Published: October 22nd, 2012 at 3:40 pm ET
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Title: Officials: Math doesn’t work; end to evacuation is unclear
Source: The Advocate
Author: By David J. Mitchell
Date: Oct 22, 2012
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Parish officials say the volume of the brine-filled sinkhole is much smaller than the amount of displaced earth now in the cavern, prompting worries about other unknown subterranean voids or gaps left in the area by the shifted sediments that could lead to further disturbance at the surface.
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[Assumption Parish Homeland Security Director John Boudreaux] and [Assumption Parish Sheriff Mike Waguespack] said it is their worry that the possible voids or gaps underground left by the 2.7 million cubic yards of earth that shifted could lead to sinkholes appearing in other locations.
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Boudreaux said the assumption all along has been that the existing sinkhole would continue to grow, but last week he asked who is to say whether another sinkhole might form somewhere else.
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Watch video from this weekend showing bubbling on the sinkhole’s surface
Published: October 22nd, 2012 at 3:40 pm ET
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Looks to me like one giant sinkhole over that entire salt dome as you can visibly see the trees dying and evidence of water in between the trees. I hope I'm mistaken. JMHO
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http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2012/10/21/are-louisianas-coastal-areas-going-to-be-evacuated/
Just scroll down to the Assumption Parish Operational Situation Summary. Notice the date.
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So Dodos! From kalidances' post. Letter dated 9/18/12. DHH recommends immediate remediation of industrial wells (READ: wells, not sink hole, not salt dome or cavern) with high levels of methane! So…where are high levels of methane coming from? The ubiquitousness would be DEductive. NOT inductive reasoning. So, if not from the failed salt dome, and since the gasses have been admitted to be in the aquafer which extends to the continental shelf out in the gulf, where would you say this "everywhere" gas/crude oil, and from the above story "possible voids or gaps underground left by the 2.7 million cubic yards of earth that shifted"…what would you say is the mechanism that displaced this huge area and continues to displace it? High water table? Ummm. Well, this whole situation started during a drought…Isaic came later. So I would deduct that saying these events are NOT connected is inductive reasoning. Denial would be another word for it. This wait and see attitude is dangerous, IMO. Wait for what…before we get serious about an agressive approach toward remedy?
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Well, at the formation of the sinkhole, there was high readings of benzine, acetone, and lots of other fracking compounds, as well as radon, thorium, and other deposits found in fracking sludge from shale deposits that hold a high amount of natural isotopes.
Fracking compounds melt salt very quickly. They also release a lot of methane from more complex hydrocarbons. And also, methane deposits are frequent along the Gulf Coast. Look at the Mont Belvieu incident near Baytown, Texas back in the 80's. Lots of methane released there, as well as stored natural gas.
There are many possibilities on a much smaller scale that are more likely responsible. And to rule them out without sufficient study is inductive reasoning. I never said that it couldn't be caused by the BP drilling, I just said that there are many other possibilities that are more likely to be the cause.
Lots of clues point toward the cavern being compromised by the infusion of fracking sludge by Texas Brine, which is fully capable of causing everything we've seen. Texas Brine closed down the well and capped it two years ago after the cavern failed. It had already started back then, was well advanced. This means it likely started three to four years ago, which is when Texas Brine did the dumping of "natural radiation and gas waste", before the BP accident.
The timeline is leaning toward it being a local event. (con't
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Also, the strata in southern Louisiana and the Gulf south of it is not that fractured. I am familiar with the limestone structure along the Gulf coast, having grown up in Houston. I've known many geologists in the area, and I've talked shop with them many times.
The fracture being described just doesn't fit the structure of the Gulf coast. The limestone is too brittle for such massive fractures. The pressures tend to equalize through small fissures before they reach that massive a scale. Breaks in the strata tend to seal themselves after displacement adjustments.
Also, the methane pocket being described is too shallow to cause the salt dome failure. It sits considerably higher than the floor of the salt dome. How is the ethane going to get that deep?
I could go on and on about little things that all add up against the massive fissure theory. And these issues are all being avoided by those pressing the theory. That's why I say inductive reasoning.
If you approach it deductively, you can't know yet without inside information that hasn't yet been made public. It could still be a lot of things causing it, and fracking sludge is the forerunner in the clues I'm seeing.
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dosdos, i tend to go with your thinking on this. It sits very high for it to be gulf oil from a leak in the gulf. I would expect that the pressure it would take to achieve that would be blowing well heads all up and down the coast first before making its way inland to come up a salt dome, and in fact, would be blowing the surrounding wells, too. Fluid always takes the path of least resistance. If fracking fluid melts salt, then, that's, at least, the first cause of this event. But, on the otherhand, the methane layer is melting around the globe, and this is going to start creating some very real problems for the extraction industry. I realize they see it as a windfall on the one hand because they can more easily frack the methane, much like folks are seeing the melting of the polar ice cap in the north as easy pickins and big money once access to all those minerals and oil happens with the pesky old ice out of the way. I don't know about the one giant fissure theory, but, i can foresee a lot of spills adding up in unexpected places.
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Ok back when the Bp Drilled the Gulf there was a picture on a report that said there was a methane mountain that ran all the way under Texas and Louisiana the mountain looked like a large camel hump going inland. Now as to the Methane , it is ice under pressure you have possibly seen pictures of it burning on the internet. It was also 1600 feet away from the wellhead that blew up. The platform weighed tons and tons and was very big to let oil float to the surface but methane filled it up and it floated to the surface of the gulf.They had to add things to keep it stable now OIL is coming up to the surface again in the gulf.The structure of the Gulf in this area is shale it looks like some of t the hills of Tennessee. The rock is in plates like a jig saw pattern. No oil companies ever drilled this site cause it was too dangerous because of the 100,000 psi pressures under the rock and methane that could cause a life extension event explosion. The mountain of methane would melt and blow out of the Gulf in collums into the atmosphere and when it catches fire it would burn up the world. There is documentation to this.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/doomsday-methane-bubble-rupture-how-the-bp-gulf-disaster-may-have-triggered-a-world-killing-event/20131
Mark
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part of the report Methane is now streaming through the porous, rocky seabed at an accelerated rate and gushing from the borehole of the first relief well. The EPA is on record that Rig #1 is releasing methane, benzene, hydrogen sulfide and other toxic gases. Workers there now wear advanced protection including state-of-the-art, military-issued gas masks. Reports, filtering through from oceanologists and salvage workers in the region, state that the upper level strata of the ocean floor is succumbing to greater and greater pressure. That pressure is causing a huge expanse of the seabed-estimated by some as spreading over thousands of square miles surrounding the BP wellhead-to bulge. Some claim the seabed in the region has risen an astounding 30 feet.
The fractured BP wellhead, site of the former Deepwater Horizon, has become the epicenter of frenetic attempts to quell the monstrous flow of methane.
The subterranean methane is pressurized at 100,000 pounds psi. According to Matt Simmons, an oil industry expert, the methane pressure at the wellhead has now skyrocketed to a terrifying 40,000 pounds psi.
Another well-respected expert, Dr. John Kessler of Texas A&M University has calculated that the ruptured well is spewing 60 percent oil and 40 percent methane. The normal methane amount that escapes from a compromised well is about 5 percent.
More evidence? A huge gash on the ocean floor—like a ragged wound hundreds of feet long—has been reported by the NOAA…
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It appears that BP did drill an ultra deep well, piercing an absolutely immense bubble of high pressure methane. Could they have unleashed a disaster that is unfolding with no possibility of reversal?
How Could the Ultimate BP Disaster Kill Millions?
http://voices.yahoo.com/methane-gas-explosion-gulf-could-kill-millions-6323176.html
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Gulf Disaster Truth – Land Mass Rising in the Gulf
On the Ocean Floor, in the Gulf scientists are becoming aware of what is actually happening there. John DiNardo says that a whole new land mass is now rising out of the ocean floor in the Gulf area.
From Mexico to Florida and to Cuba, Haiti and Puerto Rico the USGS has been observing evidence of a rising Gulf Ocean Floor and potential Methane Gas Ignitions and Tsunamis that could eventually wipe out millions of unsuspecting Gulf Coast people. BP officials have been watching this evidence pile up. Government Officials may be remaining silent, by design
http://www.morningliberty.com/2010/08/02/gulf-disaster-truth-land-mass-rising-in-the-gulf/
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