reawakens Sleeping Faults in Texas, Leads to Ear... by defterGoose on Friday November 24, 2017 @09:43PM (#15774136)
That is a purely semantic argument and you know it.
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Re:Drilling Reawakens Sleeping Faults in Texas, Leads to Ear... by cema on Saturday November 25, 2017 @06:39AM (#15775585)
Semantics is important. People are making decisions based on semantics.
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