From: Reuters
By Yeganeh Torbati
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Oklahoma woman who was injured
when an earthquake rocked her home in 2011 can sue oil companies
for damages, the state's highest court ruled on Tuesday, opening
the door to other potential lawsuits against the state's energy
companies.
Oklahoma has experienced a dramatic spike in earthquakes in
the last five years, and researchers have blamed the oil and gas
industry's practice of injecting massive volumes of saltwater
left over from oil and gas drilling.
The state saw nearly 600 quakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater
in 2014, compared to just one or two per year prior to 2009,
according to the Oklahoma Geological Survey. MORE
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