07-20-2016, 04:45 AM
It's been a long time and I don't remember it all other than being at a meeting and learning there was reinjection of water with toxic chemical residue into the land instead of the previous venting into the air. Someone in the audience asked about the underground "swiss cheese" lava tube effect going on all through out Puna and how it toxins would be going everywhere and the speaker could not comment on it.
There was a good deal of chatter that it's fracking by another name but still as potentially dangerous in the long run. Maybe not right away but the keiki here will experience the destruction.
All of my friends living in the surrounding communities consider the geothermal a danger. Including a previous president of faculty at UH Hilo, a retired MD with a Phd who supplied emergency personnel to heavy industry sites all over the world. This guy is brilliant and very concerned his land and air will be affected adversely by this industry.
I've witnessed accidents which can happen regardless of where the toxins are vented or injected, and the sound and vibrations of 24/7 drilling making surrounding homes completely uninhabitable for long periods of time. WTF? Who in their right mind would support that type of abuse to others?
Ok that's all I know. Someone enlighten me as to why reinjection is not as dangerous as fracking in our active and highly fragile volcanic rift zone with a large population in a 10 mile radius?
There was a good deal of chatter that it's fracking by another name but still as potentially dangerous in the long run. Maybe not right away but the keiki here will experience the destruction.
All of my friends living in the surrounding communities consider the geothermal a danger. Including a previous president of faculty at UH Hilo, a retired MD with a Phd who supplied emergency personnel to heavy industry sites all over the world. This guy is brilliant and very concerned his land and air will be affected adversely by this industry.
I've witnessed accidents which can happen regardless of where the toxins are vented or injected, and the sound and vibrations of 24/7 drilling making surrounding homes completely uninhabitable for long periods of time. WTF? Who in their right mind would support that type of abuse to others?
Ok that's all I know. Someone enlighten me as to why reinjection is not as dangerous as fracking in our active and highly fragile volcanic rift zone with a large population in a 10 mile radius?