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Robertson: No scientific link between La Soufriere eruption and geothermal drilling

Article by Social Share Kingstown – Linking geothermal energy exploration to the eruption of La Soufriere is like expecting a skin-deep injection to puncture one’s heart, geologist Professor Richard Robertson has said in response to questions about whether the drilling on the volcano’s slopes last year could have resulted in the current eruptions. “In the case of geothermal, both at this volcano and other volcanoes, there is no indication scientifically that they should affect each other in terms of getting a volcano going. And certainly, in this case, we don’t think it did,” he said. In 2019, the government dug three wells as part of the geothermal energy project, but each failed to produce the required permeability. Then, in December 2020, after almost 42 years of inactivity, La Soufriere began erupting effusively, then exploded on April 9 – an eruption that continues to date.

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