Published: October 12th, 2012 at 12:27 pm ET
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Watch WAFB’s report on the flaring operation here
8:45 am, Oct. 11, 2012, Assumption Parish Police Jury: There was a short period of time that Highway 70 was closed this morning while a flare was checked at Crosstex. The flare was quite large; however, we have been advised that it was within normal operations. The road was closed as a safety measure to verify that it was actaully a flare and not a fire on Crosstex property.
4:10 pm, Oct. 11, 2012, Assumption Parish Police Jury: Crosstex advised that they will be emitting a flare within the hour that should last through the night. This flare like this morning’s flare remain within normal operations. No highway closures are anticipated.
This morning we learned more about these normal operations — or as they are now being called an emergency response mechanism:
The Advocate, Oct. 12, 2012 (Emphasis Added):
[... Crosstex] planned by early Thursday evening to resume flaring through the night to remove butane from lines connected to the caverns and do repairs [...]
Reported to parish officials about 6 a.m., the Thursday morning flare reached a reported 40 feet for about 10 minutes and gradually lowered before going out, Boudreaux said.
Jill McMillan, spokeswoman for Crosstex, said the flaring was an emergency response mechanism related to Crosstex’s Cavern No. 2, which is closer to the sinkhole of the company’s two caverns.
She said company officials are working on why flaring happened.
After the sinkhole’s emergence, Crosstex agreed to move butane from Cavern No. 2 to Cavern No. 1, as a precaution, so the gas is farther from the sinkhole. That process remains under way, she said. [...]
This situation began around the same time that the gas pipeline floated to the sinkhole’s surface: Gas pipeline found floating in giant sinkhole (PHOTO)
More on the butane cavern here: Louisiana officials request 'worst-case analysis' of risk to cavern with almost a million barrels of butane -- Concerned about 'possible release' -- Pipeline was 'bent' when massive sinkhole expanded
Watch WAFB’s report on the flaring operation here
Published: October 12th, 2012 at 12:27 pm ET
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I hope this is enough to get the people still in the area to leave.
And of course officials don't know what happened, they never do, do they?
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Officials say they don't know what happened, then they say it is all normal and to expected. Move along folks, check out the circus tent to your right.
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It's a normal emergency with a routine response to close the highway, wow what a normal yet incredibly hugh flare that is so routine just doing the normal stuff when a sink hole is headed for the ever normal cravern of flamable undoucmented top secret stuff….
Could this be called a SNAFU?
situation normal all fuked up?
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All the worst case scenarios keep rolling out, I think in part due to the arrogance of men who think they KNOW and can MASTER nature.
How`s that being working for us?
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Make sure of you're In that area to take deep breaths. Breathe those fumes in they're good for you. And now we're going to have to raise your taxes to pay for all of this. Even though it has absolutely nothing to do with you.
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The Advocate's timeline and the one from the Assumption Police Jury's page seem different.
Advocate:
"…Reported to parish officials about 6 a.m., the Thursday morning flare reached a reported 40 feet for about 10 minutes and gradually lowered before going out, Boudreaux said…"
Which is all the longer it should take to purge a thousand feet of pipe between the butane wells. What's unexpected is that they needed to depressurize this like to fix something *at all* but never said why.
"…However, the company planned by early Thursday evening to resume flaring through the night to remove butane from lines connected to the caverns and do repairs, Boudreaux said. La. 70 will remain open…"
So they needed to keep doing this last night? How much butane is in that pipe?
Not a word from the DNR or Crosstex about anything that happened last night. *Dow* was suppose to be flaring, according to their update on the 10th. I wonder if the DHS guy ('it's normal') is confusing them?
http://dnr.louisiana.gov/assets/OC/BC_All_Updates/SITUATION_REPORTS/DowChemicalIAP_10102012.pdf
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Flaring is the only way to get rid of the Bad gas it is not a clean filtered gas But they could do that and sell it cheap. Seen lots of flares in my life time in the Fire department and some can be darn right scary not knowing if it is normal or not. A 40 foot flame gives off lots of black smoke Mark
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"Bad gas"
I see, good guys fighting bad gas.
By the way:
hydrocarbons always produce black smoke if they burn.
h.
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The hand has no shame.
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Flare gas has lots of unfiltered chemicals in it and flaring without filters is how you burn off the sulfurs and other products and it is called bad gas or sour gas .
If you inject steam in a flare it does not burn black it changes the smoke carbon and burns mostly clean
Mark
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I see,
everyone understand specific vernacular
instead of common language.
Go on, "cry wolf".
h.
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