Trend: Editorial: Seismic Study Goals. 3 Bits of Informed Intel.

  • Scientists see a link between fracking and seismic activity
  • The Railroad Commissioner and its seismologist aren’t convinced
  • Texas needs “definitive research is necessary to convince” the Railroad Commission
    • Definitive research may be found in the $4.5 million the Legislature appropriated to studying seismic activity via the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin

STAR TELEGRAM EDITORIAL | Seismic study should get to cause of quakes