Published: August 18th, 2012 at 2:59 am ET
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Title: Assistance check
Source: The Advocate
Author: By David J. Mitchell
Date: August 18, 2012
[...]In a separate development, Texas Brine and parish officials said crews had nearly completed assembly Friday of a mobile drilling rig trucked to a site near the sinkhole.
The initial steps to start 24-hour-per-day drilling were expected to begin between 7 p.m. and midnight Friday. Drillers were to start driving the well casing, a process that could be noisy and cause some vibration, parish officials said.
DNR ordered Texas Brine to drill an observational well to see what is happening in regard to the plugged and abandoned salt cavern in the Napoleonville Salt Dome suspected as the cause of the sinkhole and natural gas releases in the area.
The rig rises about 14 stories above a dirt pad amid cypress swamps surrounding Texas Brine’s location south of La. 70 South. The rig is about 900 feet from the edge of the sinkhole, Cranch said.
The sinkhole also grew Friday by about 20 feet from its eastern edge, inching toward Texas Brine, parish officials said.
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Published: August 18th, 2012 at 2:59 am ET
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Just to think "around the corner":
Sinkhole, sinkhole, sinkhole…
What else is going on?
h.
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I'm not sure if I understand your words in the right way.
I'm concerned aubout the possibility of another big issue,
covered by this sinkhole-story.
First reportings speak about radioactive garbage, but now, it's a great fear generating situation, everybody ist concerned about a catastophic h-bomb like explosion. This generates a high emotional atracction point, which focus your minds and thougts apart from the fukushima-desaster.
Are I'm the only one who think: this smells odd?
h.
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I don't think the story is designed to distract from the Fuku mess, h_a, it's just another disaster in the making that's a little more immediate if you live in southern Louisiana.
If it was a distraction story, there would be more MSM coverage. Nothing in the newspaper, not one word on Drudge, more of the 'out of sight, out of mind' ops.
I think that smell is the bubbling cesspool from the depths of the salt dome that caused the thousands of earthquakes in the area, only stopping when the sinkhole appeared. Which, in my mind, was the releasing of the gasses causing the earthquakes.
Which begs the question, what the hell was/is in all that gas that could do so much damage to the sub-geology?
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Hello Time is Short, Damn!!- I think your final sentence/question has hit "gold",so to speak!!??! ~If my memory still serves me correct-"Didn't the govt. and natural gas industry conduct a fracking experiment by detonating a nuclear bomb that was initially thought to be a "success"(?)-but deemed a FAIL when the very large amount of gas was found to be too radioactive and was released when burned while cooking,etc.!! Then they tried passing it off to some other nearby state(s) who didn't want it either. But I think it was even in the same state or at least close enough to make things less coincidental?? I think it may also have been infamously noted as "the only underground(or otherwise)nuclear detonation east of the Mississippi?!! not sure,but if anyone else concurs or looks into the details and/or finds any good links pointing to a strong possibility of a connection to the present crisis please post it here?! I'd imagine an "H-Bomb like explosion" would produce a plume & fallout effect similar to the smaller tactical nuke tests conducted and present the greatest threat locally and perhaps downwind of the blast where temporary "spikes" of radiation levels would be noted. I always did question using "natural",un-reinforced underground chambers for storage of natural gas anyway,looks like they answered my question too-if assumptions prove correct?! Thanks for posting/reminding me about that too! TAKE CARE!!
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http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/articles/293/nuclear-blasts-in-mississippi
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there's a bunch of other events and "projects" close enough geographically and with eerily similar circumstances to be worth looking into since the public near this crisis should know exactly what the official statement was referring to when they suggested "naturally-occurring" radioactive substances are stored there?! Could the 50+ caverns be the result of "cheating" on the nuclear test ban treaty? Seems like it would be the best location regarding illegal detonations and the distance from any facilities the other members of the test ban treaties would have the capabilities to detect them(?) It is something that holds strong possibilities that merits further investigation that in my opinion could help answer more of the "unknown" issues and status of this event. PEACE
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Ok – I'm just sceptic,
if some…anything becomes a great emotional impact.
Maybe a little bit to mich scepticism.
h.
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I don't understand either, harengus_acidophilus. Maybe he posted this in the wrong place on the wrong thread…? Peut etre?
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the so-called mobile rig is as tall as the trees that are sinking.
now it's setup it wont move in a hurry.
at 20 feet a day, they'll have 6 weeks. 'sok i guess.
i like this bit ..
"The sinkhole has prompted civil litigation against the company and (State) Department of Natural Resources".
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A quote comes to mind , i believe it was the pure spirited Suziki Severn : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfbqWG88Ems
If you don't know how to fix it, stop breaking it !!!!
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I can't understand why Texas Brine is drilling a relief well. Are they trying to relieve pressure? Where is the pressure coming from? At Macondo the relief well was drilled to plug the run away well. What are they trying to plug?
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'DNR ordered Texas Brine to drill an observational well to see what is happening in regard to the plugged and abandoned salt cavern …'
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It's not a relief well, it's an exploratory (observatory) well, to gather information about what is happening below. They are probably drilling to see how far the fracking compounds that they deposited in the cavern have spread.
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dosdos, I was going to say something similar to your post and then I got to wondering whether jackassrig has a point. We have certainly been told it is an exploratory/observatory well, but they have been known to fib a bit now and then.
It seems they have only two tools in their arsenal – drilling and capping, so I guess when any crisis hits they will try either to drill or to cap.
You're probably right, but in the world of Big Media/Big Energy who knows? We watch and wait.
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aigeezer, i think you nailed it even more.
"It seems they have only two tools in their arsenal – drilling and capping, so I guess when any crisis hits they will try either to drill or to cap".
And, if that's not scary enough, then all the nuclear detonating, fracking, pollution storage, in natural salt caverns, which, of course, have got to have tunnels and cracks that lead to the surface for miles around. Folks, we can't stop with ending nuclear. We have to end idiocy wherever we see it. These folks are just getting too dangerous. And, they're only solutions are drilling and capping. This is like the 1980's and the discovery of all the massive toxic waste dumps around the world, but especially the US and Russia and China. What the US calls Superfund Clean Up sites.
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apologies if this article with pics has already been posted here elsewhere… Drilling rig parts arrive at sinkhole site, 2 dozen tractor/trailer trucks. " Once the rig is assembled, Texas Brine officials expect the well to be completed in about 40 days. The rig, which will stand 140 feet high, will be assembled on a well pad about 900 to 1,000 feet from the sinkhole".. http://theadvocate.com/home/3642925-125/drilling-rig-parts-arrive-at
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media disaster stories x 2 = divide
anti nuclear attention / 2 = conquer
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Jebus…Good observation here.
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And heading towards,the rig? .. wow.
What a tough and dangerous job.
That said… time to clutch your gear box ..fellas.
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It doesn't matter if this is a distraction from Fukushima or any other disaster. People can still use it to raise awareness. How many of these people potentially effected by this unfolding sinkhole calamity were going to worry about Fukushima anyway? People learn best when the issue is closer to home. Those that were concerned about Fukushima will remain so AND focus on this, too. This story adds to the accumulating knowledge that things are going wrong and that changes need to be made. There are so many issues and dangers created by human technological progress and expansion and THEY ALL need addressing. Prioritizing one disaster over another as worthy of attention is to miss the point that what we are experiencing is a long indulged worldwide practice of profits over people, political parties over citizens, resource exploitation over living habitat. It ALL has to end, and, folks, it all has to end at the same time. This is a movement that must embrace and heal the damage done by empowering people to think and care and say – "uh huh, no more. Now we do it the right way".
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Enenews, "Energy News" also means gas storage, as it is part of the energy trade.
For my part I'd worry more for the gas cavern to swoosh out to surface. It makes a difference if you have a mere sinkhole in the earth surface or a giant stinkhole farting a big fire explosion.
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Stock up on your Tabasco sauce now. This could temporarily shut them down and it takes a long time to cure.
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