HELIUM HIGH: Drill baby drill — this time for helium. Peak helium? So doomsters claimed.

Drillers in Africa’s Great Rift Valley have discovered significant helium reserves. “…volcanic activity in the Rift Valley releases helium buried in ancient rocks, which rises up and becomes trapped in shallower gas fields.”

Gas fields. And drilling. When will Obama object?

Well, helium is a gas, and like natural gas it’s a valuable gas. Researchers from Oxford and Durham universities worked with a Norwegian exlporation company, Helium One. Private industry inventiveness scores again.

There’ve been other recent helium discoveries. This link discusses one in Montana, though the reservoir’s geology appears to differ from the find in Tanzania.