Did you know?

Railroads were the first large scale transporters of goods and services, [a side from shipping] and hence were given many additional charters to manage, due to their close involvement with so many industries, and their ability to quickly get from point A to point B.

Industries like mining went hand in hand, as the rail networks needed the raw materials to initially build themselves in order to take the minerals away eventually, for other industries.

Same for telecommunications. The telegraph followed the path of railroads as the initial concept was to not even put up wires, but use the actual rails as the network.
This is a little known fact, even today. Controlled and monitored eventually by constructing seperate wire carriers, also driven by copper mining, and more railroads.

Anything deemed a 'carrier' was eventually managed or supervised by these commissions. Fingers in every pie. The wealth generated was enormous - for a few.

Look at this pic. This is how oil used to be transported about. In tanks, on massively long trains.


IMAGE ( [link to i824.photobucket.com] )


But someone had a great idea. Instead of making longer and longer trains, why not join all the tanks together from A to B as a long pipeline.

The birth of oil pipelines.

February 20, 1917 Pipelines declared 'common carriers'. The Commission given jurisdiction over them. The responsibility to check and regulate maintenance is also part of the charter.

So, a rail road commission is responsible for the charter managing oil and gas production, including waste materials, including BRINE, which I am hoping you all get by now is a direct result of an oil find being translated in to an OIL RESERVE.

Who manages brine from oil and gass production the US over?

The Rail Road Commission of Texas.

Where does all that brine go? What is it used for?

THAT is a good question.





[link to www.rrc.state.tx.us]