Published: August 13th, 2012 at 12:19 pm ET
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Title: Giant Sinkhole May Be Radioactive
Source: Courthouse News Service
Author: SABRINA CANFIELD
Date: August 13, 2012
[...]A U.S. Department of Energy document on storage of naturally occurring radioactive material in salt caverns states that oil field wastes – but not other industrial wastes – are exempted from the hazardous waste requirements of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
According to that document, “Disposal of NORM [naturally occurring radioactive material]-Contaminated Oil Field Wastes in Salt Caverns”: “On July 6, 1988, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a regulatory determination that exempted any wastes arising from the exploration, development, and production of crude oil, natural gas, and geothermal energy from regulation as hazardous wastes under RCRA Subtitle C (53 FR 25477). … Given the federal exemption from RCRA for oil field wastes, the waste management requirements faced by most operators will be state requirements.”
The document, which was released in 1998, states that Louisiana law prohibited storage of naturally occurring radioactive waste in salt caverns, and that the law would have to be amended before storage would be possible.
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Published: August 13th, 2012 at 12:19 pm ET
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Extra stupid. Congratulations.
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Extra corrupt more likely
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Hi richard , indeed. Btw , come back !
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hi Dis. good to hear your shout
i'm lurking. been in a holding pattern 
needed to ease up. it's good to just read for a while. everyone's on the ball around here. When one steps back, another steps up. I noticed that pattern at the Ooii protests now that I recall the similarity.
there are others who we haven't heard from as well. It would be good to get a chime from time to time
Saikado Hantai!
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Hey richard, I wondered where you were – good to know your're still onboard! Hope all is well and the ladies love going out with you
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hiya b&b. thanks for those fun thoughts
i read you were kayaking in croatia. sounds like a great adventure.
that part of the world is not too accessible for me. but i'm real pleased to see someone is enjoying it
about to head out.. the weekend is just on the horizon
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Good one richard, i see you are in a good mood. Now find the pattern that connect your discoverd pattern to the number of participants aka "critical mass" and reïnforce everybody's understanding why it is so important.
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That would make "Environmental Protection Agency" an oxymoron, then?
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Reminds me of the Brio refinery in Houston. The crooks polluted the whole damn area and then tore the refinery down. Guess what happened next. The criminals built subdivisions on top of the polluted sewage. No one noticed until cancers started to show up and deformities. I never heard of one bastard going to jail for this.
For psychopaths that makes it that much sweeter.
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Oh now there is the Brio Superfund to clean this mess up.
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