Comment by jyounker

Peter Reinhardt is specifically talking about pumping massive amounts of a synthetic liquid into the ground.

The history of the 20th century is full of people insisting that some industrial product is perfectly safe to dump into the environment in massive amounts, and then it turns out years later that it's not safe at all. I can't imagine the process for injecting some new synthetic into the ground taking less than four years in any situation. It's going to take more time than that just to do basic studies.

The specific kinds of regulations he's arguing about have been written in blood and tumors, and they exist for good reasons.