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| Bayou Corne Sinkhole on August 8th 2012 |
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| Bayou Corne Sinkhole February 2013 |
The Bayou Corne sinkhole is not going away, in fact it is getting worst every day. They stopped all work last week due to all the earthquakes that are happening in the area. I have written about it many times over the last few months.
The officials of Assumption Parish have not made Texas Brine buy all the people's property, who have been displaced for 7 months now.
It is fu**ing obvious the situation is not going to get better, as the sinkhole continues to get bigger everyday. yet they still ignore the people.
One person who has ignored the whole sinkhole and plight of the people who live in the Bayou Corne area is Governor Jindal. He has never publicly acknowledged the sinkhole. Last week his office finally released a statement saying they were aware of the situation. The governor has never visited Bayou Corne nor has he shown support for the people.
To me if it is being ignored by elected officials, it must be worse than what is even being told. That means the situation is so bad that they will ignore it, so big oil and chemical companies do not get bad national media attention. After all Governor Jindal is bought and paid for by the big oil and chemical corporations and they run the governor in what he can do and say. Governor Jindal is a puppet for the corporations.
The people who live around there, houses are cracking up from all the earthquakes. Of course USGS does not acknowledge all the quakes of the area on the map. They too are ignoring what is happening at Bayou Corne. The only place to see the Earthquakes happening is on this site.
Those people have been ignored by everyone, including all their elected officials and the national media. Only local media has had anything about the sinkhole and the people in the area being evacuated 7 months ago.
The people of the area are now, finally going to get some attention from a big name. Erin Brokovich is going to meet with the people of Bayou Corne on March 8th. I sincerely hope from there, she will command some form of attention to this from the national media and get those people bought out by Texas Brine, who is the ultimate blame for the sinkhole caving in.
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Sunday marked the 7 month anniversary of the formation of a massive sinkhole in Bayou Corne. Erin Brockovich and Tom Girardi will attend a community meeting on Saturday, March 9. Resident's say Brockovich, an environmental activist, could help bring national attention to the community.
"I hope she brings some national attention, someone to scrutinize what's going on here, because we are in desperate need," Kenny Simoneaux, Bayou Corne resident, explained.
The sinkhole is now an estimated 9 acres, it has been stated it could be 40 acres of a sinkhole before it is finished growing. Methane gas has been being released all around Bayou Corne in different spots, imagine having to live around there and most likely dying a slow death from breathing in all the toxins in the air.
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Geophysicists say the cavern that caused the sinkhole at the surface is still collapsing, leaving Bayou Corne residents wondering if there will ever be an end in sight.
“The cavern was 3,400 feet deep, which is deeper than any known cavern failure impacting the surface in the international record,” Hecox said.
Nowhere in the world has a brine cavern this large collapsed, and Hecox said the data shows it's not finished yet.
“It appears that the sand and gravel that's in the bottom of the sinkhole breaks up a large gas bubble into many small bubbles just like an aquarium,” Hecox said, “That is a good thing. Because if you get a single bubble up and have an ignition source, you can have a flash over.”
A flash over is an explosion, like the kind you can see if you leave the gas on too long before lighting a propane grill. But Hecox said a large natural gas bubble from the sinkhole lit by any ignition source could mean major damage on the surface.
Instead, those little bubbles are coming out all around the actual sinkhole site in the form of bubble sites in the bayou. Twenty new bubble sites have been spotted in the last month.
Many feel forgotten, Weber said. Especially by Gov. Bobby Jindal. The governor has yet to visit the sinkhole site or publicly talk about it.
“He's promoting plants around the area, chemical plants. And he was in the area, and he wouldn't, still to this day does not acknowledge it,” Weber said.
As photos from the Louisiana Environmental Action Network show, when the sinkhole first appeared, it was just 400 feet in diameter. As of mid-February, it had swallowed nine acres. Scientists say the worst-case scenario is it could swallow 40 acres.
There are sinkholes happening all over.
ReplyDeleteBut closer to home, in Middle TN, a friend of mine is a surveyor with a specialty in GPS work. We had lunch today.
He has been working an area where he found that a huge chunk of land has moved eastward approximately 6 feet over the last decade or so. He has also seen a slight sinking of the land.
He has been able to check around and has seen a correlation east of the MS River and just south of Ohio where this same movement is seen everywhere. To the west and north of that line, there is no movement.
Obviously, we have seen movement very far south (the Tampa area, where they had to change runway nomenclature because pilots were complaining so bad). The initial blame was put on pole shifting.
To me, all of this almost correlates with the North American Craton and when I asked my friend, he agrees it follows approximately that same southern boundary.
Is it possible that we are seeing this entire lower area breaking away, which could cause this movement? If the North American Craton were moving south, it would cause movement and sinking of the lower level.