My point wasn't with the storage method per se. It was that they most likely didn't test this particular chamber for gas permeability, because "it's always worked before". If you built it, test it. If you didn't build it, test it twice. This should be especially true in seismically active zones.

Thing is, it costs money to test things for failure modes that have never been seen before. Just like security is always a distant afterthought to for-profit software engineering, so safety is an afterthought to energy companies.

"A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."

Nothing has changed.

Even if you win a $100 billion dollar settlement against some huge corporation in a US court, they would just tell you to fuck off, close down US operations and continue business overseas. The majority of their assets will be held offshore anyways and immune from the US justice system.

but but muh EPA

Bless your hear no. BP Didnt wreck it. They had a spill, however what wrecked it was a decision to NOT use the planned containment method. Encircle, and burn. Instead they authorized dispersants (Corexit is banned in the United Kingdom due to concerns about possible adverse health effects on people using it.) that "Alabama researchers found that the dispersant killed plankton and disrupted the Gulf of Mexico's food web, noting that it is "like the middle part of the food chain has been taken away"

Interestingly, the gulf of Mexico had a US Oil mining company moritorium, however Obama authorized Brazaprom full rights. Which happened to have just had a massive stock purchase to make the majority shareholder George Soros, who happened to have donated over a billion dollars to Obamas campaign. Which really points to Obama pushed to have this be a catastrophe, acting against a US Study on oil spill recoverty, to push funds to his campaign financer.

Gas is escaping through a ruptured pipe more than 8,000 feet underground

When did we start burying pipelines a mile and a half down?

Hopefully all of the carbon tax charities can donate to their forgiveness fund.

ooooooh

impossible.

they own the governments, the media, your food companies, the trucking companies, the people in oversight committees, the cops, the military.

basically they own fucking everything everywhere and are connected to everyone.

how hard? as hard as a teen boy standing in front of a naked kate moss.

which causes brain damage,

soooooo

At least the lifetime of CH ₄ in the atmosphere is much shorter than that of CO ₂ – 12 years – but it's not all good news. The bad news is that it generally gets turned into CO ₂ , which then hangs around for a couple hundred years. So although it is a potent greenhouse gas, it's also a short-term one. It's still a disaster, just not for that particular reason.

Methane isn't particularly toxic, and it needs to mix at a fairly narrow range of fuel-oxygen ratio in order to burn. Spread it too thin, and it's pretty well harmless. Kept to itself, it can't burn. It's that transition in between where you have a problem.

Now whoever decided that underground formations that held hydrocarbons that are liquid at standard temperature and pressure are somehow qualified to hold hydrocarbons that are gases at standard temperature and pressure needs to have his engineering license pulled.

Oh wait, this decision probably was made over the objections of the engineers, who were told to just make it work or else. Nothing to see here.

Click click boom

at this rate, fucking birth defects are on the schedule for the US within at least a few decades.