My father was assigned to this project while in the Air Force. He always talked about it. My mom has a box of Project Gasbuggy stuff that dad kept. He has a binder full of photographs as he was tasked with taking photos of the site on the ground and in the air. He was most likely in the air force helicopter (he took pictures of that as well) you see briefly in the film and probably sat next to the camera operator for the aerial scenes in the film. He was also involved with Project Sterling in which they blew up a nuke in the Tatum Salt Dome in Mississippi to test whether they would be able to hear the Russians if they were doing nuclear weapons testing underground.
"Project: Gasbuggy" was successful in fracturing to release the Natural Gas.. However, the Natural Gas being released was too radioactive to be used commercially.
How all of those scientists involved in the project didn't know in advance that this would be the case just boggles the mind. OBTW, they apparently "flared" off all of that radioactive gas, which likely contaminated the entire region downwind of the project. Our government did a lot of really dumb things with nukes back in the day.
@@kevinmadore1794 "Project Plowshares" was at the time trying to find constructive uses of Nuclear Weapons. Unfortunately, Nuclear Weapons really have no real use except for Deterrence. "Project Plowshares" was Adults masquerading as children messing with the Forces of the Atom. It's like children playing with matches and not realizing the possible consequences of their own actions.
Does anyone know the amount of liquid radioactive waste that was placed down the hole afterward and what was it from? Who does the legacy work on this site?
Oh this was just the start of the craziness they began. They did a second larger detonation on Colorado's western slope and then planned an even larger one here in Wyoming. Luckily some concerned and determined individuals fought back. Watch this. th-cam.com/video/rMZcoReSixc/w-d-xo.html
Gotta love the 60's...no one gave a stuff about nuking a national park back then LOL. Nor did they care about worker safety drilling into 'hot' rock..and you have to also love the wonky expectations of uncontaminated water tables then or in the future. Back then, everything was ok. Frack baby frack!! Flaming water pouring out of your taps has nothing on this sh*t! LOL
So we’re not going to talk about how close this was or basically on the Jicarilla Apache Tribal reservation? This sounds like a bad intentioned colonial project
My father was assigned to this project while in the Air Force. He always talked about it. My mom has a box of Project Gasbuggy stuff that dad kept. He has a binder full of photographs as he was tasked with taking photos of the site on the ground and in the air. He was most likely in the air force helicopter (he took pictures of that as well) you see briefly in the film and probably sat next to the camera operator for the aerial scenes in the film.
He was also involved with Project Sterling in which they blew up a nuke in the Tatum Salt Dome in Mississippi to test whether they would be able to hear the Russians if they were doing nuclear weapons testing underground.
I love me some Project Gasbuggy! Had no idea this film existed: thank you!
"Project: Gasbuggy" was successful in fracturing to release the Natural Gas.. However, the Natural Gas being released was too radioactive to be used commercially.
How all of those scientists involved in the project didn't know in advance that this would be the case just boggles the mind. OBTW, they apparently "flared" off all of that radioactive gas, which likely contaminated the entire region downwind of the project. Our government did a lot of really dumb things with nukes back in the day.
@@kevinmadore1794 "Project Plowshares" was at the time trying to find constructive uses of Nuclear Weapons. Unfortunately, Nuclear Weapons really have no real use except for Deterrence. "Project Plowshares" was Adults masquerading as children messing with the Forces of the Atom. It's like children playing with matches and not realizing the possible consequences of their own actions.
THE produced oil n gas was so radioactive no refinery wanted it. cemented the well. plugged n abandoned
Gee, who could have guessed THAT might happen?
Thanks for posting, a fascinating glimpse into the past.
9:33 no fall arrest harness, looks like he'd fit down that 4000' hole
I passed by there today. Pretty interesting
Love all those old vehicles!
And people thought the current fracking was as bad as it gets.....
Does anyone know the amount of liquid radioactive waste that was placed down the hole afterward and what was it from? Who does the legacy work on this site?
This story continued....
th-cam.com/video/rMZcoReSixc/w-d-xo.html
The good old days when you could smoke while drilling to extract highly inflammable gas!
Far out!
I live in Dulce
Oh this was just the start of the craziness they began. They did a second larger detonation on Colorado's western slope and then planned an even larger one here in Wyoming. Luckily some concerned and determined individuals fought back. Watch this.
th-cam.com/video/rMZcoReSixc/w-d-xo.html
Gotta love the 60's...no one gave a stuff about nuking a national park back then LOL. Nor did they care about worker safety drilling into 'hot' rock..and you have to also love the wonky expectations of uncontaminated water tables then or in the future. Back then, everything was ok. Frack baby frack!!
Flaming water pouring out of your taps has nothing on this sh*t! LOL
It didn't stop there.
th-cam.com/video/rMZcoReSixc/w-d-xo.html
WTF
So we’re not going to talk about how close this was or basically on the Jicarilla Apache Tribal reservation? This sounds like a bad intentioned colonial project