Soviet Era Gas Drilling Mishap Resulted in Giant Pit That Has Been Burning Since 1971
December 28th, 2009Here’s one for your Cap and Trade file folder:
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That is WEIRD. Couldn’t flood it with water or bulldoze a bunch of dirt in? I mean, engineers put out those horrendous oil well fires in Iraq, and contained Chernobyl, after all.
Looks like an effects scene straight out of Tolkein’s Mordor, not to mention Jackson’s twist on the tale. Flaming stones and cavernous pits. All that’s missing are the Orcs.
Weird, no. Fantastical and scary and avoidable? Yes to all three. So goes playing with big boy toys and mother nature. Oil rigs get blown over by big ‘canes. Big sinkholes eat houses and buildings. Tornados trash whatever they want. Drill into a large enough pressurized gas jet and whoops, there it is.
As for putting things out, “engineers” did not “contain” Chernobyl any more than generals end wars. Thousands of now-dead workers were sacrificed to that glowing hole in Ukraine, resulting in abundant pain, suffering, death and misery that continues to this very day.
Engineers also designed Chernobyl. Let us not forget the other side of the coin.
Pouring water in the hole? Can you say steam? Filling the hole with dirt? You don’t imagine gas rising through the crust at a pressure capable of perking through miles of earth and jetting from superheated stones in such a way as to top the best the WETA people can offer won’t be able to perk through a few thousands truckloads of fill?
That’ll be an expensive and risky proposition, dealing with Dante’s inferno there. Who’s going to break their piggy bank on this one? Where’s the profit to be made? The opportunities for graft? I wonder why no one has done anything about it yet?
I apologize if this comes off a bit snarky, but in my own defense, the first comment from gbell was almost tragically credulous.