Reading the Buxton Advertiser today it seems the residents down that side of Whaley Bridge had quite a eventful afternoon last Friday just past 12pm with an apparent natural gas explosion causing some damage.

However looking deeper into it, it seems a bit over the top to send appliances from Buxton to assist in this incident, not to mention the fact they had to shut off electricity supplies aswell as cars being damaged in the explosion (funny how ive not heard a thing about this), yet theres no crater in the road, no shop windows damaged and nobody (given the time of day) passing by was injured.

Was this simply a natural gas explosion or something more sinster? a False Flag Event perhaps to test the reaction times of the local forces reaction times..maybe a local electricity mains exploded (hence the electricity blockout and media silence)..they dont want us to know theres shoddy cabling under our feet.

Whatever happened, its quite odd indeed.

Bingo, thanks for the reply. Just as I suspected..Theres been another incident like this where cabling has exploded (though off the top off my head I cant remember where it was), but it wasnt too long ago. Also remember the infamous London blackout where a similar thing happened just after 7/7.

Quite convenient to blame it on natural gas which only occurs near or under oil fields I believe, nothing of which is around here seeing that the village is built upon Sedimentary rock such as Sandstone and Grit, theres one or two Mine shafts where Workers tried to find Coal Veins but to my knowledge the only Vein that was ever large enough was the Mine up at the Goyt Valley to support the Errwood Hall staff.

It makes you think after the Electrical blackouts PRIOR to this Electrical cable going, just whats going on to our Electric system. I understand they were introducing a scheme to measure how much electric people were using in their homes and then fine them if their emissions were too much, maybe this is the start of that initiative going on right under our noses? what next...meters being installed in our homes without our knowledge.

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Which begs the question (many thanks for the excellent replies btw), why the dis-information by the Buxton Advertiser to mis-lead the residents of Whaley Bridge and of the Peak District? Surely after a week of this happening you'd think the reporter typing this up would have finalised the story by asking what ACTUALLY happened, all it would have took was a simple phonecall to Buxton/Whaley fire crews.

Not only is it shoddy reporting but also mis-leads people into thinking there not safe anywhere in the village if they assume that theres now mythical natural gas now appearing under our feet, thumbs down to the Buxton Advertiser (yet again) from me.

Contrary to Imanust's beliefs, the whole area is riddled with old coal mine workings, many of which date back long before the 1872 act that required accurate plans to be maintained and deposited with the appropriate government agency. I do not know if the seams mined around Whaley were partcularly prone to firedamp, but a buildup of methane in the ground is not unexpected in a coal mining area.
 

See

http://www.coal.gov.uk/publications/miningtechnology/coalmineandbedmethane.cfm

And also

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/downloads/start.cfm?id=219

Edited by user 24 August 2009 17:52:28(UTC)  | Reason: Add link to coal authority

Of course, being in Cheshire it may just be a case of "We can afford it and we want everyone to know we can"

Hi RockBanker,

I will see if I can find out what actually went on and get back to this forum.

There is quite a bit of digging going on at the location of the 'explosion'.

Cheers

Jon.

News travels fast in Whaley ! 

Yes I did thanks. - Nothing quite beats midges and rain in the Isle of Mull. Fortunately , only one of these was present while sea fishing from a boat in Calgary bay, and there were plenty of fish.

Very relaxing.

Cheers

Jon.