Fracking Industry Word-Play

Now that fracking brine injection has been determined as the source of a series of Ohio earthquakes, some pro-fracking writers and industry professionals have concluded that the true meaning of the results are: that fracking has nothing to do with earthquakes and the two are events, fracking and earthquakes are unrelated. (Sorry about that run-on sentence.)

So, a few points come immediately to mind (feel free to share your thoughts):

1. If there was no fracking, there would be no brine to inject.
2. The last I heard, the kind of high pressure (the amount of PSI) used to dump brine into disposal wells (causing earthquakes) is the same high pressure used to originally frack the wells in the first place; so, saying the dumping caused the eartquakes and not the drilling, is just word-play.
3. The lack of earthquakes at drill sites so far has more to do with luck, if you can call it that, than it has to do with the difference between drilling and dumping. (Another run-on, sorry about that one, too.)
4. Unrelated to brine injection, but having to do with roadway brine dumping in Ohio and other fracked states, according to one Forbes article, and I guess the EPA, "The U.S. EPA considers the deep injection of brine using Class II disposal wells as the preferred and environmentally safe method for disposal of oilfield fluid wastes."
5. So, why is this toxic stuff dumped on Ohio and many other states' roadways if the EPA says it should be propelled deep into the earth (and that brings us back to the earthquake thing)?
6. And, if brine causes earthquakes when injected deep into the earth, which is after all the preferred disposal method, isn't it time to find a way to do this safely - or at least stop doing it until they figure out a safe way instead of a way that is only safe if they throw in enough word-play?

As I have mentioned in earlier posts, I'm not against fracking; I know people need jobs, desperately. I'm against companies putting people's lives and health at risk for the sake of a fast buck, or even millions of fast bucks.