THE CAN OF WORMS IN LOUISIANA INCLUDES SOME BIG, FAT WORMS (AN UPDATE ON LOUISIANA SINKHOLE RADIATION)

Hi Everybody!!
I want to thank the GOOGLE INDEX for listing all answers to all questions regarding the continuing oil crisis in Louisiana and the Gulf. As the coverup continues by the News Media and Political Candidates, it is the Google Programs informing the Gulf Coast Residents of the Dangers and advising them to leave. Shout Out to the Google You Tube Community who are spending hours of their time and research bringing the updates to the Public. Shout Outs to the Google Bloggers, Google Reader and Google+ who are warning the people. We do not intend to scare You, rather we come to Beware You. The scary part will be far worse than anything anybody can say to warn You. There are over 100 wells/caverns in the Napoleonville Salt Dome, not just Texas Brine.
The information I bring You today is from the Google Index. I give you the links I used so You can look things up for Yourself. Inform Yourself so You have time to make choices for Your Life.

I am really mad about some of the headlines:  Texas Brine is in the process of recovering the crude oil that has fallen into their well to market it for 
$$$$$$$$$$$$$s.  Texas Brine has not recovered the sick People and moved them to a safe distance away.

From Google Index:

Bayou Corne Odor and Symptom Log Results | Louisiana ...

leanweb.org › ... › Public Health › Bayou Corne SinkholeShare

5 days ago – The abandoned Texas Brine cavern was breached and failed. ... Texas Brine will recover the crude oil hydrocarbons contained in the failed cavern and an oilreclaimer will remove and process the marketable ... in BP Oil Spill ...

http://leanweb.org/our-work/community/public-health/bayou-corne-sinkhole/bayou-corne-odor-and-symptom-log-results

Bayou Corne Odor and Symptom Log Results
Through October 9, 2012

By  Wilma Subra
     Louisiana Environmental Action Network / Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper

     A sink hole developed in the Bayou Corne area of Assumption Parish on August 3, 2012.  The sink hole is adjacent to the edge of the Napoleonville Salt Dome and adjacent to an abandoned Texas Brine salt mining cavern in the Napoleonville Salt Dome.  The abandoned Texas Brine cavern was breached and failed.  The bottom of the failed Texas Brine Cavern is filled with 1,500 feet of dark gray shale like sediment material which resembles wet cement.  The top of the cavern contains crude oil and natural gas.  The potential source of the crude oil and natural gas in the failed cavern is from one or more of the three oil and gas production zones adjacent to the edge of the salt dome at a depth of 3, 000 to 6,000 feet.     

      A hydrocarbon layer is floating on the water surface and vegetative debris in the sink hole.   At a community meeting last night in Bayou Corne, the hydrocarbon layer floating on the sink hole was identified as crude oil and was identical to the crude oil contained in the Texas Brine cavern.  The only difference in the crude oil is that the crude oil in the sink hole has the light end fraction degraded.  PLEASE REFER TO LINK FOR COMPLETE ARTICLE

    Analysis of air samples in the Bayou Corne/Grand Bayou area by the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality demonstrated that the concentrations of toxic chemicals in the air, including Volatile Organic Compounds such as Benzene, Toluene, Ethyl Benzene and Xylene, were below the Louisiana Ambient Air Standards.  However, though the concentrations of toxic chemicals were  below acceptable standards, health symptoms continue to be experienced and reported by community members.  PLEASE REFER TO LINK FOR COMPLETE ARTICLE

Ongoing Activities

     Activities in association with the Texas Brine failed cavern, sink hole and natural gas in the aquifer could continue to results in health impacts associated with odor events.

     Texas Brine will recover the crude oil hydrocarbons contained in the failed cavern and an oil reclaimer will remove and process the marketable crude oil.  PLEASE REFER TO LINK FOR COMPLETE ARTICLE

Texas Brine blames tremors for sinkhole | The Advertiser ...

www.theadvertiser.com/.../Texas-Brine-blames-tremors-sinkho...Share

Sep 26, 2012 – BATON ROUGE — Tremors recorded in Assumption Parish since late May could explain why a brine cavern failed and caused a massive ...

Texas Brine continues to blame earthquakes for the collapse in their cavern.

Independent sinkhole flyover catches crude oil stench, but whose ...

www.examiner.com/.../independent-sinkhole-flyover...Share

by Deborah Dupre - in 83 Google+ circles - More by Deborah Dupre 3 days ago – Natural gas in the Texas Brine cavern is similar to that in a nearby ... More evidence BP oil and methane continue to spew from Macondo

Independent sinkhole flyover catches crude oil stench, but whose?

• TOP NATIONAL NEWS
• OCTOBER 12, 2012
• BY: DEBORAH DUPRE

http://www.examiner.com/article/independent-sinkhole-flyover-catches-crude-oil-stench-but-whose

Along with U.S. Geological Survey findings on earthquakes and findings from inside Texas Brine’s cavern, Hecox and his colleagues provided to the Advocate the following early information pointing to the suggested links related to the sinkhole event:

• Marketable crude oil found on the sinkhole’s surface and in the salt cavern are virtually identical, providing indications that the cavern failure may have caused the sinkhole, as scientists have suspected since the slurry hole formed Aug. 3.
• Natural gas in the salt cavern and percolating in waterways in the vicinity of the sinkhole have “a lot of similarities” at a molecular level while bubbles farther west in Pierre Part are swamp gas from decomposing organic matter.
• Material believed to be a shale sediment was found inside the plugged and abandoned Texas Brine salt cavern, apparently filling about 1,500 feet of the 2,250-foot-long cavity and pointing to some kind of cavern failure along its lower side.
• Natural gas in the Texas Brine cavern is similar to that in a nearby Chevron storage cavern, but both the gas and the crude oil may have entered the Texas Brine cavern from any of three natural oil and gas production zones along the western side of the salt dome. That oil may have also found its way up the side of the dome to the sinkhole’s surface.
• The USGS consensus is that the failure of the Texas Brine cavern caused the earth tremors, not the other way around, as Texas Brine maintains.

PLEASE REFER TO ABOVE LINK FOR COMPLETE ARTICLE

Louisiana DNR orders Texas Brine to abate sinkhole

www.texassharon.com/.../louisiana-dnr-orders-texas-brine-to-a...Share

3 days ago – Order draws from scientific evidence that shows Texas Brine cavern failure led to crude oil and natural gas reaching surface.

http://www.texassharon.com/2012/10/12/louisiana-dnr-orders-texas-brine-to-abate-sinkhole/

Louisiana DNR orders Texas Brine to abate sinkhole

by TXSHARON on OCTOBER 12, 2012

in LOUISIANA, SINKHOLES

“…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.“

NEWS RELEASE

www.dnr.louisiana.gov
For Immediate Release
Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012
Contact: Phyllis Darensbourg, 225.342.0058Office of Conservation Orders Texas Brine To Assess And Abate Natural Gas In Bayou Corne Area
Order draws from scientific evidence that shows Texas Brine cavern failure led to crude oil and natural gas reaching surface-BATON ROUGE – Louisiana Commissioner of Conservation James Welsh today ordered Texas Brine LLC to take action to assess and abate threats to public safety and the environment caused by the failure of its abandoned brine cavern on the west side of the Napoleonville Salt Dome, including the presence of natural gas in the area ground water aquifer.PLEASE REFER TO ABOVE LINK FOR COMPLETE ARTICLE

 Below is a complete report by Sue Sturgis which states:

that state and corporate officials knew for over a year 

about the potential for structural failure at a salt mine 

used to store oil and gas drilling waste but failed to alert

 local residents.

This report also reveals that radioactive waste is also stored in the failed salt cavern. It comes from two big Houston Companies:  CenterPoint Energy (Natural Gas Company); and Kinder Morgan (One of the largest oil producing companies in Houston). These companies pay big money to Texas Brine for storing TENORM
Because the extraction process concentrates the radionuclides, they are also referred to as "technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material," or TENORM. These materials include uranium, thorium, radium and their decay products.

Environmental disaster on Louisiana bayou highlights radioactive ...

www.southernstudies.org/.../environmental-disaster-on-louisia...Share

Aug 14, 2012 – ... the potential for structural failure at a salt mine used to store oil and gas ... gas exploration in the cavern, part of the Napoleonville Salt Dome.

Environmental disaster on Louisiana bayou highlights radioactive hazards of oil and gas drillinghttp://www.southernstudies.org/2012/08/environmental-disaster-on-louisiana-bayou-highlights-radioactive-hazards-of-oil-and-gas-dril

By Sue Sturgis on Tue, 08/14/2012 - 09:21

Along with a massive sinkhole, anger is growing in Assumption Parish, La. as details 

emerge that state and corporate officials knew for over a year 

about the potential for structural failure at a salt mine 

used to store oil and gas drilling waste but failed to alert

 local residents.

Adding to the alarm is the fact that Texas Brine, the Houston-based company that owns the mine, received a permit from the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources in 1995 to dispose of naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) from oil and gas exploration in the cavern, part of the Napoleonville Salt Dome. 

A sinkhole appeared at the site earlier this month, leading to an evacuation order for residents of 150 nearby homes, who for months had been reporting mysterious gas bubbles in the swamp and tremors in the area around Bayou Corne. The slurry hole is now over 370 feet wide and over 420 feet deep.

The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality released results from the first set of NORM tests last week, reporting that "there were no detectable levels" on the sinkhole's surface. Those tests used handheld radioactive monitoring devices. DEQ scientists also took water and soil samples that have been sent to a lab for more detailed analysis; those results are expected this week.

Officials in Assumption Parish, which is located about 70 miles west of New Orleans, say they learned about the NORM disposal at the site through news reports. Sheriff Mike Waguespacktold The Advocate newspaper that he was disturbed because he had assigned deputies to work around the sinkhole without knowing about the radioactive risk.

Texas Brine is the largest independent brine producer in the United States, supplying over 30 percent of the brine needed by the chloralkali industry, which uses it to produce chlorine and other chemical products. The company also offers underground storage for natural gas and other petroleum products in the massive salt caverns created by the mining process. Itsstorage customers include Houston-based Kinder Morgan, an oil and gas pipeline operator that's also one of the largest oil producers in Texas, and CenterPoint Energy, a natural gas utility also based in Houston.

NORM is naturally present in geologic formations that contain oil and gas deposits and is released through drilling activities. Because the extraction process concentrates the radionuclides, they are also referred to as "technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material," or TENORM. These materials include uranium, thorium, radium and their decay products.

Drilling for both oil and natural gas create NORM/TENORM disposal issues. Last year, a New York Times investigation found that wastewater produced by fracking for natural gas was tainted with higher levels of radioactive materials than previously known and was being hauled to sewage plants unable to treat it properly, resulting in releases to rivers and risks to the environment and human health.

The average radiation levels of soils across the United States range from a low of 0.2 picocuries per gram to 4.2 pCi/g, with Gulf Coast soils among those more likely to contain radioactive material. In comparison, produced water from oil and gas production can range from a low of 0.1 pCi/g to 9,000 pCi/g, according to the EPA.

That upper level greatly exceeds even the highest the levels of radiation in ash from coal-fired power plants, which ranges from 1.6 pCi/g to 9.7 pCi/g. The potentially dangerous radioactivity levels of coal ash got attention in the wake of the 2008 coal ash spill at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston plant in eastern Tennessee.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reports that while the radioactivity levels in produced waters from oil and gas drilling are generally low, the volumes are large:

The ratio of produced water to oil is approximately 10 barrels of produced water per barrel of oil. According to the American Petroleum Institute (API), more than 18 billion barrels of waste fluids from oil and gas production are generated annually in the United States.

Produced waters contain levels of radium and its decay products that are concentrated, but the concentrations vary from site to site. In general, produced waters are re-injected into deep wells or are discharged into non-potable coastal waters.

Disposal of this waste into salt caverns is classified as a type of deep well injection.

The EPA exempts wastes produced during exploration, development and production of oil and natural gas from regulation as hazardous waste under the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. It leaves oversight up to the states.

In 1992, Louisiana became the first state to develop and implement a NORM regulatory program. It requires operators who handle materials with significant NORM concentrations to obtain a general license from the state, and it requires NORM to be disposed of at licensed NORM disposal facilities.

Texas Brine is currently drilling a relief well to investigate the structural problems at the cavern. Company officials say it could take as long as 40 days to get answers.

THE TEXAS BRINE WEBSITE:
http://www.texasbrine.com/

Texas Brine is dedicated to excellence in all aspects of brine production, treatment and transport, and in the underground storage of gas and liquid. As a result our customers enjoy unparalleled quality, reliability and efficiency in brine and storage services.

Underground Storage

The production of salt from a salt deposit - either domal or bedded - creates an undergound brine-filled cavity in the salt. These salt cavities, or "caverns" can be used for the safe underground storage of highly volatile gas and liquid products. In addition, these caverns are used for storing other liquids such as crude oil and other gasses such as compressed air. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is stored in salt caverns.

Texas Brine put its first cavern into liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) storage service in 1952. Since then, dozens of additional caverns have been put into a variety of storage services. Creating over 15 million barrels of cavity space a year with brine production activities, Texas Brine has the capability to meet your storage needs with existing or soon to be available caverns.

The operation of underground liquid storage requires
the prompt and timely injection or withdrawal of brine
to support product movements. Underground Storage,
LLC is uniquely qualified to provide this service. 

An experienced staff of engineers and scientists stand ready to meet your storage challenges. Most of our professionals have over 20 years of relevant experience and have assisted clients around the globe in services related to:

• Design
• Development
• Liquid or Gas Storage
• "You can rely on Texas Brine to manage your storage and brine requirements with consistently high quality, reliability, expertise and innovation."

Ted Grabowski
President
Texas Brine Company, LLC

Management Team

Our management team is dedicated to brine excellence and is available to our customers to identify and develop solutions to any brine or storage requirement.

	James H. Tichenor Senior Advisor Texas Brine Company, LLC
	Mark J. Cartwright President, Texas Brine Company Saltville, LLC President, Underground Services (Markham), L.P. President, Underground Storage, LLC
	Bruce E. Martin President, Texas Brine Company Baytown, LLC Vice President, Operations Texas Brine Company, LLC
	Scott Whitelaw Vice President, EHSS Texas United Corporation
	Fred Wolgel Vice President & General Counsel Texas United Corporation

DISCLAIMER:  I did not call any people big, fat worms. Any similarity is purely coincidental.






More Links from the Google Index:

Residents, local leaders say Texas Brine is not communicating ...

www.wafb.com/story/.../residents-local-leaders-say-texas-brine...Share

1 day ago – Some state and local leaders are furious over what they perceive as a communication breakdown in Assumption parish.

"To Texas Brine and the six companies on the dome, if seismic activity is causing these caverns to fail, then we suggest you all pack up your operations and get the heck out of our community," said John Achee Jr. "You have caused enough damage already."

1. Texas Brine to assist displaced residents from sinkhole - WAFB 9 ...

   www.wafb.com/.../texas-brine-to-assist-displaced-residents-fro...Share

   2 days ago – State and local officials held a press conference Saturday morning to update residents on the Bayou Corne sinkhole.

   http://www.wafb.com/story/19254907/texas-brine-to-assist-displaced-residents-from-sinkhole

   BAYOU CORNE, LA (WAFB) -

   State and local officials held a press conference Saturday morning to update residents on the Bayou Corne sinkhole. 

The governor's office of home security and emergency preparedness (GOHSEP) announced in a press release that the Texas Brine Company will assist displaced residents from the Bayou Corne Sinkhole.

The release issued by GOHSEP says the company will make a "significant contribution" to provide assistance for residents in areas that pose an immediate risk.

The EPA exempts wastes produced during exploration, development and production of oil and natural gas from regulation as hazardous waste under the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. It leaves oversight up to the states.

CENTERPOINT ENERGY COMPANY IN HOUSTON (STORING RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL
WITH TEXAS BRINE IN LOUISIANA)
http://www.centerpointenergy.com/home

Competitive natural gas services and energy products for commercial and wholesale customers. We also provide physical infrastructure assets to serve your natural gas supply needs. Learn more.

COMMERCIAL CUSTOMERS

• Manufacturing/Industrial
• Government/Institutions
• Biofuel/Agricultural
• Small Business/Retail

WHOLESALE CUSTOMERS

• Producers
• Refineries
• Gas/Electric Utility
• Marketers/Resellers

INFRASTRUCTURE ASSETS

• Intrastate Pipelines
• Direct Connections
• Storage Investments
• Asset Investment/Opportunities

KINDERMORGAN IN HOUSTON  (STORING RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL W/TEXAS BRINE)
http://www.kindermorgan.com/about_us/about_us_corp_profile.cfm

Kinder Morgan is the largest midstream and the third largest energy company (based on combined enterprise value) in North America. We own an interest in or operate approximately 75,000 miles of pipelines and 180 terminals. Our publicly traded companies include Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: KMI), Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: KMP), Kinder Morgan Management, LLC (NYSE: KMR) and El Paso Pipeline Partners, L.P. (NYSE: EPB).

Kinder Morgan has a large footprint of diversified and strategically located assets, and we are the market leader in our core businesses. For example, we are:

• The largest natural gas pipeline and storage operator in the U.S.
• The largest independent transporter of refined petroleum products in the U.S.
• The largest independent terminal operator in the U.S.
• The largest transporter and marketer of CO2 in the U.S.
• The only oilsands pipeline serving the West Coast of Canada.

Louisiana Sinkhole Fears Of Radioactivity And Gas Explosion As ...

beforeitsnews.com/.../louisiana-sinkhole-fears-of-radioactivity-...Share

Aug 16, 2012 – Salt cavern is part of Napoleonville salt dome - a massive ancient structure that Texas Brine Company mines for use with mining petroleum, salt ...

http://beforeitsnews.com/earthquakes/2012/08/louisiana-sinkhole-fears-of-radioactivity-and-gas-explosion-as-sinkhole-getting-bigger-2443974.html

http://dnr.louisiana.gov/assets/OC/12.Napoleonville.Dome.Map.jpg

The 1.5 million barrels of liquid butane well and fear of radioactivity

The sinkhole could breach a nearby well that contains 1.5 million barrels of highly volatile liquid butane, which could easily turn into a highly flammable vapor. The 1.5 million barrels of liquid butane 458 meters (1500 feet) from the sinkhole has an explosive capacity of 100 Hiroshima nuclear bombs, 1.5 times the explosive force of the largest thermonuclear weapon in current service in the U.S.

Inhalation of butane can cause euphoria, drowsiness, narcosis, asphyxia, cardiac arrhythmia, temporary memory loss and frostbite, which can result in death from asphyxiation and ventricular fibrillation.

Dr. Madhurendu Kumar, DNR director of the state’s oil and gas division, said the sinkhole could have been caused by structural problems in Texas Brine’s salt dome beneath it. Salt cavern is part of Napoleonville salt dome - a massive ancient structure  that Texas Brine Company mines for use with mining petroleum, salt and sulphur. Texas Brine has mined the salt dome since 1973 for brine used by industry, using water to wash out salt deep in the dome and selling the resulting brine mix, company and DNR officials have said. DNR has ordered the Texas Brine Company to drill a well and see if it is the cause of the dark gray water-filled hole nearby. It will take at least 40 days to drill the well.

The potentially failed cavern may also be the source of natural gas that has bubbled up on nearby bayous and from an abandoned water well, emergency preparedness officials said. Texas Brine and other salt dome operators use salt-dome cavities left behind from mining operations to store hydrocarbons such as natural gas for companies that lease the wells. Texas Brine ceased operating the cavern in 2011 and plugged and abandoned the well used to access it, state officials said.

Local residents and sheriff point that the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources knew for months that the cavern mined by Texas Brine had integrity problems but that they didn’t tell authorities or do anything about it. Landowners near the sinkhole filed a lawsuit against DNR and Texas Brine claiming that their drinking water in Grand Bayou system is now contaminated because authorities didn’t do anything to prevent the appearance of  the sinkhole. DNR and Texas Brine officials stated that the cavern may be closer to the outer wall of the dome than thought, that it could have failed and created the sinkhole.

The Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) put air-monitoring stations around the area to measure LELs (lower explosive limits) and say no radiation danger exists, although all test sample results will not be available until later this week. The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) had quietly permitted Texas Brine Company LLC to pump radioactive waste into its now failing cavern near the sinkhole DNR also hid documents showing that cavern may have had problems since 2010. DNR’s Office of Conservation had authorized Texas Brine in 1995 to dispose of naturally occurring radioactive material in the now-possibly failed cavern. Initial readings taken by state testers have not revealed any initial radiation.

Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN) reports that, in addition to over twelve areas in and around Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou having “waters rolling from escaping methane, ethane, and propane,” locals have also reported tremors and houses shifting. USGS maps show extra movement and stress from oil and gas operations are susceptible to present pressure of a series of earthquakes west of Louisiana, each being where fracking and frack waste injection storage are ongoing. There has been exploration for oil and gas in that area in the past, which would make the presence of low levels of naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) possible. The material, called NORM, is often a by-product of oil and gas exploration and production. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s website, radioactivity can vary widely, from background amounts to much higher levels.
http://beforeitsnews.com/earthquakes/2012/08/louisiana-sinkhole-fears-of-radioactivity-and-gas-explosion-as-sinkhole-getting-bigger-2443974.html

The EPA exempts wastes produced during exploration, development and production of oil and natural gas from regulation as hazardous waste under the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. It leaves oversight up to the states.

1. State blames one company for gassy sinkhole, orders more seismic ...

   www.examiner.com/.../state-blames-one-company-fo...Share

   by Deborah Dupre - in 83 Google+ circles - More by Deborah Dupre 3 days ago – The 1-mile by 3-mile oil and gas industry Napoleonville Salt Dome has 53 storage caverns, 23 storage wells and 36 brine wells that it rents to ...

Dow Chemical has more storage wells/caverns than Texas Brine.
http://wwwprd1.doa.louisiana.gov/LaNews/PublicPages/Dsp_PressRelease_Display.cfm?PressReleaseID=3201&Rec_ID=0

NATURAL RESOURCES

The Department of Natural Resources’ Office of Conservation staff is monitoring all activity on the site of Texas Brine’s investigatory well to make sure the company is complying with all safety standards and the rules for proper drilling, well construction and well control. DNR has an agent on site 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

DNR continues to review files and reports from all hydrocarbon storage and brine cavern wells and associated caverns for Napoleonville Salt Dome and the daily activity and planned activity reports that Napoleonville Salt Dome cavern operators, which are being provided in accordance with DNR’s emergency order from August 3.

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

DEQ continues its monitoring and sampling for naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) with no dangerous readings to date. Ongoing water quality monitoring in the bayou indicates no water pollution associated with the incident to date. PLEASE SEE LINK FOR COMPLETE PRESS RELEASE

JUST PUSH PLAY
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Published on Oct 15, 2012 by J7409

New official image of Louisiana sinkhole shows significant growth and heavy odour reported.

...this is brendasue signing off from Rainbow Creek.  See You Next Time!

Of course, one more great performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIcxlkzBfCY

Hope You Drive Away Instead of Train
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADN1lLEp3H0

One for the road:
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