It’s very disheartening to see how utterly anti-environment the GOP and their corporate masters are… they will stop at nothing to rip a buck out of whatever they can… How can they not see that the environment and the economy go hand in hand? In for a quick buck and out before the damage is noticed… that is the GOP’s unspoken motto!

You really can hate the GOP for their anti-environmental desires and the greed and corruption they don’t care about for corporations.  Americans are sadly not well informed and are very foolish about the true determination of republicans for power to do the work that corporate lobbyists want and not the people in America.

You know what I wish?

I wish we could get some expert opinion from, say, the people at the University of Ulster’s Environmental Sciences Research Institute…who just happen to be studying (from http://www.science.ulster.ac.uk/esri/Geophysics#page=introduction):

“[...] carbon dioxide sequestration and have obtained funding to investigate the potential hazards associated with the injection of fluids into critically-stressed rock masses. Such injection is known to induce earthquakes which have a finite hazard potential and well as the potential for contributing to fluid loss from storage…”

Now this layman’s eyes see cross-applicability in the movement of fluids - whether those fluids are water, liquified carbon dioxide, or some other carbon-laden fluid - as well as in the interplay between seismic events and the anthropomorphic destabilization of rock strata, whether the latter be unintentional, as in the case of carbon sequestration, or intentional - as in hydraulic fracking.

And the movement of gases is also obviously applicable to both cases.

lolll…Ulster could probably use some funding, too, before Big Energy does what they do with “scientists” here in the U.S. and buys their silence with mega-bucks.