BAYOU CORNE,LA (NBC33) — People living in Bayou Corne have had enough of waiting to be bought out. They say Texas Brine is wasting time and not giving any one an offer.
“Texas Brine playing a game of we’ll frustrate you. We will promise you things. We’ll disappoint you,” Nick Romero, Bayou Corne resident, described.
Texas Brine crews have appraised homes in the area, butso far no one has received a buyout offer. . . .
A big vote Monday at the state senate to reconsider sb200. Let them know how you feel!Contact infois on the LEAN legislative preview page. It has a button link on the sidebar too.
Lots of seismic monitor activity. LA14 going off full blast since midnight. Are they drilling, driving work trucks etc. at 3 and 4 a.m. there? Maybe a pump or machine doing the geo-phone installation. Cave-in and crumbling below usually looks more sporadic.
This weekly SONRIS report (well info from DNR) says (p. 4)a lot going on at Lake Verret and Gulf South is busy in Assumption Parish… and they are not putting in geo-phones.
New Madrid Fault Zone
2.1 quake Damascus, Arkansas <MAP< ~30 mi. from Arkansas One Nuclear Power Plant
2.4 quakeDamascus, Arkansas<MAP 1.7 quake Graysville, Tennessee<MAP< Next to Watts Bar nuke plant(!) 1.6 quake Philadelphia, Tennessee<MAP 2.3 quakeMineral, Virginia<MAP < Next to North Anna nuke plant(!)
corrected –
HUGE, HUGE worldwide BIG earthquake activity today recently – USGS list -ALL TODAY
6.8 39km W of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands2013-05-14 00:32:25 UTC601.8 km deep 6.5 139km NW of Neiafu, Tonga 2013-05-11 20:46:56 UTC205.4 km deep 6.5 31km N of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea 2013-04-23 23:14:42 UTC23.3 km deep 6.0 20km NNW of La Union, Mexico 2013-04-22 01:16:33 UTC30.0 km deep 6.6 56km WSW of Linqiong, China 2013-04-20 00:02:47 UTC14.0 km deep 7.2 251km ENE of Kuril’sk, Russia 2013-04-19 03:05:52 UTC112.2 km deep 6.6 23km ESE of Aitape, Papua New Guinea 2013-04-16 22:55:27 UTC13.0 km deep 7.7 83km E of Khash, Iran 2013-04-16 10:44:20 UTC82.0 km deep
frack-quakes today: 4.2 8km ENE of Luther, Oklahoma 2013-04-16 10:16:53 UTC5.0 km deep 4.4 12km ENE of Luther, Oklahoma 2013-04-16 06:56:30 UTC5.0 km deep
Walter Coins says there is a connection between the quakes on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the New Madrid quakes.
The Recent Mid-Atlantic Ridge quakes are a topic at the parent, FC blog. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge runs north & south like a big zipper between the Americas and Africa.
The Mid-Atlantic ridge has a lot to do with us in the US.Mid-Atlantic ridge had a lot to do with New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812 and the 1886 Charleston earthquake occurred within the North American plate.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mid-atlantic_ridge_map.png
The sinkhole that was a grave concern when it was the size of a football field is now the size of the Superdome in New Orleans.
The sinkhole that caused explosions and odors and forced the evacuation of hundreds of residents had now expanded by 12 acres in the course of a weekend to the tune of rumblings, tremors and giant smelly gas bubbles coming from underground. The escaping gas is being burnt to avoid a massive explosion. . . .
. . . . You see this kind of closing down of information on the part of Texas Brine, the company responsible for creating the sinkhole. . . .
Five years ago a group of residents from the rural community of Mossville in Louisiana came to Washington DC to file a human rights complaint against their own government. They alleged that the United States was not protecting their right to live in a healthy environment. . . .
. . . .”It is the first environmental case coming out of the United States to go to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.”
- thanks Guerrera Zorra for mentioning this interview and Keith M. for finding it -
Public discussion planned about sinkhole
BAYOU CORNE (WBRZ) – A special group will meet Friday to discuss public safety concerns around the growing sinkhole in Assumption Parish.
The Blue Ribbon Commission on Bayou Corne/Grand Bayou Public Safety will meet on April 5th at the LSU Energy, Coast and Environment Building in the Woods Auditorium.The meeting is open to the public. . .
Idahopicker points out the floor of the cavern has risen almost 300 feet since the beginning of the disaster. It has filled in with falling rock.
Residents – he offers to help anyone with alternative home evaluation as he has the home building expertise. He says Texas Brine may low-ball home values.
We had a message from this fellow, Mark Brander, with his ideas about the sinkhole. Many other sites have this theme so just posting here as a courtesy.
The have to drill a new hole to plumb the depth. So all this time they didn’t make sure they had a working hole?
The Advocate – Texas Brine to conduct depth test on cavern
By David J. Mitchell
Texas Brine Co. plans to conduct a key test Tuesday on the depth of its failed Napoleonville Dome salt cavern, the suspected cause of a large sinkhole in Assumption Parish, company officials said.
The test is expected to show how close the salt dome cavern is to being completely filled with rock, a point when scientists suspect the grumbling, growing swampland sinkhole may finally begin calming down. . . .
. . . Drillers will send a tool called a sinker bar down the access well until it hits bottom, providing a measurement of the cavern’s depth, [ spokesman, Sonny] Cranch said. They also will conduct a sonar survey of the cavern’s remaining open interior . . . .
A reader sent a message. This person is looking for pressure-in-the-cavern information from before and when they failed that MIT long ago.
So they plugged a leaking cavern like you should only plug a fully intact cavern in the middle of a salt dome and without finding out where the leak was (the Vertical seismic profile done end of September 2010 can be interpreted that it’s somewhere below 3400 ft)
Some “missing” documents may turn up in the lawsuits that will start up.
Another lawsuit – Environmental groups sue Coast Guard
Several environmental groups Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Coast Guard challenging a denial of two Freedom of Information Act requests from the groups about response to an oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
The groups, through the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, filed a complaint in U.S. District Court, District of Columbia, asking the court to force the Coast Guard to release information requested in 2011 about leaking wells 11 miles from Louisiana’s coast that were damaged in 2004 during an underwater landslide.
In a separate action, the groups filed a lawsuit against Taylor Energy Co. LLC of New Orleans in February 2012 alleging there were up to 28 wells that continued to leak oil. . . .
“Ironically, while Jindal has refused to visit Bayou Corne, environmental activist Erin Brockovich will be making a visit this weekend. It is pretty embarrassing that Brockovich can travel thousands of miles to see the sinkhole, yet the Governor cannot travel a few miles from his mansion in Baton Rouge.”
Arkansas One Nuclear Power Plant
Next to Watts Bar nuke plant
