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Originally Posted by Larv
This has got to be one of the worst ideas the oil industry ever came up with. Chevron’s “inherited” crude-oil storage facility at Drift River sits smack dab in the middle of Mt. Redoubt’s eruption plume. Some say it could be Alaska’s next Exxon Valdez.
It’s not good to store your precious energy reserves downstream from an active volcano. Oil, lava and water do not mix well; they must have known that. What were they thinking anyway?
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Well, looks like it was built in 1966, and there wasn't a lot known then about volcanos. A lot still not known today, as no one can predict an eruption such as Redoubt's yet.
I'd say that another danger is as bad there in the inlet that they would have known about and that is a tsunami, as the
Alaska quake of 1964 was history then.
Live and learn.
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