The paper discusses in a very timely manner the seismicity and risk from gas injection in the Groningen gas field. The results indicate that reductions in seismicity can be achieved in all analysed scenarios and that these reductions could be substantial also for relatively modest volumes of injection gas. The results also show that benefits may be lost if injection is stopped before reservoir-wide equilibration has been achieved. These are interesting findings which enables the paper to fulfil more than one newsworthy criteria of the EGU: i.a. timing, significance, proximity, and hot topic.