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Tidal waves at Louisiana sinkhole, now more than 500 feet deep
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I live 108 miles west of the sink hole which I believe is within the perimeters of the "sacrifice zone". In the past 4-5 years my neighbors and I have noticed a gradual sinking of our property which have made many of us resort to raised bed gardening due to lack of water drainage after rains. At first it was barely noticeable, but now it is a growing concern. Our community is sinking at a rate of 1-2 inches a year with no signs of letting up. Our roads are constantly being repaired due to cracks and damage not due to wear and tear, but from the ground shifting. During the 70's and 80's our area was dotted with oil wells that made some quite happy with the nice little checks they received from the oil companies, but little did the property owners know that the raping and pillaging of the land would come at a much higher price in the future. Our "Sportmen's Paradise" is dying due to man's greed.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 13133046 Thanx for your real-time story ! So much better then the media is feeding people ;) The quote below reminded me of your testimony. Quoting ZORGON from this site : [ link to lucianarchysoriginalopenminds.web44.net] About SINKING LAND :A reply-post to one who found it ridiculous that Long Beach could have been sinking ... without notion ... ZORGON:
Well funny thing THAT STORY IS TRUE...
Any one that has ever visited Long Beach California has seen the oil pumps all over the city, near the beaches and even in the port. Where is all this oil coming from? Those very underground chambers mentioned above. Below is an excerpt from the History of Long Beach... the part most pertinent to our study...
The Geological Proof
Long Beach California
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Oil Girl
A couple years ago when L.A. had those terrible fires, the sky turned literally orange. I was in Long Beach near the oil pumps. I was walking up this dirt road and this shot revealed itself to me. My intention was to only get the sun behind the oil pump, but then friend's daughter ran ahead and into the shot, and turned it into something I could have never planned. By Patrick Shipstad © 5 March 2007 JPG Magazine
Any one that has ever visited Long Beach California has seen the oil pumps all over the city, near the beaches and even in the port. Where is all this oil coming from? Those very underground chambers mentioned above. Below is an excerpt from the History of Long Beach... the part most pertinent to our study...
In the late 1930s, oil was discovered under Long Beach harbor. Its production helped Long Beach recover from the Depression and provided revenue to support expansion and modernization of the harbor as well as enriching individuals who owned land in the area. As a result when land near the oil field began to sink, those who were profiting from pumping the oil out from under the land resisted any suggestion that there could be a link between oil production and subsidence. They hired experts to defend their position. As the subsidence continued, those whose property was damaged by the sinking, but who were not benefiting from the oil production, hired experts to determine what was really causing the sinking.
While the controversy continued, the land kept sinking. It sunk like a big bowl and the bottom of the bowl was more than 25 feet below its previous elevation. Some warned that if the sinking continued, the ocean might inundate the city. The Navy Shipyard was near the bottom of the bowl and the Navy didn't own the mineral rights of the Shipyard so they were suffering damage but receiving no benefit so in 1958 the Navy sued all of the oil operators. Although the suit was never litigated or settled, it helped to convince many people that a proposed solution, pumping water into the fault blocks where the oil had been taken out, should be implemented. And that solution stopped the sinking.
The production of oil from under the harbor led geologists to explore the area under the tidelands and submerged lands off Long Beach and oil was discovered to be there as well. This discovery led to a struggle between the city, to whom the state had granted the tidelands in 1911, and the state and federal governments over control of the oil revenue. Eventually the state and city were forced to divide the money.
[link to salticid.nmc.csulb.edu]
So there we have our first piece of proof... Long Beach is held up by water as they use sea water to replace the oil they take out. The land sank 25 feet in only a few years.xxxK
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