[ExI] Cephalization, proles--Where is government going?

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Richard Loosemore <rpwl at lightlink.com> wrote:
> Mirco Romanato wrote:
>>
>> Il 13/05/2011 22:48, Richard Loosemore ha scritto:
>>
>>> Again, with the disconnected from reality.
>>
>>> The main leakages in actual practice are caused when the USED fracking
>>> fluid stored on the surface is (a) dumped into rivers, (b) dumped in
>>> ponds which then overflow during rainstorms, and (c) processed through
>>> water treatment plants that are not able to handle the contaminants.
>>
>> Why not outlaw these (if they are not already) instead to outlaw
>> something far related?
>
> That is what we are trying to DO!

### No, not true. The problems of fracking fluid disposal have been
long since resolved, they are just used as a pretext to extort more
money from gas miners or just to shut them down.


>
> But you have to look at the technology:  if we outlawed these things they
> woudl not be able to use hydraulic fracturing at all, because they would
> then be taking whole rivers, filling them with (undisclosed) poisons,

### "Undisclosed poisons"!!!

Bwahahaha!

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> sending them underground to do the fracking, then bringing them up and
> ...... putting them WHERE?
>
> There would be no place for them to go.  They could not store them in
> plastic bottles.
>
> So, outlawing these problems is, ipso facto, equivalent to outlawing
> fracking itself.

### There are literally dozens of ways of cleaning fracking fluids,
some of them are quite cheap and are being used routinely in US
operations.

Richard, why don't you read up on the technology before you start
spouting pronouncements?

Rafal