when natural gas and fuel prices in general spike to prices that strangle our economy we will wish that we drilled more everywhere and everyway possible. when this time comes it will be years before drilling can get us back on our economic feet. we will all wonder how china got to where it is and where we are. they are eating our lunch while we argue about what might happen to the environment instead of pushing ahead with developement of our resorces and finding solutions as we go.we would rather ban developement.

injection well problems are distinctly different from hydraulic fracturing and to compare the two as you have done in this article is deliberately misleading. you also make the claim "“fracking” entails injecting millions of gallons of chemicals, sand or fluids into a well" which is another mis-statement. less than one half of one percent of that "millions of gallons" is chemicals the other 99.5+% is fresh water and sand. apparently the journalistic code is not a part of the curriculum at ucla or perhaps the centurion group has deemed adherence to it as unnecessary if it may be unfavorable to their cause.