The only good thing --if you can call it good-- is that the asinine dispticks in Washington in charge of governance of this country, the ones who have have put us in a recession and bankrupted the American economy, have run out of money to put into the Richton Salt Dome Project. Ergo, it has now been cancelled.
Whoopee! This insane boondoggle and waste of money, this destroyer of the environment, is now officially cancelled.
The Dept. of Energy was gonna pump fifty thousand gallons of water a day from local rivers, (and one river, the Pascagoula, is a nature preserve along most of its length) every day for five years to flush salt out of the salt domes in Richton, and after creating cavities in the salt, the domes would be used to store strategic oil reserves.

I am immensely satisfied that at least for now the domes won't be disturbed and the rivers left alone. For now.
I'm a pessimist--a realist--and know sooner or later the domes will be used for some vile purpose, probably storage of spent nuclear fuel rods, radiation contaminated trash etc. That's already been proposed 30 years ago and strong opposition kept the feds at bay. But for now, everything is safe.

susil