By Sheila V Kumar, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
A bill addressing Louisiana’s sinkholes cleared a Senate panel Wednesday after being whittled down to prohibit issuing permits for hydrocarbon storage, such as natural gas, in state-owned bodies of water near manmade disasters.
Senate Bill 200 by Sen. Fred Mills, R-Breaux Bridge, would bar state officials from issuing new permits to store hydrocarbons and hazardous waste in state-owned bodies of water where the underlying salt rock has failed because of a manmade error.
The bill exempts bodies of water owned by the United State Petroleum Reserve or any entities regulated by the Offshore Terminal Authority.
Mills said he introduced the legislation after being approached by some of his constituents concerned about gas bubbles in Lake Peigneur in Iberia Parish. The lake sits on top of a salt dome that is used to store natural gas, he said, and has been used to store waste and hydrocarbons such as natural gas and carbon dioxide.
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