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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Lapindo Mud

Java island especially East Java are sinking because of Lapindo Brantas mud crisis. For more than 10 months mud has flowed from an exploratory well near Porong, inundating 25 square kilometers, putting more than 1000 people in hospital with breathing difficulties and forcing more than 10,000 from their homes. It has cut roads, covered train lines and threatens the rail link between Jakarta and Surabaya, Indonesia's busiest port.
A police investigation has found seven Lapindo employees were suspected of criminal negligence over the drilling. An emergency cabinet meeting on Thursday night decided that all measures must be taken to protect and compensate people living in the area, safeguard basic infrastructure, preserve East Java's economy and lessen the environmental damage. Lapindo should meet all expenses, cabinet ordered.
The Geological research until now still doesn't know how to stop the mud, one way has done that is to put big balls that linked each other to the hole but it's failed to stop and even the flow debit become more and more every day. For this case, the team of research told the flow will stop normally for 30 years, but at the time the mud stop flowing the East Java Province will full of mud.
Yesterday the new flow that contain water and sands occurs not far from the main flow, and until today none has been done to stop this although the flow has reach 7 meters from the ground or it has reached 500% bigger than first time the flow found.

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