[IRMartin]

This is going to get bigger!

There is a good chance that this may become very big and messy. The MSN is so far only reporting about the sinkhole. But there is much much more yet to be said on national news. radioactive


Bayou paradise, Cajun culture more at risk amid Louisiana leaders' alleged cover up
As Assumption Parish residents experience rights abuses from their leaders' betrayal, parish leaders expressed anger Thursday about new revelations that Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Texas Brine Co. LLC officials knew since January 2011 about salt cavern problems, now suspected as a cause of a massive and expanding sinkhole in the vicinity of the Napoleonville Dome tucked in what was once a paradise, but withheld that information.

Louisiana sheriff and other leaders angry at DNR officials
While a DNR spokeswoman said Thursday there is no connection between DNR Secretary Scott Angelle’s abrupt resignation Wednesday and the Bayou Corne sinkhole disaster, four Assumption Parish leaders have expressed anger over learning from news reports that DNR officials knew about related problems connected to the sinkhole.
“Rep. Karen St. Germain, D-Pierre Part; Sheriff Mike Waguespack; Police Jury President Martin ‘Marty’ Triche; and John Boudreaux, director of the parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, said they were ‘upset’ and ‘disturbed’ to learn about those problems not directly from DNR, but in a news account Thursday,” the Advocate reports.

“I’m very disappointed in DNR not being up-front,” Waguespack said.

A joint command addressing the sinkhole, natural gas releases and earthquakes -- that have plagued Assumption Parish's Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou residents for over two months -- has regularly met with parish and state officials, including DNR officials, to discuss possible causes of the disaster that has resulted in a declared State of Emergency and mandatory evacuations.

“If we had data indicating there was a failed integrity test, then certainly that would make us believe there is a possibility something would be leaking,” the sheriff said.

DNR Secretary Scott Angelle, a state oil and gas point person, resigned Wednesday without giving reason, but Governor Jindal quickly appointed him to LSU's Board of Supervisors.
Waguespack and Boudreaux said then-DNR Secretary Scott Angelle did not tell them until a meeting Saturday, a day after the sinkhole appeared, that the salt cavern may well have had “problems” in 2010, but Angelle still did not disclose the failed integrity test.

The test measures whether caverns, hollowed out of solid salt deposits forming the 1-by-3-mile dome, can hold pressure or may have a leak or weakness.

The now 1600o square feet sinkhole, much larger than a football field, emerged Aug. 3, swallowing forested swamps adjacent to the Texas Brine cavern’s location and prompting a mandatory evacuation order for Bayou Corne community residents that remained in place Thursday.

Assumption Parish officials said they did not know until Thursday that Texas Brine’s salt cavern failed an integrity test in late 2010, possibly pointing to the cavern breaching the outer wall of the massive Napoleonville Dome and brine in the cavern coming in contact with surrounding sediment feeding the sinkhole.
Waguespack said timely disclosure of the test could have pointed officials more quickly to the suspected source, according to The Advocate.

"Texas Brine Co. Saltville LLC president Mark J. Cartwright informed DNR in a January 21, 2011 letter about a failed integrity test of the cavern and company officials’ suspicion that the cavern possibly breached Napoleonville Dome’s outer wall, possibly explaining a loss of pressure in the cavern during the test,' Deborah Dupré reported Thursday.

"DNR and Texas Brine officials did say Tuesday in Pierre Part that the cavern may be closer to the outer wall of the dome than thought, that it could have failed and created the sinkhole," The Advocate reports Friday. "The January 2011 letter was not mentioned, however.'

The geographical area involved in the disaster stretches over the mile between Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou.
"They're trying to make this something to deal with one well," said attorney John Carmouche. "It's not just one well, it's the whole system of Grand Bayou. They just ignored it."

Upset residents fearful and betrayed by state officials, they say
Assumption Parish residents are expressing fear and they feel their rights have been violated through their public officials' betrayal. Their unique Cajun culture is at risk.

Locals say that the Department of Natural Resources "knew for months" that the Texas Brine well had integrity problems but didn't tell local authorities, according to CNN.

"DNR failed to report to anybody that this cavern could be the source of the bubbles," said Dennis Landry, owner of guest cabins about half a mile from the expanding Bayou Corne sinkhole.

"I'm very upset about it," Landry said. "A lot of local residents are upset about it.

"I feel like I've been betrayed by the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources."

"One resident told CNN affiliate WAFB, 'Somebody at DNR should have woke up and realized, hey, remember this salt dome, this salt cavern that had a problem, maybe we should be looking at that. That's a little bit upsetting,' CNN reported Friday.

Adding to Louisiana’s murky mix of politics, an expanding sinkhole and the bubbling bayous, non-government environmentalists have stated on Friday that evidence supports their not believing that the breached salt cavern is the source of gas bubbles percolating in waterways in the Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou areas.
Whatever the cause, Cajuns' once pristine bayou and their culture are in greater danger now than ever.
"Our beautiful little paradise is in jeopardy," Landry said. http://www.examiner.com/article/bayo...cover-up-furor


This is the company that may be involved. Some of these salt domes are huge.

<a href="http://www.texasbrine.com/storage-services.html" target="_blank">http://www.texasbrine.com/storage-services.html








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Expanding sinkhole's powerful underground forces bubbling and bending pipes threaten integrity of massive butane-filled cavern and human rights

The initially estimated 200 by 200 feet sinkhole that developed late last week, swallowing ancient cypress trees 100 feet tall near Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou communities in south Louisiana, is now reported to be 380 feet deep with a diameter of 372 feet, filled mainly with salt water with traces of diesel fuel, and only 1,500 feet from a cavern filled with butane, according Tuesday morning news. Analysts' reports further hint that Texas Brine Company's cavern failed, but the butane cavern failing is today's worst-case scenario.

If a nearby butane-filled cavern fails, as it appears the brine cavern did, "it could cause an explosion felt up to two miles away," Fox News 8 reported Tuesday morning. "That's the worst-case scenario."

"All we can tell you right now is we still have bubbling in the bayou and we still don't know what happened and some scientists have pointed out to us that it could go from 200 feet to 2000 feet real quickly. We don't know," said Assumption Parish Sheriff Michael Waguespack on Monday.

After releasing information to the public Monday that the bayou sinkhole is over 380 feet deep, researchers report Tuesday that the diameter of the hole is now 372 feet and has now "swallowed" an acre of the once pristine swampland before oil, gas and salt miners arrived.

Water analysis shows that the water in the sinkhole is comprised mainly of salt water and diesel, both used to stabilize unused salt caverns, officials say.

Some closed salt caverns have diesel fuel at the top as a “pad” to prevent erosion of the salt from the brine, explained John Boudreaux, director of the Assumption Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.

Monday's disclosures possibly point to Louisiana Department of Natural Resources officials’ suggestions Friday that the sinkhole was caused by the possibly failed Texas Brine cavern.

“It’s suspect,” Boudreaux said.

Texas Brine company mined deep below the surface for decades but plugged the mine last year by filling it with 20 million barrels of brine, a process that meets the definition of environmental modification, ENMOD.

The company brought geologists from Florida to establish the best way to learn what's going on beneath the surface. Until they know and disclose more about the crisis, homeowners who evacuated might not be able to return, according to Fox News. Residents who did not follow the mandatory evacuation advisory for the area might reconsider. Roughly half of the some 300 people under mandatory evacuation orders remained.

Officials will brief the small Cajun communities impacted by the expanding sinkhole, Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou, Tuesday evening during a meeting at St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church in Pierre Part at 6:30 p.m.

http://www.examiner.com/article/sink...-filled-cavern

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More fvcking DOOM! So who should we prey (Pray) to that might help? It is obvious that the Vatican with its quadrillion a month don;t cover tooth care. (just look at the satanic pope displayed.)

Please ad pics, limits on the offenses I can not do at this internet cafe.

[spounnypneups]

More fvcking DOOM! So who should we prey (Pray) to that might help? It is obvious that the Vatican with its quadrillion a month don;t cover tooth care. (just look at the satanic pope displayed.)

Please ad pics, limits on the offenses I can not do at this internet cafe.

[Trientoriciom]

theys people do not work for me and you ...............DNR Secretary Scott Angelle, a state oil and gas point person