The KGB Oracle Forums General Public Discussion (PUBLIC) The Pub New Ohio "Fracking" Regulations..

Actually, yes. Geologists have studied this in several different locations and have determined beyond doubt that several places (specifically out west near/around/in Colorado) where our government was using this technique to dispose of hazardous materials into old wells fault related activity had increased significantly, but you don't hear about that when its the government doing it.

This brine is being injected several hundred or thousand feet below your local aquifer. By the time the brine rises through the strata to the relative low depth of your aquifer it will have long since lost any impurities, the same way that water seeping down into the aquifer cleanses itself by passing through the earth.

All of those "dangerous materials" that the article warns of being put in the ground, came from the ground in the first place. Obviously a salt water drilling fluid is being used to make these holes. There is nothing added to a brine drilling solution that is hazardous to the environment. This is done intentionally so that these types of fluids can be released into the ocean, without upsetting the environment, when used for deep water drilling. Any material in this mud that is radioactive, or otherwise hazardous got into the mud as cuttings from the rock that was drilled through.

As far as the fracking causing earthquakes, they've proven several times that this does happen, but bear in mind that the only reason the drilling company wants to put the mud back down in the hole is because your friendly neighborhood EPA man is the guy telling them that is how it must be disposed of. The drilling companies have spent hundreds of millions of dollars finding and using mud additives that won't harm the environment so that the mud can be disposed of without all of this hoopla, only to be told that because of the contaminants drilled out of the ground in the mud, it must be pumped back in the hole.

Do you feel trolled or educated? You decide.