Undersea Deposits of Frozen Methane Found

geoswan writes "The CBC is running a story about large deposits of Frozen methane off the coast of Vancouver Island . The deposits may be 850 meters deep. The story doesn't say how the methane came to be a solid. Pressure? The story doesn't address what technology could be used to mine these deposits, if the decision is made to develop these resources. The CBC showed pictures taken of the methane hydrate. Sure enough, it looked like a big snowbank. It is an environmentally sensitive area. So, how about it, should it be exploited?"

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Editorial style

[OrangeSpyderMan]

In a bid to silence the many critics of Slashdot's poor editorial team, the decision has been made to radically alter the editorial style of the articles. So, hyperlinks in the featured stories will now not only be underlined, as per usual with links, and italic, but will also be bold .

That'll shut 'em up.

Re:Who owns it?

[N3WBI3]

Hey moron canda was a front not the objective of 1812. You guys have never been important engough to actually fight. you were brtis then and we were fighting England (we won).

I always love when Canadians bring up 1812 like we were at war with them, not England.

Re:armageddon

[wirelessbuzzers]

sorry to be nitpicky and offtopic, but technically it has to be a battle to be Armageddon. At the end of the world (according to the book of Revelation), there will be a "last battle" on the planes of Har-Megiddo, transliterated as Armageddon, and one of the forces will have two hundred million soldiers. These planes were the site of several previous bloody battles, so it is fitting that the last one should be there.

Re:Who owns it?

[xingix]

Yeah, war of 1812. Canadians burning down the White House--- booyaw.