No fracking there. They are on top of an enormous salt deposit. The salt is mined by pumping fresh water down to the salt and bringing the resulting brine up another pipe. The caverns created by brine mining are gigantic and are used after the mining is completed to store compresses natural gas or, in a few cases, compressed air which is used in Compressed Air Energy Storage power generation. It would appear that there is leakage of odorless natural gas from the top of a cracked or collapsing cavern.
Frankly, it would be hard to gin up environmental panic over this and hurt gas production.
Of course, if the salt dome collapses, we might see some homes swallowed up in the resulting sinkhole.
The video at the site is interesting...just cain’t unnerstan Cajun.
Thanks for the info. This has happened before and the world did not end.
Found this that might interest some:
Lake Peigneur
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHol4ICeDoo
They are now closing i70 cause of a 36 inch pipeline bend near the area. Trying to power down gas flow now. Been surfing the net on this and as expected the environazi’s are already trying to make hay out of it. If it’s not fracking related, they will start blaming pipelines and there goes the southern leg of the Keystone Pipeline. These people get all gitty when this stuff happens. I despise them. Just reading their bile on the news comment sections makes my blood boil. They love to scare the piss out of folks with disinformation and agenda driven mass causality scenarios.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHol4ICeDoo