Published: August 19th, 2012 at 12:18 am ET
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Title: Drilling for relief well at Bayou Corne sinkhole is underway
Source: NBC 33
Author: Jason Newton
Date: August 18, 2012
The next major development is underway in trying to determine just what caused that massive sinkhole in Assumption Parish.
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“Right now casing is going down easy with little resistance. But as day goes on, resistance may be heard and may feel slight vibrations,” John Boudreaux, Assumption Parish Emergency Preparedness, said.
Officials also say the area of the sinkhole is continuing to grow. Most of the people who live anywhere near there have been evacuated.
Watch the NBC video here
Title: Drilling to determine cause of sinkhole begins in Bayou Corne
Source: WAFB
Author: Kelsey Davis
Date: Aug 18, 2012 9:27 PM EDT
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The mobile command center is where people from several state agencies have spent the last few weeks trying to figure out the cause of that massive sinkhole.
“I have researched it and the answer is no. This was a wild moment for me when first saw this thing, this sinkhole. I have never seen anything like this before,” said John Boudreaux, director of Assumption Parish Office of Emergency Preparedness.
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From WWL-TV at 1: 20 in
Dennis Landry of Bayou Corne: I think I saw a piece of hell there, because all you see there when I went to it in an airboat and flew over is a huge area where all you see is mud, water, cypress trees have disappeared.
Published: August 19th, 2012 at 12:18 am ET
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The bubbles contain toxic chemicals. The air is dangerous to be around near the "sinkhole" due to the storage method. Using a salt dome is risky in the first place, but the natural gas industry thought it would be great to store large amount of chemicals in the ground. When the ground collapsed the chemicals bubbled out and the residents left town because chlorides of almost any form in gas states will suffocate human beings who inhale too much of them. It's also an 800ft zone of compromised land where anything can happen. How about the "Natural Gas" company come out and say exactly why they were storing these chloride based compounds there in the first place.
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friends the proposed operational situation summary scientific summary and action plan are published at:
http://www.edsuite.com/proposals/proposals_280/assumption_situation_summary_and_iap_08172012_fi_373.pdf
for regular updates please visit the Assumption Parish Bayou Corne
website page
http://assumptionla.com/bayoucorne
trust passing on these links will be OK with admin – thanks
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Has anyone learned yet.
This earth is not here for anyone's greed, power, or ego.
This earth is here to be taken care of, not used.
This earth will not heal until everyone starts to care for it.
Anyone who isn't a professional in this type of work, get out, stay away from any sink holes, you never know what's spewing out of them.
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I so agree. We are in a perpetual interactive relationship with earth. From birth to death, and for generations that follow, this relationship is built into reality. To not practice diligent stewardship is a kind of suicide.
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Very good way to say this Maggie123..I agree
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One question about the well to be drilled has been on my mind for some time. Is it a relief drill, or an "information gathering probe"?
It's mentioned again in this news clip as a relief well, which suggests a plan to alleviate some kind of pressure, and makes no sense to me. Doesn't the sinkhole itself, and the bubbling, take care of issues of "pressure" that need to be relieved?
Does anyone know just what the "solution" drill is meant to accomplish? Thanks!
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Hi Maggie123
To me it sounds like they are trying to find the cause, once they find the cause they might be able to learn how to fix it. Then I could be wrong, just guessing. I think it's a big risk, hopefully they are good at their job.
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i think it's 'a relief to pretend like something is being done' drill
i wrote earlier, the sink hole could over come their position in 45 days. they reported to expect some information in about 40 days.
I think they'll get the same information by just standing there and waiting.
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Hi richard
I'm not sure they know. Maybe it was the toss of a coin to do this?
Headline says: Drilling for "relief well" at Bayou Corne sinkhole is underway.
Then the article says: The next major development is underway in trying "to determine just what caused that massive sinkhole" in Assumption Parish.
Maybe it's for both reasons, in why they feel the need to drill??
Hope it's not the same engineers who made the plans for our stop and go lights (that's in my State).
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hi Wind.
this article says ..
"The sinkhole also grew Friday by about 20 feet from its eastern edge, inching toward Texas Brine"
http://enenews.com/officials-sinkhole-growing-direction-drilling-rig-investigate-troubled-salt-cavern-about-900-feet-edge
or
http://enenews.com/louisiana-sinkhole-grows-another-20-feet-cleanup-activities-remain-suspended-new-footage-inside-ground-level-map-video
so I was guesstimating 900 feet at 20 feet a day.
and then ..
"Sheriff Mike Waguespack: [40 days] is the best case scenario… and that’s in hopes that once they drill this exploratory well that that finds the problem."
http://enenews.com/sheriff-next-salt-cavern-could-totally-failed-be-source-gas-official-risk-heed-warnings-video
…..
so just saying, in a guestimate way
they have 40 day to drill and check, then 5 more days till the rig is over run by the 'pit o-doom'.
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and reminder me not to drive in your state
and i'm not driving in this state either occifer.
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If someone in the industry says "relief well" they mean what the industry definition refers to.
"A relief well is a well drilled to intersect an oil or gas well that has experienced a blowout. Specialized liquid, such as heavy (dense) drilling mud followed by cement, can then be pumped down the relief well in order to stop the flow from the reservoir in the damaged well.
The first use of a relief well was in Texas in the mid 1930s when one was drilled to pump water into an oil well that had cratered and caught on fire"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relief_well
So, if they have decided to drill a "relief well", it is important to understand that they believe that they need to take action in response to a situation that requires this technique.
There is a sink hole caused by liquid. Salt mine was full of liquid petroleum products. They need to stop the flow of this liquid. Sure sounds like "oil or gas well that has experienced a blowout".
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Does anyone have the instruction book on how to fix a giant sink hole with toxins?
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Yes, I believe the instruction book reads as follows.
"Tell the public there is no immediate threat."
It's pretty handy in these situations.
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Wonder if the oil tycoons are leading the cheer. Drill Baby Drill?
They do like to drill.
I honestly hope this works.
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Don't worry folks..DHS says they have it under control…
The authorities always have it under control..like the rescue after Katrina ..remember?
(Oh..sarc)
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Heart – banter aside, I think there is a sense in which they always "have it under control". They usually take great pains to set up official media spokespeople, to "get the story out" on their terms and timetable. They construct the story to fit their understanding of events. They fuss about which details to release and which to withhold – what to tell to whom and when. In their closed world, everything is structured, ordered and procedural. Even if they are describing Armageddon, they do so on their terms – it (the story process, not the underlying event) is under control at all times.
Bureaucrats and officials thrive on the illusion that they are controlling the underlying event when all they actually do is control each others' activities and "the story".
The public traditionally eats it up – we were all programmed from childhood that the authorities are, well, the authorities. Watching them flounder is the adult equivalent of discovering there is no Santa Claus. With any luck, we'll all grow out of our dependence on "the authorities" once we realize they are human and often stunningly inept.
For some reason, this paradox comes to mind:
1. "Always question authority!"
2. "Why?"
3. "Why not?"
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"Human and stunningly inept"
Like humanity has time for that..
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One crazy thing when I ma 200 miles away from a H BOMB blast like what was written up if the gas well salt dome explodes my place will be flat as a rock
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Dutchsinse says that the sinkhole is the result of excessive Craton pressure:
"Excessive craton pressure is causing earthquakes , steaming, mystery booms/rumbles, and sink holes as the plate is moved from the west.
The plate is being moved from the west due to the Pacific plate “disturbance” …
The Pacific Plate disturbance is being caused by a Global unrest phenomenon…
The Global unrest phenomenon is being caused by???!!!!!
Well, thats the burning question in my mind at this point!
The ‘professionals’ will NEVER really tell you whats going on with Bayou Corne.. because this would mean ‘they’ must admit a global unrest event is taking place.. and they CANNOT do that .. since they have already made the vested claims that everything is normal.. and nothing is out of the ordinary when it comes to earthquakes, volcanoes, or other massive geologic movements CLEARLY TAKING PLACE DAILY/WEEKLY NOW…
Simply put, the Bayou Corne Salt Dome Collapse, the Plumes from several dormant volcanic areas, the Earthquakes along the edge of the plate at fracking / injection/ drilling sites, the mystery booms / rumbles toward the center of the plate……. all can be explained by excessive pressure on the craton.. moving the whole plate in one MASSIVE event — taking place currently — taking months to complete the process..
http://sincedutch.wordpress.com/
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anyone over near the disaster area Bayou Corne able to setup a live stream like a TV station of the sinkhole?
Mark
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SENT THIS to admin just now fund on another web page as to explosive fore of the butane dome near the collapse.
Earlier it was reported the butane-filled well is only 1500 feet from the sinkhole and it will not be emptied.
A breach of that well, Assumption Parish Sheriff Mike Waguespack said, could be "catastrophic,” CNN reports.
If ignited, the butane well would release as much explosive energy as 100 Hiroshima bombs, Deborah Dupré's scientist sources told her Sunday.
Potential butane explosive capacity calculated
The 1.5 million barrels of liquid butane 1500 feet from the sinkhole has an explosive capacity of 100 Hiroshima nuclear bombs, 1.5 times the explosive force of the largest thermonuclear weapon in current service in the U.S., according to Wikipedia scientific data and popular citizen reporter, Dutchsince, and confirmed by Dupré's sources this weekend.
Excluding secondary oil and gas pipeline and refinery explosions, direct effects of such a single bomb blast in Bayou Corne, fifty miles from Baton Rouge, would include Donaldsonville, Louisiana, according to NUKEMAP simulations showing an H-bomb this size would produce:
"Fire-ball radius: (central orange circle): 0.62 km / 0.39 mi. Maximum size of the nuclear fireball; relevance to lived effects depends on height of detonation.
"Air blast radius: 3.8 km / 2.1 mi (red shaded circle) 20 psi overpressure; heavily built concrete buildings are severely damaged or demolished; fatalities…
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Hi Mark , i wonder are there any NPP's in the circle of destruction ? Because my biggest fear in this cascade of manmade disasters is still the falling nuclear domino blocks (npp).
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YES here are the PLANTS
Waterford Nuclear Generating Station
River Bend Nuclear Generating Station
read my note on my next post
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YES here are the PLANTS
Waterford Nuclear Generating Station
River Bend Nuclear Generating Station
NOW THE OTHER BIG PROBLEM would be
HUGE HUGE REFINERY and STORAGE TANK Explosions There are literately thousands of storage tanks some small many many have Hundreds of thousands of barrels of liquid storage all around the east south north and west of bayou Corne.HUGE Refineries all over the area all the way to Houston,Texas. SOME SCIENTISTS NEED TO start checking the over pressure damage and how bad damage would be from the initial explosion. NO ONE HAS CALCULATED MASSIVE STORAGE EXPLOSIONS NOR REFINING. MY GOD and the WELLS the PUMPING wells that could be blow away the homes and people killed ITS MASSIVE when you start looking at what is close and further out. How many refineries and storage ares that could blow up just from the shock waves and concussions and vacuum and over pressures. It is unthinkable being just GUT Honest.
MARK 250 air miles away
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Thx a bunch mark , this is badass bad , but again to be expected by the nature of the beast combined with a bad algoritme (us naked monkey's doing capitalisme)
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An area map..Napoleanville Salt Dome
http://www.upstreamonline.com/incoming/article1262638.ece/ALTERNATES/article_main/Sinkhole+Debacle.jpg
I can't get it to enlarge any further..
Note the bubble sites..
They are well beyond the "slurry" site.
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Bubble events run past the 2 bayous on the map its huge
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@markww..Yes..past two bayous.
Huge.
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