Research fellow at The Heartland Institute
Isaac Orr is a policy fellow at the Center of the American Experiment on mining and energy issues and a former research fellow for The Heartland Institute. Orr is a speaker, researcher, and freelance writer specializing in hydraulic fracturing, agricultural, and environmental policy.
Latest posts by Isaac Orr (see all)
- Colorado Must Keep the Comanche Power Plant Running at Full Steam - April 9, 2018
- WE Energies Values Corporate Profits More than Its Ratepayers - March 7, 2018
- Making Electricity Markets Competitive Again - March 5, 2018
Anti-fracking activists have pointed the finger at fracking for the dramatic rise in earthquakes in Oklahoma over the last several years, however a new video featuring Dr. Mark Zoback, a professor of geophysics at Stanford University, explains fracking is not to blame for the quakes.
It goes further than that, though. As the science has shown fracking itself does not cause felt quakes, anti-fracking groups argued the wastewater produced during the fracking process was causing earthquakes when operators disposed of the water by injecting into underground rock formations. The Stanford study contradicts these claims as well.
In fact, as you’ll see, the earthquakes in Oklahoma have nothing to do with fracking at all.
