Google Funding the Next Big One?

wdavies writes "According to this New York Times article, Google is funding a controversial deep drill geothermal project north of San Francisco. Apparently the company, AltaRock, omitted to disclose that the same deep drilling caused a major quake in Basel, Switzerland when it was last used. Given the notorious geological instability of the Northern Californian coast, this strikes me as kind of dumb — and given the known likelihood of this technique producing earthquakes, somewhat EVIL."

Comments

Re:Their Fatal Mistake

[evilviper]

They should have drilled in Montana, the Dakotas, anywhere where people are semi-reasonable about things.

"Semi-reasonable"? Do you have any idea just how many gigantic hellish toxic waste pits there are in Montana? Say it with me: "Superfund Site"

the area where they refused to build powerplants for about 10 years and not only caused themselves rolling blackouts

What's this... The area with the most polluted air in the US has some slightly tough regulations, making it hard to build more coal power plants? The devil you say! Clearly, they should just bend over, and start sucking up whatever amount of soot the multinational corporations feel like putting out...

California as a political entity is non-viable, it's just taking a while to totally collapse...

You know, you only serve to make yourself look like a nutjob completely detached from reality when you spout off nonsense.

Would any right-wing nutjobs care to explain why it is that the most environmentally stringent cities and states just HAPPEN to be the most prosperous? Crazy, isn't it? Clearly proof that any environmental regulation is untenable. All these areas with pollution controls are clearly going to collapse, just a few thousand years from now. Just you wait! I'll be proven right! Now if you'll excuse me, I think my left lung just collapsed again...

Re:Unfair Blame to Both Google And AltaRock

[Blakey Rat]

I suspect your post qualifies as "annoying pedantic bullshit." If you don't have anything to contribute to the conversation, please don't bother.