On the politics of irreversible decisions
  • greygore@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    20 days ago

    Jesse Frederik, a smart Dutch journalist, has arguedthat locals greatly exaggerated the harmfulness of the earthquakes.

    I really appreciate the author making their bias this obvious.

    • okwhateverdude@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      20 days ago

      locals greatly exaggerated the harmfulness of the earthquakes.

      Fuck this dude. If I am local, I don’t give a shit how “harmful” it is. That isn’t the standard we’re operating at in society. I don’t want the ground shaking at all. Ever. Period. And your gas/oil company does not come before the collective will of the people living there.

  • BurtReynolds@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    20 days ago

    This doesn’t make sense. If they simply plug them with cement, it’s fairly easy to just drill out the cement plug and do some clean up runs before testing the well and putting it back into operation. If they’ve actually filled the entire string with cement you simply go down the same hole, kick off above the cement and drill a new one next to the previous. I’m not advocating for it, but you’re not destroying the field by doing this, just making startup more cumbersome. Seems like spending money on image politics to me