A Gigantic Sinkhole — Created by the Oil Industry — Threatens to Destroy Carlsbad, NM
November 23, 2009 at 5:59 PM Leave a comment
Have you heard about this (amazing picture)? I hadn’t until now.
In fact, the massive sinkhole currently running through the center of town was created by the oil industry. As MSNBC reports it was formed over three decades as oil field service companies pumped fresh water into a salt layer more than 400 feet below the surface and extracted several million barrels of brine to help with drilling.If it collapses, the unnatural cavern is likely to take with it a church, a highway, several businesses and a trailer park. Massive fissures currently cleave through town, and one business owner has said that structural cracks have even formed in his store.
Free market capitalism at work here folks.
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