Update II: Texas Student Suspended for Wearing Edwards T-shirt
Here ya go! This is a good example of why I home school.My family would like our fellow Edwards supporters to know that one of his high school supporters in Texas, my son, has received an IN-SCHOOL...
View ArticleWill you spend $13.30/yr. for children's health care?
First, please recommend! PLEASE!Republican's who vote against SCHIP and George Bush say it's too expensive and that we can't afford it while they enjoy the benefits of government funded health...
View ArticleI will kill you for water.
When the well is dry we learn the worth of water. ~~Benjamin FranklinLearning the worth of waterThe Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's fourth international assessment...
View ArticleNumbers expose the Obama hype
I love numbers because they don't lie.One would think that I also love controversy because I certainly seem to draw more than my share. I realize that this diary will likely draw more controversy but I...
View ArticleI'm Remarrying My Abusive, Addicted, Cheating Ex-husband AGAIN
I'm remarrying my abusive, addicted, cheating ex-husband again because he said if I marry him one more time he’ll reallychange this time.We’ve been married to each other several times and each time I...
View ArticleNew Mexico: Big Oil Retaliates with HB-125
House Bill 125 - Sponsored by Rep. Dan Foley Proposes to Establish the "Oil Conservation Division Oversight Committee"This bill is widely recognized as the oil and gas industry’s retaliation against...
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DISTURBING: Domestic Drilling Pollution Pictures
This is rampant and it's happening all over the United States and Canada.There is no oversight.It's got to stop!This is the same sludge pond I posted about HERE.(More pictures and back-story at that...
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Read MY Lipstick: White Woman 4 Obama! Join me in this action.
Are you as sick as I am of hearing the media say that white women won’t vote for Obama?Are you as sick as I am of hearing white women say that Palin is just an ordinary mother, just like them?Do you...
View ArticleDick Cheney and Halliburton: Hydraulic Fracturing Chemicals in YOUR Drinking...
Cheney Helped Halliburton Hide Secrets About Dangerous Chemicals in America's Drinking Water. Please recommend so others will have this information!Hydraulic fracturing (fracing) is a drilling...
View ArticleURGENT! Would you stop a murder if you could? YOU CAN!
YOU CAN! Please do!Last month in Texas a man named Andre Thomas, who has a long history of mental illness, tore his eye out and ate it. He had previously ripped his other eye out while he was waiting...
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In TX, Beef Cattle Drink Toxins from Drilling Sludge Pits - VIDEO
This video shows Texas Black Angus cattle drinking from Barnett Shale drilling sludge pits at two different drilling sites in Denton County. I have witnessed cattle drinking from sludge pits regularly...
View ArticleBarnett Shale Video: Why is there so much smog in rural North Texas?
Could it be all those emissions are from the Barnett Shale "clean energy" natural gas production?Video taken within 5 miles of Greenwood, TX, population 75.Some background:
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Hydraulic Fracture Fluid Kills 18 Cattle Near Chesapeake Well in LA
The drilling crew at a Chesapeake well site in Louisiana was "injecting fluids at high pressure to break down the shale and release natural gas," when some cattle ingested the fluid and died. 19 of the...
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Close the Halliburton Loophole
Congress Should Close the Halliburton LoopholeHydraulic fracturing should be regulated under the Safe Drinking Water ActOnly one industry in the U. S. can legally inject known toxins directly into...
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5 Men in WV Fracked by Halliburton Loophole
If you want to continue recommending diaries full of navel gazing and pootie tats while important posts like this one get nudged off the recommended list due to yet another GBCW diary, then you better...
View ArticleNatural Gas Devastation: An Aerial View
The following video contains a few of the 360 pictures taken on a short flight over small portions of Tarrant, Wise and Denton Counties. These pictures depict the destruction caused by natural gas...
View ArticleHydraulic Fracture: The Truth About State versus Federal Regulation
Industry is spending millions in propaganda to combat the FRAC Act that will allow citizens to know what chemicals are used near their drinking water and allow hydraulic fracturing to be regulated...
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Drilling Induced Earthquakes and Some Crazy Fracked UP History
40 years ago, in an attempt to get natural gas out of shale in Colorado, they drilled to 8,426 feet and detonated an atomic bomb that produced a 43-kiloton blast (about three Hiroshima bombs). That did...
View ArticleYour Money or Your Life - DK GreenRoots:
Ninety-two percent of the 278 known chemicals used to produce natural gas have adverse health effects including endocrine disruption, neurological disorders and cancer. Chemical information is limited...
View ArticleErin Brockovich Does Midland, TX. A Community Fracked by Big Oil.
Imagine waking up one morning and having no safe water at all. In a recent radio program about Peak Water, Maude Barlow said: The day will come--mark my words--when every single thing we do will be...
View ArticleEnd the Halliburton Loophole with One click
NRDC has made it super easy to take action to protect our water.Industry is spending millions in propagand--$44.9 in first quarter 2009--to combat the FRAC Act that will allow citizens to know what...
View ArticleHelp me expose this dirty video. Updated
Seeing is Believing: Gas can leak but it can't hide!Fugitive emissions occur at every stage of the natural gas production process.Production Fugitive EmissionsWell Drilling, Hydraulic Fracturing, and...
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Breaking! Chesapeake Energy Official Admits: Fracking Fluid Deadly!
A tiny amount of Frack fluidthat was 99% fresh water and only 1% chemicals killed 17 healthy cows!You might remember my recommended diary: Hydraulic Fracture Fluid Kills 18 Cattle Near Chesapeake Well...
View ArticleUPDATED New Studies: Natural Gas Development Releases Amazing & Very High...
LOOK! You do not want to know this! But, you need to know it and so does everyone else!EDIT: This diary is about necessary regulation for the sake of human health and safety. So, if you make a comment...
View ArticleWhen your water makes plastic, it's been fracked
This is a really cool science experiment you can do with your well water after hydraulic fracturing.Run a pitcher of water.Wait for the intense foaming to subside.Apply heat to the water.Pick out...
View ArticleNatural gas development requires Mountain Top Removal!!!
In 2008, Peter Gorman wrote an article for the Ft. Worth Weekly titled:Peeling the Barnett Shale OnionScary questions have already emerged from beneath the drilling-boom bucks – and who knows what’s...
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Property devalued 75%! Where's your "Drill, Baby, drill" now?
Natural gas drilling causes 75% property value lossDrilling can dig into land valueSaturday, September 18, 2010, By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe One year to the day after a company set up its drilling rigs on...
View ArticleFracked: Barnett Shale drilling chemicals found in blood and organs
Bob and Lisa were told by their doctor to move out of their home withing 48 hours because it was too dangerous for them to stay after they were diagnosed with drilling chemicals in their blood and...
View ArticleBP spill workers, Barnett Shale residents same chemicals in blood
Workers who cleaned up the BP spill are showing up with illnesses and with toxic chemicals in their blood and it all looks eerily familiar.Illnesses linked to BP oil disasterDoctor attributes...
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Frack sand mining doesn't just suck, it blows
When they say fracking goes miles deep and miles wide, they aren’t kidding. Where do you think the fracking sand comes from? Recently I learned that EOG, aka Enron Oil and Gas, is planning to start a...
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Water: Fracking sucks more than you think!
When I was sixteen, I announced my intention to buy a new VW Beetle for a monthly payment of only $125. That’s when I first learned about associated costs. It was several years before I could finally...
View ArticleA case study in how industry influence squelches the science of gas drilling...
I used to blog about fracking here all the time way back before blogging about fracking was cool. I never told you this, but I have a new job now as organizer working for Earthworks' Oil and Gas...
View ArticleWho really gets crucified in shale oil & gas fracking?
The Big Oil & Gas Mafia and the GOP spin machine are on a witch hunt and they are after Obama and the EPA (and me too). Their first target is Dr. Al Armendariz, EPA Region 6 Administrator because...
View ArticleUpdate: Is there a media blackout on the fracking flood disaster in Colorado?
Oil and gas wells drilled in a flood plain are under water and leaking in Weld County Colorado. There is at least one pipeline that broke as the dirt supporting it was washed away. Hydrocarbons and no...
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Update: Fracking executive confirms: Homeland Security thinks fracktivists...
According to comments made by Mark Grawe, Chief Operating Officer at EagleRidge Energy (EagleRidge), Denton, Texas residents who object to his company's reckless operations way too close to their...
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Bad news for pregnant women near fracking. Study shows toxins linked to heart...
Last year I blogged about a new study: the Journal of the American Medical Association confirms that exposure to “air pollutants–in some cases for a single day–increases the chance” of heart attack....
View ArticleBreaking! Inspector General report justifies EPA in Parker County fracking...
Hoping no one would notice, Obama picked noon on Christmas Eve to release the Inspector General (IG) report that justified the EPA's Imminent and Substantial Endangerment Order in the Range Resources'...
View ArticleFracking Earthquakes and Industry's Deadbeat Dad Problem
The U.S. has seen a precipitous increase in shale oil and gas extraction over the past decade that would be impossible without the coupling of two old technologies, horizontal drilling and hydraulic...
View ArticleUPDATED: I was there: Exxon’s Rex Tillerson and the Water Tower
I was there in Bartonville, Texas with Rex and Dick.The first time Rex Tillerson and Dick Armey addressed the Town of Bartonville about the water towerwhose toxic emissions and activities would...
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From peddling cigarettes to youth to peddling fracking to Californians
David Quast worked for Philip Morris from 1997 to 1998 as manager of media affairs. He still brags about writing their Youth Smoking Prevention program that was designed to subtly lure youth to smoke....
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Report: Fracking Boom Would Increase California’s Earthquake Danger
CaliforniaIn California, oil companies are increasing earthquake risk by injecting billions of gallons of oil and gas wastewater a year into hundreds of disposal wells near active faults around Los...
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Fracking goes on trial today
Aruba Petroleum--remember them--is going to trial today. They are saying this is the first fracking trial in the U.S. and I was there, up close and personal, the whole time.Bob and Lisa Parr were...
View ArticleUpdated: BREAKING: Jury awards $3 million in first fracking case
When you present the evidence to six people who know nothing about fracking, they find fracking guilty.I wrote a diary on Daily Kos when Lisa Parr's doctor found drilling chemicals in her blood and...
View ArticleALERT: Californians! Intercepted email reveals frackers plan to stack Gasland...
An intercepted email from the California Independent Petroleum Association shows what the fracking industry has planned for Bakersfield, California residents who show up for a Gasland II screening...
View ArticleIf Texans can't live with fracking, Californians can't either
Fracking started in my back yard and has spread like a virus around the globe.Scarred by twelve years spent working in the oil and gas industry, in June 1996, I moved to paradise in the middle of...
View ArticleWhy the frackers suck so bad at fracking
And suddenly there was Chris Faulkner. He just appeared oozed like an oily fog without the little cat feet onto the fracking scene. Who is he and where did he come from were questions asked. Real oil...
View ArticleWhat could possibly go wrong with armor piercing fracking explosions?
Today three men from the same family lost their lives when a pulling unit exploded in Upton County. It is unknown at this time what caused the explosion. But it could have been caused by armor piercing...
View ArticleOf Kaepernick and Fracking
The oil and gas mafia has me in their fracking crosshairs. Goodie! I feel like throwing my hat over the windmill.You see Internet people, the oil and gas industry got caught in their own loop in Texas....
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How the oil and gas industry causes preventable worker deaths and pollution.
Workers are dying in U.S. oilfields and the industry is not taking steps to prevent these deaths. Manual gauging and sampling aka "thieving" is when workers open tank hatches to determine liquid levels...
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