The question isn't *IF* this fracking is causing earthquakes.....that's 
obvious! The concern should be whether this activity is causing serious 
changes in the rock structure or lubrication along exsisting faults in 
Colorado and West Virginia  which could cause serious slipping along 
uplifts. In Arkansas the faulting isn't as large and different. Oklahoma 
has at least one major fault at the southeast end where fracking is 
occuring

There is the other biological issues surrounding the fracking process. 
In Arkansas, the work areas were banked with a levee and "ponds" were 
built with shale beds or lined with plastic. Why? If they are putting 
serious chemicals in the ground what is going to keep them from getting 
back to the surface, or worse, into the underground or surface water 
supplies?

And the very authorities we look to for advice as to the wisdom of what 
is going on are/were taking money from the drilling companies as 
consultants or were originally paid to do research in the very drilling 
areas now being worked. Plus the political environment, the need for oil 
and gas, forces governmental agencies to be lenient with the oil companies.

  
    
  
  
    The question isn't IF this fracking is causing
    earthquakes.....that's obvious! The concern should be whether this
    activity is causing serious changes in the rock structure or
    lubrication along exsisting faults in Colorado and West Virginia 
    which could cause serious slipping along uplifts. In Arkansas the
    faulting isn't as large and different. Oklahoma has at least one
    major fault at the southeast end where fracking is occuring 

    

    There is the other biological issues surrounding the fracking
    process. In Arkansas, the work areas were banked with a levee and
    "ponds" were built with shale beds or lined with plastic. Why? If
    they are putting serious chemicals in the ground what is going to
    keep them from getting back to the surface, or worse, into the
    underground or surface water supplies? 

    

    And the very authorities we look to for advice as to the wisdom of
    what is going on are/were taking money from the drilling companies
    as consultants or were originally paid to do research in the very
    drilling areas now being worked. Plus the political environment, the
    need for oil and gas, forces governmental agencies to be lenient
    with the oil companies.