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An Embarrassment of Richton
Mississippi town not enthusiastic about storing strategic petroleum |
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04 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 4:11 PM on 04 Apr 2008 Richton, Miss., is the lucky town picked as the fifth storage site for the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve. To create space to store strategic petroleum, the Department of Energy will drain 50 million gallons of water a day for five years from the Pascagoula River to dissolve underground salt caverns, pumping the resulting brine through likely-to-leak pipelines over ... |
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| Topics: Department of Energy, energy, Mississippi, news, oil, water conflicts, wetlands (all these topics) |
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