On Dangerous Ground
Apart from discharging methane gas bubbles at the ground surface, the mudflow left behind by Lapindo has caused land subsidence. The Porong Highway has subsided by 1.4 meters and its further sinking is imminent. This is the condition almost four years after the first gush of mud from below the earth of Porong, Sidoarjo, East Java, in the area of Banjar Panji 1 oil and gas exploration well owned by Lapindo Brantas Inc.
May 5, 2010
MORE than 60 children have to share desks in a classroom of Ketapang State Primary School, Tanggulangin district, Sidoarjo. The students are in the second, fourth and fifth grades. They are crowding the desks not because of the limited number of classrooms, but because mud and methane have been surging in several spots of the school complex since three weeks ago. Student evacuation should indeed be endeavored as methane is poisonous and flammable
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