Time to Spend That Volcano Monitoring Money!

Posted by admin in Eco, Green on 04 12th, 2009 | one response

The U.S. Department of the Interior reports that they will start spending the stimulus money granted them in February, and among the $140 million-worth of projects is $15.2 million for Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s favorite activity: volcano monitoring! This has been covered before, but it’s too good to let go easily. The complete disregard for actual science shown was thrown back in Jinda’s face immediately, but the volcano gods joined in only a month later when Alaska’s Mt. Redoubt erupted. Residents of the area had been warned two months

earlier than eruption was pending, and perhaps as a result there were no major incidents when the volcano finally blew. Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said that the Alaska Volcano Observatory’s “top priority is to prevent repetition of the incident that occurred during Redoubt’s eruption 19 years ago, when a Boeing 747 passenger aircraft strayed into an ash cloud and nearly crashed.” Eh, who needs monitoring, right? Read more of this story »

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Time to Spend That Volcano Monitoring Money!



One Response to “Time to Spend That Volcano Monitoring Money!”

  1. Hillary says:
    April 13, 2009 at 1:04 am

    This is amazing! I have a friend, a veteran, who is having trouble paying his mortgage because he lost his job. The government WON’T give him any help because his house was purchased with a VA loan, but the government gives its self 140 million to study volcanoes!

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