Published: March 9th, 2013 at 1:42 pm ET
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Title: Concerns raised about 2nd salt dome cavern
Source: The Advocate
Author: David J Mitchell & Michelle Millhollon
Date: March 08, 2013
[...] Assumption Parish Sheriff Mike Waguespack, who plans to attend Monday’s meeting with Jindal, said he wants government officials and area companies to meet to develop contingency plans for a possible “sinkhole No. 2,” however remote.
One of the sheriff’s leading concerns is possible danger posed by a second sinkhole to La. 70 South, a key thoroughfare that is about 950 feet from the Oxy 1 cavern’s outer wall.
“We’ve got to have plans in place where we can move fast,” Waguespack said. “We hope that there’s enough (monitoring in place) to have warning, but you just never know.” [...]
See also: (UPDATED) TV: Concerns about second giant sinkhole opening up -- "On verge of collapsing" -- Could take out Highway 70 -- Size may double (VIDEO)
Published: March 9th, 2013 at 1:42 pm ET
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Plans should have been in place 6 months ago. Also all companies should have been flaring as ordered to do so, yet flaut LDNR and Conservation with impunity. I reckon when the fox guards the henhouse…this is the result.
Forced Evacuation and compensation should be the first concerns! Not more monitoring..
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"Forced Evacuation and compensation should be the first concerns! Not more monitoring.."
Yep. It is like worrying about what microphone to use to record the band playing as the Titanic is sinking.
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Another great follow up report by WBRZ Channel 2 by Brittney Weiss
http://www.wbrz.com/videos/10pm-news-replay-friday-mar-8/
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Thanks for the link Freedomrox. Comments of yours are getting reported a lot. I read a few and there were some personal attacks and insults. That has to stop now. Thanks.
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Ban me if you wish, or ask me to leave, but I will not shrink from truth. I will not support a fraud, and would hope neither would you, once made aware of the situation. We both know who is reporting the posts. If the unvarnished truth supported by their own words and links to those words are insulting, then they should not have been said in a news report and supported by eyewitnesses.
I have done nothing wrong. Can the same be said of the fraudulent party? I thought this was a site about truth in energy news?
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"If the unvarnished truth supported by their own words and links to those words are insulting, then they should not have been said in a news report and supported by eyewitnesses."
I am not insulted that you posted something I said. I stand by those words in that article. I am insulted that you insist on connecting my real name to my user ID here. Obviosuly if I wanted my real name out on the net, I would be using it.
No one here would read that article and know that name is rainbeaudais, other than the fact that you keep insisting on putting my name out there. But, you know that….
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Thank you ENENews. The name calling is getting old, and seems I'm not the only one it bothers, per your post.
I assume that you can see who reports posts ENENews?
If so, please verify that I have never once reported a post on this site, and specifically, any of FROXs.
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The State of Louisianna should also be going after Texas Brine for the disregard of public safety and the DNR needs to also go after them for the land and waterway pollution and contamination. The public safety issue is simple. They were drilling to close to the edge of the saltdome and were doing it within 1000ft of a public highway and housing development. If their ins't any laws regarding these practices, their damn well should be. Another thing the State of Louisianna had better do Immediately is to freeze Texas Brines assets before they hide it. There will be more money required to clean up this mess before all is said and done than Texas Brine has. If you were in their shoes right now, you would be thinking of way to funnell cash out anyway possible. Texas Brine will eventually file BK and people are going to get screwed. I advise the residents to immediately put pressure on thier representatives to do this ASAP. Someone needs to make sure that their will be money available for future reparations and settlements before it all disappears. I would not be surprised to see the Governor issue an order to Texas Brine to buy out all residents immediately and also issue a forced evacuation order at this point. I am going to step out on a limb here and say that I think many have been a bit unfair with the Governor. Jindal did not cause this to happen, and I'm sure he is deeply concerned. This is not the time for political rock throwing. Peoples lives and homes are at stake.
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I think it is appropriate that the people are allowed to express anxiety and frustration towards Jindal's lack of concern towards this issue thus far.
This condition will provide impetus to look clearly at what the governor says he is going to do about it.
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I don't see yesterday's fly-over posted..perhaps I missed it.
Flyover 3/8/13
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGBc4-oWb5c
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Look at the amount of spent fuel there is stored at the Waterford Nuclear Plant 60 miles from the sinkhole. Just FYI.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXgueA4SfFA
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Good Lord, TM… 345,000 spent duel rods in 26 feet of water… If Texas Brine and Occidental don't get you, then Entergy has a back up plan that will!
Un-fricken-real!
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Does anybody project a blast radius of 60 moles–?
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Thad
60 moles would splatter a good distance, depending on what they were hit by? I don't understand the reference, sir…
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Sorry, Thad… Duh! 60 miles? I don't know, honestly. Would spent fuel rods explode…doubtful, but cause another 'Fukushima' in Louisiana…most definitely, and for many other surrounding States, as well.
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The largest man made explosion "Tsar Bomba" 57 mega ton had a blast radius of 22 miles.
As far as the the spent fuel rods for a nuclear explosion it would require explosive compression into a critical mass- IF a blast wave were to reach it would be from one side scattering rather than comoressive–
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No the suggested scenario was a blast from the saltdome reaching Waterford III
"Look at the amount of spent fuel there is stored at the Waterford Nuclear Plant 60 miles from the sinkhole."
If that was not the suggestion — then it was not related so —
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Rox lmao that was good. I never said anything about the stinkhole and its effects having anything to do with the danger from the mountain of death at waterford. Simply that it was an interesting read and the fact that it was only 60 miles from the stinkhole. But ofcourse thad has to come along and pervert the blog with inuendos and accusations. False fear mongering is bad for all of us and should not be permitted. Time and time again all he does is disrupt positive energy and peaceful discussion about current planetary dangers. Where did I say the sinkhole was a direct danger to the nuke plant or anything about a blast radius. NOOOOwhere, I said it was 60 miles away. Never said anything about any BLASTs. Im afraid that someones brain is turning into blast fragments from too much radon exposure from all his years of poking holes in the earth. Keep up the good work ROXman. I know your heart is in the right place. Peace.
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TM2020
it is easy to be lost in what at times is jibberish and desire to sound important by dragging in unrelated– My bad should have realised it was your usual- never fact, just suggestions, unspported opinion and floghts of fntasy
Now pls enlighten us about "the danger from the mountain of death at Waterford." are there problems at Waterford III? or is this just another BS fantasy
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What land is waterford built on, brainiac? do you understand what subsidence is? You're an annoying C.
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345K fuel rods plus one NPP 60 miles from the 'existing' Bayou Corne sinkhole.
Hundreds of millions of barrels of the following explosive chemicals stored in Lord knows how many cavern within salt domes, not including hazardous radioactive drilling and fracking waste:
Acetaldehyde
Acetic acid (glacial)
Acetic anhydride
Acetone
Acetonitrile
Acetyl chloride
Acetylene
Acrolein
Acrylonitrile
Allyl chloride
Ammonia
Arsine
Benzene
1,3-Butadiene
Butane, n-butane
n-Butyl acetate, butyl acetate
Butyl alcohol, butanol
n-Butanol
n-Butyl chloride, 1-chlorobutane
n-Butyl mercaptan
Butyl methyl ketone, 2-hexanone
Butylene, 1-butylene, 1-butene
Carbon disulfide
Carbon monoxide
Chlorine monoxide
1-Chloro-1,1-difluoroethane
Cyanogen
Cyclobutane
Cyclohexane
Cyclohexanol
Cyclohexanone
Cyclopentadiene[14]
Cyclopentane
Cyclopropane
Decane
Diborane
o-Dichlorobenzene, 1,2-dichlorobenzene
1,1-Dichloroethane
1,2-Dichloroethane
1,1-Dichloroethene
Dichlorofluoromethane
Dichloromethane, methylene chloride
Dichlorosilane
Diesel fuel
Diethanolamine
Diethylamine
Diethyl disulfide
Diethyl ether
Diethyl sulfide
1,1-Difluoroethane
1,1-Difluoroethylene
Diisobutyl ketone
Diisopropyl ether
Dimethylamine
1,1-Dimethylhydrazine
Dimethyl sulfide
Dimethyl sulfoxide
1,4-Dioxane
Epichlorohydrin
Ethane
Ethanol, ethyl alcohol
2-Ethoxyethanol
2-Ethoxyethyl acetate
Ethyl acetate
Ethylamine
Ethylbenzene
Ethylene
Ethylene glycol
Ethylene…
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Methane flowing underground through tectonic plate cracks and up through the New Madrid Fault. By now there are hundreds of millions of cubic feet of this methane underground.
Does anyone see a potential explosive problem? It would rain plutonium fuel pellets in Michigan, and knock out low-orbiting satellites.
It would only take one cavern of butane, within one salt dome, to potentially light the whole southern delta off, a massive domino triggering of everything buried down there.
And knowing what's been exposed here at Enenews for the last two years, this probably isn't even worst case.
And no one has a Plan B? Brilliant.
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TIS
The people of Bayou Corne are dealing with only the Napoleanville saltdome–Why not do a little research as to what is actually stored in the caverns there– Suggest starting w/ LaDNR — rather than a totally meaningless alphabetical list of chemical-
There is no continuous formations connecting the GoM sedimentary basin- the formations are sedinemtary having settled in the basin and are limited to the basin. Northern boundary of the basin os at Vicksburg Miss
Butane explosion? first the butane is liquid-and heavier than air no oxygen in the cavern and as a liquid won't explode- it would have to come out of the cavern and vaporise– then it would have to firm the correct LEL – HEL mix to explode.. 1 million cubic yards of butane needs 8-12 million cuic yards of air.
http://images.pennwellnet.com/ogj/images/ogj2/9616jfdy01.gif
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what is happening in the gulf right now, dummy? God, you are so annoying. You are a small minded idiot.
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lion76
Do you know anything about building foundations? Obviously not your comment shows that—
And can you tell us what is going on in the gulf? Obviosly not you lack of comments shows that—
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Did you notice how they had to climb the skinny stairwell to get up to the spent fuel pool? When will they learn not to store spent fuel in upstairs storage pools. Fukushima has shown how bad an idea that has turned out to be!
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TM, I honestly can't answer that, as I have no real knowledge of nuke engineering. All I know is I have shied away from it, every since the Navy offered me the chance to be a nuclear physicist aboard a sub. I refused then, and I still refuse to be near nuclear power today.
Just a real bad idea from the outset, IMHO
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