Published: August 23rd, 2012 at 12:00 pm ET
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Title: 8:55 a.m. Morning Update
Source: Assumption Parish Police Jury
Date: August 23, 2012
At the Police Jury meeting last night, the Jury unanimously adopted a resolution requesting DNR to perform a study on the aquifer and simultaneous venting of the aquifer as the exploratory rig is being drilled. They also adopted a resolution to request DOTD to perform a study of a bypass route of LA-70. Please note that this does NOT mean the closure of LA-70, it is an addition of alternate route, more efficient and convenient than the current detour route (through Bayou Pigeon or Bayou L’Ourse). The Jury will formally request the State Legislature for the appropriation of funds for these projects to be completed.
Title: 2:30 p.m. Afternoon Update
Source: Assumption Parish Police Jury
Date: August 22, 2012
Updated measurements of the sinkhole site have not been available because the direct site is remains prohibited. Civil Air Patrol has been contracted to flyover and provide aerial photographs that can be compared to the photographs they supplied on August 10, 2012. As soon as we have those, we will be able to provide the public with updated measurements and side by side comparisons.
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Published: August 23rd, 2012 at 12:00 pm ET
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Police Jury..excellent.
Hold 'em to it..
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"venting through the aquifer"?
Through the water supply…oh,no.
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Heart, this feels like a scary parallel to yesterday's discussion.
Link and headline repeated here for those who missed it:
Oil Drilling into a Salt Dome: Catastrophic Failure: Evidence Lake Peigneur 1980 Disaster BP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhwjSI3UOIw
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Among the players..KOCH..Gulf South Pipeline.
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2001/01/entergy.shtm
Owners of the Magnolia Storage Facility ..Napoleanville Salt Dome.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/18503846/Gas%20storage%20facility%20permit.pdf
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Yikes, Heart. Your first link reminds me that Entergy and Koch are intertwined. I had gotten in the habit of thinking of Koch as Big Oil and Entergy as nuke. It all blurs together.
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I caught that link and watched it – jaw on floor and eyes getting bigger throughout! At least there's not an active underground salt mine at Corne Bayou – but the Lake Peigneur event certainly gives powerful evidence that we human's are not full masters of our technology and of our giant, earth altering toys!
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ALGEEZER – this belongs with your post of the Lake Peigneur link – not sure how I managed to mis-attach it.
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Looks like I didn't mis-attach … never mind … I must be rushing!
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"jaw on floor and eyes getting bigger throughout!" – me too, Maggie123. I had never seen anything like it. It astonishes me that msm don't keep running old clips of that when they talk about the present sinkhole – usually they love to link things like that together. Do they have no collective memory, no imagination, no motivation? It's like the dog that didn't bark in the night-time and just makes me wonder all the more about the details of the present story.
"Catastrophic failure" (from the headline) actually seems like an understatement after watching the clip.
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PS. No wonder DHS is there..they have to protect the "hotel lounge brothers"
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I wonder what they have detected in the area that is prohibiting anyone from coming near the area????
I doubt they will ever tell us….but it must be really bad, a huge mix of hellish chemicals coming together.
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British Geological Survey: An Appraisal of Underground Gas Storage Technology and incidents,for the development of risk assessment methodology.
http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/7877/1/OR07023_Vol_1.pdf
It isn't like..they don't have risk assessment..
They are too disfunction (and greedy)..to understand and refrain.
They do it anyway.
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Ps..typo.. disfunctional..
I just read a story..about some pot growers being charged with "environmental crimes".
Clearing trees..diverting streams..ok.
So..what is this then..but a tremendous.."environment crime"?
The wealthy and powerful..are NOT above the law.
The judiciary system must also be held accountable.
The political system..the crooked politicains..that are favoring big coporations instead of the health and welfare of the constituants…must be held accountable.
True(to the people) legal authority needs to intervene.
Why? ..survival.
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In Canada (where I live), "environment crime" looks like this:
http://dirtyoilsands.org/visuals
… with massive government support. Out of sight, out of mind.
A day-old Canadian headline: "Feds walk away from environmental assessments on almost 500 projects in B.C."
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Feds+walk+away+from+environmental+assessments+almost+projects/7125419/story.html#ixzz24OZsODyc
Nobody voted for that, as the saying always goes.
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aigeezer (apologies for mis-spelling your name above … am full of typos and rushed-based mistakes … the day's moving along and I have garden chores on my mind.)
I have been telling everyone I can what I know of what's happening in Canada, with particular emphasis on the Fort McMurray development. I lived in the Peace Valley for decades and that entire forested region, (aspen and boreal), is very precious to me. Plus, I know humans actually live there (First Nations people cancer rates are significantly up) – and I know the richness of the wilderness as habitat. The Peace Valley is itself booming along, activity everywhere.
It seems people benefiting from the "prosperity" of mega-energy projects have a hard time letting themselves see what's happening. Or they seem to convince themselves earth destruction is "here" but the rest of the world is still intact. One of my main messages that I deliver as often as I can is that the destruction is global, earth itself is under siege.
One visual I've tried to find with no luck, but hope one exists or will soon, is a global map showing all active mega-damage sites that presently exist, including dead ocean zones, etc. I think people can't easily visualize the scope.
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Maggie123, I didn't know you (or anyone here) had direct knowledge of the Fort McMurray area. Your comments help make it real rather than abstract.
I like your global mega-damage map idea. I'll keep my eyes open for something like that now. When I impulsively googled "environment disaster watch" all the hits seem tilted towards natural disasters.
Here's one for the collection, at least:
http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/multimedia/2007/09/gallery_mountaintop_mining/
Big Energy leaves footprints everywhere.
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Maggie, I've been searching since I read your post, and so far this, while not one map of the whole earth's exclusion zones and related areas…it does give some interesting information and the maps are good as well. Just takes some time to get through them all.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=map+of+radioactive+areas&qpvt=map+of+radioactive+areas&FORM=IGRE
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Wow, CBuck. That's very effective – visually overwhelming as all those thumbnails fill in. Good find. Distressing content.
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