Re: [Biofuel] EPA to citizens: Frack you
. The Animal Connection Healing Modalities http://members.tripod.com/~MLSchmidt/ http://allcreatureconnections.org From: D. Mindock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: [Biofuel] EPA to citizens: Frack you Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 22:00:15 -0500 This is what happens when a governmental agency becomes corrupt. The people are put in harm's way and told to live with it. Let's see; which gov. agency is still clean? I can't think of a single one. Maybe the Government Accounting Office (GAO)? We need to figure out a way, soon, to keep the corporate dollars/favors away from our spineless, can't say no, politicians. Peace, D. Mindock = From: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/05/05/fracking/index.html EPA to citizens: Frack you In the Rockies, a gas-extraction process called fracking may be releasing a carcinogenic stew of chemicals. Dozens of people say it has made them seriously ill, but the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) refuses to investigate -- a failure one of its own engineers calls irrational and corrupt. By Rebecca Clarren Photos by AP/David Zalubowski A natural-gas derrick towers over a home in the Dry Hollow area outside Silt, Colo. May 5, 2006 | SILT, Colo. -- The 20 miles of interstate highway between rural Silt and Parachute, Colo., slice a crusty landscape where sagebrush clings to ochre mesas. Nearby, the snakelike silver Colorado River carves a valley floor where poplar trees, naked in the winter cold, cast spindly blue shadows across the snow. There are few exits through this section of Garfield County, where the local population of deer and elk rival the number of ranchers, retirees and others who live here. Susan Haire, a former elementary teacher who ranches on a small scale, has lived atop one of the surrounding mesas for nearly a decade. But she says the landscape has been turned against her. When she drives down this stretch of highway, her nose bleeds, her eyes burn, and her head pounds. She's taken to wearing a respirator, even in the car. I feel like an alien, like I don't fit into my own environment. It's frightening, says Haire, 55, tears filling her pale slate eyes as she looks through her living room window out on her back fields. It's horrifying what's happening here. The changes that have happened in the past 18 months are so dramatic. It's just a nightmare. Haire's doctor blames her health problems on the scenery's relatively recent addition: 600 natural gas wells, drilled by oil companies over the past two years. Every few feet, 150-foot-tall drill rigs, graced with American flags, rise upward into the sky. Compressor stations, banks of rectangular huts with five-foot-diameter fans, sit back from the road and pump the gas into underground pipelines. Haire is not alone. Several dozen people in the area blame a rash of health problems on the wells, says Colorado lawyer Lance Astrella. For 15 years, Astrella was a successful attorney for the energy industry. For the past 15 years, he has been defending citizens like those in Garfield County, who blame the wells near their homes for their cancerous tumors, rectal bleeding and chronic headaches. Between January and March of this year, eight people called the Garfield County oil and gas department, complaining about black smoke and strong chemical odors they worry are making them sick. Scientists and environmentalists say the health hazards of the natural gas wells stem not only from air pollution but fracking fluid, a mixture of carcinogenic chemicals, used in many of them. Laura Amos, 43, an outfitter who lives 20 miles from Haire, recently developed a tumor in her adrenal gland, which she blames on her exposure to the chemicals. Fracking or hydraulic fracturing is a half century-old process in which a gas company injects water, sand and the chemicals into the wells. Developed by Halliburton, the corporation formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, fracking loosens the rock and maximizes the flow of gas to the surface. At least 2 trillion cubic feet of natural gas lie in the tight sand and coal bed formations below Garfield County, according to gas companies and industry geologists. Over the next eight years, energy companies expect to build more than 10,000 additional wells in the county. The small Colorado community is a microcosm of the natural-gas boom exploding across the Rocky Mountains. Today, federal and state agencies in Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico are issuing more permits to drill for gas than ever before -- the increase in some places is 90 percent. The Bush administration has said that such development is critical to reducing foreign imports and ensuring national security. And in the aftermath
Re: [Biofuel] EPA to citizens: Frack you
The AMA, the AVMA are both trade associations .. and if you look you will find that all these trade associations are international .. all these international trade associations are international money. Laws are on the books that dis-allow any one .. even citizens .. but more so any elected official to accept any money or gifts from any foreign group. A little research should perhaps happen first .. it would be nice to know the exact wording. I should think that any elected official who receives any favor, any gift from any lobbyist from any trade association would be guilty of treason. I've never tried it but I believe citizens still have the right to arrest .. if that is so, then one small group in one state COULD ARREST .. I'd love it if it were to be Senator Frisk from Tenn .. for treason for accepting any contributions from the AMA. .. a better plan would be for enough states to arrest enough senators at the same time so the GOP wouldn't jump on some hastily devised bill that changed that law. Mary Lynn Rev. Mary Lynn Schmidt, Ordained Minister ONE SPIRIT ONE HEART TTouch . Reiki . Pet Loss Grief Counseling . Animal Behavior Modification . Shamanic Spiritual Travel . Behavior Problems . Psionic Energy Practitioner . Radionics . Herbs . Dowsing . Nutrition . Homeopathy . Polarity . The Animal Connection Healing Modalities http://members.tripod.com/~MLSchmidt/ http://allcreatureconnections.org From: D. Mindock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: [Biofuel] EPA to citizens: Frack you Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 22:00:15 -0500 This is what happens when a governmental agency becomes corrupt. The people are put in harm's way and told to live with it. Let's see; which gov. agency is still clean? I can't think of a single one. Maybe the Government Accounting Office (GAO)? We need to figure out a way, soon, to keep the corporate dollars/favors away from our spineless, can't say no, politicians. Peace, D. Mindock = From: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/05/05/fracking/index.html EPA to citizens: Frack you In the Rockies, a gas-extraction process called fracking may be releasing a carcinogenic stew of chemicals. Dozens of people say it has made them seriously ill, but the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) refuses to investigate -- a failure one of its own engineers calls irrational and corrupt. By Rebecca Clarren Photos by AP/David Zalubowski A natural-gas derrick towers over a home in the Dry Hollow area outside Silt, Colo. May 5, 2006 | SILT, Colo. -- The 20 miles of interstate highway between rural Silt and Parachute, Colo., slice a crusty landscape where sagebrush clings to ochre mesas. Nearby, the snakelike silver Colorado River carves a valley floor where poplar trees, naked in the winter cold, cast spindly blue shadows across the snow. There are few exits through this section of Garfield County, where the local population of deer and elk rival the number of ranchers, retirees and others who live here. Susan Haire, a former elementary teacher who ranches on a small scale, has lived atop one of the surrounding mesas for nearly a decade. But she says the landscape has been turned against her. When she drives down this stretch of highway, her nose bleeds, her eyes burn, and her head pounds. She's taken to wearing a respirator, even in the car. I feel like an alien, like I don't fit into my own environment. It's frightening, says Haire, 55, tears filling her pale slate eyes as she looks through her living room window out on her back fields. It's horrifying what's happening here. The changes that have happened in the past 18 months are so dramatic. It's just a nightmare. Haire's doctor blames her health problems on the scenery's relatively recent addition: 600 natural gas wells, drilled by oil companies over the past two years. Every few feet, 150-foot-tall drill rigs, graced with American flags, rise upward into the sky. Compressor stations, banks of rectangular huts with five-foot-diameter fans, sit back from the road and pump the gas into underground pipelines. Haire is not alone. Several dozen people in the area blame a rash of health problems on the wells, says Colorado lawyer Lance Astrella. For 15 years, Astrella was a successful attorney for the energy industry. For the past 15 years, he has been defending citizens like those in Garfield County, who blame the wells near their homes for their cancerous tumors, rectal bleeding and chronic headaches. Between January and March of this year, eight people called the Garfield County oil and gas department, complaining about black smoke and strong chemical odors they worry are making them sick. Scientists and environmentalists say the health hazards of the natural gas wells stem not only from air pollution but fracking fluid, a mixture of carcinogenic chemicals, used in many of them. Laura Amos, 43
Re: [Biofuel] EPA to citizens: Frack you
Marylynn, I seem to recall that there is some kind of special immunity for members of the US Congress and the US Senate as well as the President and V.P. It was set up back when the USA was formed to protect the law makers while they were in office from harasment by their opponents. The protection ends once they are out of office. As I recall they must be impeached or thrown out of office first by the US Congress before they can tried for crimes like a felony, or maybe it is jailed? I also seem to recall that it requires a US Marshal to arrest them? Don't recall all the details, but it is not a simple matter. On second thought, I am now wondering about Tom Delay's recent problems. Unless I am mistaken he was charged with a felony while still in office. Any way, I do recall from my Civics classes and US History that there is some kind of special protection and rules for them while they are in office, so, OK, I went and looked it up: The US Constitution says: They shall, in all cases, except treason, felony, and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective Houses, and in going to or returning from the same; and for any speech or debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other place. Now the question is what does that mean today! It does not spell out what happens in the case of Felony's, Treason, etc. I suspect there is some case law somewhere that gets into the details. Any Legal Eagles out there? Mike McGinness Marylynn Schmidt wrote: The AMA, the AVMA are both trade associations .. and if you look you will find that all these trade associations are international .. all these international trade associations are international money. Laws are on the books that dis-allow any one .. even citizens .. but more so any elected official to accept any money or gifts from any foreign group. A little research should perhaps happen first .. it would be nice to know the exact wording. I should think that any elected official who receives any favor, any gift from any lobbyist from any trade association would be guilty of treason. I've never tried it but I believe citizens still have the right to arrest .. if that is so, then one small group in one state COULD ARREST .. I'd love it if it were to be Senator Frisk from Tenn .. for treason for accepting any contributions from the AMA. .. a better plan would be for enough states to arrest enough senators at the same time so the GOP wouldn't jump on some hastily devised bill that changed that law. Mary Lynn Rev. Mary Lynn Schmidt, Ordained Minister ONE SPIRIT ONE HEART TTouch . Reiki . Pet Loss Grief Counseling . Animal Behavior Modification . Shamanic Spiritual Travel . Behavior Problems . Psionic Energy Practitioner . Radionics . Herbs . Dowsing . Nutrition . Homeopathy . Polarity . The Animal Connection Healing Modalities http://members.tripod.com/~MLSchmidt/ http://allcreatureconnections.org From: D. Mindock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: [Biofuel] EPA to citizens: Frack you Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 22:00:15 -0500 This is what happens when a governmental agency becomes corrupt. The people are put in harm's way and told to live with it. Let's see; which gov. agency is still clean? I can't think of a single one. Maybe the Government Accounting Office (GAO)? We need to figure out a way, soon, to keep the corporate dollars/favors away from our spineless, can't say no, politicians. Peace, D. Mindock = From: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/05/05/fracking/index.html EPA to citizens: Frack you In the Rockies, a gas-extraction process called fracking may be releasing a carcinogenic stew of chemicals. Dozens of people say it has made them seriously ill, but the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) refuses to investigate -- a failure one of its own engineers calls irrational and corrupt. By Rebecca Clarren Photos by AP/David Zalubowski A natural-gas derrick towers over a home in the Dry Hollow area outside Silt, Colo. May 5, 2006 | SILT, Colo. -- The 20 miles of interstate highway between rural Silt and Parachute, Colo., slice a crusty landscape where sagebrush clings to ochre mesas. Nearby, the snakelike silver Colorado River carves a valley floor where poplar trees, naked in the winter cold, cast spindly blue shadows across the snow. There are few exits through this section of Garfield County, where the local population of deer and elk rival the number of ranchers, retirees and others who live here. Susan Haire, a former elementary teacher who ranches on a small scale, has lived atop one of the surrounding mesas for nearly a decade. But she says the landscape has been turned against her. When she drives down this stretch of highway, her nose bleeds, her eyes burn, and her head
[Biofuel] EPA to citizens: Frack you
This is what happens when a governmental agency becomes corrupt. The people are put in harm's way and told to live with it. Let's see; which gov. agency is still clean? I can't think of a single one. Maybe the Government Accounting Office (GAO)? We need to figure out a way, soon, to keep the corporate dollars/favors away from our spineless, can't say no, politicians. Peace, D. Mindock = From: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/05/05/fracking/index.html EPA to citizens: Frack you In the Rockies, a gas-extraction process called fracking may be releasing a carcinogenic stew of chemicals. Dozens of people say it has made them seriously ill, but the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) refuses to investigate -- a failure one of its own engineers calls irrational and corrupt. By Rebecca Clarren Photos by AP/David Zalubowski A natural-gas derrick towers over a home in the Dry Hollow area outside Silt, Colo. May 5, 2006 | SILT, Colo. -- The 20 miles of interstate highway between rural Silt and Parachute, Colo., slice a crusty landscape where sagebrush clings to ochre mesas. Nearby, the snakelike silver Colorado River carves a valley floor where poplar trees, naked in the winter cold, cast spindly blue shadows across the snow. There are few exits through this section of Garfield County, where the local population of deer and elk rival the number of ranchers, retirees and others who live here. Susan Haire, a former elementary teacher who ranches on a small scale, has lived atop one of the surrounding mesas for nearly a decade. But she says the landscape has been turned against her. When she drives down this stretch of highway, her nose bleeds, her eyes burn, and her head pounds. She's taken to wearing a respirator, even in the car. I feel like an alien, like I don't fit into my own environment. It's frightening, says Haire, 55, tears filling her pale slate eyes as she looks through her living room window out on her back fields. It's horrifying what's happening here. The changes that have happened in the past 18 months are so dramatic. It's just a nightmare. Haire's doctor blames her health problems on the scenery's relatively recent addition: 600 natural gas wells, drilled by oil companies over the past two years. Every few feet, 150-foot-tall drill rigs, graced with American flags, rise upward into the sky. Compressor stations, banks of rectangular huts with five-foot-diameter fans, sit back from the road and pump the gas into underground pipelines. Haire is not alone. Several dozen people in the area blame a rash of health problems on the wells, says Colorado lawyer Lance Astrella. For 15 years, Astrella was a successful attorney for the energy industry. For the past 15 years, he has been defending citizens like those in Garfield County, who blame the wells near their homes for their cancerous tumors, rectal bleeding and chronic headaches. Between January and March of this year, eight people called the Garfield County oil and gas department, complaining about black smoke and strong chemical odors they worry are making them sick. Scientists and environmentalists say the health hazards of the natural gas wells stem not only from air pollution but fracking fluid, a mixture of carcinogenic chemicals, used in many of them. Laura Amos, 43, an outfitter who lives 20 miles from Haire, recently developed a tumor in her adrenal gland, which she blames on her exposure to the chemicals. Fracking or hydraulic fracturing is a half century-old process in which a gas company injects water, sand and the chemicals into the wells. Developed by Halliburton, the corporation formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, fracking loosens the rock and maximizes the flow of gas to the surface. At least 2 trillion cubic feet of natural gas lie in the tight sand and coal bed formations below Garfield County, according to gas companies and industry geologists. Over the next eight years, energy companies expect to build more than 10,000 additional wells in the county. The small Colorado community is a microcosm of the natural-gas boom exploding across the Rocky Mountains. Today, federal and state agencies in Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico are issuing more permits to drill for gas than ever before -- the increase in some places is 90 percent. The Bush administration has said that such development is critical to reducing foreign imports and ensuring national security. And in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Congress has pushed to increase energy sources beyond the reach of the coastline. Colorado holds an estimated 7.6 percent of America's natural gas reserves, making it one the most growing active regions, says Fred Lawrence of the Independent Petroleum Association of America. In ramping up energy production, the federal government has weakened environmental regulations and reduced enforcement of public-health laws.
