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And based on my brief research on this specific pipeline (which appears to have been scrapped), the gas was to be used for power generation. There was also a pr
by danjayh 8y ago
And based on my brief research on this specific pipeline (which appears to have been scrapped), the gas was to be used for power generation. There was also a proposal for a 320KV transmission line to import power instead, which appears to be going ahead. Personally, I would 1000x rather have a gas pipeline transit my land than a 320kv transmission line. Residential proximity to HV transmission lines increases risk of leukaemia ... at least gas lines can be monitored for leaks & repaired. The people who scuttled this seem to ignore that the dense urban development that they love requires importation of energy in some form from far-flung places.
- sbierwagen 8y ago>Residential proximity to HV transmission lines increases risk of leukaemia "Everything is correlated." The land next to HV lines is cheaper, poorer people have higher mutational load, therefore a higher cancer rate. You get a real, authentic correlation between power lines and cancer, without power lines actually directly causing cancer.
- dsl 8y ago> poorer people have higher mutational load Actually the strongest predictor of mutational load is the distance at which you are born from Africa. I know you didn't intend it to sound that way, but you basically used science words to call poor people inbred. https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/113/4/E440.full.pdf https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/113/4/E440.full.pdf
- sbierwagen 8y agoObviously, when looking at comparative cancer rates within a single country, comparisons of mutational load within that country is more useful than comparing mutational load between countries. If you know of a study that aggregates power line cancer data from multiple countries, without normalizing it against the base rate for that country, I'd be interested in seeing it.