many of those earthquakes. there have been 30 quakes since november 1st in this area. the three this week were magnitude 3.3. 30 earthquakes in a span of two months in an area that does not experience earthquakes at all? what is going on? most of the wumpbs that have struck have been clustered around a pair of injection well sites, for fracking. residents of the city of azle pointed to those injection wells as what they believe is a possible cause of the quakes. earlier this month. about 800 residents packed into a town hall meeting where they called on state officials to give them some answers about what is happening in their city. it feels like a semi truck hitting your house with a bomb going off. we shut down an injection well and see if the earthquakes stop. we are not going to have any clean water.
the wells are outside our city limits. so we don t have any kind of authority to do anything, but once we get some evidence and make some noise, basically, i won t stop until it s done. the noise you are making already has national resonance, i can tell you that from here in new york. mayor of azle, thank you for being willing to explain this to us tonight. i hope you stay in touch as you keep up this fight. definitely. thank you. lots of news tonight, including a surprising turn in virginia politics and corruption investigations. still lots to come tonight. i told you, it s a busy day. stay with us. yeah. try new alka seltzer fruit chews. they work fast on heartburn and taste awesome. these are good. told ya! i m feeling better already. [ male announcer ] new alka seltzer fruits chews. enjoy the relief! [ male announcer ] new alka seltzer fruits chews. but with less energy, moodiness, and a low sex drive, i had to do something. i saw my doctor. a blood test showed it was low tes
yesterday, they started shipping crude oil through the southern leg of the keystone oil pipeline the proposed stretch of the keystone pipeline awaiting approval from president obama is the northern leg, which would stretch from nebraska into canada. yesterday, it was the southern leg of that pipeline that opened it carries crude oil through the state of texas through the gulf of mexico. a number of land owners have been fighting that pipeline for months. as of yesterday, it s up and running. in response, those land owners announced they have launched a new group called texas pipeline watch to insure that any leaks along that pipeline are detected as soon as possible. this is some video the group sent us today of their initial inspections along the newly pumping pipeline to tell us they have checking temperature gauges along the pipeline as well as visiting pump stations along the route. they are calling the texas pipeline watch, texas s biggest neighborhood watch program.
caused it or not. what is next for you and for your town and those frustrated residents who formed the earthquake express. what s next for to you try to get this fixed? well, i have some plans in place. right now, i m trying to get some data. you know, they don t want to do anything without data, without scientific proof. so, you know, the usgs, they have been doing some studies in azle already. they have been for, for over a month now. then we ll have ammunition to go get them shut down. the wells are outside our city limits. so we don t have any kind of authority to do anything, but once we get some evidence and make some noise, basically, i won t stop until it s done. the noise you are making already has national resonance, i can tell you that from here in new york. mayor of azle, thank you for being willing to explain this to
or visual damage caused by the quake? there has been reports of people saying they had cracks in their bricks and things like that. the hard part is being able to prove it was caused by the earthquake, you know, for a fact. that s been the difficult part for it. especially with the settling ground that we have here in texas. i know that you helped set up that meeting in azle where state officials came, people trying to get some answers to this new problem of earthquakes. it sounds like, at least from the local news reports that i watched, that it didn t help matters, that people were more frustrated than anything else. what happened will? what were up hoping for? how did you feel about that? we really didn t have much information, they said, i sent some letters to the railroad commission requesting a formal investigation into the earthquakes. they actually responded fairly quickly. within a week, they called me and scheduled the town hall meeting. so logical thinking is the quest