The oil pipeline leak at Cushing over the weekend has given concern to environmentalists who believe it might be a sign of things to come because of Oklahoma’s increase in earthquakes.
While a 3.1 magnitude earthquake rattled the Garfield County town of Covington early Wednesday morning, the cleanup remained underway at the Seaway Pipeline, one of the largest to carry oil from Cushing to refineries in Texas.
“We can’t continue to ignore this problem,” declared Casey Holcomb of the Sierra Club in an interview with News 9. “The earthquakes are only going to get stronger and I really suspect the pipeline rupture is the result of continued accumulated damage from the spate of earthquakes we’ve been having up there and now the chickens are coming home to roost.”