25 foot pipeline section floats to sinkhole surface | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 23651594 United States 10/12/2012 03:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A better picture here. Not great, but better. [link to www.flickr.com] |
OVRANALYZE User ID: 5527577 United States 10/12/2012 03:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | These people need to stop calling it a sinkhole.. sinkholes are naturally occurring geo-anomolies considerably larger then a pothole, yet easily rectified with a small construction crew and a few round mouth shovels. Quoting: b|ink 10463447 The Bayou Corne hole <- lolz the irony :) ..is a man made clusterfuck thousands of feet wide & hundreds of feet deep capable of setting the entire northern hemisphere on fire. Acadian Gas - Texas Brine have opened the gates to the abyss & they need to be held accountable.. if we keep allowing them to call it a sinkhole, they'll get away with it just like BP. Assumption Parish just about past the point of no return & just like the BP clusterfuck they will write this up as an act of god. It's time to storm the buildings.. bring rope & ask the receptionist which executive should be dangled over the hole. Then you'll start hearing some truth.. well said |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1290427 United Kingdom 10/12/2012 05:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | No point bitching about power companies unless you are an off gridder, all you need is 2 old plastic drums some shit and some bits of pipes it will pay for itself in a month. Humanity is so dumb we will wait till the planet is dead or power companies are taking 100% of our incomes before we do it. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 2319971 United States 10/12/2012 06:03 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Giant Sinkhole ???? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1450512 You people are seriously demented if this is giant. It's not bigger than the pond in my backyard. Jeez.. some of you think half of the state or even the friggin' country can be sucked in or something. Get a life.. just a symptom... maybe paying more attention on your part is in order. |
Sledster User ID: 2463263 United States 10/12/2012 06:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | These people need to stop calling it a sinkhole.. sinkholes are naturally occurring geo-anomolies considerably larger then a pothole, yet easily rectified with a small construction crew and a few round mouth shovels. Quoting: b|ink 10463447 The Bayou Corne hole <- lolz the irony :) ..is a man made clusterfuck thousands of feet wide & hundreds of feet deep capable of setting the entire northern hemisphere on fire. Acadian Gas - Texas Brine have opened the gates to the abyss & they need to be held accountable.. if we keep allowing them to call it a sinkhole, they'll get away with it just like BP. Assumption Parish just about past the point of no return & just like the BP clusterfuck they will write this up as an act of god. It's time to storm the buildings.. bring rope & ask the receptionist which executive should be dangled over the hole. Then you'll start hearing some truth.. I like the way you think. I'm tired of waiting, somebody push the damn button already! Keep your 72 virgins, give me one old biker chick. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 19672960 United States 10/12/2012 06:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Giant Sinkhole ???? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1450512 You people are seriously demented if this is giant. It's not bigger than the pond in my backyard. Jeez.. some of you think half of the state or even the friggin' country can be sucked in or something. Get a life.. The "pond" in your back yard is 400 ft deep? It's not what is going in that worries these people. It's all the oil and gas coming OUT that worries them, jackwagon. Think more than 1 step ahead. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 21425114 United States 10/12/2012 06:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Seems the larger concern is buried in the story with an active pipeline... "Two days after the sinkhole emerged, officials reported that a powerful force causing it had also caused a 36-inch natural gas pipeline that ran under Louisiana Highway 70 near the sinkhole to bend. ... Dupré had reported: "The pipleine (sic) has bent 16 feet downward and 15 feet to the east after the sinkhole in the Louisiana swampland developed Thursday, according to Boudreaux." |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 19672960 United States 10/12/2012 06:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think a bigger thing about the story is that they've basically admitted that the sink hole has hit a "natural occurring oil and gas formations." [link to assumptionla.wordpress.com] "Welsh noted that, based on “fingerprint” analysis and other data, the source of the crude oil and natural gas that have been observed at the surface in the Bayou Corne area appears to be one or more naturally occurring oil and natural gas formations, and that the preponderance of scientific evidence indicates that the failure of the sidewall of the Texas Brine cavern provided a pathway up to the aquifer and the surface for oil and natural gas that had previously been confined thousands of feet below." The people that said it's connected to the BP disaster don't sound quite so crazy anymore do they? lol... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 25192789 United States 10/12/2012 08:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think a bigger thing about the story is that they've basically admitted that the sink hole has hit a "natural occurring oil and gas formations." Quoting: Anonymous Coward 19672960 [link to assumptionla.wordpress.com] "Welsh noted that, based on “fingerprint” analysis and other data, the source of the crude oil and natural gas that have been observed at the surface in the Bayou Corne area appears to be one or more naturally occurring oil and natural gas formations, and that the preponderance of scientific evidence indicates that the failure of the sidewall of the Texas Brine cavern provided a pathway up to the aquifer and the surface for oil and natural gas that had previously been confined thousands of feet below." The people that said it's connected to the BP disaster don't sound quite so crazy anymore do they? lol... the Earth's crust is full of pockets of oil and gas (under pressure); and, it only takes cracks and fissures for it to flow its way to the surface. so, evidently, we have a gargantuan natural gas deposit deep down in the earth's crust that is leaking gas to the surface so much that this gas is now *saturating* all of the land in Assumption Parish. this is a completely natural phenomenon, and a completely natural disaster. and, once it becomes apparent that this natural gas is going to make all of southern louisiana (including New Orleans) uninhabitable, for a long time, then the situation will be upgraded to a "Catastrophe". this is just the beginning, folks. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 16845676 United States 10/12/2012 08:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It is all connected Local media theorizes oil dispersed with Corexit is surfacing in Gulf near BP’s wellhead [link to enenews.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 25192789 United States 10/12/2012 08:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It is all connected Quoting: Goofy for God Local media theorizes oil dispersed with Corexit is surfacing in Gulf near BP’s wellhead [link to enenews.com] well, blame whomever you want -- it doesn't alter the fact that all of this is happening on a catastrophic scale. |
BULLDOZER User ID: 9708077 United States 10/12/2012 08:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It is all connected Quoting: Goofy for God Local media theorizes oil dispersed with Corexit is surfacing in Gulf near BP’s wellhead [link to enenews.com] ???? how the hell can this be right? during the oil spill was there corexit being injected into the well... which was blasting out oil at 40 to 100 k psi? Doesn't make sence to me. NON SERVIAM |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 19672960 United States 10/12/2012 09:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It is all connected Quoting: Goofy for God Local media theorizes oil dispersed with Corexit is surfacing in Gulf near BP’s wellhead [link to enenews.com] ???? how the hell can this be right? during the oil spill was there corexit being injected into the well... which was blasting out oil at 40 to 100 k psi? Doesn't make sence to me. If you plug a hole in an over-pressured vessel it's just going to leak out more cracks, and if you're unlucky enough that vessel will explode. |
alexisj9 User ID: 1376880 United Kingdom 10/12/2012 09:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It is all connected Quoting: Goofy for God Local media theorizes oil dispersed with Corexit is surfacing in Gulf near BP’s wellhead [link to enenews.com] ???? how the hell can this be right? during the oil spill was there corexit being injected into the well... which was blasting out oil at 40 to 100 k psi? Doesn't make sence to me. If you plug a hole in an over-pressured vessel it's just going to leak out more cracks, and if you're unlucky enough that vessel will explode. Well lets hope that does not happen. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 25427348 United States 10/12/2012 09:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | No, It's not just you. That is what's known as a shrink sleeve. It's (a pretty old afaik) way to protect the places where you have to weld the pipe together from corrosion. You basically wrap it around the pipe and then heat it up, and it shrinks and adheres to the pipe. They also can be used when an inspection of the pipeline finds a corrosion anomaly in lieu of cutting out the section and welding a new piece into the line. Cheaper obviously, but more of a band-aid than a fix. I'm in the industry and it's been at least 10 years since we've used them, but we primarily build natural gas lines. If this is a products pipeline, it may still be common practice to use them, or this could be a section of an older pipeline. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 25426217 United States 10/12/2012 09:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think a bigger thing about the story is that they've basically admitted that the sink hole has hit a "natural occurring oil and gas formations." Quoting: Anonymous Coward 19672960 [link to assumptionla.wordpress.com] "Welsh noted that, based on “fingerprint” analysis and other data, the source of the crude oil and natural gas that have been observed at the surface in the Bayou Corne area appears to be one or more naturally occurring oil and natural gas formations, and that the preponderance of scientific evidence indicates that the failure of the sidewall of the Texas Brine cavern provided a pathway up to the aquifer and the surface for oil and natural gas that had previously been confined thousands of feet below." The people that said it's connected to the BP disaster don't sound quite so crazy anymore do they? lol... True...True I thought this all along. |
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