Environmentalists in Kansas looking for help reining in fracking-related activity by the state’s oil and gas industry are turning to the Legislature after coming up empty Sept. 7 before the Kansas Corporation Commission.
The commission had to decide whether to revoke 2,100 permits for fracking-related injection wells issued by the KCC during the past 10 years. Environmentalists concerned about an increase in earthquakes in the state said the permits were issued without enough opportunities for public comment, but KCC upheld the permits.
The KCC ruled in a 19-page order that the public hadn’t been denied a chance to ...
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