Meanwhile Back at the Louisiana Sinkhole. . . There’s a Big Feud

The Louisiana Dept. of Natural Resources is having a big fight with Texas Brine!

It’s better than GIANT.

All the updates are on the new page The BIG FEUD.

Concerns Over Sinkhole Dangers Ignored in Louisiana

In the past two days the dramatic increase in tremors at the sinkhole and the new sinkhole expansion are causing big concerns for people in Assumption Parish. Locals don’t all believe the explanations from Texas Brine about what they are doing.

Many fear an explosion from all the new gas bubbles. Many fear worse than that as the sinkhole and gas-pipe network lie right on the New Madrid Fault. As this unease spreads authorities have announced they won’t attend a town hall meeting slated for tomorrow.

The news will be updated at our other blog, The Louisiana Sinkhole Bugle.

Our New Blog About That Louisiana Sinkhole

All new info on the growing sinkhole, the leaky nuclear waste near the sinkhole or Hurrican Isaac effects on the sinkhole etc., etc. will get posted on our new blog -

1980 Sinkhole Disaster at Louisiana Salt Mine Bodes Ill for Napoleonville

This is amazing -

LINK – http://youtu.be/jPivHIowltU

Natural Gas Pipeline Emergency Backup System Affected by Louisiana Sinkhole

Chevron Corp’s subsidiary Bridgeline Holdings uses those salt domes in Napoleonville, LA that have the expanding sinkhole.

According to their website “As owner and operator of three natural gas salt dome storage caverns in S. Louisiana, all integrated into its pipeline facilities, Bridgeline offers unsurpassed gas storage capacity, service and interconnections. Substantially increasing the range of services available, these storage caverns feature the operational flexibility to meet almost any gas supply need – including pipeline balancing, emergency backup, no-notice service, needle and seasonal peaking, winter/summer price hedging and storage spread hedging.”

So if the salt domes are all shot to hell and are too dangerous even to row a boat up to . . . what happens if a big natural gas pipeline elsewhere needs the pipeline balancing or emergency backup that Bridgeline Holdings was able to offer before the sinkhole?

Does some other company somewhere else pick up the slack?

What about seasonal peaking, or a cold snap or anything that causes a winter demand for natural gas?

When they remove the natural gas from Napoleonville where are they sending it? To Texas? Texas is also getting sinkholes.

Is the big yawn from the US business press on this topic normal?

Just askin’.

NOTE: Further news will get posted here:

Louisiana Sinkhole – updates are on earlier post

We are updating the original post with new items. So to check the news visit that post.

To make checking easier we put a LINK to it at the top of the right sidebar.

The shortlink to it is  http://wp.me/pA5vn-289

Truck Convoy Brings Oversized Loads to Louisiana Sinkhole

Oversized loads of equipment delivered to Grand Bayou sinkhole [Video news report]

http://www.wafb.com/story/19281247/oversized-loads-of-equipment-expected-to-cause-traffic-problems

 

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