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Postby Joe Hillshoist » Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:52 am

Quite simply this is fucked. Any form of mining that requires hydraulic fracturing of coal beds/associated rock should be made illegal. Talk about cutting off your head to spite your face.
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Postby brainpanhandler » Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:54 pm

starman wrote:Damn, but the deeper I look into this the more I realize what a terrible legacy of poisoned water, damaged property, injured lives, illnesses & grief the shale gas-development industry is creating, with political forces clearly paid-off & lined-up behind them -- while people are dying from drinking toxic water and huge amounts of volatile & poisonous hydrocarbons are routinely released into the atmosphere.


It's so evil that if you know in advance what it will do you have to imagine that the people affected, whether they were the militant type or not to begin with, will become militant and extremely hostile to your interests, to the point that you would do well to consider hiring the military's psyops people that are used to working with a local populace that is being murdered on a daily basis and is highly motivated to oppose you in any and all ways imagineable.


Into hostile territory

By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe and Lowell Brown / Staff Writers
Published: 07 January 2012 11:27 PM


- snip -


WHAT THEY SAID

Community relations personnel from several major shale gas companies spoke frankly at a conference meant to deal with the public's concerns about shale gas production. Here's a sample of some of the comments, both during presentations and in response to questions from the audience of their peers:

On dealing with the community where they operate:

"I would say that I don't know that the issue is transparency, maybe the issue is level of engagement. I think that we're very transparent. It's very clear on our blogs that there's nowhere to leave a comment. But our Facebook wall is open, and we will engage on Twitter and on other forums. It's just that we decided that the climate that we're in, especially in the Barnett, it just wasn't going to be productive to have the people power to have that happen. But we really do engage offline." - Nicole Nascenzi, Williams

"We have several former psy-ops folks that, for us at Range, because they're very comfortable in dealing with localized issues and local governments, really, all they do is spend most of their time helping folks develop local ordinances and things like that. But very much having that understanding of psy-ops in the Army and the Middle East has applied very helpfully for us here in Pennsylvania." - Matt Pitzarella, Range Resources

"I recommend that everyone in this room download the U.S. Army/Marine Counterinsurgency Manual … [audience murmurs] ... because we are dealing with an insurgency. There's a lot of good lessons in there and, coming from a military background, I've found that insight in that extremely valuable. With that said, there's a course provided by Harvard and MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] twice a year, it's called 'Dealing With an Angry Public.' Take that course and tie that to the manual. A lot of the officers in the military are attending this course. It gives you the media tools on how to deal with a lot of the controversy that we as an industry are dealing with. And thirdly, I have a copy of Rumsfeld's Rules. That's my Bible, by the way. That's the way I operate." - Matt Carmichael, Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

On dealing with political officials:

"We typically try to not have more than four or five outsiders on a [rig] tour per one Range person. I think we've done up to 50 people at a time, mostly whenever we take congressional staffers out. Half of them spend most of their day being hung over from whatever they did the night before, and the other half are very engaged." - Matt Pitzarella, Range Resources

On dealing with academics:

"Seek out academics, and academic studies and champion with universities because that, again, provides tremendous credibility to the overall process. We tend to be viewed very skeptically. But we've aligned with the University of Buffalo. We've done a variety of other activities where we've gotten the academics to sponsor programs and bring in people for public sessions and educate them on a variety of different topics." - Dennis Holbrook, Norse Energy

On dealing with the press:

"We would invite, in all cases - what we're looking at for Ohio and other places - is to bring reporters in early so that they get the inoculation they need from some of the things that they hear." - Michael Kehs, Chesapeake Energy

"If you don't get that warm fuzzy feeling from someone, I think it's OK to play dodge ball with them for a while. You know, everyone's working on a deadline." - Matt Pitzarella, Range Resources

- snip -

http://www.dentonrc.com/local-news/loca ... ritory.ece

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Postby NeonLX » Thu Mar 15, 2012 2:33 pm

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Postby No_Baseline » Thu Mar 22, 2012 7:03 pm

http://www.readersupportednews.org/news ... physicians

Pennsylvania Fracking Law Gags Physicians

..."The law, an amendment to Title 52 (Oil and Gas) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, requires that companies provide to a state-maintained registry the names of chemicals and gases used in fracking. Physicians and others who work with citizen health issues may request specific information, but the company doesn’t have to provide that information if it claims it is a trade secret or proprietary information, nor does it have to reveal how the chemicals and gases used in fracking interact with natural compounds. If a company does release information about what is used, health care professionals are bound by a non-disclosure agreement that not only forbids them from warning the community of water and air pollution that may be caused by fracking, but which also forbids them from telling their own patients what the physician believes may have led to their health problems. A strict interpretation of the law would also forbid general practitioners and family practice physicians who sign the non-disclosure agreement and learn the contents of the “trade secrets” from notifying a specialist about the chemicals or compounds, thus delaying medical treatment."

Niiice. :wallhead:
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Postby No_Baseline » Thu Mar 22, 2012 7:23 pm

...And, this was on truthout yesterday, not sure if it belongs on the thread, but it is good timing...


http://truth-out.org/news/item/8021-abo ... -chemicals

About That Dimock Fracking Study: Result Summaries Show Methane and Hazardous Chemicals

"Although the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 3 issued a statement last week that its preliminary tests of water samples near drilling and fracking sites in the Pennsylvania town of Dimock showed no health concerns, the group Water Defense and "Gasland" director Josh Fox went to Dimock to look at the EPA summaries themselves, which they say do report high levels of explosive methane, heavy metals and hazardous chemicals. The issue is raising renewed controversy over the increasing growth of unconventional gas drilling and fracking and the uncertainty around health and safety regulations."

..."Methane content in water can actually change seasonally and that is actually one factor that is not being taken into account. We're also not sure at this point whether or not the water was tested before or after it was vented. So, most of the residents in Dimock have vents on their water wells to release the methane. So, it could be explosive before it was tested, and after a lot of the methane vented off, it may be slightly less than explosive."
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Postby brainpanhandler » Sat Mar 24, 2012 11:25 am

No_Baseline wrote:http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/10573-pennsylvania-fracking-law-gags-physicians

Pennsylvania Fracking Law Gags Physicians

..."The law, an amendment to Title 52 (Oil and Gas) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, requires that companies provide to a state-maintained registry the names of chemicals and gases used in fracking. Physicians and others who work with citizen health issues may request specific information, but the company doesn’t have to provide that information if it claims it is a trade secret or proprietary information, nor does it have to reveal how the chemicals and gases used in fracking interact with natural compounds. If a company does release information about what is used, health care professionals are bound by a non-disclosure agreement that not only forbids them from warning the community of water and air pollution that may be caused by fracking, but which also forbids them from telling their own patients what the physician believes may have led to their health problems. A strict interpretation of the law would also forbid general practitioners and family practice physicians who sign the non-disclosure agreement and learn the contents of the “trade secrets” from notifying a specialist about the chemicals or compounds, thus delaying medical treatment."

Niiice. :wallhead:


I assume physicians are only gagged if they sign the non-disclosure agreements. I can't imagine how any physician that took an oath to do no harm could defend signing such an agreement.
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Postby Luther Blissett » Fri Mar 29, 2013 8:25 am

Rendell: 'Learn to Love Fracking'
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell took to the New York Daily News op-ed page Wednesday with a message to local officials: stop worrying and learn to love fracking.

since stepping down as governor in 2011, he has worked as a paid consultant to a private equity firm with investments in the natural gas industry.

The op-ed piece was widely noted in other media outlets, and Cuomo wound up being asked about it during a radio appearance on Wednesday. The New York State Petroleum Council promptly issued a press release hailing Rendell’s “strong and confident argument.”

Element Partners’ website lists several investments by the firm in natural gas companies, including a company called 212 Resources that specializes in “fluid management systems” for fracking.

Rendell is also a senior adviser at the investment bank Greenhill, which has worked on several large transactions involving natural gas companies. A Greenhill spokesman said Rendell has not been involved in the firm’s work in the energy sector.

This isn’t the first time Rendell has popped up in New York advocating for fracking. The New York Post ran an interview with Rendell in November in which he said Cuomo would be “crazy” not to lift the fracking ban. That piece didn’t mention Rendell’s ties to the industry either.


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Postby Joe Hillshoist » Fri Mar 29, 2013 9:19 am

One serious battle down, fuck knows how many more to go...

Industry shocked, Greens jubilant, about Metgasco decision

Metgasco's share price fell more than 21 per cent yesterday, closing at 7.3 cents a share, following the company announcing it will suspend its activities in northern NSW.

The peak body for the coal seam gas industry, APPEA, says jobs will be lost, economic opportunity foregone and the prospect of almost two decades's worth of NSW gas supply put into the too-hard basket.


Fucken bollocks. That gas is going overseas and everyone knows it. This is just a fucken lie. Why would they sell gas to Australian generators when they can sell it overseas for 4 times the price after transport costs. Even the CEO, Peter Henderson admitted that publicly

APPEA's Rick Wilkinson says it was a sad day for an Australian company, its employees and their families.


But it was a great day for Australian communities and anyone in the area who relies on reasonably healthy soil and water. Which is hundreds of thousands of people.

"The decision to suspend exploration is a direct result of obstructionist NSW Government policies that have left industry in limbo for the last two years," he said.

"In addition, the Federal Government's extraodinary decision to duplicate existing environmental regulations has created even more uncertainty for an industry trying to address the serious gas supply shortage that is looming for NSW households and businesses."


No it was cos Metgasco couldn't get a drill rig on or offsite within cooee of their deadlines cos of the community opposition and the next test site would be the same. Those govt attitudes are a direct response to overwhelming community resistance to the idea of any CSG drilling.

But the NSW Greens say it's a massive win for the community of the Northern Rivers and the entire state.

Mining spokesperson, Jeremy Buckingham, says they've been campaigning for years to free the region of coal seam gas.

"We hope that Metgasco gets the message and other coal seam gas companies get the message that they don't have a social licence to operate and they're unwanted," he said.

"It's time for coal seam gas to pack it's bags, it's over. This is the first domino to fall.

"There'd be a lot of investors, a lot of people financing coal seam gas having a cold shower and wondering how well their investment's going to go.

"I think a lot of these coal seam gas companies are going to have to write down the value of their petroleum exploration licences. I think you'll start to see the capital flee from this.

"Those companies and those investors, like AGL and the people that are backing coal seam gas, should put their money into sustainable agriculture, into renewable energy. That's the future of a clean, green economy and that's the future now for the Northern Rivers.

"We need major investment in renewable energy, not in dirty gas."

Mr Buckingham says it took grassroots activism across the region and state to bring Metgasco to its knees.

"There was a lot of momentum behind this industry, you had the Government, the Coalition Government, the National Party backing coal seam gas, you had the Federal Government still backing coal seam gas across NSW, but that grassroots movement and the Greens at local, state and federal levels fighting this industry and we've won," he said.

"It's a fantastic result but it wasn't easy.

"You've seen people put their bodies on the line at blockades, you've seen people organising you know the Nannas Against Gas, the Chooks Against Gas, farmers, Greens, it's been a heroic effort and everyone should raise a glass for grassroots activism and people power defeating the interests of multinational gas corporations."

Farmers who have been protesting in both the Richmond and Clarence Valleys, where Metgasco has been test drilling, have welcomed the announcement.

Afterlee cattle farmer Don Durrant says he's feeling jubilant yet apprehensive.

He's concerned the company will now sell out to a Chinese company with unlimited financial resources.

Mr Durrant has been protesting for the last six weeks at the Doubtful Creek site near Kyogle.

"I've missed five days in 48 days that we've been going and we'll continue. The rig is still in there, it's still got to get out and we want to give them a nice little goodbye, but if it starts up somewhere else we'll be there."

Ray Franklin was arrested at Metgasco's test drill site at Glenugie, south of Grafton, in January after he and several other farmers chained themselves to a utility blocking the entrance to the site.

He says he's not surprised Metgasco is suspending its activities given the environment it's had to operate in.

But he's concerned about petroleum exploration licences over the region held by other companies.

"There's Arrow Energy and there's ERM Energy, which is Red Sky," he said.

"The main one I'm worried about is ERM Energy, Red Sky, because they've got a production pilot well they're wanting to drill.

"And sometime in the next six to 12 months they will be drilling that."


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Postby ShinShinKid » Fri Mar 29, 2013 12:10 pm

One thing I learned from my Auzzie friends:

Don't fuck with their land, no I mean it, the whole thing;
The land, the water, the sky, the animals, the people...

There is a reason a gaggle of ex-cons ended up on that island ultimately becoming It's most ardent stewards...
Man, I miss that place...
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Postby Nordic » Mon May 09, 2016 10:21 pm

Today I Learned:

While researching the subject of mini nukes and trying to figure out what my Dad was really up to at the Lawrence Radiation Lab back in the 60s, I stumbled across this:

Project Ploughshares (or plowshares). Get this: a program promoting peaceful uses for atomic bombs. Peaceful. Blasting a path for a new Panama Canal was one of the things considered. But then there was this:


A reoriented Plowshare program centered on underground engineering, using nuclear explosions to stimulate the flow of natural gas from tight rock formations. Ambiguous experimental results and the environmental legislation of the late 1960s proved obstacles too great to overcome. Like nuclear excavation, underground engineering began to look more costly than it was worth, and Plowshare faded away in the early 1970s.


Those pesky environmental regulations! If not for that we could all be burning radioactive gas in our stoves and clothes dryers.

It also shows that fracking has been in the gunsights of these monsters for a very long time.
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Postby backtoiam » Tue May 10, 2016 1:27 am

Thinking backwards is an art and a learned skill that one acquires from being exposed to the hot fire of the forge of metal working. It means a lot more than that my brotha. Beating swords into plowshares is a concept that has been around for thousands of years. Bibical even baby...for those that can read between the lines...

nordic wrote:

While researching the subject of mini nukes and trying to figure out what my Dad was really up to at the Lawrence Radiation Lab back in the 60s, I stumbled across this:

Project Ploughshares (or plowshares). Get this: a program promoting peaceful uses for atomic bombs. Peaceful. Blasting a path for a new Panama Canal was one of the things considered. But then there was this:


A reoriented Plowshare program centered on underground engineering, using nuclear explosions to stimulate the flow of natural gas from tight rock formations. Ambiguous experimental results and the environmental legislation of the late 1960s proved obstacles too great to overcome. Like nuclear excavation, underground engineering began to look more costly than it was worth, and Plowshare faded away in the early 1970s.



Isaiah 2:4

And he shall judge among the Gentiles and shall rebuke many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruninghooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.



In other words....think about it.........backwards and upside down.
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Postby backtoiam » Tue May 10, 2016 5:23 am

I appreciated Nordic stumbling onto plowshares, so, in an attempt to rough in some context to my previous remarks I would like to add the following. I snatched these images from the web and where they lead to makes not a damn to me I just want the picture.

Nordic, this is at least one form of beating a sword into a plowshare.

Image

The above photograph depicts a warrior that has defeated an enemy, taken his sword, and use the very metal of his sword, melted it down, made it into a plow, and that plow will be used by the vanquished to plow the now fertile fields of the victor.

The victor will take the sword of his enemy, and use its metal (very valuable commodity in those days), and turn it into a plow in the hot chaos metal forge, and now that plow will be used by the loser , that was once his sword, in his own toil as a slave, because he has no choice...thats it....

The sword does not necessarily have to be a tangible object. The sword can be a tangible sword, or not, but, it can also be an ideology, a thought, a cultural tradition, a nation, a religion...any cultural commodity that protects a culture against invasion can be turned backwards against that same culture so that it can be invaded in a manner that damages that culture.
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Postby seemslikeadream » Tue Nov 13, 2018 11:55 am

Who Pays the Price of Oklahoma’s Man-Made Earthquakes?

Hint: It’s Not the Companies Causing Them


In 2014, 15 percent of Oklahoma homeowners had earthquake insurance. That seems remarkable for a state that, from 1973 to 2008, had a mere 21 magnitude-3 earthquakes. But it makes sense considering that, since then, the state has become a hotbed of induced seismicity — which is really just a fancy term for man-made earthquakes. In 2016, Oklahoma experienced 500 magnitude-3 earthquakes.

So the state’s residents, forced to adapt to these new, unnatural disasters, began to purchase earthquake insurance.

“There is a higher take-up rate in earthquake insurance given the last few years, [because of] the increased seismicity our state has seen,” John Doak, Oklahoma’s insurance commissioner, told WhoWhatWhy.

The waste products of hydraulic oil fracking, otherwise known as toxic wastewater, cause these earthquakes. The wastewater gets pumped to the surface and injected back into the earth at various depths.

“Wastewater injection can induce small earthquakes to occur, leading to larger ones, in a cascading effect,” said Jacob Walter, the Oklahoma Geological Survey’s lead seismologist. He noted that the area in which the wastewater is injected has no clear correlation to where the earthquake will occur, because of the countless earthquakes triggering each other in unpredictable patterns.

Water Pump Fracking
Water is mixed with fracking fluids before being injected into the ground. Photo credit: Joshua Doubeck / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

These unpredictable earthquakes can have devastating effects on homes, buildings, and infrastructure. Among the most quake-prone buildings: brick structures and those made of unreinforced masonry.

“The larger earthquakes — magnitude 4.0 and larger — have the potential to damage structures, in particular unreinforced masonry walls,” Scott Harvey, assistant professor at the Oklahoma University School of Civil Engineering, told WhoWhatWhy. That means the tremors often affect buildings that provide indispensable services after earthquakes, such as police stations, fire stations, and city halls; these tend to be built of unreinforced masonry.

For instance, the Cushing Police Station is made of brick, as is the Pawnee City Hall. Both places experienced powerful earthquakes in 2016.

To make matters worse for the citizens of Oklahoma, insurance companies know how vulnerable unreinforced masonry is.

The Oklahoma Department of Insurance says on its website that houses built with brick or rock are not usually covered under standard earthquake insurance, or sometimes not at all. Two Oklahoma insurance companies, Lynnae Insurance Group and ECI Insurance, openly state that unreinforced masonry is an expensive add-on to existing earthquake insurance.

The cheapest insurance costs between $30 and $50 annually. However, when it covers unreinforced masonry, it can range from $300 to $400 a year. This spike in price can accumulate over the years into a punishingly large amount of money, especially when earthquake insurance is such a necessity.

In addition, earthquake insurance is typically subject to large deductibles. And, even though they are not the ones who induced the tremors, regular people end up holding the bag because, as of now, the oil companies causing the quakes refuse to pay for any of the costs, insurance or otherwise.

That doesn’t sit well with Oklahomans who are experiencing this new strain on their wallets.

“I think the oil and gas industry should pay for the damage they caused,” Sharon Wilson, a senior organizer for Earthworks and a former oil and gas worker, told WhoWhatWhy. “Homes built in Texas and Oklahoma were built to withstand wind, not earthquakes.”

Earthworks, a non-profit organization formed in 2005, strives to protect the earth and its inhabitants from the destructive effects of oil and mineral extraction.

Fellow environmentalist and lawyer Erin Brockovich, who became known worldwide through the eponymous movie about her, told KOCO 5 News in Oklahoma City in 2017 that, “The communities definitely [are] feeling frustrated and voiceless and helpless and are not sure where to turn.”

The citizens of Oklahoma are currently struggling with two giants: the raw power and damage of earthquakes, and the large corporations that refuse to provide aid or take responsibility for their actions.

Meanwhile, Brockovich is assisting one community that refuses to be silenced — the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma.

Earthquake Damage
Brick structures are especially susceptible to damage during an earthquake. Photo credit: Brian Sherrod / Wikimedia Commons (CC0)

Pawnee Nation

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The money and power that the oil and natural gas corporations wield — and spend on influencing politicians and hiring the best lawyers — gives rise to a perception that they can continue their operations without being called to account for Oklahoma’s induced earthquakes.

Now the citizens of the Pawnee Nation are using tribal law to push back against having to pay for earthquakes caused by fracking.

On September 3, 2016, a 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck the Pawnee Nation. It damaged every historical building at the Pawnee headquarters — all made of unreinforced masonry and many over one hundred years old. That includes buildings in the national register of historic places.

“The stone cracked, and plaster walls cracked and ceilings collapsed and those kinds of things,” Andrew Knife Chief, executive director of the Pawnee Nation told WhoWhatWhy. “It shut us down for a little bit, we were closed as a nation for four days, which makes it very difficult for our citizens because we provide services to our tribal members and then we weren’t able to do that and then construction was happening, and it took about a year.”

The Pawnee Nation had the foresight to obtain earthquake insurance in 2009, when the rise in induced earthquakes began. So, one might think the nation would be spared the worst consequences of the man-made of disaster.

This was not the case.

“The sticker price for just fixing the buildings here from the damage was half-a-million dollars,” said Andrew Knife Chief. “But the manpower and the effort that it took to go through the buildings and to hire the structural engineers we needed to come out and make sure it was safe, [and] getting together of the emergency personnel that we have here — it cost us quite a bit of money.”

Knife Chief added, “Insurance didn’t cover everything and so it had to come out of pocket, so it’s the Pawnee Nation that is paying for it.”

Not only did the historic buildings suffer damage, so too did the houses of many Pawnee citizens. After the 2016 earthquake hit, more than 30 tribal members reported damage to their homes. To make matters worse, not many tribal members can afford earthquake insurance, so the affected homeowners had to bear all costs out of pocket.

But the damage done was not just material.

“I think the thing that hurt the Pawnee Nation most is just the damage to our citizens’ psyche,” Knife Chief said.

Unlike the city of Pawnee — which also suffered damage — the Pawnee Nation has the ability to control who uses its land and for what. Within the nation’s sphere of influence, it has considerable power.

So the nation passed the Energy Resource Protection Act in 2017. This act established “the requirements of notification, reporting, and monitoring for exploration, extraction, and marketing of the energy resources within the Pawnee Nation.”

“We have a responsibility under our constitution to preserve the natural resources and protect our citizens, so that is what we are doing,” Knife Chief said.

With Brockovich as its lawyer, the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma sued the 27 oil companies that caused the induced quakes in the Pawnee Nation area (which covers 595 square miles). Knife Chief states that while the nation is not anti-oil and -gas, it is “just trying to push for responsible energy production here in our jurisdiction, and we feel that there is some activity that is being engaged in that causes an undue risk to the Pawnee Nation, and its tribal members. So that is really what we are fighting against, irresponsible actions and really ultra-hazardous activity in the underground injection control wells.”

The oil companies attempted to argue that the case should be brought in a state court. However, Judge Dianne Barker Harrold ruled in favor of the Pawnee Nation, stating that this issue was to be resolved under the Pawnee Nation court of law. The trial was moved on to the discovery phase on October 27th of 2017.

Eagle Road Oil LLC and Cummings Oil Company, the two companies named in the lawsuit (the others were unnamed), did not respond when WhoWhatWhy reached out to them for comment.
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