http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW5s43goAVA&feature=plcp
New Work at Bayou Corne isn’t Near the Sinkhole
•October 4, 2012 • Leave a Comment
Assumption Parish just put out a new bubble-sites MAP. Comparing it to the old well-sites MAP there are some new work roads visible. But they don’t go to the sinkhole. They are nearer to the butane cavern (Crosstex Well #1).
Sept. MAP of wells
Oct. 3 Map with bubble locations
Texas Brine Says Pressure Inside Observation Well is 950-980 PSI
•October 3, 2012 • Leave a Comment
It’s in today’s update.
and.....
http://lasinkhole.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/monday-sinkhole-news/
Monday Sinkhole News
GOOD NEWS, EVERYBODY!
Only 1/3 of cavern #3 is rubble!
Texas Brine is STILL mum. No new news they say in yesterday’s update. Not a teeny-tiny bubble came up in the bayou, evidently.
Everything rapidly falling to [censored!] -
Hydrocarbons could have breached bottom of cavern
Sinkhole engulfing entire 1-mile by 3-mile salt dome
Boudreaux told The Advocate that when he used to go crawfishing in the 1960s near the area where the sinkhole now is, he had to climb a fence near Louisiana Highway 70 and then, hike 500 feet through the woods to get to the once pristine bayou filled with edibles.
“Now the fence is underwater and water’s right up against the road,” Boudreaux said. “I think the whole dome is sinking.”
“Now the fence is underwater and water’s right up against the road,” Boudreaux said. “I think the whole dome is sinking.”
MORE HERE LATER . . .
http://www.examiner.com/article/senator-louisiana-sinkhole-a-catastrophic-lake-peigneur-genocide-progress
Human rights defender Senator Fred Mills believes that Assumption Parish’s salt dome sinkhole appears to becoming another ongoing manmade Lake Peigneur catastrophe, a government supported oil and gas industry genocide through poisoned water, according to his interview Sunday by Deborah Dupré. Mysterious gas bubbles plaguing Bayou Corne sinkhole area are also increasing at Lake Peigneur, 80 miles west of the sinkhole, say Mills and his constituents.
“We tried to pass legislation last year to prevent these salt dome catastrophes in Louisiana, but they looked at us like we’re against progress,” State Senator Fred Mills, in his gentle Cajun accent, told Dupré.
“This is genocide,” said Mills of Assumption's neighboring parishes, Iberia and St. Martin, heart of Southern Louisiana culture. “This is a statewide issue. There’s more arsenic in water here now, and other contaminants. It’s just getting worse.”
Video: Save Lake Peigneur!
Assumption Parish President Mike Waguespack said at Saturday night’s community meeting that water well testing has expanded to a 10-mile diameter from the sinkhole, now threatening Mississippi River Alluvial Aquifer supplying water to millions of south Louisianians.
Chicot Aquifer, principal water supplier to 15 parishes, once among the nation’s cleanest until Lake Peigneur’s ongoing salt dome storage disaster. It now requires chemical treatment.
Supported by rights defenders impacted by Peigneur’s 1980 event and subsequent water contamination, Mills presented Senate Bill No. 532 to Louisiana’s legislators in 2012. Oil and gas lobbyists’ control of the legislators, however, overruled his bill, he explained.
“This is a health issue, not just regulatory,” Mills asserted about life-threatening salt dome storage caverns, including those under Lake Peigneur. Locals there now battle poisoning by related oil and gas industry contaminated water.
“I am in the process of having my water checked at a monstrous charge because vets are insisting I check my water after losing 3 dogs to cancer,” nearby Vermillion Parish resident, Charlene Jannise recently wrote to Sen. Jonathan Perry and Rep. Bob Hensgens. “Their concern is for Mike and I and our well being. According to the vets, animals contact cancer-causing agents before humans.”
“The oil and gas folks were scrambling,” recounted Mills about his bill that would have helped protect people’s health and security rights. “Oil and gas folks wanted no part of that.”
Louisiana senators’ decision to dismiss his bill was “a done deal,” he said. “I felt the oil industry have a real hold on that community. They hardly discussed the bill in the Senate Natural Resource Committee.”
With Mills’ support, 1980 salt dome disaster victims also battle government permitting AGL Resources Inc. to build more dome facilities.
“That company already has two salt domes, each the size of the former Twin Towers.” Mills said. “And now they want two more.”
“I really feel for those people at Lake Peigneur,” he said, adding that 32 years after the lake’s whirlpool disaster, contaminated water becomes worse each year.
Bayou Corne’s sinkhole is now caving in a whirlpool clockwise fashion as it
threatens another major source of south Louisiana’s drinking water.
threatens another major source of south Louisiana’s drinking water.
http://enenews.com/sinkhole-briefing-sampling-regionally-gas-testing-10-mile-stretch-water-wells-could-be-be-going-many-years-dome-going-continue-collapse-video
September 29, 2012 Resident Briefing in Assumption Parish (Emphasis Added):
Resident: There is something… this natural gas is going to find the least point of resistance. And it’s coming up and obviously, these bubbles started in one location and they’re moving all over the place. If you don’t have a blueprint of what that is, this could be 20 miles away.Parish President: I agree…Resident: This could be going on for years… I know you’re going to vent, what I’m saying is this thing could be going on for many years, and going in a lot of different directions. And if portions of the dome keep collapsing and it gets shallower and shallower then you’re going to get some of these larger and larger… This dome is going to continue to collapse and everything gets shallower and shallower. And my concern is are these cracks, in some areas, going to get bigger and bigger and expand further.DNR Official: We did some subsidence monitoring… Some of the logs have showed fissures and cracks…
Resident 2: How far out are they going to test the aquifer, it seems like we need to go further out than what we’re going?Unidentified Official: We did some well search surveys… we did that in about a 1 mile radius. Now we’re expanding that to regional. We don’t have as much data in these northern areas.Parish President: They’re testing water wells in a 5 mile radius (10 mile diameter).
Watch the 23-part briefing here
and......
Compare flyovers – Aug. 8 to Sept 27 Videos
AUG. 8 Flyover Footage by Eric Breaux
LINK – http://youtu.be/G2xdnk4LrfA
SEPT. 27 Parish Flyover
http://enenews.com/growing-sinkhole-debris-now-moving-toward-center-of-giant-hole-walls-collapsing-in-clockwise-path
Second flyover video from September 27, 2012
Title: Geo-probes planned for land near sinkhole
Source: The Advocate
Date: September 28, 2012
Emphasis Added
Source: The Advocate
Date: September 28, 2012
Emphasis Added
Assumption Parish authorities dealing with a growing, 4-acre sinkhole in the Bayou Corne area scheduled a community meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday to provide information on planned natural gas venting and positioning of geo-probes on private property.[...]The probes, which are polyvinyl chloride pipes driven about 50 to 60 feet into the ground with landowners’ consent, are being used to monitor forsubsurface natural gas in the vicinity of Bayou Corne.[...]
Texas Brine Press Release, Sept. 26, 2012 (Emphasis Added): More sloughing occurred overnight and this morning at the sinkhole, this time on the southern perimeter. A section along the southern edge approximately 70 feet long and estimated at 30 feet back from the sinkhole’s edge was involved [Initial reports said a 50' x 30' section fell in]. Several trees slumped into the slurry as a result of the sloughing. In addition, approximately 25 feet of the mat road on the southeast portion fell in along with several trees on both sides of the road. This sloughing is following a clockwise path around the sinkhole that began on the western edge last week.Movement of the floating debris toward the center of the sinkhole area was observed during this morning’s event. Efforts to begin removing the surface debris have beenpostponed due to this most recent sloughing incident.
and how far can the sinkhole(s) extend ????
Title: 3:40 p.m. USGS Responds to Reported Tremors in Pierre Part
Source: Assumption Parish Police Jury
Date: Sept 28, 2012
Source: Assumption Parish Police Jury
Date: Sept 28, 2012
The Assumption OEP received reports this morning of tremors felt in Pierre Part. Dr. Stephen Horton was contacted immediately and responsed that there was no seismic activity recorded during the reported time periods that would have been felt here locally in Bayou Corne, much less in Pierre Part. If residents in Pierre Part, or any local area, experience anything out of the ordinary, they are advised to report them to OEP, 985-369-7386 or submit a report directly to USGS by visiting:http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/form.php?enabled=false so that USGS can be contacted to cross reference.
Sinkhole is ~3 miles from Pierre Part
Also this week, a bubble site was reported in Pierre Part for the first time since the sinkhole appeared: Officials report new bubbling about 3 miles from giant sinkhole -- 3 times further away than any bubble site yet (MAP)
