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		<title>Study Links Fracking Wastewater Injection to Surface Blowouts in West Texas Oil Wells</title>
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							<description><![CDATA[Fracking wastewater, injected underground for permanent disposal, traveled 12 miles through geological faults before bursting to the surface through a previously plugged West Texas oil well in 2022, according to a new study from Southern Methodist University. It&#8217;s the first &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Targeting Earthquakes, Oklahoma Limiting Wastewater Well Volumes</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2018 16:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Oklahoma oil and natural gas regulators have instructed the operators of 23 wastewater disposal wells to reduce their disposal volumes due to recent earthquakes in Garfield County. The Oklahoma Corporation Commission issued the directive in response to earthquake activity around &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fracking Earthquakes Pop Up in Unexpected Corner of Oklahoma&#8217;s Shale Patch</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2018 17:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The oil prospectors of Oklahoma, it appeared, finally had a solution to their earthquake problem. Ordered by regulators to curb the wastewater they were dumping deep into the ground, they watched with satisfaction as tremors plunged to fewer than two &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>2 New Earthquakes Recorded near Oklahoma Oil Hub</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2016 17:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Two earthquakes recorded within one minute of each other have shaken an area in north-central Oklahoma near the site near of a key oil hub. The U.S. Geological Survey says the earthquakes occurred Nov. 22 in Cushing in Payne County, &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Rejecting Science, Texas Still Denies Fracking Link to Quakes</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2016/11/22/432982.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie K. Jones]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2016 16:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[A white Chevy Suburban with &#8220;Railroad Commission of Texas&#8221; emblazoned on its side rolled north on Interstate 35. Behind the wheel sat Milton Rister, the commission&#8217;s director. Trim and balding, Rister was a veteran political operator who had held influential &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>In Oklahoma, Pawnee Nation Files Suit to Void Drilling Permits</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2016 17:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma has filed a lawsuit against the federal government to void drilling permits for oil and natural gas wells on tribal land that the tribe alleges cause earthquakes in northern Oklahoma. The lawsuit was filed in &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Oklahoma Orders the Shut Down of More Disposal Wells</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2016 17:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The 5.0 magnitude earthquake that occurred near Cushing, Oklahoma on Nov. 6 has prompted state oil and gas regulatory officials to order the shutdown of more underground wastewater disposal wells in the surrounding area. The number of earthquake in Oklahoma &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Oklahoma, EPA Shut Down 32 Wells Near Newly Discovered Fault Line</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2016/09/14/426473.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie K. Jones]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2016 16:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[A 5.8-magnitude earthquake and a series of smaller aftershocks in Oklahoma led to the discovery of a new fault line and stoked fears among some scientists about activity along other unknown faults that could be triggered by oil and gas &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Can States Stop Man-Made Earthquakes?</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2016/07/21/420911.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie K. Jones]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2016 16:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Stopping an earthquake before it starts? It sounds like a feat possible only for a superhero. But in Kansas and Oklahoma state policymakers are showing that insofar as humans are causing earthquakes, they can stop them, too. After restricting oil &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Magnitude 3.7 Quake Recorded near Pawnee, Oklahoma</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2016/06/10/416627.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2016 16:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Geological Survey says a 3.7 magnitude earthquake has been recorded near Pawnee. The USGS says the quake was recorded at 11:50 a.m. on June 8 about 8 miles northwest of Pawnee. The area is about 75 miles north-northeast &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Oklahoma Energy Companies Ask Judge to Dismiss Earthquake Lawsuit</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2016/06/06/411049.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2016 16:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Three Oklahoma energy companies want a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit demanding they reduce injection volumes at wastewater disposal wells that could be triggering earthquakes. The lawsuit was filed in February by members of the Oklahoma Sierra Club. It &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Insurers Limit Exposure as Quakes Increase in Oklahoma</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2016/05/13/408325.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2016 15:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[As the number of earthquakes in Oklahoma exploded into the hundreds in the last few years, nearly a dozen insurance companies moved to limit their exposure, often at the expense of homeowners, a Reuters examination has found. Nearly 3,000 pages &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Oklahoma Agency Calls for Cuts in Wastewater Well Volumes to Stem Quakes</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2016/02/18/399113.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2016 07:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC), which regulates oil and gas production activity in the state, has come up with a volume reduction plan for oil and gas disposal wells in response to the surge in earthquakes in Oklahoma. The OCC &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Oklahoma Residents Sue 12 Energy Companies Following Earthquakes</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2016/01/14/395123.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2016 17:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[A group of Edmond residents has filed a lawsuit against 12 energy companies, claiming that their saltwater disposal wells were partly to blame for earthquakes in central Oklahoma in recent weeks. The lawsuit seeks a permanent injunction to stop the &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Oklahoma Orders Reduction in Wastewater Disposal after Quakes</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2016/01/06/394235.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2016 17:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The state commission that regulates Oklahoma&#8217;s oil and natural gas industry on Jan. 4 ordered some injection well operators to reduce wastewater disposal volumes after at least a dozen earthquakes hit an area north of Oklahoma City in less than &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Oklahoma Disposal Well Plan Expected Following Recent Quakes</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2015/12/04/391021.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2015 17:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The Oklahoma Corporation Commission is working to finalize a plan for wastewater disposal well operators to shut down or reduce volume in north-central Oklahoma, which has been rattled by a swarm of earthquakes. Commission spokesman Matt Skinner said the agency&#8217;s &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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