Published: October 5th, 2012 at 10:21 am ET
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Title: Drilling to remove gas near sinkhole
Source: The Advocate
Author: BY DAVID J. MITCHELL
Date: October 05, 2012
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Authorities also are testing air releases from three new bubble sites found in recent weeks farther west toward Pierre Part and beyond any of the 25 other bubble locations in the general vicinity of Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou.
Courreges and parish officials said the samples have been sent off for isotopic tests. It’s not clear if the new bubbling sites are related to the previously known bubbling locations.
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Published: October 5th, 2012 at 10:21 am ET
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Testing won't do anything. The only solution is to respect nature, and not wreck it.
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@TheBigPicture, If only humanity would have respected Nature and been able to live in harmony with the cradle we all come from..
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More skidding sideways on topics: the salt domes that seemed to be safe enough to store NORM and TENORM in with EPA's approval are crumbling with the influence of water!
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Hope all the EPA approvers have access to unlimited compensation funds to handout to the victims of their stupidity. How do these dummies GET those jobs. Must be a political favor…DNR and EPA you may want to do a sanity check of your appointees…or hires…or who has gotten favors…
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Yeah, 28 "bubbling sites". Ya think those Louisiana state official hillbillies have checked the woods yet!
If there’s hundreds of vents in the woods/terra firma, and the
weather conditions just right (stagnating air in the bayou), you might create a condition like what occurred in Brendham, Texas in 1992…a massive ground based gas cloud, and then a super explosion.
In addition to the gas that’s bubbling and venting on terra firma’ because of the tremors and shifting earth, there’s the risk of rupturing one of the dozens of primary, large diameter pipe lines that transverse the Parish and the Napoleonville salt dome.
This is a ticking time bomb. It’s so big; the main street media won’t touch it.
1992-Brendham, Texas gas explosion at salt dome
Indepth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-GjqHRuNwI 16.28 min
Short: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpYIvyCXv9w 2.45 min
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@Cisco
Good links I had never heard of the disaster before. Dead people, burns, dead animals and major property damage, a real life nightmare.
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FYI…Here's a partial list of the death and destruction caused by gas exxplosion brought to you by the good folks who are drilling and fracking us to death.
Notable gas explosions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_explosion#Notable_gas_explosions
List of pipeline accidents in the United States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pipeline_accidents_in_the_United_States
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FYI…Here's a partial list of the death and destruction caused by gas explosions brought to you by the good folks who are drilling and fracking us to death.
Notable gas explosions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_explosion#Notable_gas_explosions
List of pipeline accidents in the United States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pipeline_accidents_in_the_United_States
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Yeah, 28 "bubbling sites". Ya think those Louisiana state official hillbillies have checked the woods yet!
If there’s hundreds of vents in the woods/terra firma, and the
weather conditions just right (stagnating air in the bayou), you might create a condition like what occurred in Brendham, Texas in 1992…a massive ground based gas cloud, and then a super explosion.
In addition to the gas that’s bubbling and venting on terra firma’ because of the tremors and shifting earth, there’s the risk of rupturing one of the dozens of primary, large diameter pipe lines that transverse the Parish and the Napoleonville salt dome.
This is a ticking time bomb. It’s so big; the main stream media won’t touch it.
1992-Brendham, Texas gas explosion at salt dome
Indepth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-GjqHRuNwI 16.28 min
Short: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpYIvyCXv9w 2.45 min
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Just take a look at the density and distribution of the natural gas pipeline network in the US. Where it’s nearly solid blue in the first illustration, Assumption Parish and the Napoleonville salt dome are located in about in the center.
US Energy Information Administration, “About Natural Gas Pipelines”
http://www.eia.gov/pub/oil_gas/natural_gas/analysis_publications/ngpipeline/ngpipeline_maps.html
And when there is a catastrophic explosion, the official response will be, “Gee, we never thought that could happen”.
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Cisco: Isn't it bizarre how these truly devastating events (such as Brendham) happen and within very few years are not recalled? I can't explain it – maybe partly a huge population across the nation, people move, lives go on, journalists change careers and locations … but we would be so much wiser if these older stories were brought to our attention (beyond here at ENE of course … thank you for the links!
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Thanks, Cisco. From your link, "an explosion of volcanic force…"
The (only) commenter said:
"I drove out there to see it the week after it happened. The entire valley had exploded."
All forgotten, but brought back into focus by your post.
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These bubbles are in many waterways across the US and probably other countries. Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble.
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Please watch and share:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB303VT9WZg
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"Louisiana hillbillies"? Really? You do know that the highest point in Louisiana is "Mount Driskill", at a whopping 535 feet above sea level, right?
Anyway, as a Louisiana native, I'd implore you to find another pejorative with which to describe us. If you'd like, I could suggest some. LOL! Otherwise, thank you for the posts. As a Louisiana native, this is breaking my heart.
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We have bubbling here in PA we they claim is due to Fracking Hmmm
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which they claim
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Here's a video of Snake Creek in PA showing the bubbles, using a lighter to show how flammable they are. http://youtu.be/EbIjm4Ee6-I
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Here's another good one for you! The insanity of humanity; never underestimate greedy stupid people.
"Energy Company Plans to Frack a Volcano"
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/10/newberry-volcano-fracking/
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Louisana needs to make everyone envolved pay out of their pocket to clean this up.Any stockholders,ceo's, secretaries, etc. Only option .
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