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Date: October 26, 2012 at 01:31:41
From: Polydactyl in N. Bay, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Got a gas mask y'all in the southern states? |
URL: Prelude to LA SINKHOLE? Matt Simmons 6 wks before death: |
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This interview with Matt Simmons before his death is worth a re-listen, given the enlarging sinkhole disaster. Has anyone heard about the oil 'signature' coming up (5,000 gals a day) in the Corne Bayou sinkhole yet? The edges of that salt dome are totally collapsed in the latest information. I guess salt domes shouldn't be multi-purposed like they are, to extract from gas pockets, oil along the edges of the salt dome, and storage of God-knows-what inside 'em. Oops, too late.
Matt talks about the mixture of methane and butane equal to mustard gas in the lungs, that the citizens in southern states should've been given gas masks, etc. Also that the crude that was gushing uncapped was a particularly nasty form of crude with asphalt-like material in it! He mentions the hero who moved the rig out of the way so 120 people or so could jump off while he burned to death! This same guy told his wife a couple weeks earlier that he had a bad feeling about this well, so he made out his will and told her how to raise the kids if anything happened to him- :( He says these super deep wells, around 23,000 feet are simply not safe, that one of them ran into molten sulfur. He said the only way to cap off something gushing out from the seafloor is to fuse rock and sand into glass over it, i.e., kaboom, like the Russians did. Too bad Matt didn't get a chance to write a book about all of what he knows. I'm not sure he had an idea that he would be snuffed so soon (my opinion about his death). To think that the Japanese are now going to lead the way with the Chikyu fancy drill bit to drill deeper than ever before send chills down my spine. We can't seem to help ourselves not to do these things in such a confident, arrogant manner albeit scientifically approached with advanced technology, cheaply, and with all the bravado of a great adventure and expectations of material profit.
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Date: October 26, 2012 at 01:37:26
From: Polydactyl in N. Bay, [DNS_Address]
Subject: The outer edge of the salt dome, it's gone (VID) |
URL: Sinkhole Geologist: The outer edge of the salt dome, best we can tell it’s gone… at the location of the cavern (VIDEO) |
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The comments are interesting too. For Texas Brine to call the collapse of the dome a 'force majeure' - my eye! They may have expanded the cavern a wee tad too much.
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Date: October 27, 2012 at 03:16:37
From: Eve in FL, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: The outer edge of the salt dome, it's gone (VID) |
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I think wind blowing north? I rather just go with the gas and get it over
with anyway. Soul gonna live on, my soul is gonna live on...you can kill by
body but not my soul, my soul is gonna live on.
Excuse me, latter part above from a song I heard.
~Eve
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