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Title: Geologist caused quakes, faces 5 years
Source: amatechtel
URL Source: http://www.amatechtel.com/news/wed/ ... rland-earthquakes.RSen_JDH.asp
Published: Dec 18, 2009
Author: United Press International
Post Date: 2009-12-18 07:41:25 by noone222
Keywords: None
Views: 203
Comments: 12

BASEL, Switzerland, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A Swiss company geologist pleaded not guilty to knowingly causing $8.7 million in damage after his pioneering geothermal project caused earthquakes.

Markus Haering, a project designer with Geopower Basel AG, said local people knew of the risks in his company's drilling 3 miles into the ground beneath Basel, Switzerland. But he admitted Geopower "had very little knowledge of seismicity" before drilling, The Times of London reported.

The project caused a series of earthquakes, including one that measured 3.4 on the Richter scale.

Basel, located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, sits on a fault line and was destroyed in a massive 1356 earthquake, the most significant seismological event in Central European history.

Haering pleaded not guilty to intentionally causing $8.7 million in property damage with his company's quakes three years ago. Prosecutors dropped a second charge of "alarming the population."

He called the quakes "a learning process for everyone involved" and noted Geopower stopped pumping the pressurized water underground immediately after the biggest quake hit.

A verdict is expected next week. Haering faces up to five years in jail if convicted.

The project, begun three years ago, sought to generate power commercially by shooting water 3 miles underground to naturally superheated rocks. The water, reaching nearly 400 degrees, would create super-hot steam that would drive electric turbines that could meet the electricity needs of 10,000 households and heat 2,700 homes.

The project was shut down by city authorities last week.


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#1. To: noone222 (#0)

I wonder if the injected water lubricated the fault, releasing the dormant force imbalance?

Have to listen to C2C to hear what George Noory's earthquake expert has to say. They better not put the geologist in jail but instead let him keep earning money to pay for damage claims that may be filed.

Tatarewicz  posted on  2009-12-18   8:02:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: noone222 (#0)

Geologist caused quakes

Humans cause global warming - Al Gore

Cigarettes cause hurricanes - Esso

Freedom of speech causes holocausts - ADL

Guns cause forest fires - Smokey the Bear

Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)

Esso  posted on  2009-12-18   8:02:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Tatarewicz (#1) (Edited)

If squirting some water in the ground causes earthquakes, drilling for oil would cause the earth to pop like a balloon.

I wonder who made the determination that a geothermal project caused earthquakes, Exxon-Mobil? Gazprom? BP? Total?

Who benefits?

Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)

Esso  posted on  2009-12-18   8:23:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: noone222 (#0)

The project caused a series of earthquakes, including one that measured 3.4 on the Richter scale. ...Haering pleaded not guilty to intentionally causing $8.7 million in property damage with his company's quakes three years ago.

Perhaps living in CA has colored my thinking on this but I have to question how an earthquake that small caused that much damage. I saw the 3.4 and my first thought was "did anyone feel it"? How did it do that much damage?


"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown

farmfriend  posted on  2009-12-18   9:54:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: farmfriend (#4)

A menorah fell over in a synagogue. Pain and suffering.

Avoiding foreign entanglements is the best domestic policy.

Prefrontal Vortex  posted on  2009-12-18   10:31:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#5)

LOL


"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown

farmfriend  posted on  2009-12-18   10:50:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: noone222 (#0)

He didn't cause it. He triggered it, releasing energy that has to be released sooner or later. Maybe this technology could be used to release earthquake energy slowly in places prone to big ones.

Pinguinite  posted on  2009-12-18   11:24:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Esso (#2)

Humans cause global warming - Al Gore

Cigarettes cause hurricanes - Esso

Freedom of speech causes holocausts - ADL

Guns cause forest fires - Smokey the Bear

laughing...

christine  posted on  2009-12-18   12:03:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: farmfriend (#4)

Perhaps living in CA has colored my thinking on this but I have to question how an earthquake that small caused that much damage. I saw the 3.4 and my first thought was "did anyone feel it"? How did it do that much damage?

Same here. We get those 2s to 3s everyday of the week about 25 miles north of me, we had one about an hour ago.... a 2.1. I rarely feel a thing until it gets into the 4s.

mininggold  posted on  2009-12-18   14:07:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: mininggold (#9)

I rarely feel a thing until it gets into the 4s.

Yeah, I'm reading the article thinking it must have been a least a 5er but no.


"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown

farmfriend  posted on  2009-12-18   17:28:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Esso (#3)

If squirting some water in the ground causes earthquakes, drilling for oil would cause the earth to pop like a balloon.

Depends on where you drill. You can drill all over SE Texas and not shake a teacup because it's all sedimentary.

Seems I've heard of this kind of thing before but I can't put my finger on the location.

randge  posted on  2009-12-18   18:21:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: randge, Pinguinite (#11) (Edited)

They're busily trying to convince us that the earth is as fragile as a crystal brandy snifter in order to tax us into starvation and to generally deprive us of our birthright. What caught my attention was this:

The water, reaching nearly 400 degrees, would create super- hot steam that would drive electric turbines that could meet the electricity needs of 10,000 households and heat 2,700 homes.

That's a violation of the 1st Commandment of the New Judeo Century - Thou shalt not allow anything that benefits the citizens (goyim). Not to mention that it got every oil company in the world all teary-eyed.

If megaton-range underground thermonuclear detonations didn't manage to split the earth in half, a little steam isn't going to cause earthquakes. In the extremely remote possibility that it did, it just expedited something that would have happened at a later date and would have possibly been devastating, as Neil suggested. In that case, the guy should be given a medal.

But no, he'll go to prison for trying to help the people and for actually trying to do something about decreasing reliance on oil, rather than just jawboning about it. No good deed goes unpunished.

Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)

Esso  posted on  2009-12-18   20:01:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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