01-01-2015, 07:57 AM
Mostly nonsense. The eruption did not start until after the land swap - pushed by Sierra Club and VCA - had been agreed to. Note too, that the required monitoring was for a development substantially larger than PGV's 35 MWe - last time I checked, the Geysers Geothermal Field, with over 1000 MWe capacity had 3 air monitoring stations. (don't claim to know what the current situation is...)
This is the typical fear-mongering and whining the community has been subjected to for decades - demanding more, and more extensive monitoring than has been done for any similar technology - the HELCO power plants in Hilo produce one hundred to one thousand times the air pollution on a per megawatt hour basis than the PGV plant (in a more populous region) - yet no calls for monitoring there. Then, when excessive, unnecessary monitoring is required of the new technology, whine about the technology being more expensive.
The alleged threats are purely imaginary and any real data that contradicts the nonsensical claims - such as the scientific papers posted earlier - are completely ignored.
This is the typical fear-mongering and whining the community has been subjected to for decades - demanding more, and more extensive monitoring than has been done for any similar technology - the HELCO power plants in Hilo produce one hundred to one thousand times the air pollution on a per megawatt hour basis than the PGV plant (in a more populous region) - yet no calls for monitoring there. Then, when excessive, unnecessary monitoring is required of the new technology, whine about the technology being more expensive.
The alleged threats are purely imaginary and any real data that contradicts the nonsensical claims - such as the scientific papers posted earlier - are completely ignored.