Engineering360: "Chevron approves $5.7 billion high-pressure deepwater project"

No oversight required for big oil to make 7 new pollution holes?

DEEP FRACKING is the death knell of earth as we know it. Besides escape of deep and widespread pollutants, which someday will permeate (mechanical systems will ultimately fail), and in addition to immediate impacts, a cumulative geological breakdown will culminate eventually. That we will deplete resources relatively soon too, notwithstanding.

In one massive (600mi x 250mi x 75mi, e.g.) formation, fractured throughout, 15 trillion cubic feet of gas can be taken over 15 years, oil notwithstanding.. and virtually worldwide. No consideration is given regarding the crustal and tectonic implications of such vast concentrations of gas that if taken out of earths crust whole without the oil, would float in atmosphere like an island, or a dirigible. In earth, under pressure, all this buoyancy under the Gulf of Mexico, e.g., is most certainly significant to the stability of the upper crust.

We are beginning to fundamentally alter the foundational geology of earth.