Risky business; Supervolcano Drilling Plan Gets Go-Ahead, page 1

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The Campi Flegrei Deep Drilling Project was set up by an international collaboration of scientists to assess the risks posed by the Campi Flegrei caldera, a geological formation just a few kilometers to the west of Naples that formed over thousands of years following the collapse of several volcanoes. Researchers believe that if it erupted, Campi Flegrei could have global repercussions, potentially killing millions of people and having a major effect on the climate, but that such massive eruptions are extremely rare.

I sure hope they have a plan in place to monitor the drilling for producing any chance of an eruption.

Since an eruption would have worldwide consequences I would have thought they should have gotten wider approval.

A 'pilot hole' meaning more to come?

It's not nice to fool with mother nature!

500 meters sounds a lot better than the original 4 kilometers originally proposed and rejected by the local mayor.

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Hey...uhhh...Earl. You think that, da, bear's asleep.

I don't know, Vern. Why don't you go poke it with that der stick.

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They could also be "drilling for oil" ? Or doing a mining of some sort without REALLY disclosing its purpose to the mayor. Just a thought.

All I am going to say is that I hope they know what they are doing.

hisz.rsoe.hu...

"A project to drill deep into the heart of a 'supervolcano' in southern Italy has finally received the green light, despite claims that the drilling would put the population of Naples at risk of small earthquakes or an explosion. Yesterday, Italian news agency ANSA quoted project coordinator Giuseppe De Natale of Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology as saying that the office of Naples mayor Luigi de Magistris has approved the drilling of a pilot hole 500 meters deep. The project’s organizers originally intended to bore a 4-kilometer-deep well in the area of the caldera late in 2009, but the plan was put on hold by then-mayor Rosa Russo Iervolino after scientists expressed concerns about the risks."

Maybe HAARP has been used properly and minerals worth digging up have been detected under the ground?

Trying to see if there is a precident or protocol for this sort of thing. Maybe puterman can help if he is around?

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Dr Erik Klemetti is of the opinion that this will not cause any problems (Back in 2010)

Drilling into Campi Flegrei: It seems like the story about the potential hazards of drilling into Italy's Campei Flegrei will never die. Researchers lead by Dr. Giuseppe De Natale plan to drill 13,000 feet into the active magma chamber (they hope) of the caldera system and I've posted twice about how this is not likely to prompt an eruption.

Source: Big think

Your host is Erik Klemetti, an assistant professor of geosciences at Denison University who spends most of his professional time thinking about magma.

I think you can trust what he says even though he is a scientist!!

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