tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33035155523411187932024-03-13T06:46:52.887-07:00FRACTIVIST - Assist, Reform and Protect!FRACTIVISTFRACTIVISThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873223391407310802noreply@blogger.comBlogger155125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303515552341118793.post-4079346248310217242018-10-27T18:20:00.005-07:002018-10-27T19:33:53.382-07:00VOTE YES ON 112Below are maps of Colorado counties that would be protected by <b>VOTING YES ON 112</b>. The maps illustrate the 2,500 buffer zone against occupied dwellings and vulnerable areas that would be off limits to the <u>oil and "un-natural" gas occupation assembly</u><br />
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Currently, you have no rights to safety when it comes to "un-natural" gas and oil fracking imposing on your health, safety, welfare and environment. The industry can burn chemicals to make more chemicals and then release them into the air you and your family breath without consequence.<br />
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There have been so many tragic accidents created by the fracking industry that with accidents and violations alone, the entire industry should be shut down. They have more than proven they cannot operate in a safe manner that is fair and balanced with humans and the environment. Millions of gallons of liquid toxic industrial waste (they call it produced water) is still in the environment and has never been recovered.<br />
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The industry can legally impose their operational hazards on your life and the COGCC supports this diabolical effort.<br />
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This is not an anti-fracking movement, it's a civil rights movement. Your rights to safety have been stripped by the toxic fracking industry's federal exemptions and enforced by the arbitrary and capricious COGCC. Period.<br />
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Fracking is one of the dumbest "technologies" ever created. We are smarter than a fossil fuel and please note: The minerals the <u>oil and un-natural gas occupation assembly</u> remove, are not for Coloradans nor Americans. The gas is "Un-Americanly" sold to other countries for high profit margins.<br />
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<b>VOTE YES ON 112</b><br />
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The <u>oil and "un-natural" gas occupation assembly</u> is considered heavy industry and should not conduct operations near humans, their homes, schools, playgrounds, hospitals or any public place where innocent people come together.<br />
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Will your home insurance company drop your coverage? Will your mortgage lender drop your loan when heavy industry is on, under or adjacent to your property? Will your property lose its value year after year?<br />
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If you have ever lived in an area that has one, or dozens, or even hundreds of carcinogenic spewing un-natural gas fracking pads surrounding your house, you'll know precisely why <b>I AM VOTING YES ON 112</b>.<br />
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Cannabis sales created $247 million in tax revenue last year far surpassing what the <u>oil and "un-natural" gas occupation assembly </u>could ever think of contributing.<br />
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It's time to show the people how <b>we can grow our way out of fossil fuels with hemp.</b> Hemp is the answer to all of the problems the oil and gas industry has created. Everything made from oil and gas can be replaced with hemp.<br />
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<b>VOTE YES ON X and VOTE YES ON 112</b><br />
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<b><br /></b><b>Questions: Are the shale zone production values the same as what the oil and gas operators are </b><b>telling their investors? Do the investors know the real production values?</b><br />
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VOTE YES ON 112<br />
VOTE YES ON X<br />
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----FRACTIVISThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873223391407310802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303515552341118793.post-30636254541941704502018-08-27T20:11:00.000-07:002018-08-27T20:47:12.751-07:00Did Sandridge Exploration's 3rd Party Trucking Company Hauling Fracking Flowback Water Lie to the COGCC, CDPHE and Other Agencies About the Contents of the Fluids Released During the Crash?<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<li><b>"State Regulators said they don't know how much was spilled"</b></li>
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<li>State COGCC documents indicated that 200 gallons (of a 5,000 gallon truck) had remained in the tanker truck while it appears 4,800 gallons were released into the environment. </li>
<li>The company hired to drive the truck containing the fluids, Bar-S trucks create manifestation reports which indicate origin of fluids, volume and contents of fluids and ultimately, the unused fracking fluid's destination.</li>
<li>Colorado State Patrol states that because fracking fluids are not regulated there are no fluid volumes or contents.</li>
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<li><b>Regulators also claim they do not believe the fracking industry fluids entered river. </b></li>
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<li>How can the "regulators" stand by this claim when a 5,000 gallon truck containing "unused fracking fluids" crashed and released all but 200 gallons into the environment? It was 11:30 PM when the tanker crash happened. There are no lights and emergency response arrived after the fluids were released. The statement wouldn't hold water in court.</li>
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Robert Breckenridge, landowner and site of location where the tanker truck spilled. Mr. Breckenridge filed an official complaint with the COGCC. </div>
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<i>Location of concern: “Tanker Spill in my yard in Poudre Canyon at 9552
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14. Issue: I knew it was matter of time until one wrecked at our property
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<i>“One did wreck last Thursday evening about 11pm spilling its entire
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It appears that Sandridge Exploration and Production LLC was hauling post-fracking flowback water from <a href="https://cogcc.state.co.us/cogis/ProductionWellMonthly.asp?APICounty=057&APISeq=06515&APIWB=00&Year=All" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; white-space: nowrap;" title="Click for production data.">Peterson Ridge #1-20H</a> an actively producing horizontal oil well in Jackson County, CO where the surface and mineral owner is leased by the Federal Government.<br />
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<li>DEMAND A FULL POLICE REPORT ON THIS ACCIDENT</li>
<li>DEMAND WASTE MANIFEST BILL OF LADING/ THAT DESCRIBES THE SOURCE OF THE SPILLED WASTE AS PER RULE 906.b.(2) FACILITY OF ORIGIN, VOLUMES, CONTENTS, MSDS, AND DESTINATION FACILITY.</li>
<li>DEMAND EPA REPORTS DUE TO FRACKING INDUSTRY RELATED FLUIDS POTENTIALLY ENTERING WATERS OF THE STATE AND NATIONAL HERITAGE POUDRE RIVER.</li>
<li>HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE REPORTING PARTIES CLEARLY AND ACCURATELY STATE THAT NO FRACKING INDUSTRY FLUIDS FROM THE CRASH ENTERED THE POUDRE RIVER" WHEN THIS HAPPENED AT 11:30 PM? THERE ARE LITTLE TO NO LIGHTS IN THE REMOTE AREA AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE OFFICERS RESPONDED MUCH LATER IN TIME AFTER THE TANKER TRUCK HAD DISCHARGED WHAT APPEARS TO BE 4,800 GALLONS OF FLUIDS ON, NEAR AND DOWN THE RIVER BANK?</li>
<li>THE INITIAL REPORT STATES THAT THE FLUID REPORTEDLY SPILLED WAS "UNUSED FRACKING WATER" AND BECAUSE IT IS NOT A REGULATED SUBSTANCE THE CDPHE WOULD NOT KNOW THE VOLUME OF FLUIDS RELEASED. THE STATE PATROL OFFICER NOTED THAT THE FLUID APPEARED TO NOT EVAPORATE AS WATER WOULD AND HAD RUN A SPECTROGRAPHY ON IT, WHERE THE RESULTS DETERMINED THE CONTENTS WERE "UNKNOWN."</li>
<li>DEMAND A FULL RESPONSE AS TO WHY NEARLY EVERY PART OF FORM 19 HAD TO BE REVISED. DATA SUCH AS BUT NOT LIMITED TO; DATE OF SPILL, LOCATION OF SPILL, INITIAL ESTIMATED VOLUME OF SPILL, TYPE OF FLUID WAS CHANGED FROM UNUSED FRACKING FLUID TO FLOWBACK, ETC.</li>
<li>WERE THE INITIAL REPORTING PARTIES LYING ABOUT THE CONTENTS AND TYPE OF FLUID RELEASED DURING THE ACCIDENT AND THEN LATER CHANGED?</li>
<li>TWO SOIL/WATER SAMPLES WERE CONDUCTED ON 08AUGUST 2018 WITH A 24 HOUR ANALYSIS TURNAROUND AND YET 20 DAYS LATER HAVE NOT BEEN UPLOADED TO THE COGCC'S PUBLIC DATABASE. DEMAND ALL ASSOCIATED DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES TAKEN AT SPILL SITE.</li>
<li>IT APPEARS THAT MR. ROBERT BRECKENRIDGE'S 60' DEEP PRIVATE WATER WELL # 12571-A WAS CONTAMINATED BY THE FRACKING INDUSTRY FLUID RELEASE. PLEASE REFER TO ABOVE IMAGES AND COGCC <a href="http://cogcc.state.co.us/COGIS/EnviroSample.asp?facid=759810" target="_blank">LINK </a> AND URL http://cogcc.state.co.us/COGIS/EnviroSample.asp?facid=759810 COLORADO DIVISION OF WATER RESOURCES <a href="http://www.dwr.state.co.us/WellPermitSearch/View.aspx?receipt=0441690" target="_blank">LINK</a> AND URL http://www.dwr.state.co.us/WellPermitSearch/View.aspx?receipt=0441690</li>
<li>SAMPLE SITE #2 COGCC LINK AND URLhttp://cogcc.state.co.us/COGIS/EnviroSample.asp?facid=759809 COLORADO DIVISION OF WATER RESOURCES <a href="http://www.dwr.state.co.us/WellPermitSearch/View.aspx?receipt=3619278" target="_blank">LINK</a> AND URL http://www.dwr.state.co.us/WellPermitSearch/View.aspx?receipt=3619278</li>
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FRACTIVISThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873223391407310802noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303515552341118793.post-48389262071082608192018-01-15T09:58:00.001-08:002018-01-15T09:58:40.634-08:00Boulder County Commissioner's Fail to Respond to Questions Regarding Seismic Testing Conducted by the Fracking Industry in Boulder County - Did they participate?<br />
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Below is the email with specific questions for
the Boulder County Commissioners to answer regarding the seismic operations
that appear to have occurred within Boulder County. I submitted my questions via
email to the three commissioners on 17 December 2017 some thirty-six day ago. I
received an email confirmation that they are in-fact, in receipt of my email and
questions, but I have not received a response to date. Crickets…<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is important that all environmental advocates
and associated organizations ask the very same questions I have asked and hold
the Boulder County Commissioner’s accountable. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Please copy and email the questions below and send to: </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #777777; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="mailto:commissioners@bouldercounty.org">commissioners@bouldercounty.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jones, Cindy Domenico, and Deb Gardner:</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am providing you public information sourced
from the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission’s website database: <a href="http://cogcc.state.co.us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">cogcc.state.co.us</span></a> compiled
on my blog page for your review:</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <b><a href="https://fractivist.blogspot.com/2017/12/were-seismic-operations-conducted-by.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Were Seismic Operations Conducted
by the Oil and Gas Industry in </span><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Boulder</span><span style="color: #1155cc;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;">County</span><span style="color: #1155cc;">? Supporting
Documents May Reveal Answers</span></a> </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The information compiled appears to clearly
illustrate oil and gas seismic operations took place in three separate areas
in Boulder County Colorado (BOCO). Supporting COGCC
documents: Form 20 and Form 20A, state and oil and gas industry mapping also
illustrates these activities took place in Boulder County.</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a timely manner please.</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1.</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do you have access to the information I have
provided regarding the COGCC documentation authorizing seismic testing operations
in Boulder County?</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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individually, have any form of knowledge of seismic activity, permitting, Form
20,20A, mapping, operator information in Boulder County during
your active role as a commissioner?</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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correspondence from the three of you, to include the former Commissioner Will
Toor, to and from the COGCC , Anadarko Petroleum Inc., Encana Oil and
Gas, Extraction Oil and Gas Inc., and/or their associated industry contractors
regarding seismic testing operations within the boundaries of Boulder County Colorado
during the time-frames before, during and after the testing dates listed in the
COGCC documents provided? Please accept this as a formal request to
obtain all documentation regarding these specific issues from January 2012
through December 2018.</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and zoning, legal team et al, have any form of knowledge or
information, such as but not limited to; email correspondence, mapping, COGCC
communication, oil and gas industry documentation regarding the documented
seismic activities by the documented oil and gas industry operators and or
their contractors?</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mapping systems or datasets to include seismic operations and all associated
data on the Form 20/20A and any additional data pertinent to the seismic
operations? If so, please provide details to include links to mapping systems
and or public data sets.</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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contractors were to want to conduct shale seismic testing/operations in Boulder County,
what would be the procedure to do so? Please describe the operational flowchart
of requirements, documentation, agencies and people involved to obtain
permissions to conduct seismic testing operations in Boulder County.</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a location for seismic activities on the mapping, Form 20 and Form 20A that I
have provided to you?</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">8.</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If Boulder County approved
seismic testing operations would you receive the 2D and 3D surface maps created
by the oil and gas operators conducting such a test?</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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provide to me for the three areas and operators that have already conducted
seismic activities in Boulder County? If so, please accept this as a
request for that information.</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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requests. Please see attached supporting documents and links.</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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three oil and gas operators conducted seismic operations in Boulder County in
2013 and 2014. According to documents and mapping maintained by the Colorado Oil
and Gas Conservation Commission, (COGCC), Extraction Oil and Gas Inc., Encana
Oil and Gas and Anadarko Petroleum Corporation have conducted 3D seismic testing
operations in Boulder County. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">1.) Extraction
Oil and Gas Inc., filed a Form 20 (Notice of intent to Conduct Seismic
Operations) on December 8 2014. With the signatures of COGCC Director, Matt
Lepore and Permit Technician and project manager, John Krull approved
Extraction’s approximate 41 square mile seismic testing for shale in Larimer,
Weld and Boulder Counties. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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20, Extraction indicated that their start date for seismic testing would occur one month prior to the authorization of the permit with an estimated date of completion
of Feb 15 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">The type of
seismic shale testing conducted is listed as 3-D – Vibroseis. It is a truck-mounted or buggy-mounted device
that is capable of injecting low-frequency vibrations into the earth.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vibroseis trucks conduction seismic shale operations. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">Image Wikipedia</span></td></tr>
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hired Houston Texas contracting company, Geokinetics USA Inc. to conduct
the seismic testing with RLI Insurance holding the bond for the operations.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">COGCC FORM 20 - Extraction Oil and Gas authorized permit to conduct<br />
seismic activities in Boulder County. Click image to enlarge.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Extraction's 3D mapping indicating Boulder County in 3N 69W.<br />
Note the bottom right of map indicating Larimer, Boulder and Weld Counties <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2.) Encana Oil and Gas Inc., filed a COGCC Form 20A - Completion Report for Seismic Operations on April 18 2013. Notice of intent Form 20 is missing from the COGCC's database.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Encana's seismic operations contracted by Lockhart Geophysical Crew #4 out of Montana consisted of 5,438 square miles of 3-D Vib</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">roseis methodology in Weld and Boulder Counties starting on March 15 2013 with a stated completion date of March 24 2013.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It seems odd that seismic operations for 5,438 square miles could be completed in a mere nine days by Encana when in-fact, it took Extraction almost three months to conduct seismic testing on much smaller 41 square miles.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Longmont, CO map indicating Encana's seismic activities. Red diagram - left side</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Encana's seismic operations mapping - possibly indicating select areas in Boulder County<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3.) Anadarko Petroleum Corporation filed a Completion report for Seismic Operations on April 27 2015. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yet another out-of state contractor was hired. Dawson Geophysical Company from </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Midland, Texas</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">conducted the seismic operations on 70-100 square miles. (The Form 20A has both 70 square miles and 100 square miles listed.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The start date of seismic activities on November 5 2014 with a completion date of December 15 2014. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anadarko's FORM 20A Completion report for Seismic Activities April 27 2015</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the left side of the map you'll notice 1N 69W and 2N 69W (Boulder County Sections) where<br />
Anadarko seimic operations took place in 2014.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anadarko's Seismic Identifier is listed as #8750, however in the file cache, this document is listed as #8055 with information of seismic activities in Boulder County. There is more than one Identifier listed in the COGCC's database. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is much more to discover about Anadarko's seismic operations in Boulder County and there are many missing documents that need to be found to provide public transparency.</span><br />
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the COGCC, one of the three seismic contractors described above, Geokinetics
USA Inc., conducted illegal seismic testing operations in Weld County without prior submittal and approval of a COGCC
Form 20 - Notice of Intent to Conduct Seismic Activity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Geokinetcs
USA Inc, Houston Texas was issued a ‘Notice of Alleged Violation by the COGCC and
was fined $10,000 for illegal seismic testing operations for 196 days. The fines imposed were $1,000 per day of the violation, up to ten days for a maximum fine of $10,000
for ten days of illegal operations. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Geokintetics
was not fined for the additional 186 days of illegal operations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><u>One more
time:</u> Geokintetics was not fined for the additional 186 days of illegal
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">This is a clear
demonstration of ineffective, unfair and unbalanced, arbitrary and capricious COGCC
oil and gas rules and regulations to issue a fine that is in no way, a deterrent.
The COGCC should be fined for allowing these illegal activities to occur unnoticed
for any length of time, let alone 196 continuous days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">The COGCC and
the industry both know it’s clearly cheaper to operate without rules and
regulations and pay a fine (also known as a fee) rather than have a single day
of down-time. The COGCC rules and regulations were created with the interest of
‘time’ in mind to not fairly penalize the fracking industry for not following
the suggestions in the COGCC rules and regulations handbook. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">After all, it’s the COGCC’s job to foster oil
and gas development and not slow the industry down. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Do not be
fooled however, there are no fines that currently exist in the COGCCs Rules
and Regulations that would deter an operator or contractor from practicing illegal activities if it saves
them money long-term. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">In-fact, many of the violations have fines that are a
positive economical avenue for the industry to take and the cost of a fine is
nothing when it comes to ‘down -time’ operators would face waiting for public
comments, notifications, permitting, signatures etc. - so much down time wasted
on paperwork. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">The fines are designed as
a public pacifier to create the appearance of penalties in action. Wait, isn't that called 'fake news?'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">COGCC rules
and regulations are an annoyance. If a
person got a ticket for running a stop sign or red light 196 times in a single
year what would be the imposed fines and penalties? Would the operator still
have a license to operate?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">How could
Geokinetcs USA conduct seismic operations for 196 days without the state
regulators even knowing? The answer is simple; there are not enough inspectors,
and the COGCC Rules and Regulations penalties and fines are insufficiently assessed
and imposed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">On the
Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission’s website it states: ‘The
Commission provides rules and regulations to establish operational standards
and requirements for industry activity in the state.’ The COGCC rules and
regulations are not effective or adequately enforced, but rather suggestions
like a speed sign on the Autobahn. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Operate as fast as you want, wherever you
want, and don’t worry about reading the regulations, the fines are so small it
does not matter and there are no police to enforce your illegal activities anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">This case
also demonstrates the lack of enforcement of formal processes within the
fracking industry and state regulators to ensure accountability of all
procedures of operations. Both the COGCC and the fracking industry are not
fully accountable. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Any novice review
of the state’s online oil and gas database illuminates the COGCC’s and the oil
and gas industry’s operations as grossly incomplete, incompetent and in shameful
disarray, thus harming public health, safety and environment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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FRACTIVISThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873223391407310802noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303515552341118793.post-21913701016590532202017-12-03T22:20:00.001-08:002017-12-05T14:22:25.772-08:00Boulder County: Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells In Residential Areas, Near Elementary School and Seismic Permitting Already Underway<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;">My late mentor Dr. Theo Colborn, Founder and President Emerita of <a href="https://endocrinedisruption.org/" target="_blank">The Endocrine Disruption Exchange</a> once said:</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"> </span><br />
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<i><b>“Deep inside everyone, there is something bigger and
stronger than we are aware of at this time that cannot be suppressed by
man-made chemicals... something... that will prompt some very exceptional
leadership to step forward with the courage to turn off corporate control of
the government and the world -- and take back for society what it needs to
thrive.”</b></i></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">I</span><span style="text-align: center;">s Boulder County preparing to allow the fracking industry to destroy Boulder County as we once knew it? </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Will Boulder County Commissioners stand up against the oil and gas industry for the health, safety, welfare of our community and environment? Will Boulder County 'politicians' become desensitized tools of the industry and allow reckless endangerment of hazardous industry to drill next to our homes, forcing the prices of homes to plummet, allowing a myriad </span><span style="text-align: center;">of negative impacts on human health, and even Boulder County Open Space to be contaminated?</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Will Boulder County 'politicians' become 'public servants' and step forward with courage to turn off corporate control and protect what Boulder County needs to thrive? </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Below is a historic overview of oil and gas activities in Boulder County. I can't help but think of the Firestone home explosion that killed two innocent men and injured others. Home prices tanked, People could not sell their homes. Children and their parents were afraid to live in their community for fear of another catastrophic event caused by the fracking industry.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Are Boulder County Commissioners prepared to answer the questions I have laid out in this piece?</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Linden Avenue:</b> Four abandoned oil & gas wells near or under homes along the foothills. Do the property owners know? Were the abandoned oil and gas wells disclosed to the home buyer upon purchase? Does their insurance company know of these potential hazards?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Linden Drive: 3735 Wild Plum Court Boulder, CO 80304</b><br />
Abandoned oil and gas well -1936. Maxwell #2 API 013-60015<br />
No mechanical integrity test on record. There are no records indicating flow-line pressure tests were ever conducted.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>555 Jack Pine Court Boulder, Colorado </b><br />
Abandoned oil and gas well on property - 1936<br />
Maxwell #1 API 013-60014<br />
Status UNKNOWN. No mechanical integrity test on record. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Howard Heuston Park - Trail<br />
Abandoned oil & gas well - 1930 FOSTE #1 API 013-05010<br />
Status UNKNOWN - No mechanical integrity test on record.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Boulder Colorado: Kalmia and 28th Street (top left). Abandoned oil & gas well on property at 'The Boulders Apartments Homes'. Abandoned oil and gas well - 1930<br />
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COGCC Inspection form states: "Location ID 379964 with the following well API:013-60011 has no evidence of disturbance based off field
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">CLICK TO ENLARGE: 2016 COGCC Inspection report for abandoned oil and<br />
gas well on 'The Boulders Apartment Homes' property.<br />
COGCC states: Abandoned well location is now The Boulder Apartment Homes<br />
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1. How does the COGCC inspect an abandoned oil and gas well they cannot find?<br />
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2 . Why is this specific inspection listed as 'PASSED' with no follow-up inspection required thus releasing the operator's bond?'<br />
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3. Do the citizens of The Boulders Apartment Homes know of an existing abandoned oil and gas well on their property which may be a potential danger to their health, safety and welfare?<br />
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Creekside Elementary School is located ~100' from an abandoned oil and gas well (date unknown). The name of the abandoned oil and gas well is: Martin #1 API: 013-05003 and in the backyard of 3755 Martin Drive Boulder, CO 80305.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation (COGCC) documents state: 'Location of well is in residential housing are. Unable to find evidence of oil and gas activities and/or disturbances.'</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Inspection passed because there was 'nothing to see here folks.' The deadly explosion in Firestone also did not have evidence of oil and gas activities or disturbances.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3755 Martin Drive Boulder, Colorado location of abandoned oil and gas well. <br />
~100' from Creekside Elementary School. Abandoned oil and gas well listed as 'plugged' but there are no records at the COGCC confirming the well was in-fact plugged.</td></tr>
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<span style="text-align: center;">It appears Boulder County Commissioners have given permission to Anadarko Oil and Gas, Extraction Oil and Gas and Encana Oil and Gas to conduct seismic operations, testing the shale before filing for drilling permits. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><br /></span>FRACTIVISThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873223391407310802noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303515552341118793.post-81707860157045732872017-11-14T14:16:00.001-08:002017-12-03T12:42:36.349-08:00Dear Mayor Ahrens and Mayor Pro Tem Stokes of Broomfield, CO - Have you been lying to your community about abandoned oil and gas wells under their homes?<i><br /></i>
<b><u>Location</u>: Broomfield, CO</b><br />
<b><u>Who</u>: Mayor pro-tem Greg Stokes</b><br />
<b><u>What</u>: Abandoned oil and gas wells near or under Broomfield residents homes, on school property and more</b><br />
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<b><i>*Note: Don't miss Part II 'Mayor Randy Ahrens' and 'Public Servant Warning'</i> at the bottom</b><br />
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Dear Mayor pro-tem Greg Stokes: Broomfield, CO:<br />
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First, it appears you have not been transparent with the community you are a 'pubic servant' to. Every community has a 'right to know' if their elected public servants have information, or know about existing potential threats or hazards to their public health, safety, welfare and environment.<br />
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I believe you, and others had prior knowledge of existing abandoned oil and gas wells in Broomfield, Colorado communities. Many of the abandoned oil and gas wells are under occupied homes, on private properties, (where the home owner, upon purchase of said property did not receive full disclosure to the existence and location of said potential hazards). Let's not forget there are abandoned oil and gas wells on school property as well.<br />
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Lack of disclosure to the home buyer is ethically and morally unjust. As exhibited in the recent past, an abandoned oil and gas facility and related equipment caused a house in Firestone, CO to explode into a fireball killing two people and injuring others.<br />
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A reminder to you and others - active and abandoned oil and gas wells have been shown to pose a deadly threat to those who live near their location(s). This is a dangerous heavy industry that should never riddle neighborhoods. Period.<br />
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Mayor Ahrens and Mayor pro-tem Greg Stokes, let me also remind you that lack of disclosure of abandoned well locations to the home buyer appears to be willful and grossly negligent. It is the duty of a public servant to be transparent and act immediately to inform the community of potential threats to their safety. That is your elected and sworn duty.<br />
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Home mortgage companies and home insurance companies will undoubtedly deny or stop existing home loans once they discover the home is near, or on-top of an abandoned oil and gas well facility. I have spoken to home owners in other states that have been denied home owners insurance due to their home location near active and or abandoned oil and gas facilities.<br />
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Who is liable for the home owner's loss? Who is responsible to inform them prior to their purchase that a myriad of potential risks exist?<br />
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The City of Broomfield, its public servants, the planning and zoning commission, its lawyers, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC), Matt Lepore, Dept. of Natural Resources, Colorado Division of Public Health Safety and Environment, Governor John Hickenlooper et al, should all be held accountable for placing the owner and residents at risk by willfully allowing the development of residential homes on-top, or near abandoned oil and gas well facilities which pose a probable threat to their safety, health, welfare and environment.<br />
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This is the Setback Loophole which I publicly disclosed in 2012 that needs to be closed immediately. All current and future residential development that is planning to build on-top, or near abandoned oil and gas facilities should cease and desist operations immediately. A statewide moratorium should be mandated.<br />
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<b><i>Below is a map of abandoned wells in your backyard Mr. Stokes. But you already knew these locations existed didn't you? </i></b><br />
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Have you knocked on the door of 4562 Longs Court, or 4765 Capitol Court and notified the occupants that it appears the City of Broomfield allowed the development of their homes on-top of, or near abandoned oil and gas well facilities?<br />
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What about address: 3751 Troon Circle? Do the home owners know they have an abandoned well from 1992 a mere ~30' from their porch?<br />
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Coyote Ridge Middle School also has an abandoned well on its property. Also approved by the City of Broomfield et al.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Greg Stokes, Mayor pro-tem Broomfield, CO - Have a look at your neighborhood. It appears you live about 340' from an abandoned oil and gas well-bore. Does the community know they live in a field of abandoned oil and gas hazards? What is the blast radius of a failed well-bore seeping gas that ignites? Have mechanical integrity tests been conducted by the state?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4765 Capitol Court Broomfield, CO according to the COGCC - COGIS database, it appears this residence has an abandoned oil & gas well in their backyard. Is this a hazard to all those that live within the vicinity? Will their mortage and insurance companies deny them loans or coverage?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Extraction Oil & Gas LLC facility and equipment locations - Broomfield, CO</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Surface removal of Extraction Oil & Gas LLC's equipment. What lies beneath, and are the adjacent homes at risk from well-bore or flow-line failures?</td></tr>
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<b>Mayor Randy Ahrens</b><br />
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Mayor Ahrens, have a look at the maps below that pertain to your backyard. Please take great care to notice the timelines and location of the Aspen Ridge Elementary School as one point of interest amongst many.<br />
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It is always the case where the oil and gas industry 'goes first.' The fracking industry will develop their operations and then make way for the housing developers to come in (and not have to abide by COGCC setback regulations) - Setback Loophole.<br />
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According to the COGCC's database, it appears that Extraction Oil & Gas LLC owns the Carlson 1-24 oil and gas facility developed in 1992 and there are no state records indicating a mandatory mechanical integrity test was ever conducted. Are there any associated flow-lines that were never pressure tested during the Governor's mandatory pressure check parade?<br />
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There was a notice of alleged violation NOAV Doc ID # 3608552 issued to the original operator with no subsequent documentation indicating alleged violation was take care of satisfactorily.<br />
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Aspen Ridge Elementary School was built in 1999 with full knowledge of the location of an existing oil and gas facility location a mere 190 feet away.<br />
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Mayor Ahrens, can you provide documentation indicating this specific oil and gas facility has conducted a flow-line and mechanical integrity test? The community and school have a right to know if an increased potential threat exists.<br />
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While you're researching, please add the abandoned oil and gas well-site Martin Exploration Carson 1-24 to your list. This abandoned facility is actually on the property of Aspen Ridge elementary School. Let's have a look at the history of that facility and please provide the information to the parents of each child that attends that school.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1993 - Broomfield, CO - Oil and gas develop facility while planning Aspen Ridge Elementary School construction . Oil and gas first, then school second, to avoid setback regulations.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1999 Broomfield, CO Aspen Ridge Elementary School construction approximately 190' from existing oil and gas facility.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Extraction Oil & Gas LLC a mere 190' from Aspen Ridge Elementary School. Does the school have an emergency response plan to evacuate the children if the oil and gas well fails? What if the oil and gas well ignites? What is the blast radius? Mayor Ahren's do you have a community evacuation plan? Please inform your community immediately.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Martin Exploration Carson 1-24 abandoned oil and gas well facility on the property of Aspen Ridge Elementary School. It appears no mechanical integrity test has been conducted on Extraction's: Carlson 1-24</td></tr>
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Over one dozen abandoned oil and gas wells riddle this neighborhood. Many abandoned wells appear to be located underneath homes.</td></tr>
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This map should be the context for a new horror film. Remember, this is not my information, it is the information the <a href="http://cogcc.state.co.us/" target="_blank">COGCC</a> has in their database and you are privy to. Everyone has access to this information, it's a right and a duty to know precisely where hazards are to prevent public harm.<br />
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Mayor Ahrens, I would like to invite you to accompany me when I walk door to door in all Broomfield communities and hand out official state and city documents illustrating that numerous homeowners may have abandoned oil and gas wells under or near their homes and schools, and that their public servants never told them about. This is an open invitation to you and your entire staff.<br />
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Please be prepared to speak to the points "what will you do when my home owners insurance company denies me coverage?" or, "what will you do when my mortgage lender pulls my home loan?" "What do we do when a well-bore seeps methane and homes explode?" "How does our community evacuate?"<br />
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Mayor Ahrens, how do you explain to the community and to the world that there are twenty two (22) abandoned oil and gas wells in the Anthem Ranch neighborhood? Many are under homes, near homes and in public areas.<br />
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Please take note of your planning and zoning development mapping system (yes, your own website), where it clearly shows you have approved further development of residential homes on-top or near an additional half-dozen abandoned oil and gas wells.<br />
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How in the world, and in what world do humans allow the development of homes in a field riddled with abandoned oil and gas well hazards? This must cease immediately and every resident should be informed that there is a potential 'mine-field' of fracking industry hazards in their neighborhood and in some cases, right below their homes.<br />
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These are some of the address locations that appear to have an abandoned oil and gas well located near or under their home. Source: http://cogcc.state.co.us<br />
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<li>14985 Silver Feather Circle Broomfield, CO</li>
<li>4947 Buffalo Grass Loop Broomfield, CO</li>
<li>14919 Sheridan Parkway Broomfield, CO</li>
<li>14909 Sheridan Parkway Broomfield, CO</li>
<li>5023 Silver Feather Way Broomfield, CO</li>
<li>4471 Tanager Road Broomfield, CO</li>
<li>14655 Golden Eagle Run Broomfield, CO</li>
<li>Holy Family High School appears to have 3 abandoned oil and gas wells located under the school and on its property</li>
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I know every concerned citizen will take this information and tell every Broomfield resident 'What Lies Beneath.' Will you Mayor Ahrens?<br />
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Will Broomfield be the next Firestone?<br />
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<i><b><u>Warning:</u></b> Any public servant - Mayor, County Commissioner, City Council, planning and zoning, local government designee, literally anyone who is a state or government employee that knows of potential threats to public health, safety and environment of Colorado communities and who <u>does not</u> perform their elected duty by immediately and publicly disclosing the locations of abandoned wells under or near homes, school, playgrounds, hospitals, public areas, etc., I will disclose all locations of active and abandoned oil and gas facilities in every community. I will have a large team of professionals going door to door in every community providing official oil and gas location documents to the home owner's while making a documentary film and holding you all accountable for your negligent behavior. You will close your oil and gas - home development setback loophole and end the unjust, ethically reckless behavior that is negligently unbalanced and favors oil and gas over community health, safety and environment. </i><br />
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Here is a sneak peek as to what's under your home in Firestone, Colorado.<br />
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Firestone received international attention as the location of the deadly home explosion that killed two men and injured others. And just weeks after, four miles North, a second deadly explosion killed one man and sent others to a burn center when a tank holding approximately 4,000 gallon of highly flammable oil and gas exploded.<br />
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The City of Firestone has some explaining to do to its community residents as to why they appear to have allowed residential homes to be built on top or near abandoned oil and gas well site locations.<br />
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The City of Firestone immediately blocked me on Twitter because I was sharing 'right to know' information to its residents. What are you hiding Firestone?<br />
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Did the home owners ever know they were purchasing a home that was built on top of an abandoned oil and gas well?<br />
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I demonstrated in June of 2012, to the City of Loveland's Mayor, Gutierrez, that it is morally and ethically reckless to allow the development and sale of homes on top or near abandoned wells, but it appears that this 'Setback Loophole' favors the oil and gas industry and home developers and not public health, safety, welfare and environment.<br />
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This is not an oversight, it's a designed loophole that appears to be willful and negligent.<br />
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What say you Mr. Mayor of Firestone? Shall I walk door to door with a map of your City and explain to the residents that it appears public safety information may have been withheld from them? Or rather, the potential for catastrophe was approved by the City?<br />
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The citizens have a right to know if someone has marginalized their safety and that of their family.<br />
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Do the residents of Firestone know the City of Firestone appears to have approved the reckless development in pursuit of money over safety?<br />
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The maps below are a snippet of oil and gas locations in Firestone, CO. The data was derived from the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission's GIS website. http://cogcc.state.co.us/#/home<br />
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Mr. Mayor, it looks like your home and other homes in your neighborhood appear to be in some form of danger.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Firestone Mayor, Sorensen and Mayor Pro-Tem, Bobbi Sindelar live in a neighborhood with what appears to be, abandoned oil and gas wells under homes.<br />
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<br />FRACTIVISThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873223391407310802noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303515552341118793.post-13773062992502495292017-09-07T11:58:00.001-07:002017-09-07T12:01:06.623-07:00Does Anadarko Petroleum Want Firestone Home Explosion Information Kept Secret?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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FRACTIVISThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873223391407310802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303515552341118793.post-22575948544854506042017-05-23T11:23:00.000-07:002017-05-23T11:44:05.062-07:00Two Homes Built On Top of a 34 Year Old Abandoned Oil and Gas Well-Bore and Liquid Waste Evaporation Pit in Longmont Colorado?According to data from the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC), it appears that the LeFevre 1-17 (gas well), with a total vertical depth of 7,075 feet was drilled in 1982 by Martin Exploration with the GPS location of 40.139756 - 105.143321 and facility ID #206626.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Abandoned gas well appears to be in home owner's back-yard (bottom left) and an abandoned liquid waste evaporation pit in another home owner's yard (3465 Larkspur Drive)</td></tr>
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The LeFevre 1-17 oil and gas well-casing is thirty four years old, and according a comprehensive study conducted by Schlumberger Oil and Gas, 'uncontrolled migration of hydrocarbons to the surface has been a challenge to the oil and gas industry.'<br />
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The Schlumberger well-casing failure study shows that 'gas migration, also called annular flow, can lead to sustained casing pressure (SCP), which can be characterized as the development of annular pressure at the surface that can be bled to zero, but then builds again.' This is an indication of an unstable zonal isolation below ground. Imagine an explosive gas hiccup that could occur at any moment without warning.<br />
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Sustained casing pressure of plugged and abandoned wells are a significant problem affecting many wells around the world and the age of the the well-casing has a direct correlation to failure rates. Sixty percent of all well-casing studied that were 28 years old had experienced fluid/gas migrations or (SCP).<br />
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All well-casings fail over time and the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, (COGCC), and Governor John Hickenlooper know the inherent dangers they are forcing on the public, and should never allow the development of homes on-top or even near these potential catastrophic hazards.<br />
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Their actions are reckless endangerment at the highest level, and the home owners are innocently unaware of the willful acts of those involved that continue to maximize profit at the peril of citizens.<br />
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Sadly, last month in Firestone, a fatal house explosion killed two men by an explosion caused by a flow-line seeping methane into the basement of the home that ignited. This tragedy could have been prevented, and all future catastrophes can be prevented if the state acts in a manner consistent with public health, safety and environment with regards to oil and gas development.<br />
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If, according to the oil and gas giant Schlumberger, 60% of all well casings that are 28 years old fail and allow gases and liquids to migrate outwards, potentially into homes, how many more incidents like Firestone will occur and is your home next?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">LIQUID WASTE EVAPORATION PIT DATA - USED BY OIL AND GAS OPERATOR</td></tr>
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Oil and gas evaporation pits are used by the industry to dump their liquid industrial waste fluids. An evaporation pit is created by digging a hole into the earth and for liquid waste disposal through evaporation. <br />
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Most of the evaporation pits were crude, unlined (earthen) holes in the ground where much of the heavy chemicals sank to the bottom and leached into the ground while the lighter chemicals evaporated into the airspace above.<br />
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What a criminal way to dispose of toxic byproducts. The industry has always found ways of making money at the expense of public health, safety and environment.<br />
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The questions are: Do you have a well under or near your home? Do you have a right to know if your home was developed in an area with abandoned oil and gas wells? Should the state be liable for allowing your home to be build on-top or near an abandoned oil and gas well?<br />
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Contact me and I'll let you know if you have an abandoned oil and gas well or evaporation pit under or near your home.<br />
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By the way, what's the blast radius of a well-bore blowout?<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; letter-spacing: -1px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; letter-spacing: -1px;">An abandoned gas line that had never been disconnected from a nearby well was at the root of a deadly home explosion in Firestone, CO on April 17. Two people died in the gas explosion and another in critical condition. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; letter-spacing: -1px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; letter-spacing: -1px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; letter-spacing: -1px;">This tragedy could have been prevented. The lives of Colorado citizens and the environment are still in imminent and grave danger due to you allowing the development and operation of oil and gas wells in occupied neighborhoods, elementary schools, playgrounds, public spaces, rivers, hospitals all across Colorado.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;"><b>GOVERNOR JOHN W. HICKENLOOPER </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;"><b>WE DEMAND: </b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;"><b>1. SHUTTING DOWN ALL OIL AND GAS WELLS IN ALL RESIDENTIAL AREAS AND OUTLYING AREAS IN THE STATE OF COLORADO. AN IMMEDIATE INJUNCTION SHOULD BE PLACED ON ALL OIL AND GAS ACTIVITY.</b> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;"><b>2. MECHANICAL INTEGRITY TESTS BE CONDUCTED IMMEDIATELY ON ALL ACTIVE AND ABANDONED OIL AND GAS WELLS IN COLORADO.</b> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;"><b>3. CLOSURE OF THE 'SETBACK LOOPHOLE.'</b> In 2012 I discovered a Setback Loophole and introduced a bill to close it – but the unfortunately, the bill died. COGCC Rule 602(d) states: “Existing wells are exempt from the provisions of these regulations as they relate to the location of the well.” This Setback Loophole allows any ‘completed’ well to be re-entered and re-drilled regardless of proximity to a structure. And home developers are exempt from any state setbacks from oil and gas operations. This appears to be reckless endangerment and must cease and desist immediately. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;"><b>4. IMPLEMENTING A ‘REVERSE SETBACK’</b> for commercial developers that is based on good science health studies and current failure data to ascertain a distance from oil and gas wells that provides public health, safety and welfare and environment. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;"><b>5. 'CLOSURE OF THE 'WAIVER LOOPHOLE' </b> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;">The ‘Waiver Loophole’ allows any operator to not abide by any rule or regulation regarding oil and gas development and operations that causes them ‘undue financial burden.’With a single sentence from the oil and gas industry that states “abiding by this rule will cause XYZ operator and its operations undue financial burden” the industry then does not have to abide by the rule or pay its expense to do so, and is then waived by a simple signature of COGCC Director Matt Lepore. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;"><b>6. THE COGCC PLACE AN IMMEDIATE HALT ON THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS</b> not yet approved or applied for as of the March 23 Martinez verdict, and to begin a balanced process that provided public healthy, safety and environment. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;">7. WE DEMAND OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO SAFETY </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;">8. LOCATION AND ID OF ABANDONED WELS AND FLOW-LINES UNDER OR NEAR COLORADO CITIZEN'S HOME AND THE CITIZEN'S SHOULD BE NOTIFIED IMMEDIATELY OF WELL LOCATIONS. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;">9. ALL 60,000+ MILES OF FLOW-LINES IN COLORADO BE INSPECTED IMMEDIATELY </span></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;">o 17.5% of all fracking industry spills had already caused ground water contamination in a statewide study. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;">o 40% of spills contaminated groundwater in Weld County, where Firestone is located. My studies, were confirmed accurate three years later by Matt Lepore, Director of the COGCC. If any company had contaminated groundwater at a 40% rate they would no doubt be shut down </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;">On June 12, 2012 I attended a fracking study session in Loveland, Co where I told the Mayor, planning and zoning commission they could create their own setbacks from fracking industry oil and gas wells. I told them they should locate every active and abandoned well in their city and outlying county and develop new homes away from existing wells in order to protect public health, safety and welfare. I recently contacted the city of Loveland to acquire the recording of said presentation, and they said that they 'purged it from their system.' It no longer exists. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;">In 2011 the COGCC requested emergency funding in Florence, CO for explosive levels of methane seeping into more than a dozen homes from an abandoned well more than 1,000’ away. The homes had to be </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;">immediately evacuated. For perspective, the home in Firestone was 170’ away from an abandoned well. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;">There are COGCC documents that illustrate numerous homes in Colorado are build on top of abandoned oil and gas wells and in a few cases, the home exploded due to methane seepage into the basements. One person was taken to the burn center.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;">These are some of the imposed dangers you have placed upon us Governor John Hickenlooper, and it is time to cease and desist what appears to be reckless endangerment of Colorado citizens. In addition, commercial developers can develop closer to oil and gas wells than the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commissions’ (COGCC) setbacks allow. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 18px;">I warned the Governor and COGCC that an incident like Firestone would happen. He ignored me. He ignored the COGCC's own failures and in doing so, he failed to prevent the Firestone catastrophe from happening. There is no doubt a catastrophic tragedy like Firestone or worse, will happen again if the State of Colorado does not act immediately to pass statewide laws that protect the “civil rights to safety” of Colorado citizens and that of the environment and not favor the oil and gas industry. </span></span><br />
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What can I say that I haven't already said for the last seven years of
my life to you, other commissioners, city councils, senators, governors, and
hundreds of thousands of Coloradans, media everywhere and the entire United
States? I have even told the fracking industry the facts on their oil and gas state
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I will now re-iterate.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I warned everyone an incident like Firestone would happen. The
probability exists that an oil and gas related catastrophe in residential
neighborhoods will happen when industry infrastructure and realistic setbacks
are not created. There is no doubt a
catastrophic tragedy will happen if Boulder County does not act immediately to
pass local laws that protect the “civil rights to safety” of Boulder County
citizens and that of the environment and
not favor the oil and gas industry.<o:p></o:p><br />
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I have probably reviewed more than a half million Colorado Oil and Gas
documents, I have seen documents that illustrate explosive levels of methane
and other gases seeping into dozens of homes that had to be evacuated by the
COGCC. I have seen documents that show how the Laramie Fox-Hills Aquifer was
contaminated with methane and toluene (a fracking fluid) by a well casing leak.
Private water wells all over the state have been contaminated by oil and gas
operations. Methane and fluid migrations can travel over one mile in distance. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I have seen thousands of spill reports that showed 17.5% of all
fracking industry spills had already caused ground water contamination in a
statewide study. And a staggering 40% of
spills contaminated groundwater in Weld County, where Firestone is located. My
studies, which are nothing more than the COGCC’s own documents, were confirmed
accurate three years later by Matt Lepore, Director of the COGCC. If any
company had contaminated groundwater at a 40% rate they would no doubt be shut
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I have reviewed documents that illustrate numerous homes in Colorado
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In 2011 the COGCC requested emergency funding in Florence, CO for
explosive levels of methane seeping into more than a dozen homes from an
abandoned well more than 1,000’ away. The homes had to be immediately
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According to a Cornell University Study: 60% of well-bores fail after
20 years. Meaning; the structural integrity of wellbores degrade, corrode,
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There are six abandoned wells in Boulder City proper that are over 80
years old that appear to be in homeowner’s backyards or underneath or near
occupied homes. There are nearly one
dozen other abandoned wells that exist in the surrounding areas of the City of
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There is an 80+ year old abandoned well under Valmont reservoir and two
abandoned wells the same age on the beaches of the Boulder Reservoir where,
>300,000 people visit annually. There is also an abandoned oil and gas well
from the 1930’s less than 200’ feet from Creekside Elementary School. Nearly
the same distance as the well in Firestone.<o:p></o:p><br />
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On June 12, 2012 I attended a fracking study session in Loveland, Co where
I told the Mayor, planning and zoning commission they could create their own
setbacks from fracking industry oil and gas wells. I told them they should locate every active
and abandoned well in their city and outlining county and develop new homes
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In 2012 I discovered a Setback Loophole and introduced a bill to close
it – but the unfortunately, the bill died. COGCC Rule 602(d) states: “Existing wells
are exempt from the provisions of these regulations as they relate to the
location of the well.” This Setback Loophole allows any ‘completed’ well to be
re-entered and re-drilled regardless of proximity to a structure. And home
developers are exempt from any state setbacks from oil and gas operations. This
appears to be reckless endangerment and must cease and desist immediately.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Failures of the State of Colorado to Prevent or Mitigate Adverse Impacts to its
Citizens and the Environment.” <a href="http://cogcc.state.co.us/documents/reg/Rules/2012/setback/StakeholderGroup/Presentations/setback%20loophole%20HIDDEN%20IMPACTS%20OF%20HYDRAULIC%20FRACKING%20%20%20S.%20Davis%20-%20Aug%202012%20-%20Copy.pdf">LINK</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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The grand loophole of all exists in the COGCC Rules and Regulations.
The entirety of the COGCC’s regulations are nothing more than worthless words
due to a ‘Waiver Loophole’ that allows any operator to not abide by any rule or
regulation regarding oil and gas development and operations that causes them
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With a single sentence from the oil and gas industry that states
“abiding by this rule will cause XYZ Operator and its operations undue
financial burden” the industry then does not have to abide by the rule or pay
its expense to do so, and is then waived by a simple signature of COGCC Director Matt Lepore. This is the 'Comprehensive Waiver
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I lived in Firestone. It was not only a horrific inspiration to launch
a full state-wide resistance against the unregulated fracking industry and the
State agencies that gave them right of way over public health safety and
environment, but it forced me to move to a place that did not have any real
immediate danger. I could not protect myself from the inherent dangers of the
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FRACTIVISThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873223391407310802noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303515552341118793.post-7659897344175715702017-04-28T21:59:00.000-07:002017-04-29T11:43:02.090-07:00FIREstone Colorado - A Visual Tour of the Fracking Invasion in Your Backyard: WARNING<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The short piece below was filmed in 2014 but is more relevant now than any other time. It was filmed in Firestone, Colorado where I lived for two years and eventually got out! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My deep condolences to the Martinez and Irwin families for their tragic loss and continued suffering. There is nothing that can replace your loss.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have no doubt whatsoever, t</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">his tragedy could have been prevented if we had a state governing agency that was balanced and put public health, safety and welfare first. Oil and gas operations should never be in neighborhoods and houses should never be built around fracking well-pads. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It appears the State of Colorado and bloated greedy fracking industry have questions to answer. And the victims families and public have many questions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have been warning every city council member, county commissioner, mayor, senator, governor and everyone at hundreds of public presentations across Colorado for seven years, that a catastrophe would happen because of the shocking failure rates of the state and oil and gas industry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 2012, on record, I gave a formal fracking industry presentation to the COGCC on the dangers of oil and gas operations in and around neighborhoods <a href="http://cogcc.state.co.us/documents/reg/Rules/2012/setback/StakeholderGroup/Presentations/setback%20loophole%20HIDDEN%20IMPACTS%20OF%20HYDRAULIC%20FRACKING%20%20%20S.%20Davis%20-%20Aug%202012%20-%20Copy.pdf" target="_blank">LINK</a> to Matt Lepore Director, </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">COGCC).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I explained that the proposed 500' setback was not adequate enough to protect human life. I further explained that oil and gas should never be in or near neighborhoods and the risk of a catastrophe was imminent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mr. Lepore did not care at all what I had to say. In fact, he and his oil and gas cronies had likely already decided fracking industry operations would happen no matter what and nothing I had to say would make a difference.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We must stand up against a rogue industry, and fight for our lives and the lives that were tragically lost. The State of Colorado, Governor Hickenlooper and the COGCC appear to have have failed to protect us and it appears they had reckless disregard for our safety. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please donate to the Martinez and Irwin family: <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/mark-erin-and-family" target="_blank">GOFUNDME</a></span><br />
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practical, doable path to municipalization. Because that is what the citizens
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This is a civil rights problem. When a mineral and surface landowner leases their minerals to the fracking industry their decision may place the surrounding public at great danger from a myriad of health and safety risks created by the fracking industry's operations. </div>
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One landowner's decision can place hundreds, if not thousands, of innocent people at risk from the dangers of the fracking industry's toxic air, groundwater contamination, fugitive emissions, failed equipment, human error, and even a blowout which is the most dangerous to communities that are close by. </div>
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A blowout is an accumulation of extreme gaseous and liquid pressure down in the ground that exceeds the prevention capacity at the top of the well-bore. Meaning: a pressurized explosion that can potentially travel miles upwards and outwards spewing toxic fracking chemicals and hydrocarbon based fluids for across the tops of homes and public areas. If the blowout fluids ignite, that's a different story where mass devastation may occur. Remember Deep Water Horizon? You get the picture now.</div>
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Simple. The federal exemptions the fracking industry lavish in, and statewide preemptions, (which are mostly arbitrary and capricious) allow the frackers carte blanche to develop and operate heavy industry operations that release harmful byproducts a mere 350' (sometimes closer) from homes in Colorado while not obligated to abide by key federal mandates that every other business must adhere to, or face getting fined. </div>
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The fracking industry had to find as many legal ways of getting rid of their harmful operational byproducts to increase their profitability and in doing so, they stripped the American public of their civil rights to safety.</div>
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The fracking industry kills dead, billions of gallons of potable water annually with their 'proprietary' fracking chemicals. When the industry is done fracking they must dispose of their millions of gallons of toxic, carcinogenic, endocrine disruption chemical waste. Evaporation pits ring a bell? </div>
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How easy is it for the industry to create a massive pond 1,000' long and three feet deep full of chemical laced fracking industry liquid waste to evaporate from their backyard air into your backyard airspace? Simple. It's the least expensive method to get rid of their nasty chemicals, and it's legal. The sun does all of the work for them.</div>
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Dilution is the solution to pollution. And it keeps their financial bottom line looking great. Your lungs become the filter for their poisons. And don't even think about proving it - you can't. It's all by design.</div>
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This time they were drilling deeper and telling people they will be using a new technology 'fracking' that will allow them to retrieve natural gas from the shale. The fracking industry even created false marketing by telling the American public that using and supporting this 'new fracking technology' we would ensure National Security and that we'd have natural gas for one hundred years. What a load of shit that was. But people bought into it.</div>
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The industry knew they had numerous harmful byproduct chemicals from the drilling, fracking and extraction processes and had to find all the ways to get rid of them without having to pay a fee to do so. It's all about making money. Who cares about human and environmental safety.</div>
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The late Dr. Colborn from The Endocrine Disruption Exchange www.TEDX.org discovered numerous harmful chemicals that are used in the drilling, fracking and re-completion stages of oil and gas extraction and studied them carefully to determine how they affected the human body, more specifically, the endocrine system. </div>
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The vast majority of the chemicals are endocrine disrupting chemicals. Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs)
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According to <a href="http://endocrinedisruption.org/assets/media/documents/EDFactSheet11-7-11.pdf" target="_blank">TEDX:</a> "The endocrine system is involved in every stage of life,
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How to humans ingest EDCs? We can inhale these chemicals from a source nearby that release EDCs. Possibly like a fracking well-pad.These types of chemicals are bio-accumulative and can build up in the body even at minute amounts over time and eventually mutate human DNA.</div>
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Are the fracking industry's exemption from the Clean Air Act which states a monster fracking pad, (like the one shown below) is exempt from being legally considered a 'major point source of pollution' and therefore it is exempt from EPA rules and regulations? Other oil and gas industry operational exemptions include: <a href="http://www.ewg.org/research/free-pass-oil-and-gas/oil-and-gas-industry-exemptions" target="_blank">Resource Conservation Recovery Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Clean Water Act, Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, National Environmental Policy Act. </a></div>
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Is toxic air trespass for the oil and gas industry to vent, flare, or release harmful chemicals near communities and our airspace legal? Yes, in most cases especially due to federal exemptions and state waivers which allow the industry to basically operate without interference. The federal and state exemptions are assuredly a civil rights violation on a epic scale that has been legalized and nobody is talking about it. You can no longer protect your health, safety and welfare.</div>
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The fracking industry's operational exemption violate our civil rights to safety. We can no longer protect ourselves from the fracking empire. They can legally poison communities and there is nothing we can do under the law.</div>
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It is this sole decision of greed to lease private mineral rights to the oil and gas industry that place hundreds if not thousands of people in direct harm from the fracking industry's operations, toxic byproduct exemptions, and the industry's operations errors. Lest we forget, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission's Director, Matt Lepore authorized your civil right violations as well. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://cogcc.state.co.us/weblink/DownloadDocument1.aspx?DocumentId=3704541" target="_blank">Doc Link</a></span></div>
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If you are a land/mineral owner, please do not subject the community to a rogue industry that can poison you for profit. It is unjust and uncivil.</div>
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We are smarter than a fossil fuel. We must ban toxic energy like fracking and create healthy energy that does not violate our civil rights to safety. Fracking is anti-progress towards healthy energy and democracy. </div>
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<i>Extraction Oil & Gas, LLC (Extraction) designed the Johnson Trust 13-I Production Facility to be a safe distance from neighboring
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) footage of chemicals being released from well-pad equipment. FLIR makes the invisible, visible and can detect hydrocarbon gases where you can't normally see them with the naked eye. If you can smell it, it must exist right? Link --<a href="http://cogcc.state.co.us/weblink/DownloadDocument1.aspx?DocumentId=3778298" target="_blank">Doc# 443649</a><br />
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The EPA removed language claiming that hydraulic fracturing has no “widespread systemic impacts” on drinking water from its final report on the subject. The move follows criticism from its Science Advisory Board and revelations by Marketplace that the report’s executive summary and press release may have been <a href="https://www.marketplace.org/2016/11/29/world/epa-s-late-changes-fracking-study-portray-lower-pollution-risk" style="color: #007aa5; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">edited by non-scientists</a>.<span id="more-47394" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></div>
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In May 2015, EPA released its draft report and <a href="http://blog.ucsusa.org/gretchen-goldman/is-fracking-safe-now-what-the-epas-fracking-and-drinking-water-study-really-says-755" style="color: #007aa5; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">there were inconsistencies</a>. The report itself covered the risks of fracking accurately: It found specific instances where well integrity and wastewater management related to hydraulic fracturing activities impacted drinking water resources and it identified several pathways through which the risk of water contamination exists, including spills, improper well construction, and improper disposal of wastewater. None of this was surprising for someone who was <a href="http://issues.org/31-1/exposing-fracking-to-sunlight/" style="color: #007aa5; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">following the issue.</a></div>
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What was surprising was the way that the agency communicated those findings in the executive summary and press release of the draft. Inexplicably, these more public-facing report accompaniments downplayed the risks of fracking to drinking water, claiming “hydraulic fracturing activities have not led to widespread systemic impacts to drinking water resources,” as if this was the fundamental question. But the EPA wasn’t charged with assessing whether impacts were “widespread and systemic,” it was charged with assessing the risks. This raised questions about who wrote the press release and executive summary and why such a discrepancy existed between these materials and the final report.</div>
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Federal officials announced on Sunday that they would not approve permits for construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline beneath a dammed section of the Missouri River that tribes say sits near sacred burial sites.</div>
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The decision is a victory for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of protesters camped near the construction site who have opposed the project because they said would it threaten a water source and cultural sites. Federal officials had given the protesters until tomorrow to leave a campsite near the construction site.</div>
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FRACTIVISThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873223391407310802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303515552341118793.post-85057243148899286102016-11-30T15:35:00.000-08:002016-11-30T15:35:04.421-08:00EPA's Late Changes to Fracking Study Downplay Risk of Drinking Water Pollution<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: pt_serifregular, georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;">By </span><span class="article--meta--author" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1fc0da; font-family: pt_serifregular, georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.marketplace.org/people/scott-tong" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1fc0da; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Scott Tong</a> and <a href="https://www.marketplace.org/people/tom-scheck" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1fc0da; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tom Scheck</a></span><br />
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Top officials of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last year made critical changes at the eleventh hour to a highly anticipated, five-year scientific study of hydraulic fracturing’s effect on the nation’s drinking water. The changes, later criticized by scientists for lacking evidence, played down the risk of pollution that can result from the well-drilling technique known as fracking.</div>
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Documents obtained by APM Reports and Marketplace show that in the six weeks before the study’s public release, officials inserted a key phrase into the executive summary that said researchers did not find evidence of “widespread systemic impacts” of fracking by the oil and gas industry on the nation’s drinking water.</div>
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Earlier draft versions emphasized more directly that fracking has contaminated drinking water in some places.</div>
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Unconventional gas exploration and extraction (UGEE) involves hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) of low permeability rock to permit the extraction of natural gas on a commercial scale from unconventional sources, such as shale gas deposits, coal seams and tight sandstone. The UGEE Joint Research Programme (JRP) (www.ugeeresearch.ie) is composed of five interlinked projects and involves field studies (baseline monitoring of water and seismicity), as well as an extensive desk-based literature review of UGEE practices and regulations worldwide. The UGEE JRP was designed to provide the scientific basis that will assist regulators - in both Northern Ireland and Ireland - to make informed decisions about whether or not it is environmentally safe to permit UGEE projects/operations involving fracking. As well as research in Ireland, the UGEE URP looks at and collates evidence from other countries.</div>
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The JRP is funded by the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment, DCCAE (formerly the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (DCENR) and the Environment Division of the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (DECLG)) and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA). The research programme was managed by a steering committee comprising the EPA, representatives from DCCAE, the Geological Survey of Ireland, Commission for Energy Regulation, An Bord Pleanála, NIEA, the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland and the Health Service Executive.</div>
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<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td align="left" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 102, 153); font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" valign="top">2016</td><td align="left" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 102, 153); font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.epa.ie/pubs/reports/research/ugeejointresearchprogramme/ugeesr5.html" style="border: 0px; color: #336699; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Summary Report 5: Regulatory Framework for Environmental Protection</a><br />UGEE Joint Research Programme Summary Report 5</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td align="left" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 102, 153); font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" valign="top">2016</td><td align="left" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 102, 153); font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.epa.ie/pubs/reports/research/ugeejointresearchprogramme/ugeejrpepastatementoctober2016.html" style="border: 0px; color: #336699; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">UGEE JRP - EPA Statement October 2016</a><br />update on the status of the UGEE JRP</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td align="left" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 102, 153); font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" valign="top">2015</td><td align="left" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 102, 153); font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.epa.ie/pubs/reports/research/ugeejointresearchprogramme/ugeejrptasksupdate221215.html" style="border: 0px; color: #336699; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">UGEE JRP - Tasks Status Update 22/12/2015</a><br />update on the status of the tasks of the UGEE JRP</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td align="left" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 102, 153); font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" valign="top">2015</td><td align="left" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 102, 153); font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.epa.ie/pubs/reports/research/ugeejointresearchprogramme/ugeejrptasksorganisations.html" style="border: 0px; color: #336699; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">UGEE JRP - List of organisations carrying out the UGEE JRP tasks</a><br />Table providing the list of organisations carrying out the UGEE JRP tasks</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td align="left" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 102, 153); font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" valign="top">2015</td><td align="left" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 102, 153); font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.epa.ie/pubs/reports/research/ugeejointresearchprogramme/ugeejrptasksupdate150715.html" style="border: 0px; color: #336699; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">UGEE JRP - Tasks Update 15/07/2015</a><br />update on the status of the tasks of the UGEE JRP</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td align="left" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 102, 153); font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" valign="top">2015</td><td align="left" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 102, 153); font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.epa.ie/pubs/reports/research/ugeejointresearchprogramme/ugeejrpupdateapril2015.html" style="border: 0px; color: #336699; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tasks Update of the UGEE Joint Research Programme - April 2015</a><br />Update on the Tasks of the UGEE Joint Research Programme - April 2015</td></tr>
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<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td align="left" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 102, 153); font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" valign="top">2015</td><td align="left" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 102, 153); font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.epa.ie/pubs/reports/research/ugeejointresearchprogramme/ugeejrpgroundtruthingnotice.html" style="border: 0px; color: #336699; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">UGEE Joint Research Programme Groundtruthing Notice</a><br />Groundtruthing Notice</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td align="left" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 102, 153); font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" valign="top">2013</td><td align="left" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 102, 153); font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.epa.ie/pubs/reports/research/ugeejointresearchprogramme/ugeeresearchrevisedtermsofreference.html" style="border: 0px; color: #336699; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Revised Terms of Reference for a Programme of Research on Environmental Impacts of Unconventional Gas Exploration & Extraction</a><br />Revised Terms of Reference (Appendix 1 of the Invitation to Tender)</td></tr>
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FRACTIVISThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873223391407310802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303515552341118793.post-13462094326820344422015-11-30T15:28:00.002-08:002015-12-01T10:49:01.095-08:00Energy of Change - #COP21<div class="MsoNormal">
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Leaders of 150 nations, along with 40,000 delegates from 196 countries,
are attending the conference in Paris, called COP21. COP stands for Conference
of Parties, an annual forum to try to tackle climate change on a global
political level. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Two things immediately come to mind. One; the word ‘try’ literally implies
failure. Why do we continue to use the word try? Haven’t we discovered through
the vast piles of good, peer reviewed, international science that we do not
have any more time to ‘try?’ <o:p></o:p></div>
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In the 1970s, ExxonMobil’s own scientific documents disclosed that humanity was on a perilous path towards planetary temperature increases from
continued fossil fuel extraction and consumption. Yet for over 40 years ExxonMobil
officials lied to the world in order to continue their secret symphony of
destruction, hell-bent on forcing the world into a toxic fossil fuel energy dependency.
It is true the only promise the oil and gas industry will give you is a lie. <o:p></o:p></div>
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ExxonMobil didn’t even try; they willfully and knowingly withheld the
truth. ExxonMobil effectively harmed ecosystems and humans of the world. Should
they be allowed to try and do better? Hell no. ExxonMobil and all global subsidiaries
should be permanently prohibited from entering any form of commerce on Planet
Earth. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And the second word that comes to mind is; climate
change. Climate change was yesterday, we
are in a climate crisis now and all COP21 consultations should be centered on the
immediate importance of building global solutions around a crisis and not
merely a change.<o:p></o:p></div>
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COP21 leaders have one mission: Agree on legally binding reductions in
greenhouse gas emissions meant to hold global average temperatures short of a 2
degrees Celsius increase over preindustrial global temperatures. Can the laws
of politics actually change the runaway climate crisis? Let the reversal of all favorable laws, exemptions, and corporate welfare be swift with accuracy to forever render the fossil fuel empire paralyzed -- just as we are. Leave only room for grassroots energy democracy. We should have a choice to thrive with healthy, perpetual energies. COP21 should only make sound decisions that would favor a hundred generations of COP summits to come. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Nature does not abide by the ‘laws of politics’ and should never have
to take a back seat to its oppressive and exploitative economics. It is through
the ‘laws of politics’ that Nature has become a prisoner and is now requiring
immediate remediation from the continued exploitation of the ruling elite.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I believe the legally binding agreements should be based on natural
laws of existence and include unequivocal rights of protection for water, soil,
air, all ecosystems, both living and further protect those yet unborn into healthy
perpetuity.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We are protectors not protesters. We are protecting our water and our
lands. We are protecting our air and climate. We are protecting all ecosystems
on earth that have the right to thrive. We are protecting the future of all
life on Earth. <o:p></o:p></div>
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French President Francois Hollande noted that "never have the
stakes been so high because this is about the future of the planet, the future
of life."<o:p></o:p></div>
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For decades the oil and gas industry has set the world on fire with its
massive amounts of pollution spewing in the airways, waterways and soil - all done
legally under its personally designed legal framework, but illegal on all
levels of symbiotic planetary existence. Will we listen to the laws of nature
or the laws of failed energy politics run by corporate capitalists? <o:p></o:p><br />
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Will humankind accept a historical shift from protecting corporate industry
to instead -- protecting humanity and honor the rights of natural laws? Will
the COP21 consciously awaken commerce and politics to comprehend we can no longer use globally
harmful fossil fuels? <o:p></o:p></div>
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I am honored to be in Paris at the COP21 where I will speak as a
negatively affected citizen and first hand witness of the fracking industry’s planetary
symphony of destruction. I will stand shoulder to shoulder with the righteous
people of the good Earth. I will also lay my life on the line to protect the
future of all life wherever it exists. We must be brave and stand on the only
side of history that makes sense – the future.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dr. Theo Colborn, founder of The Endocrine Disruption Exchange said: “Deep
inside everyone, there is something bigger and stronger than we are aware of at
this time that cannot be suppressed by man-made chemicals—something ---- that
will prompt some very exceptional leadership to step forward with the courage
to turn off corporate control of the government and the world -- and take back
for society what it needs to thrive.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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"What greater rejection of those who would tear down our world
than marshaling our best efforts to save it," President Barack Obama said
in his speech.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’d like to see Obama and the rest of the world’s good leaders marshal the
rogue fossil fuel industry into international, federal and state courts to
stand trial for human and planetary rights violations. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We have an energy revolution at our feet and we are the boots on the
ground that this revolution wants to be.
It is our life’s mission to change the toxic energy we have been
enslaved into with viable forms of healthy energy democracy in every community
across the world. The power of one is
exponential, so look in the mirror now and get started. We are the Energy of
Change.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Shane Davis<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fractivist.org<o:p></o:p></div>
FRACTIVISThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873223391407310802noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3303515552341118793.post-6880044780089811382015-10-12T18:25:00.000-07:002015-10-26T09:54:44.917-07:00Stop The Frack Attack National Summit and Action Opening Speech - Denver [extended version]<div class="MsoNormal">
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Shane Davis<o:p></o:p></div>
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Stop The Frack Attack <o:p></o:p></div>
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Denver, CO 2015<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hello Stop The Frack Attack Network: <o:p></o:p></div>
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Welcome to Colorado! My name is Shane Davis. I recognize
many of you – and to those of you who don’t know me ---we are simply friends
that haven’t met yet.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am one of the many advisory council members for Stop The
Frack Attack. I founded fractivist.org –
a data mining organization that has and continues to assist communities and
organizations all across the United States and overseas fight fracking. It is
an honor to be speaking to my peers and mentors today.<o:p></o:p></div>
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No doubt there are oil and gas employees here. They are easy
to spot. Welcome them and be cordial, but be firm with your conviction and
invite them to join you on the right side of history.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Thank you for coming to Colorado for the 3rd Annual Stop the
Frack Attack Summit and Action Day! One of our many purposes is to ‘Escalate
the fight between communities and the oil and gas industry.’<o:p></o:p></div>
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I want to give Robby Diesu a big ‘thank’ you for his
dedication and brilliance putting this event together. Stop The Frack Attack is an umbrella
coalition which is comprised of a meaningfully diverse group of people coming
together with great respect for one another and share many common causes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Since the last national summit in Dallas in 2013,
communities have won fracking-related victories in California, Colorado,
Maryland, New York, Texas and many other places across the country. Oil prices
are the lowest they’ve been in a decade and the fracking-driven oil and gas
industry is in the midst of a severe decline. In combination, these factors
suggest the nationwide fracking movement is at a turning point. Might we say a social
and energy revolution?<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is a turning point where communities can collectively
gain the upper-hand in the fight to protect their health and welfare against a
malevolent oil and gas industry. The goal of this summit is to help make that
potential a reality.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There are movement leaders from 30 states in this room
today. That’s 60% of the Unites States that have come together to support our
border-less movement and stand shoulder to shoulder against the oil and gas
industry and corrupt politicians. Residents
from AK, CA, CO, DC, FL, IA, ID, IL, KY, MA, MN, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NY,
OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TX, VA, WA, WI, WY are present in this room today. In addition, leaders from several tribal nations, including Navajo, Ojibwe, Arapahoe, All were front and center teaching workshops, speaking and facilitating actions.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="background: lightgrey; mso-highlight: lightgrey;">We are a United State --- of Resistance.</span><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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What an incredible collective of solidarity and wisdom we
embrace in this room. Each one of you have your own unique battles, but are
fighting the same fossil fuel pollution empire imposing its harms against the
poor and marginalized -- and against our ecosystems’ and ultimately destroying
our climate. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The fracking energy industry is so intoxicated and bloated
by greed that it has moved into our backyards, near our school playgrounds, our
hospitals, universities, our daycares, our state parks, our National
grasslands, and has its sights on the rest of our public lands across America
unless we stop them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My involvement as an activist against fracking in Colorado
has been a long, long road. I have worked with so many great organizations
locally and nationally. One of my greatest memories was working with the late
Dr. Theo Colborn – founder of the Endocrine Disruption Exchange. She was an
astonishing scientific activist. I worked with Theo for three years and am
proud to be one of the lucky THOEites.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She said: “deep inside everyone, there is something bigger
and stronger than we are aware of at this time that cannot be suppressed by
man-made chemicals—something ---- that will prompt some very exceptional
leadership to step forward with the courage to turn off corporate control of
the government and the world -- and take back for society what it needs to
thrive.”<o:p></o:p><br />
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Theo’s scientific research was at the tip of many spears
across the globe. It was Theo’s work that propelled many of us to stand up and
fight where we were needed. I did a lot of research for Theo and I hope to pass
along my knowledge to others.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was in 2011 after reviewing tens of thousands of oil and
gas documents that I realized the fracking industry’s federal operating exemptions
had stripped our civil rights to safety. The federal exemptions the fracking
industry lobbied, created and enjoyed were violating our civil rights and we
needed to tell the world and find the ways to reform them immediately. We could not protect ourselves from the fossil
fuel pollution empire. We still can’t. <o:p></o:p></div>
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That day, in 2011, I realized this was not just an
anti-fracking movement any more, but a jaw-dropping civil rights movement of
epic proportion. <o:p></o:p></div>
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All of you have committed to resist this toxic fossil fuel invasion
and have unified as a ‘movement without borders’ in the pursuit of preserving
humanity and justice. And we will take back our civil rights and fortify our
communities with <u>morality and law</u> that favors people not
corporations. And favors nature and not man-made
pseudo profits. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Thank you all for your absolute tenacity. Thank you for your
unwavering leadership and personal sacrifice in the face of monumental odds. <o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->It is our duty to assist our neighbors and
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Dismantle and reconstruct laws that favor a healthy
vibrant planetary existence for all creatures that can thrive without dirty,
ugly, toxic fossil fuels.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->And it is our duty to protect those laws we
reform into perpetuity for the preservation of all future generations.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="background: lightgrey; mso-highlight: lightgrey;">We are not</span>
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protectors</span></b><span style="background: lightgrey; mso-highlight: lightgrey;">.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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We are protecting our water and our lands. We are protecting
our air and climate. We are protecting all ecosystems on earth that have the
right to thrive; we are protecting our climate -- from annihilation from the Fossil
Fuel Pollution Empire. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: lightgrey; mso-highlight: lightgrey;"><b>We
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Why are we protectors? Because we love.We love humanity
and justice and we will protect them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What is the most important quality for a revolutionary to
possess? --- It is --- LOVE - <i><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Enersto Che Guevara<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->LOVE is the most important quality for a
revolutionary to possess.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We have an energy revolution at our feet and we are the
boots on the ground that this revolution wants to be. <span style="background: lightgrey; mso-highlight: lightgrey;">We are the Energy of Change.</span> And from this day forward it is
our goal to change the energy we have been enslaved into with viable forms of
healthy energy democracy in every community across America.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Che also said: <u>‘A real revolutionary goes where he or she
is needed.</u>’ <o:p></o:p></div>
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So I thank you all for coming here --- where you are needed.
And we will come to you when you need us.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Thank you for standing
shoulder to shoulder in the streets opposing those who are harming us,
protecting our rivers, our air, our wildlife, collecting signatures in 100
degree temperatures. You went where you were needed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Thank you for educating communities, counting votes, agreeing
with our differences, working tirelessly and into the night. Thank you for
spending time in jail simply for protecting something you love, missing your
child’s school event, spending time away from family and friends, not taking
vacations, thank you for your sufferings. You went where you were needed. You
are a real revolutionary. <o:p></o:p><br />
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LOVE is the most important quality for a revolutionary to
possess and you are here because you love many things dearly and want to
protect them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Our borderless movement is now spanning across the globe and
into Paris, France this December where I will be speaking at the Global Energy
Summit with Jill, Jenny and Robert: also advisory members of Stop the Frack
Attack Coalition. We will join our brothers and sisters from all over the world
to talk about the state of global energy affairs, its failures and much needed solutions.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Texas Solar Energy Society has reported: One day of the
sun’s energy that reaches the Earth, can power the energy needs of the entire
planet for 27 years.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In Colorado it takes about 3 weeks for the oil and gas
industry to obtain a drilling permit. It takes a solar company four months or
more to wade through a sea of paperwork and permitting before they can even get
started. Permitting delays for solar companies have put some companies out of
business. The state regulations and ridiculous delays for solar energy
implementation are preventing job creation, and business revenue for Colorado.
I am certain this type of domination is happening in some of your states too.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As we know there are many kinds of cleaner, perpetual
energies created by the forces of nature and our intelligence. We are smarter
than a fossil fuel and can power our energy needs with energies like: solar,
wind, geothermal, ocean power, bioenergy, biofuels, solar-hydrogen, graphene
batteries derived from plants like hemp, and so more… <o:p></o:p></div>
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In fact – Henry Ford and Rudolph Diesel never intended their
combustion engines were to run on fossil fuels.
Ford and Diesel’s engines ran on bio-fuels, vegetable and hemp oils. All
of these were and still are --- superior in cleanliness and production than the
toxic fossil fuel industry. It was the empire of greed, the fossil fuel industry
that forced us into a system of enslaved energy consumption. They still force
us to buy what they have to sell. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Back then in the 1930’s during the ‘glory days’ the fossil
fuel empire owned vast mineral rights across the nation and purchased more and
more, knowing they had secured over a century of fossil fuel energy consumption
and commercialization and profit from fossil fuel based products all around the
globe.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They have a monopoly.
When you pull your combustion engine car up to a gas station, you get
three choices of poison, poison, or more poison to fill you tanks with and
pollute our airspace. It’s an illusion of choice my friends.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But as we know, our fossil fuel based addiction comes with a
very high price. And that price is passed along to communities and the
environment.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Here are a few statistics on how the state of Colorado has
allowed the fossil fuel industry to behave</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->55,000 active fracking industry wells<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->80,000 + abandoned wells where nearly half are
awaiting re-entry <o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Millions of gallons of toxic industrial waste
water are spilled and never recovered each year<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Weld County has over 25,000 active wells with a
40% groundwater contamination rate. Meaning: the industry and the state of
Colorado have miserably failed to regulate the oil and gas industry in a manner
consistent with public health safety and welfare. What other industry is
allowed to contaminate our groundwater with incredibly harmful chemicals and
still have the legal authority to operate? NONE – just the fracking industry<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->In 2013 over 16 billion gallons of liquid waste
was created by the fracking industry in CO alone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->There is an ocean of fracking industry toxic
waste water under the surface of Colorado<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The State has a groundwater monitoring program
that it touts as proactive. But in fact, the state is scrambling to locate what
community the toxic fracking industry fluid migrations are headed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->In 2012 I discovered a setback loophole that
stated any previously completed well could be re-entered and – re-completed
regardless of distance to occupied structures.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->There is an arbitrary and capricious permit and waiver
system that allows the fracking industry to not have to abide by nearly any
rule if its harms their profitability.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>COLORADO STATISTICS<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Back in 2012 and 2013, five Colorado cities—Boulder,
Broomfield, Lafayette, Longmont and Fort Collins—all enacted long-term
moratoria or bans. Boulder County also enacted a long-term moratorium. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So far:<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Broomfield’s long-term moratorium was challenged
by the Colorado Oil and Gas Association and lost in court and then the
Broomfield City Council was granted a “suspension” of their appeal of the case
pending the outcome of the Colorado Supreme Court case.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Lafayette’s ban was challenged by the Colorado
Oil and Gas Association and lost in court and then the Lafayette City Council
did not to appeal the decision.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Longmont’s moratorium was challenged by the
Colorado Oil and Gas Association and lost in court and then the City Council
appealed the decision.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Fort Collins’ long-term moratorium was
challenged by the Colorado Oil and Gas Association and lost in court and then
the City Council appealed the decision.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The City of Boulder’s long-term moratorium was
not challenged and remains intact.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Boulder County’s long-term moratorium was not
challenged and remains intact.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The Supreme Court has combined the two cases
from Longmont and Fort Collins and is expected to start hearing briefs by the
end of 2015.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Colorado’s Governor John Hickenlooper (better known as
‘Frackenlooper’), has gone to war against good science and anyone opposing the
fracking industry. He is suing communities for protecting their health, safety
and welfare from the harmful fracking industry’s operations. Governor Hickenlooper purposefully omitted
grassroots communities in stakeholder meetings and saluted the AstroTurf and
GASSROOTS organizations as a replacement. He is nothing but the fracking
industry’s tool.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Colorado is ground zero where the principles upholding the
rights of small and large communities to sovereignty are put to the test day by
day, minute by minute. We are fighting to protect what we love.<o:p></o:p></div>
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REASON? Our legal framework has been commandeered and
altered to favor those who changed it.
As a protector’s sign in the streets read: ‘Our legal system is not
broken. It was built that way.’ Now that we know the system was created to
favor corporations and not our lives, what shall we do? What would a
revolutionary do?<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Fracking Empire has reportedly spent tens of millions of
dollars in Colorado alone against grassroots efforts. We are simply protecting
ourselves against human rights violations caused directly from them –the
fracking industry. We spent tens of thousands of dollars against their tens of
millions and we proved their money was nearly worthless. We beat them 5 out of
5 and the 6<sup>th</sup> ban was short by only 900 votes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We have reached a new stage in history of resounding
sacrifices, suffering, and misery for the peoples of America and abroad, who
are now facing and resisting the colonial system of imperialism once
again. This time it is in the shape of
the political and economic fracking Industry Empires and their rule over global
fossil fuel energy consumption<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fifty plus years ago Che Guevara, the revolutionary
humanitarian, fought selflessly against similar ruling forces that were harming
local communities. Che’s personal sacrifice was in curing the poor and the
marginalized people’s maladies caused by political injustices. He was a
physician first, a doctor who cared deeply for others. Che asserted his moral
obligation and went to the source of the problem and the solution was to defeat
the political systems that caused that ‘social injustice’ ---> which caused
those endemic maladies of poverty and misery. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Che’s personal sacrifice was to end suffering and misery in
communities and establish a system that would provide communities with the
power to protect themselves and provide a healthy fair system for people to
thrive safe from imposing oppression.
Fifty years later we are faced with a <u>very</u>…….. similar monster. It
is called the fracking industry and the corporate capitalists.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>REWIND</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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LETS REMEMBER THE FIRST EARTH DAY IN 1970: Over 20 million
people participated. It was referred to as: The day the Earth became our first
priority. It was the day designated to honor the Earth. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Earth Day was also thE day our government turned away from
the environment. In part, because the environmental community had only established
a single day out of the entire 365 days in a year to focus on. This was perfect
for corporations. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We should honor the Earth every day. Why is it not simply respected as ‘a way of
life?’<o:p></o:p></div>
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Earth Day 1970 achieved a rare political alignment,
enlisting support from Republicans and Democrats, rich and poor, city slickers
and farmers, tycoons and labor leaders. The first Earth Day led to the creation
of the United States EPA and the passage of the Clean Air, Clean Water, and
Endangered Species Acts. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As 1990 approached, a group of environmental leaders asked the
Earth day lead organizer to organize another big campaign. This time, Earth Day
went global, mobilizing 200 million people in 141 countries and lifting
environmental issues onto the world stage.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Now the fracking industry is exempt from standard EPA
regulatory authority. The very protective laws created by Earth Day. So now
every Earth Day our protective laws are meaningless in the wave of fracking
exemptions.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The climate is the world’s stage now. Everything that
affects the climate is kicked back to us to an eventual increasing point of no
return. We are in a climate crisis and a parallel political crisis. Activism
must reach the point of no return as well in order to have long-term effects on
the changing system that was built broken.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fracking is a last ditch effort to extract the remaining
fossil fuels on planet earth. The risks of fracking for tight oil and shale gas
are far outweighed by the insincerely hyped abundant, affordable domestic
energy we’re getting in return. It’s just not smart. And it’s just not true!
Period.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fracking is an ugly technology and it is anti-progress
towards healthy perpetual energy. We are smarter than a fossil fuel and have
the intellect to transform global energies. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This Stop The Frack Attack Summit will provide you with some
of America’s brightest minds and leaders all faced with the same or similar
issues. We will have the unique opportunity to learn from one another and
accelerate our knowledge base thus accelerating our ‘energy of change’
movement. The information we need to evolve into healthy energy is here.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Some of the great minds you won’t want to miss are: <o:p></o:p></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Dr. Ingraffea dubbed the ‘godfather of
fracking.’ His exquisite knowledge of fracking engineering has been at the
front of many of our battles.</span></li>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Wilma Subra: is a chemist who provides technical
assistance to citizens concerned with their environment by combining technical
research and evaluation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Dr. Glenn Miller is a Professor in and former
Chair of the University of Nevada, Reno Department of Natural Resources and
Environmental Science. His research focus is the transport and transformation
of organic and inorganic compounds.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Chris Hedges our keynote speaker: is an American journalist, activist, author,
and Presbyterian minister. He is currently a columnist for Truthdig, a senior
fellow at The Nation Institute and a contributing author for OpEdNews. He has
reported from more than fifty countries, and has worked for The Christian
Science Monitor, NPR, Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times, where he was
a foreign correspondent for fifteen years (1990–2005) and one of a group of
eight reporters awarded the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of global terrorism.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There are so many more great minds speaking this weekend so
please check the schedule often so as to miss the workshops and other meetings
that interest you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Governor Hickenlooper will no doubt turn this summit into a
pointless oratorical tournament, instead of solving the serious problems that
face Colorado. But that’s just what he does – he as avoids truth. I still have an open invitation to Governor
Hickenlooper to a respectful and intelligent debate. I am<o:p></o:p></div>
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amused in knowing he is on the wrong side of history and has
brought a human and environmental catastrophe to Colorado. We will demonstrate
this in the ‘WALK OF SHAME’ during our rally in the streets on Monday.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>We must become the government we want to see.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Our moral indignation and information against our enemy is
not enough to compete. We will have zero influence on political empires unless
we get into the state and transform it, and become it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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WE MUST GET INTO THE STATE AND TRANSFORM IT -- AND BECOME
IT! We are the state.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We must rise to meet a new life and demand the unrestricted
right to self-determination and to the Independent development of our own
communities. We have the right to democracy of all kinds including energy
democracy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let me be clear, we are protecting humanity and justice. And
we will win -- not through violence. We will win with sheer tenacity,
intelligence and solidarity. We will win this moral fight with non-violence.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Knowledge is not enough. I think we have to take the
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communities with the legal ability to protect themselves and their environments
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You represent boldness in the face of overwhelming odds. Solidarity
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Like Che, we are facing herculean obstacles in our pursuit
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">N</span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.38;">OTE: The vast majority of all fracking operators are not from Colorado! They are from other states and do not live here. The only interest they have is to frack our backyards, contaminate our water, air and soil. There are no more borders, we are all 'one' against the fracking industry!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Fremont Center, NY - Homeowners living near the Millennium Pipeline Company’s 15,000 horsepower compressor station on Hungry Hill Road in Hancock, New York have seen the value of their homes decline by as much as 50 percent since the industrial facility was constructed in the midst of what used to be a quiet, rural community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In May 2014 several Hungry Hill residents sought real estate tax relief citing the adverse impact of the compressor station on their property values. The Town of Hancock, denied the tax grievances, but Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy subsequently offered to fund homeowner appeals. On August 25, 2014, small claims hearings were held in the Hancock Town Hall. Two homeowners, a certified Real Estate Appraiser, and a representative of Catskill Citizens testified that the compressor station was responsible for heavy truck traffic, noxious odors, persistent low-level vibrations, and air contamination. The witnesses also asserted that the facility presented a safety threat and recounted how a Millennium employee suddenly knocked on the door of a house late one evening and urged the family to quickly evacuate their home. Finally, it was alleged that blasting during the construction of the compressor station had cracked the foundation of one house, which in turn led to an unsafe spike of radon levels. (Pre and post-construction radon tests conducted by Professional Home Inspection Service of Binghamton, New York showed that radon levels in the home jumped from 3 pCi/L to 6.1 pCi/L, which is above the EPA recommended action guideline of 4.0 pCiL.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In light of the evidence proffered, the Town of Hancock tax assessors agreed to decrease the assessed valuation and real estate taxes on two homes by 25 percent. The assessed valuation and taxes on a third home, the one that had been physically damaged, were cut by 50 percent. Hearing Officer John Creech, who presided over the settlement, was familiar with the compressor station and remarked, “I wouldn’t want to live next to it.” After the tax assessors agreed to the 50 percent tax cut he told the owners, “You have a good lawsuit here.”</span></div>
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