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Something Just Went BEZERK in the Gulf of Mexico. The US Navy just sunk a French Submarine
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 15456734:MV8xMTEzNTg2XzMyODc5NDcxX0E3NTQxNEZG] [quote:Anonymous Coward 22091538:MV8xMTEzNTg2XzMyODc1MDQwX0I2QTE2MENF] Officials: Sinkhole butane explosion possible Officials differ in opinion on sinkhole butane worst-case scenario Tuesday, two major official agency spokespersons gave differing opinions about the sinkhole worst-case scenario, one saying a butane release is possible but unlikely; the other saying that H-bomb equivalent energy release calculations based on a butane explosion is “over the top.” An official on-site each day since the area imploded Aug. 3 says a butane explosion is possible and his greatest concern and ABC News reports Thursday that officials fear an explosion. snip DEQ Enforcement Division administrator said reports that butane released from the Crosstex cavern could result in an H-bomb explosion-equivalent are “a little bit over the top.” snip Assumption Parish Sheriff Mike Waguespack said last week his concern is that the expanding sinkhole is close to the butane well, then containing 1.5 million barrels of liquid butane, a highly volatile liquid that turns into a highly flammable vapor upon release. “A breach of that well, he said, could be catastrophic,” CNN reported. Officials have asked Crosstex to complete a new worse-case scenario report that was due Wednesday. T[b]hat report has not been made public, yet.[/b] Thursday, the sinkhole expanded another fifty feet, pulling in more trees and a boat that workers were using. [b]The amount of butane in the well is now reported to be 940,000 barrels[/b] and earlier was reported to be 1.2 million barrels. McMillan said Crosstex had been continuing to move natural gas liquid product in and out of its caverns for customers and monitors its facility hourly. Crosstex spokesperson, Jill McMillan “did not directly address DEQ’s request in an email statement.” [b]Texas Brine’s salt cavern and Crosstex butane well are both in the underground Napoleonville Salt Dome that houses about fifty other storage areas.[/b] Only one company other than Crosstex’s is storing hydrocarbon there. The others store brine, according to reports,[b] but question remains what else is stored there underground, out of sight. [/b] The public, including some state, parish and local [color=red][b]officials, recently learned Texas Brine has been storing in its cavern radioactive waste[/b][/color] from the fossil fuel industry. [b][color=red]Some now wonder what else other companies might be storing under the ground in that dome.[/color][/b] DNR officials knew but did not make public that the Texas Brine cavern had structural problems since early 2011. Salt domes are large, ancient formations of salt in the ground that are used for the commercial mining of petroleum, salt and sulfur, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. [b]Salt domes can be as deep as 10,000 feet[/b] and are mostly found along the Gulf of Mexico’s north coast and in Texas and Louisiana, snip http://www.examiner.com/article/officials-sinkhole-butane-explosion-possible [/quote] Yeah, it's a great thought isnt it. And man are they playing down the radio active side of things. Hell, they are still trying to play down the 'storage' aspect as they know folks will start questioning what reserves are... and are they safe to have major populations living around them? Try the entire Gulf coast line, Texas, New Mexico, Mississipi, and plenty more large oiul producing states. So butane ignites, creates a massive explosion, which ignites other reserves and gas pockets, spews radio active material throughout the region, poisons the entire ground water systems, collapses masive areas or land... Did I miss anything? Surely this has to be wrong, and they know what they're doing and can fix or at least stem this. [/quote]
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