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FRACKING FOR GAS - NOT ANY MORE

September 27, 2013
FRACKING FOR GAS - NOT ANY MORE

Here we go again. The fossil fuel industry rushed to frack for gas, they rushed to frack for natural gas liquids, rushed to frack for oil and then the next big thing was exporting. They glutted the market with gas, glutted the market with natural gas liquids, found the fracked oil resource was too “gassy” and are sitting around waiting anxiously to ship it all out of the country. The public is increasingly not buying into the talking points. What can the fossil fuel industry do to drill themselves out of the gas hole? AHHHHH…change the branding message. Put a big red bow on top and make it look pretty. The Shale Insight 2013 gathering of the fossil fuel industry notables decided to drop the word “GAS” and hype the […]

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EVENT HORIZONS with Dr. Robin Falkov

September 16, 2013
EVENT HORIZONS with Dr. Robin Falkov

I’ll be joining Dr. Robin Falkov’s radio show starting tomorrow - Tuesday 9/17 and discussing the natural gas industry in Pennsylvania. Hope you will all listen. I’ll be a regular on Tuesdays from 10:30am-11am EASTERN TIME Go here: http://www.freedomslips.com/hifihome/schedule.htm Scroll down to EVENT HORIZONS Dr Robin Falkov time slot, and click on it, radio player will pop up FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/robin.falkov?fref=ts   M-F 10am-Noon ET, 7-9am PT listen & access archives @ www.freedomslips.com info & updates www.healthfreedomrights.com/eventhorizons.html

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FRACKERS AT THE GATE

August 18, 2013
FRACKERS AT THE GATE

There’s an old saying that a man’s home is his castle. To update that, let’s rephrase to a person’s home is their castle. The phrase is based on the assumption that a person can do what they want in and with their own home. While political conservatives bemoan government intrusions into individual rights, and want to shrink the size of government, one would think it would also apply to a person’s home. Like every rule or assumption there is an exception. A person’s home in Pennsylvania may soon NOT be their castle in the case of gas drilling. CORBETT OPPOSED TO FORCED POOLING Pennsylvania’s Governor Tom Corbett said in April of 2011 he was opposed to “forced pooling. Speaking at the K&L Gates’ fourth annual Appalachian Basin Oil and Gas […]

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SHALE OIL WIPES OUT TOWN !

August 4, 2013
SHALE OIL WIPES OUT TOWN !

Turns out it was shale oil on the train that exploded in Canada, light viscosity shale oil - from shale wells in North Dakota. Not heavy crude from Canada as was supposed at the time. Which accounts for why it exploded. Heavy crude oil can have a hard time catching fire, much less exploding. No one could figure out how it exploded, so they blamed it on a tank of propane. This was like rolling 72 tanker cars of gasoline right into the middle of town - into a siding. Shale oil is so volatile that it explodes. Like gasoline. On contact. Remember that next time there is a plan to ship or pipe shale oil through your town. Or state. Or country. The industrialization of shale pollutes water, air, corrupts politicians […]

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Obama’s Big Fake Climate Change Speech and the Big Fake Greens Who Loved It

June 30, 2013
Obama’s Big Fake Climate Change Speech and the Big Fake Greens Who Loved It

Delivered at Georgetown University to a crowd of students whose own futures hang in the balance, President Barack Obama’s highly anticipated speech on climate change certainly sounded like a clarion call to real and measurable action.   Except that it wasn’t. For despite the fact that he does seem get the message about coal and greenhouse gas emissions, he has bought wholesale into the absurd, debunked industry manufactured hornswaggle transition argument for “clean burning natural gas”: “The bottom line is natural gas is creating jobs,” Obama said. “It’s lowering many families’ heat and power bills. And it’s the transition fuel that can power our economy with less carbon pollution even as our businesses work to develop and then deploy more of the technology required for the even cleaner energy economy […]

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IPAA EID RELEASES POOP 3.0

June 27, 2013
IPAA EID RELEASES POOP 3.0

In 2009 the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) created a public relations campaign called Energy In Depth (EID). The original EID branched out into other web pages specific to geographic locations. This included EID-Marcellus for Pennsylvania and New York, and the EID-OHIO for people in Ohio. Other places with no websites include California, Texas, “MTN” states, Michigan and Illinois. This month IPPA unveiled a “new improved” version created a one-stop shopping for rehash of the gas industry’s talking points. The new IPAA-EID site has more bells and whistles in an effort to improve the gas industry’s poor image. In other words, IPAA has put a pretty red bow on a pile of dog poop. New features include a video series which Jeff Eschelman, IPPA’s VP of Public Relations, hopes […]

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Unfractured in Albany !

June 17, 2013
Unfractured in Albany !

Sandra rallys the crowd in Albany Monday with a stirring, heartfelt speech. As new poll now shows clear majority oppose fracking New York State: http://www.newsday.com/news/region-state/anti-fracking-groups-rally-in-albany-urge-ban-1.5499672?qr=1 Moratorium extension would pass, if it was allowed on the Senate floor by Klein and the IDC http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Anti-fracking-groups-rally-in-Albany-4604672.php http://www.dailygazette.com/photos/galleries/2013/jun/17/fracking-day-action/ by Sandra Steingraber “Governor Cuomo, Thousands of us have arrived at your doorstep. We know that you can see us. Governor Cuomo, the whole world can see us. I know that’s true because my own inbox is full of messages of solidarity from all over the nation. Illinois, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Minnesota, California. Yesterday, I received an inquiry from a Member of Parliament in the European Union asking about our plans for fracking in New York. Governor Cuomo, how I respond to my email depends on […]

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Radon Pipeline To Manhattan

June 16, 2013
Radon Pipeline To Manhattan

Those planned Upstate gas transmission lines would transport shale gas that may hold the record for radon content. Straight to New York City. Untreated. In a matter of hours. And there’s nothing Senator Klein and IDC are going to do about it. The way you find shale on a well log is via its radioactive signature. It is the most radioactive sedimentary layer that the well bore will encounter. When the gamma log spikes, you know you’ve hit shale. If the log went any higher, you’ve likely hit a vein of uranium ore. Congratulations. Shale has various radioactive materials in it - uranium, radium, strontium. And the most problematic material in the Marcellus Shale is Radium 226, the isotope that made Marie Curie famous. Right before it killed her. When you process […]

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Nuclear Frack Waste Convoys

June 15, 2013
Nuclear Frack Waste Convoys

Coming to a narrow road near you real soon, or a land fill, or a municipal water plant, or trout stream. As previously noted, shale is the most radioactive sedimentary layer encountered -radioactivity is how shale is identified on a drilling log - which makes fracking it horizontally tantamount to solution mining radium. When frackwaste is recycled - and reused to frack another shale well, this effectively doubles the radioactivity. Repeat. When the frackwaste is processed and reduced to a sludge, the frackers are left with a highly radioactive hazardous material, which they then have to try to get rid of, preferably in another state - like Ohio, the default dumping ground for nuclear frack waste, and try to get it past the radiation detectors at the landfills. If the landfills bother to check […]

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THE “FOSSIE” AWARD for Oil & Gas

May 25, 2013
THE “FOSSIE” AWARD for Oil & Gas

When a friend of mine sent me this article, I thought it was clipped out of a spoof-like publication. It has to be some kind of joke, right? No. There really is an OIL & GAS AWARD and it has its own website called Oil & Gas Awards (OGA). The founders and team of the award seem to be heavy on the marketing experience and light on actual oil & gas expertise. The OGA website is registered out of London, UK. OGA was launched in 2012 as an effort “to highlight the good that is coming our of the natural gas industry.” Per OGA’s about page: “The Oil & Gas Industry can showcase its efforts to improve in areas of public interest through the Oil & Gas Awards. The upstream […]

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