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To: axial who wrote (33004)	3/27/2010 10:05:32 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 46821

Hi Jim. If I'm reading you correctly, your characterization of hydraulic fracturing is reminiscent of the gaming problem that has the self-appointed skipper of a life boat who must decide which passenger gets tossed overboard and which will be served up for dinner. I don't think we need to resort to those extremes. There is no question in my mind that the quality of everyday life (not only water) of entire fracking regions would be adversely affected if the practice proceeded as usual, based on current art, for the benefit of a relatively few citizens holding mineral rights and the backers of fracking operations and their energy company principals ... not to mention for the benefit of cleanup outfits when the next environmental superfunds are created. Of course, we can take a more positive view of the matter. Just as in Ethernet, where we see low-voltage d.c. power being delivered over the same four-pair communications cable that delivers data (power-over-Ethernet), imagine how economical it would be if the utilities could deliver both water and gas over the same street mains and residential subsidiary builds. FAC ------

To: axial who wrote (33004)	3/27/2010 11:32:10 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

re: "While many strata are stable and well defined, anyone who's had a well "kick" can tell you that disturbing adjoined pressure zones can be unpredictable." As an aside, which may or may not bear any merit in this discussion, but interesting if not entertaining nonetheless, I recently ran across a thread on NANOG having to do with earthquakes. One post stood out among the others due to its reference to coal and gas mining: merit.edu Snippet: "The Netherlands doesn't really have any quakes due to faultlines (there aren't any). But it does have the occasional quake due to coal/gas mining. Where the ground compacts or something like it." --/snip Except for en.wikipedia.org , which corroborates the assertion above, I've not researched this claim, as it relates to NL specifically, as yet, but I am familiar with similar phenomena occurring in my own immediate neighborhood, albeit caused by "mining" of another sort: From nytimes.com : Article: It Really Was Big Enough to Drive a Truck Into By Andy Newman \| NY Times \|March 28, 2006 ------