Indonesia Will Handle Toxic Mud Crisis By Pumping Waste Into The Sea

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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Indonesia is likely to pipe hot mud that is surging from a gas well into the sea to head off an unfolding crisis, even though the sludge might kill marine life, a minister said Tuesday.

The mud, which runs five meters (16 feet) deep in some places, has submerged houses in four villages since it started spewing from a hole on densely populated Java Island almost four months ago, displacing more than 10,000 people. Geologists fear the torrent may be unstoppable, posing a problem for local authorities in East Java, which up to now have been containing the sludge in an ever expanding network of earth dams.

Public Works Minister Djoko Kirmanto said that the president "had hinted that the mud would be disposed in the sea," but that a formal decision would be announced on Wednesday.

Environmental groups have opposed the plan to dump the mud into the sea, fearing it could disturb marine life. Tests have shown the mud to be not especially dangerous to human health. "Do we want to save humans or fish?" Kirmanto told reporters. "If we choose saving fish, it means that more villages will sink."

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[kestrel91316]

1. This is actually a good thing. See, it will kill off all the fish and

higher forms of sea life, so the jellyfish population will boom. I hear jellyfish are considered good eating in Asia.

Looks like a win-win!!!!!!!!!!

:sarcasm:

[Nihil]

2. Let me guess ...

> "Do we want to save humans or fish?" Kirmanto told reporters.
> "If we choose saving fish, it means that more villages will sink."

If you choose to "save" humans in a fishing village at the cost of
the fish ... how have you "saved" them?

I've a better idea: Move the people out of the area and take every
penny it costs plus a genuine compensation amount from the shitheads
who dug the hole ...

[kitkatrose]

3. Thank you.

Sometimes I wonder if officials have higher brain functions.

[Javaman]

4. Oh come on now, that means someone would actually have to

take responcibility for their actions. Pul-eeeze. Just what were you thinking?

:sarcasm: