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Irregular commentary on whatever's on my mind -- politics, sports, current events, and life in general. After twenty years of writing business and community newsletters, fifteen years of fantasy baseball newsletters, and two years of email "columns", this is, I suppose, the inevitable result: the awful conceit that someone might actually care to read what I have to say. Posts may be added often, rarely, or never again. As always, my mood and motivation are unpredictable.

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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Shaky, Quakey Advice


A group of "experts" known as the StatesFirst Initiative just issued a report intended to give "advice" to states on how to detect, manage and handle fracking-related earthquakes.

The good news:  The report freely admits that the extensive drilling done in the process of hydraulic fracturing and disposal of its chemical-laden waste "water" causes earthquakes.  Lots of them.  This is a man-made problem, no doubt about it.

The bad news:  It was just a PR manual.  Because the StatesFirst group includes members of the oil and gas industry, their report did not call for any uniform regulations, and of course no one dared to suggest the best, most obvious earthquake-reduction advice:  STOP F***ING FRACKING!!
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