This one has not really hit the national news a lot, since its problems are fairly local in scope, but it has not been missed by the usual group of 'storytellers'.
The situation seems to have stabilized. Many of my friends down on the Bayou had no idea that this was an issue, so even in Louisiana it's not widely known.
The Parish seems to have been upfront with many lengthy reports. In this video the claims about radiation is explained, -there wasn't any NORM put into the salt dome.
They aren't detecting radiation, hydrogen sulfide gas or volatile hydrocarbons
In other public videos, the subject of damage claims is underway. The company intends to pay full market value.
It really looks like TIME debunked this subject in the end.
If you want to see what happened already, you can see this report from 1980:
This issue was brought up on the Diane Rehm Show (NPR) today, in a segment about sinkholes. Unfortunately I didn't catch much of it, but when I turned the radio on at one point, there was a caller making some impassioned statements about Bayou Corne.
There are folks keeping crap stirred up about it, Deborah Dupree for one.
Some recent articles of hers and the sinkhole made it onto 'All Things Considered' this afternoon
I just remembered, they also had Erin Brockovich on the phone as a guest, specifically talking about the Bayou Corne sinkhole. She wasn't linking it to the BP blowout that I heard, though, but rather to Texas Brine.
Oh my, someone in the Bayou Corne area pointed this nonsense out to me today
March 30, 2013 at 11:11 pm
Ahhh, the stories I could tell, but wouldn’t that be tattling? Oh well, I’m a tattle-tale, or I wouldn’t write, roight?
Here’s what they don’t want you to know. Oxy 1 is being bled off twice a day due to over-pressures. Over last couple of days they are preparing to or already have installed a Blow Out Preventer, (BOP), courtesy of Halliburton, of course. Now you might ask why in hell would they need a BOP on a brine well? Damn good question.
Also, there is a wireline that is being run between Oxy 1 and Oxy 3A, presumably a seismic net to seek out a fracture caused as a result of their Barge/Air Gun experiment, which is why Pad 3 caved on both sides, and the access ramp fell in.
Now, what is all means? I dunno…but looking at the fluidic communications taking place at around 200 ft. means the liquids in the aquifer are sloshing around at a good rate being so perturbed by the inrush of methane, which then sets the eart to rocking until it sets the small fault at about 1000 ft. down to 5500 ft. to vibrating like a tuning fork, sparking even more micr-quakes
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March 30, 2013 at 11:17 pm
(Cont.) micro-quakes, which in turns shakes the ‘Disturbed Rock Column’ and changes the geology of the underlying sedimentary layers and hence the size, shape, and volume of the voids. This whole system is acting like a fractionating plant, without the benefit of the stainless steel filtering tower, of course. As I have stated before, and will again, this washing machine effect is creating chemical compositions never before seen upon earth, as well as shaking loose the uranium deposits, speeding up the natural processes that create Thorium, Radium-226, and Ra-228. At some point, this does come into contact with the environment, considering we haven’t a clue where all the venting fractures lead
