Published: September 19th, 2012 at 7:54 pm ET
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Title: Residents hope for answers
Source: The Advocate
Author: Bret H. McCormick
Date: September 19, 2012
[...]“It’s been almost six weeks since the last town hall meetings, which is ridiculous,” [John Achee Jr., who has served as a spokesman for a group of concerned Bayou Corne residents,] said.
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Sonny Cranch, a Texas Brine spokesman, said the company’s primary drilling rig was dismantled and is being replaced by a snubbing unit
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The snubbing unit is a “precautionary measure” that allows workers to insert a pipe under the pressure coming up from the well and use the pipe to pump in heavy drilling muds to kill the well, Cranch said.
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The sinkhole, meanwhile, continued to grow slightly on Tuesday. Cranch said a portion of soil “on the western edge of the sinkhole that was a couple of feet wide and roughly 200 feet long” sloughed into the sinkhole along with a tree either late Monday or early Tuesday.
It was the second time in three days that land disappeared into the sinkhole after a section of land 20 feet long by 20 feet wide, along with a tree, fell in on Sunday, Cranch said.
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Achee said residents are concerned that some of the signs that existed before the sinkhole formed, such as sharp earth tremors, are back, which he said could mean “the cycle is repeating itself.”
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Published: September 19th, 2012 at 7:54 pm ET
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Emergency Official: "We have no clue" — could that be General Electric executives responding to the Japanese prime Minister about …
What The Hell Do We Do Now????? after three melt outs and another spent fuel (fool) pool on fire … contaminating California, Oregon, Washington State and British Columbia … for friggin' ever a year ago last March …
Apparently so …
Still awfully quiet from GE … they've broadcast a summer Olympics (from London) had lots of fun on The Today Show … and lots of PGA venues, football and crap TV … but
NOTHING ABOUT FUKUSHIMA
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too much pursuit of profit, no stick for pursuit of safety
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….let alone pursuit of happiness
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i think it was about six weeks ago that i calculated this was how long the drilling rig would last, due to encroaching ground collapse.
this report (and other recent ones) haven't specifically said why the drilling rig is being dismantled. but i'm confident it was not a voluntary choice.
the residents and officials seem to expect that people will return home one day. so my next guestimate is that will never happen. if i was a resident, i'd be swinging for full compensation right now from Texas Brine. I might even be considering suing the council that approved such close co-habitation.
i was in a mining region of australia last week. I spoke with an excavator and he explained that a large area has been dug out underground for coal. at night, the light glow from each site across the countryside begins to block out the stars (i used to see millions of stars at night in this part of the world, not no more).
makes me wonder when we'll start seeing sinkholes in Oz.
Anyway, no real, direct, contructive comment from me here.. just ramblings, because I'm am just getting more and more dumbstruck at where we are heading.
Has there ever been a crazier, more selfish time in human history, or is it just the internet that brings it all home?
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Stop capitalism!
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HOW IS IT OUR corporate leaders and American heroes are so tongue-tied????
Where is Jeffrey Immelt …?… Barack's Kitchen Bitch??
Nothing about how the GE Cavalry is going to ride to the rescue of Fukushima???
How about it? Mr. Jeffrey Immelt, Corporate Titan Superhero Overpaid Idiot Nuclear Shill???
What do we do now? Shall we call on the Gods of JP Morgan?
Is there no f'''in profit to be made so you don't even consider it?
How about a lame … "We're sorry Japan for ruining your country, but … no time to lose – we need to ruin the United States and all other countries, too?"
Are you scared? Are you confused? Are you not paid enough … to try to save Planet Earth???
What about your well-paid corporate nuclear idiot compadres?
Like Bill Gates (net worth 61 Billion Dollars) also a pro-nuclear idiot rich guy nuclear shill? Whose home State is awash in hot particles and nuclear fleas?
Or how about old rich idiot pro nuclear Warren the Wise Guy Buffet … who almost lost his home city, Omaha, Nebraska, to the inconvenient flooding episode at Fort Calhoun … according to an NRC study, quickly covered up by the call girl whores at NRC, who didn't want to offend their Johns … Jeffrey, Barack et al, and release the study of downstream of major dam vulnerability to flooding at our collective suicide-wish, homicidal nuclear crap plants, which we and GE once referred to as Progress???
Where are our big money-guy Leaders when it…
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when it counts???
peace?
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Lovely rant, nedli.
*peace
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Sinkhole: Gas pressure coming up from well so strong, new unit was brought in — Concern sharp tremors mean “cycle is repeating itself” — 6 weeks since last public meeting “ridiculous”
What alarmist rubbish this headline is. The article doesn't mention strong "gas pressure" or that strong gas pressure is the reason for the new unit. It says a snubbing unit was brought in as a “precautionary measure” to allow workers to insert a pipe under the pressure coming up from the well.
As for the "sharp tremors" comment, that, too, is more lie than fact. The article stated speculation by unnamed "residents" that the tremors "could mean" the cycle is repeating. The tremors "could" also mean Jesus and John Lennon are coming back. "Could mean" about anything.
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That's why it says " could mean “the cycle is repeating itself.”
Could.
Mean.
And I guess the stupid residents know their area better than anyone else.
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You and the others are missing the point.
I am not taking issue with what The Advocate article says. I am taking issue with ENENEWS headline misrepresenting what the Advocate article says.
The article says according to some unnamed residents the tremors "could mean . . ." Do you see "could mean" or "residents" in the ENE headline? No. It says that the tremors mean the cycle is repeating itself — which is a misrepresentation of what the article actually says.
Alarmism is as financially rewarding on the Internet as in the MSM. Thar's gold in them thar click-throughs, but ya' got to get people into the post before they see the ads.
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@Pierpont, "Horton said the most recent tremors are probably about a 2 on the Richter scale, which measures the energy of earthquakes."
"What might be most vexing about the return of these sharp tremors is that they come in addition to long-period, lower frequency tremors that began Aug. 6. These long-period tremors come from northwest of the sinkhole and not in the salt dome, Horton said."
"Horton said he has never seen such a combination of tremors before from the same area at the same time."
http://theadvocate.com/home/3912952-125/tremors-return-by-sinkhole
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http://enenews.com/never-before-seen-4-minute-tremors-by-sinkhole-now-sharp-tremors-rattling-area-had-stopped-just-before-massive-hole-appeared-last-month
“They got down to 90 feet and experienced gas in the water aquifer and were unable to set water well due to the pressure. We put cement, plug, and got off the site and regrouped to come up with another strategy to set a vent well,” John Boudreaux [director for the Assumption Parish Office of Emergency Preparedness] explained.
They still do not know where the gas is coming from. Boudreaux said residents will not be allowed to return home until the gas is under control [...] could mean sometime next year.
http://enenews.com/wafb-work-halted-at-giant-sinkhole-stoppage-was-caused-by-tremors-in-area-not-good-news-for-residents-emergency-meeting-thursday
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Please take a look at the Related Posts found under every article.
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@Pierpont- I find nothing more alarming than the deficit of information about this ongoing situation. The seismographs speak for themselves. Educate yourself before you criticize, perhaps? The resources found at this site are the best I've encountered.
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Bayou Corne is a dead town. And according to current environmental laws, or should I say the lack thereof, concerning fracking and the underground storage of the resulting sludge, Texas Brine will probably be found not liable for destroying the entire town and owe nothing to the residents.
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Dosdos I think Texas Brine should worry more about Bayou Corne residents getting revenge than getting paid.
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