Louisiana sink hole size INCREASES! Are we about to witness an explosion?

[Sgt.Rocknroll]

im glad you know how to spell that parish.i was down there the year before katrina.beefing up towers.next door to the two story telephone company.we ate regularly at a restaurant that the female owner was running for sheriff.it was the first time i had seen those vietamese people with the witch hats.mong maybe? did anything survive down there?the major networks wouldnt say a thing.i always thought it strange those towers being beefed up a year before katrina.i still think haarp did it.

You're probably talking about the lower end of the parish. Everything from Port Sulfur south was completely destroyed. Storm surge was measured about 32'. I live up in Belle Chasse, north end of the parish. Three of my four sons and I rode out the storm at my home because my wife works at the local hospital and was on Hurricane duty and couldn't evacuate. And I wasn't leaving my wife alone. The eye of Katrina missed my house by about 2 miles to the east of us. Man it was pretty hairy that night and morning but we made it ok. The real problem was after the storm. Police pretty much succumbed to paranoia and pressure. I had four cop cars pull up into my front yard on Wednesday and guns pulled on my sons being accused of looting! Of course it was BS cause they wanted my generator and my window air conditioner. I was later told that they were 'commandeering' supplies. We just called it stealing. So after the hospital closed and all the patients evacuated, my wife and my sons and I left the parish and went to a golf countryclub in north west Louisiana and spent a week enjoying ourselves...sorry for being so long winded on the subject but I was pretty pissed about everyting after that....anyway....

steared? naw don't think so, mother nature has been doing that for thousands of years. don't need any help from us....

Peace
Rock

[robomont]

thankyou for the update.im sorry for your trouble.
the year of katrina,there were droughts in the midwest along the mississippi and sabine.katrina came ashore on the river.then rita tracked the sabine.thats because the rivers are low and slow.like this year.the only time the rio flowed in sometime,a hurricane tracked it.the coastal rains work as a buffer to keep them back.my theory.so far it holds.haarp could be creating the drought by creating a high pressure system.the gov said they would have total control of the weather by 2025.they usually dont admit to stealth craft for twenty years.so that could mean that they have had control since 2005.my theory.

[SarK0Y]

explosion seems very unlikely, but Olympic Flame might be as well.

[Sgt.Rocknroll]

More fun in the neighborhood...this is a mile from my house...

http://www.wwltv.com/news/Chemical-release-fire-in-Belle-Chasse--166568096.html

[SarK0Y]

update: http://www.examiner.com/article/sinkhole-isaac-s-cone-of-uncertainty-63-miles-from-gulf

[zorgon]

August 09 2012


August 10 2012

Aug. 16, 2012

A 400-foot deep sinkhole in Louisiana is expanding and today swallowed the boat of two cleanup workers who had to be rescued from the hole. Officials are still fearful of the possibility of explosions from nearby gas-filled caverns.

"It has expanded 50 feet and during that expansion there were workers that were working on the cleanup of the diesel," Kim Torres, spokeswoman for the Office of Emergency Preparedness, told ABCNews.com today.

The two workers were in a boat tied to a tree when the area where the tree grew fell into the sinkhole.

The workers were rescued by airboat. They were uninjured but their boat disappeared into the sinkhole. The cleanup process has been halted.

ABC News

[thorfourwinds]

"We Have No Clue..."

Bill Feig/ASSOCIATED PRESS


Texas Brine Co. said a sinkhole near Pierre Part, La., illuminated with diesel sheen Tuesday, might be related to structural problems within a cavern it owns under the sinkhole.


Media, Officials Still Playing Dumb As Louisiana Sinkhole Expands


Public officials  claim the "mystery in the swamp" continues to grow more "mysterious"  as more and more revelations surface that government has known all along what is behind the slow motion train-wreck.

At this point the sinkhole continues to expand as tremors in the area continue and residents have been evacuated not on fears of just this sinkhole will collapse but also over 50 nearby caverns which are being used to store all kinds of hazardous waste and dangerous substances from radioactive materials to butane and natural gas.

Publicly the officials still claim "We Have No Clue" even though official documents reveal the government has know about the problem since at least 2011 and have just chosen to keep quiet.

This is the reassuring comment from authorities.

"It's not going to get fixed tomorrow,"

Kim Torres, spokeswoman for the Office of Emergency Preparedness, told ABCNews.com today.

"We urge the residents
to leave to protect themselves.

We have no idea how far this sinkhole
will expand or in what direction.

We have no clue."

The video shows more of what ABC and the media are telling to the public – There are earthquakes and tremors and drilling operations and caverns being used to store toxic and radiological chemicals and even a pipeline but we are still don't know what is going on months into the crisis...






Dangerous Levels of Radium at Corne Bayou Sinkhole

By Meryl Ann Butler





Bayou Corne Sinkhole Aug 21, 2012 by Assumption Parish OHSEP


Background: For many weeks, Louisiana's Corne and Grand Bayou residents noticed strange bubblings in the bayou, and they reported smelling burnt diesel fuel and sulfur.

Then suddenly a sinkhole the size of three football fields appeared on Aug. 3, swallowing scores of 100-foot tall cypress trees. The sinkhole is believed to have resulted from the failure of an abandoned underground brine cavern.

The Department of Natural Resources issued a Declaration of Emergency on Aug. 6, and 150 families were evacuated. For maps and additional information, see article "Does Sudden Sinkhole Portend a Nuclear-sized Explosion?"

Stuart Smith, one of the nation's leading environmental attorneys, says that  Stanley Waligora, a New Mexico-based radiation protection consultant and leading authority on health risks of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM) has confirmed that radium levels at Bayou Corne's sinkhole are NOT within safe limits.

He says the levels are roughly 15 times higher than the state's acceptable level. 

Smith explained that NORM is a frequent byproduct of the oil and gas drilling process,
creating wastes that industry has often then dumped improperly.




LA Dept. of Environmental Quality Mobile Air Monitoring Lab by Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality



On Aug, 21, Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN) noted that the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LA DEQ) had been monitoring the air in the areas around the sinkhole, detecting known-carcinogen benzene, as well as toluene, ethylbenzene, and other volatile organic compounds as well as components of natural gas.

LEAN also notes that the water in the Bayou Corne sink hole is contaminated with salt water, diesel, chemicals associated with the diesel contaminants such as volatile organic chemicals, ethyl benzene, toluene, xylene and a large number of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons such as naphthalene, anthracene, and pyrene.

On August 15, LA DEQ released the results of their testing. Their report, which has been criticized for being poorly written and confusing, seems to indicate that the naturally occurring radioactive materials are occuring at concentrations below acceptable level, in contrast to Waligora's statement. 




Sinkhole site, Aug 6, 2012 by Assumption Parish Police Jury, used with permission


LEAN states that the health impacts associated with the chemicals detected in the air in the residential area consist of known and possible cancer causing agents, respiratory irritants, and skin, eye, nose, throat, and lung irritants. They note that these chemicals can cause headaches, nausea, vomiting, difficulty breathing, dizziness, lightheadedness, weakness, muscle aches and pains, joint pain, abdominal pain and stress.

Even if the concentrations of the chemicals contaminating the air in the residential area were below acceptable standards, LEAN notes that "the cumulative impacts, of the large number of toxic chemicals detected in the air in the residential area, are worthy of tracking potential health impacts and continued air monitoring." LEAN has developed an "Odor and Symptoms" log, to be filled out by residents each time they experience an odor or symptom.





Texas Brine rig prepares to drill a "relief well," Aug. 18 by Assumption Parish Police Jury, used with permission


Texas Brine, owner of the abandoned cavern, was ordered to conduct exploratory activities and bore an investigatory well (called a "relief well")  down to the ceiling of the cavern, about 3,400 feet underground. 

The purpose of the well is to access the interior of the abandoned cavern so that monitoring equipment can be lowered into the cavern to identify cavern stability, internal pressure and contents. On Aug. 23, Texas Brine noted that the drilling operation is on schedule. Public records show that the daily cost is over $67,000; and the cumulative cost through August 23 was $717,388.




Bubble site in the bayou by Assumption Parish Police Jury, used with permission


The Assumption Parish Office of Emergency Preparedness (EOP) issued a statement that a new bubble site was discovered on Aug 20 between sites #3 and #4 in Grand Bayou. The bubbling is small and EOP says they will be monitored daily as the others have been. Residents first reported bubble sites several months ago.

At the public meeting in Pierre Part on Aug. 24, Chris Knotts, the Dept. of Natural Resources' (DNR) civil engineer who is coordinating the science group studying the sinkhole, told the crowd "If it's as simple as a casing, yes (it can be fixed)," but

"If it's a cavern fracture, failure, whatever, there's little that you can do."


Smith said,

"In Bayou Corne, we are witnessing
our worst nightmares coming true."

http://www.merylannbutler.com
Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator and OEN Editor who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing for over 25 years.


And what do we have here?


Bayou Sinkhole: Radioactive dome issues covered up over a year




      
   •   August 9, 2012
   
   •   BY: Deborah Dupre

New evidence shows Bayou Corne oil and gas sinkhole disaster cover up, human right to security violated.


As officials were telling Louisiana bayou people pleading answers to not worry and little more, Louisiana Department of Natural Resources and Texas Brine Co. officials have known for over a year that the company's salt dome cavern had radioactive materials pumped into it and might have problems, according to government regulatory files uncovered Wednesday. The salt dome is now suspected of causing the expanding 160,000 square feet sinkhole and natural gas venting in Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou area swamps.

For over two months, as gas bubbles and tremors rattled Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou swampland and residents' human rights, DNR and other officials asking for patience knew they had given permission to have radioactive materials pumped into the salt dome, and they had been testing oil and gas wells and other salt caverns due to problems, according to the Advocate's David J. Mitchell of River Parishes bureau Thursday morning.

Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, "Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person." Hiding information related to human security involving government approved industry environmental modifications (ENMOD) can gravely violate Human Rights Article 3.

Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights were issued more than a decade ago. That prompted a collaborative project involving the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the oil and gas industry association IPIECA and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to ensure rights are upheld.

"The problems with the salt cavern were not disclosed to the public and some parish officials involved with the response effort," reports Mitchell, evidencing DNR records, interviews, public statements and public meetings established that:

"• The possibly failed salt cavern may be closer to the outer wall of the Napoleonville Dome than Texas Brine officials believed.





Arcadian Gas Pipeline System's owner, Enterprise Product Partners shut two 20-inch gas pipelines near the bubbling sinkhole area and reroute its gas, according to a spokesman.

Crosstex Energy shut part of its 36-inch natural gas pipeline near the sinkhole, removing approximately 150 million cubic feet a day of supply offline.

"Chevron has three natural gas salt dome storage caverns in the area with a total capacity to hold 12.7 billion cubic feet of gas, according to the company website.

The storage sites connect with Acadian Gas Pipeline Company, Gulf South Pipeline Company, and Florida Gas Transmission. Maximum withdrawal was listed as 1.1 bcf per day.

"Chevron Corp's subsidiary Bridgeline Holdings declared force majeure on new injections into its salt dome storage facility near Napoleonville, through the rest of the year, according to a company filing late Tuesday," Reuters reported.

Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou areas are on one of the Napoleonville Dome's flanks, a 5-by-1.6 km (3-by-1-mile) salt dome containing 51 caverns for producing brine and storing hydrocarbon.

"Chevron Pipeline Co (CPL) has elected to take the step of drawing down the NS1 cavern as a precaution to ensure that we are doing everything possible to protect public safety and the environment," said Gareth Johnstone, a Chevron spokesman.

According to Johnstone, there is no indication that gas is leaking from the Chevron facility, no evidence that the integrity of that cavern was at risk and the company "would not disclose daily specific volumes," according to Reuters.

• DNR defended the timing of its disclosures about the history surrounding the salt cavern as matching the emerging facts of the incidents in Bayou Corne.

• Sonny Cranch, Texas Brine spokesman, said company officials have been as surprised as anyone about a possible collapse of their salt cavern.

• DNR officials allowed Texas Brine to deposit naturally-occurring radioactive material arising from drilling into two company salt caverns, including the one that may have breached in the Bayou Corne area.

"As of Wednesday, state environmental officials had not tested the sinkhole for radioactivity."


WTF?


Now, here is an interesting comment from an interesting person.

We have invited Fred to PRC for a chat.

Fred Immendorfer - Vice President at Tesla Science Foundation

This situation is confusing to me, but it sounds like fracking is one of the causes--and if that's the case, fracking needs to be stopped period and

if the oil companies pumped radioactive waste into the ground then people need to be locked up and companies assets need to be taken away and the govenment - which gave the green light - needs to answer to the people.

Deborah, I've been following your work for years, you're awesome.

Peace Love Light

tfw   

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[undo11]

tfw

holy freakin' toledo!
get those people out of there, pronto
evacuate.
ohmygosh

[Littleenki]

And here come Isaac!
Good grief....why?
Le

[undo11]

well if you read it carefully, it says the radioactive material is not stuff we (we, referring to national nuclear energy plants) artificially created being dumped in the ground. it's naturally occuring radioactive material that came up with the stuff the oil company was drilling for. so they put it back in the ground, in one big cavern or something. 

but the problem there is, even if it's naturally occuring and not possible to ignite it in a nuclear explosion type of event, it could still be precipitated up into the atmosphere via an adjacent explosion and spread across a swath the size of prevailing winds of the jet stream.
also there's the issue of that much radioactive material, naturally occuring or not, in the same general area.   

i'm really not sure what to make of  this other than those people need to get away from there.

[undo11]

video description
~~ Please .. Get this out to the people of Louisiana ~~ The explosive power of 1.5 Million barrels of liquid butane is = approx 100 Hiroshima's (computations on my blog linked below)

Bayou Corne Louisiana has experienced a series of events which 'professionals' are having a hard time explaining --- or at least the pros are finding it to be an inconvenient time to offer an explanation as to what is going on.

Its a long story, but crucial for everyone to understand !

full blog post here: http://sincedutch.wordpress.com/2012/08/11/8112012-louisiana-sink-hole-explai...

[Littleenki]

Has anyone thought that the lowered pressure of a hurricane system may create such a scenario where the explosion could take place?

When one decreases the pressure of a butane deposit, does it not shift into a gas..expanding exponentially?

Isaac pressure at 995mb and dropping...

Like I aksed earlier about Isaac headed right for Louisiana...

WHY?

Le

[Littleenki]

The American disaster step by step....

2005: Katrina weakens infrastructure, empowers FEMA, creates a need for FEMA camps. Coastlines still coated with flammable oil sludge.

2009: Oil Spill weakens Louisiana environment and damages the Gulf Coast economy beyond repair for years.

2012: Sinkhole opens, allowing radioactive slurry and butane to combine into a giant dirty bo-m-b

Isaac: drops atmospheric pressure to point where sinkhole butane reaches gaseous state, and the first big lightning strike destroys the Northern Gulf coast.

Strategic oil reserves inaccessible, and the US begs for outside assistance for the first time in it's existence. International Bankers hear the call, and come a runnin', offering to save us with the money they stole from us.

FEMA camps fill up, the rest of the world comes to the US's rescue, and we have a silent banker takeover while it all happens...our attention diverted to the burning oil spill remnants which are still coating the marshes of the Bayous.

Conspiracy fruitcake...all in one!

Thor? Whatdya think?

Le

[thorfourwinds]

You got that right!

[Littleenki]

Ouch, I hope not
Le