Published: August 15th, 2012 at 11:45 am ET
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Title: DEQ seeks salt cavern butane scenario
Source: The Advocate
Author: DAVID J. MITCHELL
Date: August 15, 2012
[...]The Crosstex salt cavern, which holds 940,000 barrels of liquid butane under pressure, is 1,600 feet from the sinkhole [State scientists suspect sinkhole happened after Texas Brine's cavern carved too
close to the edge of the Napoleonville Dome and failed][...]
DEQ officials said Tuesday there are “a lot of dynamic things” happening around the butane cavern, including expected well drilling, and community concerns have arisen.
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Crosstex has two underground storage caverns for butane and propane in the vicinity of the sinkhole with a combined capacity of more than 3.1 million barrels, according to financial filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
But Hatch asked for the butane cavern’s plan because it is the closest to the sinkhole, Mallett said.
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Published: August 15th, 2012 at 11:45 am ET
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The story continues to dribble out. No mention of it on CNN in my viewing area after the first day.
Does anyone know what the bubbles are composed of?… air, methane, butane, whatever?… I don't think I've seen that issue addressed anywhere.
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I believe the bubbles are Methane.
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Or air. You'd see air before the implosion of water into cavern….makes sense.
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Check out this site:
http://explorer9360.xanga.com/767054161/climate-change–oil-fracking-earthquakes-tsunamis–alternative-energy-solutions/
Lots of good analysis and information on what's really going beneath our feet.
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Thanks LindaLu . I like it.
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wwl radio talk shows doing live AM radio online too
spud comes on at 1 pm – 4 pm
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You know, I'm still not converted into a conspiracy theorist, but when I consider people ACTUALLY thought this was a good idea somewhere along the way…. when I consider someone would comprehend the OBVIOUS DANGER(S) accompanying their decisions… my critique includes Fukushima built where it is and how it was mismanaged….I mean the ONLY LIKELY outcome, even back then, would be potentially EXTREMELY DANGEROUS HAZARDOUS situations! Ones which would be catastrophic in scope and unmanageable. None of this is a surprise to SOMEBODY…. the SOMEBODY who approved and setup this setup. He knew this day would come… you'd have to be dead to not see the path ahead was deadly.
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"“a lot of dynamic things” happening"
I love that line. Dynamic things. You bet your a$$ 'dynamic things' are happening down there. This is a real wake up call to the locals that not only did the government not care after Katrina, they've been shoving Nuclear Hazardous Waste down the holes in their backyard for decades.
If it blows, it'll send hundreds of thousands of tons of nuclear hazardous waste into the air. There may be a '10 mile' blast radius (how sure are they about that?) but how far will all that vaporized NHW spread?
This is insanity, to think any of this is safe. And you know there must be a tremendous amount of information they're not telling us. What if there is methane creeping under the plate from the Macando disaster? Would a butane blast at the Napoleonville Dome set off a much larger methane blast? Would it be simply a primer for a much larger explosion?
Just crazy.
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@ Time Is Short..
Feigning the repair of the Maconda situation..left an ongoing geological situation.
Thanks for putting words to my thoughts.
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And a very interesting theory, HotR. What I've read on what you posted seems highly probably, considering a minor working knowledge of plate tectonics.
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