WHAT? MORE regulations????? ;-) Some of those Tremors are cracking foundations and brick walls here (I'd say we are averaging 8 - 10 per day, though we're at 20 today). No, they are not bring down tall buildings (or even small ones) or bridges, but there is damage to private property, that the drillers (waste water pumpers) deny.
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Producing beer consumes about 20 times more water than fracking. We can > argue about best use of water all day long. > > Tremors (very small earthquakes) are associated with re-injecting the > contaminated water deep under ground, NOT with fracking. Changes in > methods for dealing with the contaminated water solve that problem. > > Escaping methane gas is slightly more serious, depending on one's view if > the whole global warming theory (I'm sure you know mine). Methane capture > can be dealt with, the regulations need to be put in place vice throwing > out the baby with the bath water. > > In short, your environmental "lunch" costs for fracking and natural gas > power are far lower than coal... I never said it was free, just better. > > > -- OK Don NSA: The only branch of government that actually listens to US citizens! "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* 2013 F150, 18 mpg 2012 Passat TDI DSG, 44 mpg 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
