What's the difference?

In Texas and Ohio?

In Texas they have dozens of earthquakes in a short span.  People become concerned and call for help.  They ban together and travel to the state capital.  Texas tells them, we'll look at it.

In Ohio they have earthquakes and they shut down drilling until they figure it out.

WHAT is the difference?  Is it companies or politicians?

The epicenter of these quakes was located in close proximity to several shale gas wells being drilled by Hilcorp Energy, an oil and gas producer based in Houston, TX-based in the Carbon Limestone Landfill in Poland, Ohio.

Hilcorp Energy, which is drilling seven wells at the site, immediately suspended all activity at its wells on Monday.

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Sinkholes and Earthquakes...

Welcome to Texas.

Springtown continued to have earthquakes this weekend, making lots of folks there extremely nervous.

They can't help wonder, what's coming next after almost a tremor a day for a week.

One resident can tell you...sinkholes.

The most telling sentence from the NBCnews.com article - The family has reached out to the Parker County Commission, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the Texas Department of Agriculture and other government agencies, but has gotten no explanation, Napier said.

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