Weekend News

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R E M I N D E R: Home buy out extended until July 31 … coming SOON!

DNR has a new Inspection Report dated July 25^th.
DOTD has added a lot of new monitors for Highway 70 and they specify them in a July 16^th Power Point file shown on this page. If you can’t view a Power Point file you can download this viewer (free). Texas Brine is supposed to be reimbursing all of the costs to DOTD. Have they paid a penny? Is anyone making them?
GOHSEP hasn’t put out a Situation Summary in over 10 days.
The Heath Dept. has no 2013 updates at all. That makes sense since they haven’t done anything all year.
Crosstex is STILL adding butane to their cavern a hair away from Lake FUBAR! They added 19,284 barrels of butane from July 15 to July 22.

2.2 quake in Strawberry, Arkansas < MAP
1.9 quake in Due West, S.C. < MAP

Denbury fined $662,500 for [2011] Mississippi blowout

Methane report: Arctic Thaw Could Cost Trillions

“Permanently frozen ground, called permafrost, beneath the Arctic’s East Siberian Sea could belch out 50 billion tons of methane at any time, researchers said in an analysis published Thursday in the journal Nature.”

Not new – but good photos – Oil Sheens Near Deepwater Horizon Spill from Sunken Rig (July 16)

The Watchers – Federal investigation started on mysterious deaths of bottlenose dolphins at Indian River Lagoon, FL.

Terror Fears Keep Toxic Plants Hidden From Public – who needs terrorists with these capitalists at work??

SUNDAY

Helios have sort of calmed down. Ending a heave or loading up?

The Advocate [opinion] – Deadline murky for sinkhole suits

“Meanwhile, murky questions remain about the legal deadline to file suit for those affected by the sinkhole and the evacuation.”

Blast from the Past:

2010 – Audit says La. does insufficient job collecting payments from oil companies