Big Oil
Grand Old Party of Teabaggers and Business has Infringed Energizer Bunny Trademark for a Decade
Sat, 11/07/2009 - 23:38 | 
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Yesterday Dailykos diarist, 'the girl', hit the recommended diary list with her post of the powerful impact one person may produce in the simple act of shining bright light into the dark space created by deception.
The inherent power over an adversary that is achieved by lying is particularly odious in application to public affairs. Large sums of money are invested by private concerns to intentionally distort public understanding of matters of great importance, like the current policy debates on health care or climate change, for example.
Big Tobacco and Big Oil have spent enough money in recent decades to create and sustain whole industries designed for the single purpose of misleading citizens and the decisions of our policy-makers in public affairs.
Because fairness is not part of the organization charter, corporate concerns have only the bottomline at stake which ultimately requires directors --NOT to equitable policy debates but-- to maximize shareholder value. And, so, we documented the secret memo series through which Big Tobacco bought the GOP half of American party politics to deceptively achieve protection from legal liability beginning in 1994.
So, the big money behind the teabaggers has been trained on the biggest lies for decades already.
When 'the girl' found them also infringing the Energizer Bunny trademark (the prohibited, unfair use of a registered corporate icon) with its use in attacks on public health care policy plans, her notification of the trademark owners at Eveready was enough to move them to consider legal action.
Hydraulic Fracturing: Your Money or Your Life
Fri, 07/03/2009 - 15:36 | TXsharon
Ninety-two percent of the 278 known chemicals used to produce natural gas have adverse health effects including endocrine disruption, neurological disorders and cancer. Chemical information is limited because the industry claims formulas are trade secrets. If, like most Americans, you believe your water, air and soil are protected from these chemicals by federal environmental statutes, you are dead wrong. Loopholes in our federal environmental laws allow the oil and gas industry to endanger public health and safety and risk vital natural resources.
Fueled by technological advances, a frenzied expansion in natural gas drilling has exploded into 34 American states. Once the burden of rural areas, it now encroaches into heavily populated cities turning neighborhoods into industrial zones. They’re calling natural gas a bridge fuel, an alternative fuel, the “clean” energy. Enough PR money burnishes a dirty fossil fuel into an environmentally friendly magic bridge to lead us far from our energy crisis. In truth, the production process that endangers public health and safety, depletes scarce water supplies, and generates colossal amounts of toxic waste cancels out the slightly cleaner burn. It's a heavy toll to cross this bridge.
The question becomes: who pays?
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Tags: Big Oil, enviroment, FRACKing, Halliburton, Hydraulic Fracture, hydraulic fracturing
Barnett Shale: An Aerial View
Wed, 06/17/2009 - 10:01 | TXsharon
Watch this video to see what the Pickens Plan will do to America.
The following video contains a few of the 360 pictures taken on a short flight over small portions of Tarrant, Wise and Denton Counties. These pictures depict the destruction caused by natural gas production.
Hydraulic Fracture: The Truth About State versus Federal Regulation
Mon, 06/15/2009 - 18:33 | TXsharon
Industry is spending millions in propaganda to combat the FRAC Act that will allow citizens to know what chemicals are used near their drinking water and allow hydraulic fracturing to be regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Industry is inciting the public by using a power grabbing Federal Government versus states' rights spin. Check out this headline:
States Challenge Attempted Federal Power Grab in Hydraulic Fracturing Issue.
The information in the IOGCC press release is completely false! They claim that "states do a superb job of protecting human health and the environment through sound regulation."
Learn the truth to counter the spin:
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Texas Railroad Commission Investigation Results: Hey, Braden Exploration! Are you illegally dumping drilling waste in Wise Count
Fri, 01/16/2009 - 15:18 | TXsharon
Yesterday I received the results from Texas Railroad Commission’s investigation of the Hosed by Braden incident
An abbreviated version of the findings:
Braden claims they used the 3” polypipe/hose to pump unused “frac-water” from the Roberts Lease uphill to the lined pit adjacent to the Bailey lease in order to conserve “fresh water.” They claim the hose was cut at the creek to make picking it up easier.
The pit had a “skim of congealed oil” and “2,100 ppm chlorides.”
The creek was flowing and inspection revealed no drilling waste. The water tested at 100 ppm chlorides.
I called the inspector for clarification. He confirmed that the reason Braden gave for pumping water from the Roberts lease to the Bailey lease was to conserve “fresh water” for future use to fracture the Bailey lease.
The hose stretches from drilling waste, downhill to the creek
Wed, 01/07/2009 - 17:01 | TXsharon
Bumped and promoted. Originally posted 2009-01-07 15:51:45 -0500. -- GH
Hey, Braden Exploration! Are you illegally dumping drilling waste in Wise County?
With great interest I’ve watched the drilling going on around me hoping that all would go well and the producer would take care and follow the rules, such as they are. For weeks, I noticed the black hose that meanders along the side of FM 730. It winds through culverts and under bridges to continue along the other side—so it appeared. Sunday, something told me to pull over and look under the bridge. The hose does not continue under the bridge to the other side as it appears. It ends in the creek that is part of the watershed for DFW.
Here is where the hose starts. That’s a sludge pit filled with drilling waste.
The Genocide of America.
Tue, 01/06/2009 - 12:58 | the national gadfly
Is the United States of America the world's largest dealer of illegal drugs? What about the world's largest gun runner? For years our government has used the CIA, NSA & other super-secret 'intelligence' agencies to cultivate drug harvest and distribution in SE Asia and Afghanistan. We offer 'aid' and 'trade' to countries in the forms of weapons and ammunition. The drugs come home to the US to poison and kill our own population. The weapons we sell are used either against us directly by people to kill others, who then seek to kill Americans. Did the founding fathers envision a country that would become the world's largest debtor and blood merchant?
Are we too stupid to save ourselves?
Sun, 12/21/2008 - 16:38 | the national gadfly
(Image courtesy of indiesocial.com)
I walked onto the train platform in downtown Chicago today. A woman had just finished shopping at Macy's and had several red shopping bags. She was trying to put everything into one bag. The wind picked up and blew some of the empty bags down the platform. I took off running and stopped them from blowing out onto the street.
Cheney Helped Halliburton Hide Secrets About Dangerous Chemicals in YOUR Drinking Water.
Tue, 11/25/2008 - 12:00 | TXsharon
This is the most important blog post I've ever written. It's cross posted at Daily Kos. Please recommend over there.
H.R. 7231 to Close the Hydraulic Fracturing Loophole That Is Fracing Up America's Water.
Hydraulic fracturing (fracing) is a drilling technique that was developed by Halliburton. Millions of gallons of fresh water, along with sand, and cancer-causing and toxic chemicals are injected under high pressure miles down the drilling hole to fracture the limestone shale and release the oil and gas trapped within.
In 2005, at the urging of Dick Cheney, former Halliburton CEO, Congress exempt fracing from the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) as part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. In 2001, Cheney's energy task force report "touted" benefits and ignored consequences. His office was "involved in discussions about how fracturing should be portrayed in the [EPA] report." Halliburton earns about $1.5 BILLION annually from hydraulic fracturing. (Ibid)
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The Canaries of the Sea, granted a Pardon, this time ...
Sat, 10/18/2008 - 12:02 | jamess
Posted yesterday (2008-10-17 20:56:22 -0500); deserving of a second look. -- GH.
A beluga’s mouth is permanently upturned like a smile. It’s easy to connect with these sociable whales ...Often called "canaries of the sea," beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) broadcast squeals, trills, chirps and other sounds through their blowholes. ... These vocalizations can be communications between animals. They might also be used to echo-locate, or interpret the sound waves that bounce back to discern what food or obstacles are ahead.
Belugas live in the frigid waters near the Arctic Circle.
Maybe the times really are changing, because those Belugas just won a Big Victory against none other, than the "Pals of Big Oil" ...
"Exxon is immortal - but Natives die"
Wed, 08/20/2008 - 18:33 | TXsharon
promoted - cho
Big Oil tells us, as they plead to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, as Senator John McCain calls for drilling off the shores of the Lower 48, it can't happen again.They promise.
e-CON-o-ME
Thu, 07/31/2008 - 09:28 | rba
I've seen stupid, done stupid, actually got a kick out of watching stupid over the past few decades. But some of the things we Americans tend to believe take stupid to an entirely new level. Disconnect doesn't come close:
- AP/LAT: Exxon Mobil's second-quarter profit sets U.S. record
- Jane Kay/SFGate: 51% of Californians back offshore drilling
Drill a hole in the ocean floor, send money to Exxon, help elect John McCain. Lately there have been too many days when it's not worth chewing through the restraints.
Gouged Out: The Consumer and the Gas Station Operator
Fri, 04/25/2008 - 10:01 | GreyHawk
Thursday, 24 April 2004, CNN Money ran an interesting article called Gouging myth out of gas1 that further explained how the myth that gas stations participate in "price gouging" is unlikely, at best -- and it casts an eye toward the primary culprit through the use of some very interesting facts and figures.
Image created by GreyHawk using Microsoft Excel, based on the percentages provided in the article.2
Note: Excel automatically changed the 72% to 71% because the total of the figures provided added up to 101, not 100.
According to the article, some people assumed that gas station owners get a bigger slice of the approximately $3.50 per gallon than they actually do -- but several suspected something much closer to the truth.
Planning Energy Priorites for the Future
Mon, 12/31/2007 - 17:21 | GreyHawk
There's an interesting diary over on DailyKos right now -- it caught my interest, at least. It's Confused priorities: the scramble to exploit the Arctic sea bed by JohnnyRook.
Here's two of the comments -- one by NoBigGovernment, and my response. Both are, IMO, points worth keeping in mind while reading thru:
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Why are our leaders and the leaders of these other nations wasting time and money on seeing who can get access to the most underwater fossil fuels instead of investing in the renewable energy that might make it possible to keep New York, St. Petersburg, Vancouver, Copenhagen etc. above the waterline?
because they have to at this point. I think all reasonable nations are in fact investing in renewables, but in the meantime we need fuel to continue to make the world go round so to speak.
You just can't flip a switch and move from fossil fuels. Granted we could, and should, move faster but it's difficult to fault people for being somewhat prudent.
by NoBigGovernment on Mon Dec 31, 2007 at 03:02:54 PM EST
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"Prudent is as prudent does" so to speak......the BushCheney (CheneyBush?) Administration and Big Oil Republicans have done everything they can to force continued dependence on fossil fuels, when they should have been more prudent with the nation's resources and forward-thinking.
Instead, they essentially created a reality that is forcing us into greater, prolonged dependency but without any additional oversight, conservation, intelligent distribution or development of alternatives.
You are very correct that we need to be prudent with regard to a potentially untapped resource (vs. the relatively imprudent push by some to open the Arctic Refuge, which is a piddling amount in exchange for the potential damage/cost/impact).
However, we should eye any movement by BushCheney as an initial foray into yet another attempt to overfeed, gorge and run rampant instead of developing a sound policy for the securing, developing, use and distribution of energy and fuel sources.
We must extricate BushCheney and their primary cheerleaders/benefactors from the process first, then put proper foundational structures into effect (rules, regs, laws and plans)...
Never, never brave me, nor my fury tempt:
Downy wings, but wroth they beat;
Tempest even in reason's seat.
I do believe a genuine plan is needed to ensure that our economy and nation can adequately operate while slowly weaning itself off of oil. I do not, however, believe that the Republicans, Big Oil, the Bush Administration or anyone currently embedded with any or all of the above should have anything to do with it.
There are also some major corporations and other political parties who need to either recommit to the nation's priorites -- which should include a proper degree of planning for current and future needs -- or be banned from participating in the work of the people.
What do you think?
