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- Hacker News
- > "In a worst case scenario, the hillside can liquefy and actually slide into the community," Assembly member Pilar Schiavo, D-Santa Clarita, said at a news conference last month.
Once again, proving that Idiocracy (2006) was prophetic, and not just satire.
by shaftway - Thank your ancestors, who were to lazy to recycle and treat the rest in a thermic process upfront. It bet those landfills could have easily been only one third the size and close to non-toxic.
When generations cheap out, it's always one of the next who suffers. Pains me.
- Somewhat moot point but official website insists it is NOT a fire
https://chiquitacanyon.com/odor-mitigation/recent-updates/
>>Any odors coming from the Chiquita Canyon Landfill are related to an abnormal biotic or abiotic process (also known as a landfill reaction) taking place deep within a lined, but older and inactive portion of the Landfill waste mass. This reaction is not a fire or subsurface oxidation event within the waste mass, and is not related to waste disposal operations at the Landfill.
by ethagknight - Time to tax the generation that filled them for the costs of their choices. Unpriced externalities is a failure mode of unregulated market choices.by maerF0x0