- Continental Resources (NYSE:CLR) CEO Harold Hamm told a University of Oklahoma dean last year that he wanted certain scientists there dismissed who were studying links between oil and gas activity and the state's increase in earthquakes (I, II), according to e-mails examined by Bloomberg.
- Hamm is a major donor to the university, which is the home of the Oklahoma Geological Survey, and he has strongly disputed allegations that he tried to pressure the survey's scientists.
- The assertions are not new, but the newly surfaced e-mails provide more specific examples of Hamm's deep displeasure with earthquake reporting coming from the OGS.