Published: August 15th, 2012 at 2:53 pm ET
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Title: DEQ seeks salt cavern butane scenario
Source: The Advocate
Author: DAVID J. MITCHELL
Date: August 15, 2012
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John Boudreaux, director of the Assumption Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, said officials are not concerned that the sinkhole would expand and swallow up the Crosstex cavern, but that the sinkhole could expand and shift the cap of sediment and rock that sits atop Napoleonville Dome.
Such a shift, though it would have to occur across 1,600 feet of caprock, could damage the casing of the well bore leading to the underground cavern, possibly releasing the butane, Boudreaux explained.
“It’s not impossible. No one can say that it can’t happen. The scientists are aware of that, but it’s very unlikely that it would happen,” Boudreaux said.
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See also:
- 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
- Paper: Giant propane cavern also in vacinity of sinkhole -- Capacity over 3 million barrels when added to butane cavern -- Officials: "A lot of dynamic things" happening nearby
Published: August 15th, 2012 at 2:53 pm ET
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"…it’s very unlikely that it would happen…"
– 'possibly' also said by Captain Edward John Smith 1912
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That's what they said about a meltdown now we have three destroying the Pacific ocean.
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That's what Custer said when saw all those indians.
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That's what Custer said when HE saw all those Indians. Poop
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cant resist
the fracking messy dangerous energy corporations and obama
Utility’s Role in Convention Tests Obama
By JIM RUTENBERG
Published: August 14, 2012 236 Comments (lively comments section)
"..He cited local pride as motivation, but Duke Energy, which became the nation’s largest utility with its recent merger, also had a business incentive. The company, which has supported the energy initiatives of President Obama and Congressional Democrats, has received federal economic stimulus money and alternative-energy grants. Its financial future stands to be greatly influenced by the sorts of environmental proposals the president’s party has vowed to pursue.
The intersection of Duke Energy’s interests and its support for the convention is testing Mr. Obama’s pledge to free the party’s gathering from business and lobbyist support.
The situation is a microcosm of a larger issue that Mr. Obama’s campaign has faced. It has tried to balance the president’s longtime pledge to reduce the influence of special interests in politics with his real-world need to raise the huge amounts of money that modern campaigns require, at times in ways that seem to contradict those pledges…"
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/us/politics/duke-energys-support-of-convention-tests-obama-fund-raising-pledge.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper
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this seems appropriate
Allison Macfarlane speaks out on USA’s nuclear waste problem
"..Allison Macfarlane, in her first news conference since taking over at the NRC on July 9, today also called on Congress and the White House to identify a permanent disposal site for spent fuel from the nation’s 104 nuclear reactors.
The NRC this month suspended final decisions on licenses for power
plants until it completes a reassessment of risks related to storing
spent atomic fuel. U.S. plants keep used fuel rods on site, in water
pools or dry casks, because of a lack of permanent storage. ….. The
U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington ruled on June 8 that the NRC’s
rules on permanent storage of nuclear waste failed to fully evaluate
risks and new standards must be drafted……."
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/08/15/allison-macfarlane-speaks-out-on-usas-nuclear-waste-problem/
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Oh, there is a problem? Now…if the nuclear waste was in her own back yard I'm sure she'd view it as a problem, but for now I highly doubt she thinks much of it. She's trying to look like she's actually doing her job.
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And it doesn't stop any NPPs that are already licensed. We will see where this goes.
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And if it 'shifts rapidly'?
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I remain ready to be underwhelmed again, after FEMA's 2010 feeble Katrina responce, to that agency's encore reaction to the next disaster, a massive Napoleonville Dome explosion.
But, with their current annual budget of $13,559,716,000 ($13 BIL) along with their inventory of however-many thousand, unused, toxic/contaminated trailer homes, available for victim relocation needs, what better big-government responce could one ask for?
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