It is pretty far away from the previous ones ….
The Watchers –
A giant sinkhole has appeared in Siberia’s Novokuznetsk region recently, some 3 500 km from other craters found in Arctic Russia in recent months. The new crater measures around 20 meters in diameter and around 25 to 30 meters in depth.
. . . Observation from space revealed the dramatic mushrooming of the holes, believed to be caused by methane gas eruptions in melting permafrost due to climate change, scientists revealed today. A leading Russian expert sounded an alert over safety because one new Siberian crater, surrounded by at least 20 ‘baby holes’, is just six miles from a major gas production plant.
PHOTOS of it from The Siberian Times
This has video of the nearby landslide there recently – Watch This Slow-Moving Landslide Devour a Russian Road
Earlier posts on Russian craters – 1, 2
UPDATE, April 29
Gigantic 100-metre sinkhole leaves Ukrainian villagers terrified after reports it has swallowed up homes and looks likely to get even BIGGER
. . . hope is isn’t related to this: Warming Climate May Release Massive Carbon Storehouse from Arctic Soils
NEWS
The Advocate – New safety rules since massive sinkhole prevent Texas Brine from expanding salt cavern operation; company files suit against Dow 
A 29-year-old Dow Chemical Co. salt cavern sits so close to Texas Brine’s property that new state safety regulations — created after the 2012 Bayou Corne sinkhole disaster — now prevent the Houston company from mining any new caverns on its property, a federal lawsuit alleges.
Texas Brine Co. has sued Dow and a local land company over the Dow cavern carved from the Napoleonville salt dome in Assumption Parish.
“Dow is obligated to (Texas Brine) for the value of the salt that (Texas Brine) can no longer mine, or ‘dead salt,’” the suit claims. . . . (more)
2013 item: Dow’s Toxic Stew Near Bayou Corne – (not the same property)
State Seismologist says Oklahoma earthquakes are ‘very likely’ caused by oil and gas disposal wells
The Oklahoma state seismologist said disposal wells used by the oil and gas industry are ‘very likely’ responsible for the recent surge of earthquakes in Oklahoma at the recent Oklahoma Geological Survey. < – links to report
NY Times – The Gulf, Still at Risk
Environmentalists Warn That Gulf Oil Spill Recovery Could Be a Mirage
NOTE: See comments for Lake FUBAR agitation bits
the oil industry is conducting offshore fracking in the Gulf, which is even more dangerous than conventional oil drilling, according to the Center for Biological Diversity.”
