... which turns a chiefly deaf ear
to the towns in Texas which are
suffering from damaging
earthquakes traceable to the
fracking activities.
 
Actually the TRC is far from deaf,
it just is wearing ear plugs because of
the noise it does not like.

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Shades of the Standard Oil Trust, the Interstate Commerce Commission, and the Union Tank Car Company.   cf. Carr, Albert Z. , "John D.Rockefeller's Secret Weapon,"    New York: McGraw-Hill Book, 1962 Tarbell, Ida M., "The History of the Standard Oil Company,"    New York: Phillips & Company, 1904 "The Rockefellers," Public Broadcasting System, Video,    Season 13, Episode 1, 2013-Feb-12 UTLX, "Union Tank Car Company" www.utlx.com/history.html, "The History of the Union    Tank Car Company" http://www.bilderberg.org/whatafel.htm, "Greed posing    as philanthropy" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D_Rockefeller,    "John D. Rockefeller family bibliography" https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amerianexperience/features/rockefellers-john/,    "An American Experience"