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Nihil

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4. It does (in the real world) for fracking (hence my "sold out" comment)
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 11:27 AM
Jul 2012

i.e., doing the same thing (forcing liquids into strata) will & does lead to earthquakes
regardless of what the liquid is or the purpose behind it.

Unfortunately, that is merely factual physical evidence and, as such, is easily
over-ruled by sufficient money paid by the interested parties to the people who
should be treating fracking as the same as "CCS" or military waste disposal.



(Extraction is subtly different but can be linked to similar symptoms when
enhanced recovery methods are applied with insufficient care - again, for
the sake of short-term profit over longer term problems for "someone else&quot .

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