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Shelby County, AL gasoline spill

Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 2:37 pm
by Jupiter Sets at Dawn
Posted Sat Sep 17, 2016 2:26 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
September 9, 2016, late morning, an employee of a mining company in rural Shelby County, Ala., detected "an odor of fuel products" and called the Colonial Pipeline company.

September 9, 2016, 4:15 PM, EDT the Colonial Pipeline company announced from it's Atlanta office it was investigating a potential "integrity issue" with it's pipelines and had shut down both pipelines in the area till it knew what was going on

September 10, 8:56 a.m., CDT it put out another announcement titled "Helena, Alabama Incident Update" stating it was conducting excavation activities to locate the source of a gasoline leak at N33.225889 W86.917276, about 30 miles south of Birmingham, AL. The EPA, Shelby County EMA, three local fire departments and the Cahaba Riverkeeper were all on site. One pipeline had been eliminated as the problem and gasoline was being pumped from a cachement pond meant to keep spilled gas out of the river.

Sometime before September 14, 10:57 a.m. the Federal government closed the airspace above the area out of an abundance of caution. Excavating of the pipeline and draining of the leaked gas continued.

On the 15th, the company said although they first thought the leak was 1000 barrels, it's over 6000 now, and counting. Gulf fuel delivery systems began shipping fuel by container boat to the east coast. The other unaffected pipeline was shut down and converted from diesel fuel and avgas to gasoline.

At about 3:30 PM on the 16th, conditions were deemed safe enough to actually begin excavation of the pipeline so it can be repaired. No word on what they were excavating before.

Prices on the east coast have gone up by at least 6 cents a gallon and many stations have run out of gas. The governor of Georgia suspended clean air regulations on the 15th, and other states are following suit. 18 wheelers are being sidelined as they run out of diesel fuel.

This is A. Big. Deal.

Re: Shelby County, AL gasoline spill

Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 2:38 pm
by Jupiter Sets at Dawn
Posted Sun Sep 18, 2016 2:41 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn

Jupiter Sets At Dawn wrote:
September 9, 2016, late morning, an employee of a mining company in rural Shelby County, Ala., detected "an odor of fuel products" and called the Colonial Pipeline company.
September 9, 2016, 4:15 PM, EDT the Colonial Pipeline company announced from it's Atlanta office it was investigating a potential "integrity issue" with it's pipelines and had shut down both pipelines in the area till it knew what was going on
September 10, 8:56 a.m., CDT it put out another announcement titled "Helena, Alabama Incident Update" stating it was conducting excavation activities to locate the source of a gasoline leak at N33.225889 W86.917276, about 30 miles south of Birmingham, AL. The EPA, Shelby County EMA, three local fire departments and the Cahaba Riverkeeper were all on site. One pipeline had been eliminated as the problem and gasoline was being pumped from a cachement pond meant to keep spilled gas out of the river.



The only thing I've found that speaks to this is the Mercury-Uranus line passing nearby as Jim pointed out in http://solunars.net/viewtopic.php?f=30& ... 1a5#p26924

Liblunar (September 4): MOON & URANUS straddle Indianapolis, moving north-south through Alabama, Kentucky-Tennessee, and central Indiana.



Sometime before September 14, 10:57 a.m. the Federal government closed the airspace above the area out of an abundance of caution. Excavating of the pipeline and draining of the leaked gas continued.
On the 15th, the company said although they first thought the leak was 1000 barrels, it's over 6000 now, and counting. Gulf fuel delivery systems began shipping fuel by container boat to the east coast. The other unaffected pipeline was shut down and converted from diesel fuel and avgas to gasoline.



At this point, this incident became a problem for the entire east coast of the US. Gas stations are literally dry, and gas prices have gone up by 20 cents or more a gallon, but people still have to get work. Governors of several states have suspended the clean air regulations at the worst possible time. Ragweed, pigweed and mold all combine in a vicious assault on people with allergies and asthma, and letting the air quality drop makes it that much worse. The news media don't seem to be interested, but I suspect the death toll is rising one child gasping to breath through swollen air passages and one old lady whose lungs can't pull in enough oxygen to keep her conscious long enough to dial 911 at a time.

At about 3:30 PM on the 16th, conditions were deemed safe enough to actually begin excavation of the pipeline so it can be repaired. No word on what they were excavating before.


I think now they have actually been able to drain the gas from the pond and can excavate and repair that pipeline, things will get better quickly. I think the Caplunar on the 15th encompassed this incident as it moved from Alabama east through the Eastern Seaboard. But I can't find specific aspects and lines to show it.

Re: Shelby County, AL gasoline spill

Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 2:38 pm
by Jupiter Sets at Dawn
Posted Sun Sep 18, 2016 3:28 pm by Jim Eshelman
Thanks for researching and posting all of this. I saw news when it happened, but couldn't tell where the break was. Let me work my way through commenting on all of this.

There are at least two events here. One is the very significant break itself. The other is the wider transportation impact on the eastern states. These had about a week between them, yes?

So the break was September 9, 2016. before "late morning," 33N13'33',' 86W55'02''. One might guess sunrise as a working time. (The closure of the airspace over it is eye-catching in its implications.)

At least 6,000 barrels leaked. To put this in perspective, the Deepwater Horizon spill was about 5 million barrels. The Valdez spill was between a quarter and three-quarters of a million barrels.

By September 17, a hard impact was hitting the eastern states.

Thanks for catching that disruptive Moon-Uranus passage through the area in the Liblunar. I want to point out, though, that as a national event, this isn't at all wrong for the national predictions of the time. I didn't state it directly, but the charts did, adding the "oil spill" pollution Saturn-Neptune theme with the "break" themes of Mars' involvement and the Moon-Uranus aspect.

Looking at the rupture itself, for the place it occurred, estimating 6:00 AM as when it occurred...

Year: Capsolar
(First, the potential of the rupture.)
Moon sq. MC (0°08'), conj. Asc (1°45')
Uranus on Asc (2°27')
-- Mo/Ur on Asc (0°21')
Pluto sq. Asc (2°15')
-- Uranus-Pluto sq. (1°11')

Bridge
CapQ Moon-Uranus conj. 7/28-9/17
t. Pluto sq. Capsolar Asc 8/15-11/5
t. Neptune conj. Cansolar EP 7/16-10/11
Event window: August 15 to September 17

Quarter: Cansolar
(Next, a classic for an oil spill.)
Neptune on EP (0°25')
Saturn on MC (6°25')
-- Saturn-Neptune sq. (1°23')
Jupiter on Dsc (9°18')
Moon-Jupiter sq. (1°51')

Month: Caplunar (Dormant.) Moon-Uranus sq. (0°35')

Week: Liblunar
(Acute rupture symbolism.)
Uranus sq. MC (0°23')
Moon sq. MC (1°23')
Moon-Uranus op. (1°00')

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits
p. Moon-Uranus conj. (0°40')
-------------------------------------
t. Pluto sq. s. Asc (1°41')
t. Venus op. s. Asc (0°37')

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits
p. MC op. p. Venus (1°34'), s. Mercury (1°43')
---------------------------------
t. Neptune conj. s. EP (0°48')


SUMMARY

Re: Shelby County, AL gasoline spill

Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 2:39 pm
by Jupiter Sets at Dawn
Posted Sun Sep 18, 2016 5:05 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
Thanks Jim. I couldn't find much localized to the area affected, and I didn't really consider it a national problem, since most people west of the area have no idea anything happened.

The most recent updates are the pipeline company has approval to put in a bypass to get the line running again while they try to repair the break. It was a break, not just a leak. The gas shortage is most affecting six states: Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia, and Tennessee. Other pipeline companies are routing gas through deisel lines part time to help alleviate the shortfalls. Gas futures are way up.

Re: Shelby County, AL gasoline spill

Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 2:40 pm
by Jupiter Sets at Dawn
Posted Sun Sep 18, 2016 5:10 pm by Jim Eshelman
Now, how about that national-level fuel emergency (among the other problems), using the Washington, DC charts as the basis?

First, it's one of scores of things that are appropriate to the Capsolar for Washington, with a couple of levels reinforcing Moon-Uranus symbolism for this broader time period. Regarding the CANSOLAR, either it isn't shown in an obvious way, or what we're getting are the simple indications of inflation and balloon-pricing.

The BRIDGE is Mars-Uranus dominant. This, of course, is appropriate for a break or rupture. I'd identified September 12 as "of particular tragic concern," reaching perhaps as far as September 15. This was CanQ Descendant approaching Cansolar and transiting Saturn, and the square to transiting and Cansolar Neptunes, with September 12 being the day that transiting Neptune squared Cansolar Saturn 0°00'. These quotidian hits were in orb (2° coming, 2° going) from midday September 10 to nearly the end of September 16, almost the exact window of the (mostly quiet, somewhat covered up) crisis.

To be clear: I couldn't have and wouldn't have predicted this event from these CanQ crossings alone. However, I could and did predict the national crisis point of the time as maximizing around September 12, reaching perhaps as far as September 15, based on an astrological factor that lasted September 10 to September 16, and the event matches both the disruptive, rupturing, "explosive" description and the "particular tragic concern" Saturn-Neptune symbolism. This is starting to get to where I want to see things!

And then it really did match that Canlunar that has been persisting since August 28. Again, what is showing is the eco disaster and the rupture, but also the toxicity and eco damage - all Saturn-Neptune stuff - and the price inflation is not really the focus except for the Cansolar. I might even go so far as to say that this one event, with all the consequences you've itemized, fulfills the phrase "long litany of tragedy" that I used to describe the Canlunar's effects.

Re: Shelby County, AL gasoline spill

Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 2:41 pm
by Jupiter Sets at Dawn
Posted Sun Sep 18, 2016 6:10 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
OK, not related, but it feels related.

Some company in Florida had a leak 3 weeks ago that is ongoing. The leak is pouring radioactive contaminated water into a 45' sinkhole in Florida. The company notifed the EPA (I think) but not anybody else. They're saying there's no danger, but the water is getting into the water supply.

Looking for more information...

Re: Shelby County, AL gasoline spill

Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 2:42 pm
by Jupiter Sets at Dawn
Posted Sun Sep 18, 2016 6:18 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
More info on the sinkhole.
OK, this is in Polk County, FL. The company's name is Mosaic and they have a phosphate fertilizer plant in Polk County. About 3 weeks ago, sometime in late August, no dates are being given, the company noticed a sinkhole had opened up under a slag pile called a gypsum stack at the plant. Since then 215 million gallons of water containing sulphate, sodium and gypsum, which contains low levels of radiation, have drained into the aquifer, which is the state's main source of drinking water.

The company reported it to not the EPA, but the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Neither the DEP nor the company thought they should bother mentioning it till the local water coming out of taps started smelling like rotten eggs (sulpher.) Company spokesmen are saying ground water moves slowly so there's no danger. Mosaic paid over $2 billion in fines over its hazardous waste pollution last year.

Re: Shelby County, AL gasoline spill

Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 2:43 pm
by Jupiter Sets at Dawn
Posted Sun Sep 18, 2016 6:54 pm by Jim Eshelman

Jupiter Sets At Dawn wrote:
About 3 weeks ago, sometime in late August...


It's all the same Canlunar! <sigh>

Re: Shelby County, AL gasoline spill

Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 2:44 pm
by Jupiter Sets at Dawn
Posted Sun Sep 18, 2016 8:13 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
The Standing Rock Sioux attempt to block the Dakota Access pipeline from crossing their land and running through the aquifer that runs underneath, and from being run under the Missouri River, so it can't destroy the aquifer or the river when it breaks. That also had very little publicity till a foreign journalist asked President Obama about it while he was in Thailand. A judge allowed the pipeline to go through, and Obama stopped it within hours of stepping off the plane back to the US.

Again, this was not being covered by the press. There was almost no mention of it anywhere till the pipeline's thugs set dogs on people trying to block the bulldozers from digging up a gravesite on Indian land although they were under injunction while the court case was being heard.

Because the US government holds Indian land "in trust" (because the tribes have no individual ownership and our courts can't figure out what to do with that) suing the US government is how the company building the pipeline planned to take the land they couldn't get under eminent domain. At this time, there are several hundred Indians from all tribes all over the US waiting on the reservation for further developments.

This all feels related, and if it is, it would certainly speak to the nationwide aspect of the Canlunar.
The Dakota pipeline endangered the public water supply with a pipeline carrying oil and was keep as quiet as possible.
The Alabama endangered the public water supply with a pipeline spilling gas discovered by a mining company and wasn't seen as a big news story.
The Florida event endangered the public water supply with mining tailings and wasn't reported publically till the tap water went bad.

I wonder what else was going on then we haven't heard about.

Re: Shelby County, AL gasoline spill

Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 2:45 pm
by Jupiter Sets at Dawn
Posted Sun Sep 18, 2016 8:32 pm by Jim Eshelman
BTW, I did see quite a lot about this one in the press, probably half a dozen articles from different sources each day for a week or two.

Re: Shelby County, AL gasoline spill

Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 2:46 pm
by Jupiter Sets at Dawn
Posted Sun Sep 18, 2016 9:12 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
Before or after the dog attacks?

Re: Shelby County, AL gasoline spill

Posted: Thu May 11, 2017 2:46 pm
by Jupiter Sets at Dawn
Post Posted Sun Sep 18, 2016 9:18 pm by Jim Eshelman

Jupiter Sets At Dawn wrote:
Before or after the dog attacks?


Actually, I never did more than glance at the first few lines to see what the issue was. I never saw anything about a dog.