Published: August 16th, 2012 at 5:10 pm ET
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Title: Louisiana Sinkhole Engulfs Boat, Workers Rescued
Source: ABC News
Author: CHRISTINA NG
Date: Aug. 16, 2012
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“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.
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the nearby caverns are still causing concern.
One cavern that contains 940,000 gallons of butane is of particular concern, Torres said. It’s about 2,000 feet from the sinkhole.
Authorities are concerned about the massive explosion that could result
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“It’s not going to get fixed tomorrow,” Torres said. “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.”
Published: August 16th, 2012 at 5:10 pm ET
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OMG! This is crazy. Hope everyone gets away from the area.
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With almost a million barrels of liquid butane?
How big,how far and how long do you want the evacuation to go?
It's also radioactive,
so should the potential evacuation extend to FL?
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Hi Anonymouse
That's what I would like to know..If this explodes, what States could be in danger, could it trigger another disaster in a different area?
People have said it has human made radiation..No natural radiation.
Also there is many oil, and gas wells plastered all over the area.
I have asked 6 people if they knew about this, no one knew. Great job media (sarc).
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WSP.. hahaha.. I too was doing the "have you heard about…" game.. NO BODY!! means this is very serious..
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Hi Cataclysmic
It's already serious for the people who live there, they had to evacuate.
I think it has the potential of doing more damage than we probably can or want to think of.
Everyone should know about this. The media missed doing there job again. I am starting to turn off my TV. Guess I won't need TV cable soon.
Thank you Enenews, you informed us again))))
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Cable has been gone for over a year at my house
sure don't miss it. As a matter of fact, I find it is much calmer without.. Although there are plenty of real things to be concerned about, I find it relieving to get rid of the aggravation about unreal things like Glenn Beck, Hannity, Sarah, the Kardashians, etc…
Yes, very serious for those that were evacuated.. I bet they are so grateful for Texas Brine's weekly housing checks.. so sick of these corporations.. make sure you read the link from Crosstex.. can you just hear the condescending nature of their response.. according to this regulation we don't need to provide this, but we will cause we are such good guys.. barf!
http://www.slideshare.net/Revkin/louisiana-officials-little-risk-of-butane-explosion-at-sinkhole-site
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Cataclysmic, I'm sure this made people happy campers there (sarc)…
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“We have no clue” deja vu anyone? (?_?)
TEPCO and government has no clue either.
I am sorry but Fukushima all over again. So called one in charge, the government, officials and experts….keep on guessing. It's better to be cautious than sorry because when you realise you are sorry, it could possibly be that you do not exist any longer
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From the ABC story: "There was bubbling in the water and the sinkhole is near areas where there has been exploration for oil and gas in the past. This would make the presence of low levels of naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) possible."
Huh? How are those two consecutive sentences connected? The first is offered as some kind of explanation for the second, but it makes no sense to me. All we've heard so far about NORM is that Texas Brine had a license to dump some into their cavern.
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aigeezer, this only makes sense to me if someone had been fracturing in the area. Low level radioactive products are used in that process, it causes bubbling in water reservoirs, and it can leak into or let something leak out of an area, which has been known to cause sink holes. It sounds like these caverns are used for any number of things by various companies, and they may not always communicate with one another. Some akin to the the phone company accidentally cutting the electric power wire. Frackers do not have to disclose their presence, where they just drilled, or what they used as a solvent.
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Just to add, i believe energy companies engaging in fracking are hidden under the Homeland Security banner. Something like it being so risky that you wouldn't want a potential terrorist to know your location and take advantage.
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Hey I just met you
And this is crazy
Mind if I store a million gallons
Of butane in your salt cavey?
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Away from the sinkhole site, approximately 950’, this picture taken this morning shows the exploratory rig being assembled.
http://assumptionla.wordpress.com/2012/08/16/1105-a-m-exploratory-rig/
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Nothing to worry about.. Butane will not explode, no way, never gonna happen, according to the corporation.. Here are the details.. http://www.slideshare.net/Revkin/louisiana-officials-little-risk-of-butane-explosion-at-sinkhole-site
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oh, unless maybe, of course, Texas Brine accidentally pierces the side of that well or ? during their exploratory drilling.. it occurs that could change the assurances that all is well.. even if it is a half a mile underground..
"In addition, the geological location of these two wells ispositioned deep in the stable salt zones of the salt dome and not on the periphery of the saltdome. This helps to ensure the integrity of the wells and prevents integrity issues such asfracturing out of the salt dome zones. Please remember that the liquid butanes are stored overone half of a mile underground. Many engineering studies of salt dome storage cavities havebeen conducted. These studies show that cavern failure can be attributed to salt creep, over-leaching, insufficient buffer salt, and seepage of product. These types of failures lead to the lossof the cavern for storage purposes, or loss of product (i.e. cannot be pumped to the surface). Themost likely failure in a salt cavern system is well failure. Please note that butane exists as aliquid at these pressures and depths and behaves like a liquid and not a gas. Again, there hasnever been a catastrophic failure of a salt dome storage cavern resulting in an instantaneousrelease of butanes at the surface.In sum, there has been no indication that the Crosstex Facility has been negatively impacted bythe sluny-filled sink hole in the area."
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Hi Cataclysmic
You are right to consider human error causing this situation to get worse.
Remember when the Nebraska Nuke Plant, Ft. Calhoon was surrounded by water held at bay by sandbags and plastic? A bulldoze driver punctured the structure and could have brought the whole thing down.
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Note that this article now notes 940,000 <b>gallons</b> of butane. Nobody light a match-
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OT, but I love your avatar! Its eyes look like mine while on enenews, lol
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