Grant Norwood says their oil and gas wells operate a mile below potable water tables. He acknowledges that injecting produced water into sensitive zones in Oklahoma has triggered earthquakes, but argues fracking itself isn't the culprit—wastewater disposal is.
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I mean, we're a mile away, you know, if you're, if you're kind of looking into the earth, we're a mile below any water table for anything that we're actively pursuing. Right. So there's so much separation there. I mean, there it's, it's isolated from each other. So, you know, that hadn't really been any of the issue and there's been like in Oklahoma, they've got some issues with water disposal, but it's, because they're disposing of so much water into certain zones that are prone to earthquakes. It has nothing to do with the fracking. The disposal, you know, that's a, that's more of an issue than the fracking, but people don't look into the issue enough to know which one is which. Uh, it's just fracking's an easy target because it's so prevalent and so common in today's oil and gas industry.