Thar She Blows!

Trey Smith

Over the past several decades, U.S. industries have injected more than 30 trillion gallons of toxic liquid deep into the earth, using broad expanses of the nation's geology as an invisible dumping ground.

No company would be allowed to pour such dangerous chemicals into the rivers or onto the soil. But until recently, scientists and environmental officials have assumed that deep layers of rock beneath the earth would safely entomb the waste for millennia.

There are growing signs they were mistaken.
~ from Injection Wells: The Poison Beneath Us by Abrahm Lustgarten ~

As an unabashed environmentalist, it might seem strange that I haven't written much on fracking. It's not that fracking doesn't worry me -- it does -- it's more that I simply can't believe that there would be ANY rationale to think this was a good idea!

Throughout the past 100 years or so, every time we arrogant humans think we've found a magnificent way to sweep poisons and toxins under the proverbial rug, they always pop back up in the same place or somewhere else. Wherever we put them, they don't stay there! They leach and seep out. They migrate somewhere else. They get spewed into the air or spilled into waterways.

So, why oh why do we think that pumping pollutants deep underground could possibly be safe? It is pure madness (with a lot of greed) to think such a thing!