Comments on: Louisiana covers up risk to Bayou town from sinkhole, massive methane leak http://www.stuarthsmith.com/louisiana-covers-up-risk-to-bayou-town-from-sinkhole-massive-methane-leak/ Stuart H. Smith is an attorney based in New Orleans fighting major oil companies and other polluters Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:53:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: mike schaff http://www.stuarthsmith.com/louisiana-covers-up-risk-to-bayou-town-from-sinkhole-massive-methane-leak/comment-page-1/#comment-11362 mike schaff Wed, 08 Aug 2012 05:10:34 +0000 http://www.stuarthsmith.com/?p=17805#comment-11362 you should have been at the public meeting tonight... what a farce. Our summarily incompetent or bought-and-paid-for DNR Director of Injection and Mining Mr. Joe Ball was asked wheter or not the tremendous amount of diesel that came up with the gas bubble when it broke the surface was proof enough that the culprit was the Texas Brine cavern. His reply? "well it could be risidual oil from long ago abadoned wels that was spilled on the ground, so we have no proof that it's a Texas Brine problem." Okay, Mr. Ball, if one DID spill diesel YEARS AGO, then why has it not evaporated in the hot louisiana sun? is this some magic diesel?? When The DEQ rep was asked what were the ppm in the air on the Friday morning of the slurry formation when the smell of diesel was thick enough to gag a strong man, his reply? "oh, we weren't moitering for that... what we did moniter showed absolutely no health hazard. These dufuses have been been to these meetings several times and have no clue what to do and no desire to do anything if they did have a plan. We need someone with a bit of courage from our govenor's office to come here and mandate SOMEONE to drill several vent wells in the aquifer to vent off this tremendous amount of gas that has accumulated there from the vicinity of the cavern collapse. Will we get that??? i doubt it A Bayou Corne resident, and Jindal supporter, for now Mike you should have been at the public meeting tonight… what a farce. Our summarily incompetent or bought-and-paid-for DNR Director of Injection and Mining Mr. Joe Ball was asked wheter or not the tremendous amount of diesel that came up with the gas bubble when it broke the surface was proof enough that the culprit was the Texas Brine cavern. His reply? “well it could be risidual oil from long ago abadoned wels that was spilled on the ground, so we have no proof that it’s a Texas Brine problem.”
Okay, Mr. Ball, if one DID spill diesel YEARS AGO, then why has it not evaporated in the hot louisiana sun? is this some magic diesel??
When The DEQ rep was asked what were the ppm in the air on the Friday morning of the slurry formation when the smell of diesel was thick enough to gag a strong man, his reply? “oh, we weren’t moitering for that… what we did moniter showed absolutely no health hazard.

These dufuses have been been to these meetings several times and have no clue what to do and no desire to do anything if they did have a plan.

We need someone with a bit of courage from our govenor’s office to come here and mandate SOMEONE to drill several vent wells in the aquifer to vent off this tremendous amount of gas that has accumulated there from the vicinity of the cavern collapse.
Will we get that???

i doubt it

A Bayou Corne resident, and Jindal supporter, for now

Mike

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