Published: October 12th, 2012 at 10:02 am ET
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WAFB, Oct 11, 2012 6:53p ET:
Reporter: “You’re getting a bird’s a view of the sinkhole from this morning’s flyover of the site. As you can see it’s significantly larger than when it first appeared at the beginning of August. Earlier this week crews installed 3 vent wells around the Bayou Corne/Grand Bayou area to get a better understanding of what’s causing it to get bigger.”
Watch the flyover here
Published: October 12th, 2012 at 10:02 am ET
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OKay, paluueeze!!!! Why did it take weeks to run a test that identifies crude oil and natural gas isotopes in the obviously crude oil and natural gas sample taken from the sink hole? Why wasn't this done in an afternoon? On a lunch break or something? Is there a backlog of tests needing to be done on any number of other pressing environmental problems in the area that this one is #65 in order of priority? Is the machine broken? Did they have to mail order? Could someone with experience in this enlighten me please as to why testing takes sooooo long?
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I think i just answered my own question – 1) this is on private land and is primarily being handled by a private corporation with some governmental oversight, read, very industry friendly scientists, 2) this is not considered a crisis, and the 150 people that had to evacuate can stay with family and friends indefinitely, 3) oil spills, sludge dumping, and natural gas fires happen so frequently polluting land, river and sea on such a regular basis that this is not seen as a big issue here, 4) everybody has to get everyone else's approval to act or speak, including go-aheads from a swarm of attorneys, and 5) all the mineral testing labs are busy testing core samples from new oil and natural gas exploration, which takes priority over a smelly old sink hole.
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OR. 6. They knew from the beginning and have always known the "bad gas" is what was admitted three days ago to be the same event admitted then to have been causing bubbling and anomolies and has been announced to be in the aquafer. The aquafer is the Mississippi Aluvial Aquafer that strides 7 states up the Mississippi. I don't agree with Mark's post of Richard C. Hoagland's assessment that the methane could blow up in the gulf and cause a tsumai. I'm with Matt Simmons on this, who said in the summer of 2010, before his questionable death, that if it was going to blow up from the bubble underwater it already WOULD have, but WOULD PROCEED through fissures and find an escape over land. Based on results, he appears to have been right. What amazes me is that we are given more information every day, but NOW EVEN THE PEOPLE HERE seem to wish to remain in denial, and do not refer to former stories to piece together truth.
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Irh sez…"more information every day, but NOW EVEN THE PEOPLE HERE seem to wish to remain in denial, and do not refer to former stories to piece together truth."
SP: Like Fukushima the salt dome collapse has a huge number of variables to piece together. The answer to so many puzzles is still unclear even after 570 days in Japan. 90 days in Louisiana is even less time to make rock solid observations. But we are learning much faster than the days after Chernobyl. Knowledge in the Internet era is so much faster than 50 years ago. It's the best tool we have to survive the excesses of poor leaders, but we must be vigilant against premature proclamations of outrage. Smoking gun disclosures hurts the oppressors, but flimsy evidence is just as bad for protesters.
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K. But, why does the testing take so long?
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I agree. Can't they throw it in a mass spectrometer and get it's profile? All I know is that it looks like it is possible that the Macondo well accident has allowed oil and natural gas to effect an area approximately 200 miles away. It has been 2 years and I think it is plausible.
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http://www.howtodothings.com/health-fitness/how-to-treat-symptoms-of-methane-gas-poisoning
..can hallucinate.. trolling
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http://enenews.com/confirmed-salt-cavern-below-sinkhole-has-failed
http://enenews.com/unsettling-news-theres-no-way-to-fix-it-if-salt-cavern-under-sinkhole-has-failed-says-state-engineer-theres-little-that-you-can-do
http://enenews.com/state-official-gas-coming-up-4-5-miles-away-is-very-very-similar-to-gas-near-giant-louisiana-sinkhole-that-would-be-very-remarkable-video
http://enenews.com/gas-pressure-in-cavern-below-giant-sinkhole-near-1000-psi-trying-to-extract-hydrocarbon-material-from-well
http://enenews.com/officials-pressure-building-up-in-aquifer-to-explosive-concentrations-geologists-say-top-layer-may-not-be-able-to-hold-back-gas-if-above-75-psi-new-footage-inside-sinkhole-video
http://enenews.com/officials-gas-pressure-building-aquifer-trying-vent-public-safety-seismic-activity-related-pressure-videos
http://enenews.com/confirmed-govt-oil-floating-gulf-matches-bps-macondo
Are these "variables" worthy of "piecing together?" The bottom of the Salt Dome failed. There's no way to fix it. It has pressure of 1000 psi. It only takes 75 psi for a blow out explosion. The gas is "similar" 4 to 5 miles away. Hydrocarbons are also in the aquafer and in wells miles away. The Macondo site is active. They're trying to vent the pressure.
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It sure makes you pause and think, IRHologram.
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