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Down goes expensive unproven unclean not low carbon uneconomic dwindling market blue hydrogen (derived from methane): “Producing hydrogen from fossil fuels does not make sense as a climate strategy” and “H2Hubs may be obsolete before they launch.” Next fairy tale please.
Bad news for blue hydrogen by Suzanne Mattei and Dennis Wamsted and Seth Feaster, Dec 19, 2023, INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS Download Full Report View Press Release Key Findings The U.S. Department of Energy is negotiating with … Continue reading
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Common Sense is Never Conservative in Canada. Con party common sense = keep us poor, sick, stupid and control women and girls.
COMMON SENSE CONSERVATIVE OFFICIAL POLL I bolded my answers below. I copied the poll here, and answered it here on my website because I don’t trust Pierre Picklehead or his website, and I especially do not trust his string handler, … Continue reading
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The Great Simplification’s Human Condition in 22 clips. Jeremy Grantham: “We have created a world that is hostile to life, in almost every form including our own.”
Excellent collection of clips, but not one word about the poisoning of earth and health by hydraulic fracturing (including for bitumen) and its intentional contamination of trillions of gallons of water and permanent water removal from the hydrogeological cycle – … Continue reading
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Mother Earth screams for help for her children, which is us. Does humanity give a damn? Humans just consume and pollute, more and more and more.
Is unprecedented drought pushing the Amazon to the brink? 9:24 Min by BBC News Refer also to: Cartoon by Adam Zyglis
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Testosterone, going going … gone? Phthalates (endocrine and metabolic disruptors), used in oil and gas wells, are some of the most hazardous chemical additives in plastics for health. People can be exposed via ingestion, inhalation, skin.
Human health impacts of exposure to phthalate plasticizers: An overview of reviews by J. Eales, A. Bethel, T. Galloway, P. Hopkinson, K. Morrissey, R.E. Short, and R. Garside, Volume 158, January 2022, 106903 Environment International https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2021.106903 Abstract In this review … Continue reading
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Peace and goodwill to all, even Palestinians … and not just at Christmas, all the year. Will humanity ever live it or just say it?
2015 Dec 24: Chris de Burgh – A Spaceman Came Travelling (Weihnachten in Bethlehem) Many performers are wearing the Palestinian Keffiyeh. Do zionists and their enablers scream antisemitism at this performance? Dear Gov’t of Canada, Stop financing genocide by zionism … Continue reading
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Ireland could become first country in EU to enshrine rights of nature into its national constitution.
George Tsakraklides@99blackbaloons Dec 20, 2023: Human rights and nature’s rights are the enemies of profit. As long as profit and growth are the focus of all investment, there will never be, and there has never been, any “good” capitalism. Ireland … Continue reading
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Carbon capture: Industry’s scam to avoid reducing pollution (emissions), paid for by taxpayers, even those who see it’s just more corporate welfare
Friday’s letters: Carbon capture or corporate welfare? by Darlene Orsten, Dec 1, 2023, Edmonton Journal To be clear, carbon capture is industry’s solution to avoid reducing emissions. Instead of reducing emissions, companies will capture them, store themIf the injected CO2 … Continue reading
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Law prof Amir Attaran: “When a church that rapes children has the moral clarity to call out Israel’s terrorism, what excuse does Joe Biden have?”
S A@SA85_786: How long before Zionists call the Pope antisemitic Cornelius Steidten @Nelegligee: Or say there are tunels under the popehouse concerned american@biteme_suckas: He is 70 days late @Bibi_11S: The whole world is 75 ‘years’ late. @DaddyBagdaddy: It took Christians … Continue reading
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Bravo! Canadian kids win at Federal Court of Appeal, can sue feds for failure to address climate crisis after Harper judge Michael D. Manson ruled it’s not for courts to decide.
‘Overwhelming relief’ for youth activists cleared to sue Ottawa over climate change, Lawsuit alleges inaction on environment violates charter rights by Padraig Moran, CBC Radio, Dec 22, 2023 Lauren Wright wants the federal government to do more to curb climate … Continue reading
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Sneaky dirty rotten frac’ers: “Southern Tier CO2 to Clean Energy Solutions LLC” attacks New York State’s Frac Ban, tries to con landowners into getting frac’d with CO2 under guise of being clean.
“There is no path forward toward reduction of carbon emissions that does not include limiting energy consumption and economic growth.” Art Berman in The Impossible Dream of Emissions Reduction Just wait until SARSCoV2 cumulatively with frac chemicals (gas fracs still … Continue reading
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2022 Pennsylvania oil & gas facilities spewed over 26 billion pounds toxic air pollution (likely under reported). Imagine Alberta’s oil, gas ‘n frac patch pollution, law violations, $billions in gifts/freebies from toxic politicians like Danielle Smith and her boss (Take Back Alberta into the Cave’s David Parker), and NEBC’s, Ontario’s, Saskatchewan’s, Manitoba’s … Hold your breath! All day and night long.
Photos of toxic frac pollution in NEBC. See a regulator anywhere? Oh right, they’re busy in cushy offices with big pay cheques deregulating to serve polluters. Photo above oil/gas patch pollution blowing directly into Calgary Frac pollution in Alberta In … Continue reading
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Romantic Zionism: Daniella Weiss, Zionist settler movement head, admits Gaza must be erased, all Palestinians removed, to improve the view.
Jimmy Choo@visitor1979: How romantic.. erasing a nation so you can see the sea Amir Attaran (@email hidden; JavaScript is required)@profamirattaran: This war isn’t about hostages. It’s about murdering Palestinians to steal their land—they ADMIT it and Trudeau is all in. … Continue reading
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Texas Crane Co: 2022 blowout causing new ground fracture leaking toxic oil industry water “almost certainly flowing into the Permian’s three underlying fresh water aquifers.” Nothing can fix it (like nothing can fix Encana’s illegal frac’s of Rosebud’s drinking water aquifers). Criminalize frac’ing!
Ernst’s water tank, 185 gallons, in front of two of Encana/Ovintiv (now Lynx)’s many noisy law-violating shit ass ugly compressors (complete with Encana’s rotting falling over straw bale wall – propaganda to make the community and media think the company … Continue reading
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Mr. Fish: “Who invited that lousy anti-Semite?”
2023 Anishinaabe art for Palestine
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Good news for men that had COVID.
Risk of penile fractures rises at Christmas, doctors find, Researchers suspect euphoria and intimacy of season may be behind spike in cases Refer also to: 2023: Hey anti-health-protections, anti-rights-for-the-rest-of-us Fucker Truckers: How’s your sperm? New study suggests COVID does long-term … Continue reading
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Best Alberta tweet of 2023
Edmontonian “UnAlbertan” CougstaX@cougsta Dec 20, 2023: Can we separate from rural Alberta?
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AER: Enabler of water rapists. In 2022, 200 billion litres water used by tarsands companies. How much injected by frac’ers and permanently lost to the hydrogeological cycle?
Four Big Oil Companies Used 200 Billion Litres of Alberta’s Freshwater Last Year Press Release by Alberta Wilderness Association, Dec 19, 2023 According to a new report published by the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER), oiltarsands companies used more than 200 … Continue reading
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Liar Liar Another Lawyer’s Pants on Fire: Ex Trump/Epstein lawyer Alan Dershowitz says Doctors without Borders, UNICEF, citizens concerned about humans destroying earth’s livability work for Hamas. Ya, sure, me too – AER magically proved it so when their lying lawyer Glenn Solomon said I am a terrorist, with absolutely zero evidence, in their 2012 court filing. Baffoons!
Where’s your evidence Mr. Dershowitz? Refer also to: Slaughterhouse Zionism: 75 years of bloodshed and feeding hate. Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, Neturei Karta spokesman, talks to TRT World about Israel’s decades of sins and attacks on Palestine: “Zionism is the … Continue reading
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Palestinians in agony, not asking for pain relief, asking for water. Racist world govt’s shrug (there’s Palestinian gas to steal and frac, after all; it’s worth bombing a million children for they silently say)
I learned as a young child how cruel humans are. Nothing yet in my life has reversed that lesson. Bibi Netanyahu and his friends, including USA, UK, Canadian, European gov’ts etc., past and present, prove it to me further, every … Continue reading
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Mi prima (my cousin): I remain shocked you were willing to put me at risk via SARSCoV2. I thought you loved me. Your words may say you do, your behaviours prove you do not.
Woah, do I relate. Thank you, Ms. Santucci. This is beautifully written, but made my heart ache. Your words are filled with so much pain and suffering that could easily be prevented with honesty, inclusion, kindness, and a tiny bit … Continue reading
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9 billion humans not enough profit-raping for billionaires; Bezos and Musk want a trillion. (Of course they do, every new human makes them more money and gives priests and the rich infinite fresh kids to rape.)
Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk say human population not nearly big enough: ‘If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts’ by Steve Mollman, December 16, 2023, Yahoo! Finance We need more humans. That’s … Continue reading
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Dr. Bill Rees on Ecological Overshoot: Economic growth, energy and the population conundrum. Just watch how thirsty, hungry, hate-filled, rape-craving, thieving and cruel politicians, judges, corporations, churches become by 9 billion.
Ecological Overshoot Speaker Series Part 1: Dr. Bill Rees by blueislandgirl, Nov 14, 2023 Dr. Rees introduces the concepts of Earth’s carrying capacity and ecological overshoot, and the many environmental problems that are symptoms of this overshoot. We humans tend … Continue reading
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Scientists’ Warning: The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory. Welcome to hell by humanity.
Humans and our livestock and pets are 96% of global mammal biomass! Grant Goodrich@GGGoodrich: Amazing article on this year’s #wildfires in #Canada. Brilliant writing from @dwallacewells@nytimes The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory by William J. Ripple … Continue reading
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IEA says oil demand dropping drastically. What did anti-environment, pro-polluter UCP/Danielle Smith & Take Back Alberta (into the Cave) do? Pissed on the free market to ban alternative energies.
France’s Credit Agricole to stop financing new fossil fuel projects by Mathieu Rosemain and Sudip Kar-Gupta, December 14, 2023, Reuters France’s second-largest listed bank, said on Thursday it would stop financing new fossil fuel extraction projects and publish its exposure … Continue reading
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Israel’s far right gov’t: “Hamas is an asset”
‘Buying Quiet’: Inside the Israeli Plan That Propped Up Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gambled that a strong Hamas (but not too strong) would keep the peace and reduce pressure for a Palestinian state by Mark Mazzetti and Ronen Bergman, … Continue reading
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Bibi Netanyahu’s Gov’t: “Hamas is an asset,” used to con the world into accepting Israel wiping out Palestinians, even babies, stealing Gaza and West Bank lands, and Palestine’s natural gas. Brought to you by $Billions & Bombs from USA, Canada, UK, et. al.
Palestinian’s gas that Israel is stealing needs to be frac’d. This is why I believe 1) Canada’s supreme court judges (7/9 at the time were Harper appointees, Harper is good pals with Netanyahu) intentionally published lies and denigrated me in … Continue reading
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No wonder the rich west, including USA, Canada, etc., finances (and has for decades) Netanyahu’s genocide of Palestinians and donates bombs – 160,000 Americans live on stolen lands/homes, leading the rise of “settler terrorism” via Biden’s glaring loophole.
Shailja STOP GENOCIDE Patel@shailjapatel: 60,000 Americans live in illegal settlements in the West Bank, built on land stolen from Palestinians. Another 100,000 live in occupied East Jerusalem, in homes stolen from Palestinians. How American citizens are leading rise of ‘settler … Continue reading
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Toxic big oil pulls sneaky dirty trick on Californians trying to kill the state’s health-protecting ban on new oil and gas wells within 3,200 feet of homes, schools, clinics, hospitals, and other sensitive sites.
Our Patients Need Us to Stand Up to Big Oil — The industry protects profits over public health by Lisa Patel, MD, MESc December 13, 2023, MedPageToday Welcome to Climate Checkup, a new MedPage Today column on climate change and … Continue reading
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A Scathing Must Read by Prof Emmett Macfarlane on Danielle Smith/UCP’s and Preston Manning’s “Ideological Garbage Fire” Public Health Emergencies Panel Report, in cahoots with retired SCC judge John C. Major (to give it and them fake legitimacy)
The Manning Report and the former SCC judge by Emmett Macfarlane, Dec 15, 2023, Declarations of Invalidity, Substack Last month Alberta saw the release of the final report of its Public Health Emergencies Governance Review Panel, appointed by the government … Continue reading
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Art Berman: Shale Oil and the Slurping Sound. “That’s the bottom of the milkshake, the slurping sound.”
The real jaw dropper in the study looking at USA oil production today, performance is dropping at a precipitous rate, and the shale plays, again the average well performance is declining at a really concerning rate. The unconventional plays bought … Continue reading
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Just Released! Videos for 2023 Shale & Public Health Conference (11th Annual) with hair-raising presentation by Justin Nobel, and analysis by David Hess. The oil, gas and frac industry is toxic, no matter how we look at it.
Main page: YouTube Playlist: If you only watch one of the 14 videos from the conference, I recommend video #8 with Justin Nobel. 20:54 Min Welcome to the 11th Annual LWV Shale and Public Health Conference 15:37 Min Exploring Risk … Continue reading
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Slaughterhouse Zionism: 75 years of bloodshed and feeding hate. Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, Neturei Karta spokesman, talks to TRT World about Israel’s decades of sins and attacks on Palestine: “Zionism is the problem. … It was the Muslim countries that gave us a home.” UN Resolution 3379 (1975): “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.”
Jewish religious leader reveals how he feels about Israeli aggression in Gaza by TRT World Now, Dec 11, 2023 International terrorism, challenge and response: proceedings of the Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism by Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism (1979) Edited … Continue reading
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Today, Noon, streamed live from Pennsylvania: Press Briefing with workers injured at frac wastewater treatment plants, Sen Katie Muth and investigative journalist Joshua Pribanic
PA Sen. Muth, Public Herald Hold Press Briefing on Workers Injured at Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Plants by David E. Hess, PA Environment Digest Blog, December 11, 2023 On December 11 at Noon, Sen. Katie Muth (D-Chester) and investigative … Continue reading
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COP-out28 summed up in two cartoons
by @PatChappatte Ben Mosquera@b97264: Will they be discussing anything else than oil & gaz supply? Dec 2, 2023 cartoon in the Globe and Mail by Canada’s Michael de Adder The ultimate Synergy Festival of polluters and their enablers. A day … Continue reading
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“Unwelcome Guests.” Alberta’s Danielle Smith & her “100-person convoy of oil crony delegates” at COP28
@DcrInYYC: So Exon sent 18 people to COP28, Shell 14, BP 11, Gazprom 16 ….. Alberta 100. I guess we know who is doing it on Taxpayer $$$. @CataholicPriest: “100 person convoy of oil crony delegates” this is the most … Continue reading
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Murderous Fuck Henry Kissinger’s Obit
“Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.” Tom Lehrer, musician Lawprofblaw@lawprofblawg: Henry Kissinger is an inspiration. His legacy says that no matter how many war crimes you help commit, you can still win a … Continue reading
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If men could get pregnant, …
Nurses Against Dick Pics.@ClaudetteGGibs1: If men got pregnant, abortions would be available at a drive thru window Diana Says!@MsDianaMKSCM: If men could get pregnant abortion would not only be legal, but also free, celebrated, available at the Taco Bell drive … Continue reading
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Killer Water: The toxic legacy of Canada’s oil sands industry for Indigenous communities. Complete documentary
Killer Water: The toxic legacy of Canada’s oil sands industry for Indigenous communities 49:29 Min. by Ricochet Media, Nov 24, 2023 In Northern Alberta, Canada, sit the Athabasca tar sands—the world’s largest known reservoir of crude bitumen, and a major … Continue reading
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Excellent quote on AER by Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Chief Allan Adam: “I would like the (regulator) to immediately cease what they’re doing…They’re not credible enough to do anything.”
While in power from 2015-2019, Alberta’s NDP had their chance to clean up AER and remove ex Encana VP Gerard Protti from his top position there. They did nothing but talk – a lot, and enable AER’s law violations and … Continue reading
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“NDP, go frack free,” chant 250 citizens outside BC 2023 New Democratic Party convention in Victoria; Resolution to end fracking sponsored by 14 electoral district associations did not reach the floor, as usual.
Crowd gathers outside B.C. NDP convention in Victoria to protest fracking by Michael John Lo, Nov 19, 2023, Times Colonist Protesters chanted “NDP, go frack free.” Listen to this article About 250 people gathered outside the B.C. New Democratic Party … Continue reading
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Frac’ing harms seniors. UC Berkeley epidemiologist David González: best way to protect health is by eliminating the hazard — ban new wells and phase out existing fossil fuel development. Frac’d resident Ray Kemble: “This industry is basically killing us”
Pennsylvania’s fracking boom is hurting its oldest residents, “Up until 10 years ago, I was a pretty healthy bitch. And, unfortunately, I’m dying.” by Scott Cannon and Kate Raphael, Nov 06, 2023, Grist In 1976, Mary Ellen McConnell, a “concrete … Continue reading
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Alberta: Methane leaks still leaking more than official estimates (of course), threatening life on earth; UCP led by “Take Back Alberta” Extreme Right Anti-Science Anti-Earth Religious Party (TBA) and AER still lying, letting companies avoid clean up (more than $300B in liabilities). UCP/TBA solution? Ban wind and solar.
A measurement-based upstream oil and gas methane inventory for Alberta, Canada reveals higher emissions and different sources than official estimates by Bradley M. Conrad, David R. Tyner, Hugh Z. Li, Donglai Xie & Matthew R. Johnson, Nov 15, 2023, Communications … Continue reading
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Hayes Carll: “This is why your whole world is on fire…why you can’t drink from your own springs.”
Dear Mr. Carll, I love this song (and the pop up art). It sums up my frac’d life and that of many others. I had not heard “Nice Things” before. A friend sent it to me tonight: “Hey Jess, I … Continue reading
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New study: Frac compressor pollution harms health. Dear Encana/Ovintiv/Lynx/AER/UCP & TBA et al: Shut up frac compressors and stop poisoning us, our loved ones, homes, livestock, wildlife; stop harming our health!
Dear Liar Liar Danielle Smith, UCP/TBA, and Liar Liar unelected Premier David Parker, You banned wind and solar, and other alternate energies from Alberta to enable illegal aquifer frac’ers and health-harming oil and gas companies like Encana/Ovintiv (now Lynx in … Continue reading
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CEOs: Easily replaced with AI, or more fairly (i.e. not old rich white man biased) and law-abiding, a mop. May as well automate politicians too.
CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? If a single role is as expensive as thousands of workers, it is surely the prime candidate for robot-induced redundancy by Will Dunn, May 2023, The New Statesman On Wednesday 31 May, … Continue reading
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Racist Canada shits on Remembrance Day, votes *for* Israel’s illegal settlements taken by military force on Palestinian lands; Doctors without Borders reports sniper shooting patients inside Gaza hospital.
I’ve been horrified by Canada’s racism for decades now; I boycott Canada Day because of it. For many years now, I also boycott Remembrance Day and fake poppies because of Canada’s war mongering while our sleazy politicians propagandize to the … Continue reading
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Frac Compendium 9: From 65 studies to “an avalanche” of nearly 2,500 showing evidence of harm from frac’ing. Dr. Sandra Steingraber: “Fracking resembles lead paint or indoor smoking — no rules or regulations can make these practices safe.”
New study finds overwhelming evidence of harms from fracking by Nicholas Cunningham, Nov 10, 2023, Gas Outlook A review of the scientific literature reveals enormous public health, environmental, and climate damage from fracking. Authors say that “no rules or regulations … Continue reading
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Frac’ing ‘generation 3’ rock requires injecting captured carbon to make more oil flow. No wonder companies, lobby groups, regulators, gov’ts and Env NGOs are conning the world with Net Zero miracles via high risk Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS).
Shale Billionaire Hamm Tackles ‘Generation 3’ Rock, Continental Resources chairman is seeking ways to pull crude from sites passed over during the boom he helped start by David Wethe with assistance from Kevin Orland and Sarah Chen, November 8, 2023, Bloomberg Welcome … Continue reading
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Texas: Sound Resources Solutions chemical explosion injures at least one worker; highly flammable toxic products used/made at the plant include: xylene, toluene, acetone, methy ethyl ketone, phosphoric acid, acetic acid, sulfuric acid 93, various isoproply alcohols, hexane, etc. Residents within 5 mile radius ordered to shelter in place and turn off HVAC systems. Homes, schools, hospitals, workplaces will not be able to keep toxic chemical fumes out.
@baridapoi: Deregulation… @TappyTapin: Naturally the republican TX state legislature will use this opportunity to cut even more safety regulations *** Local affiliate Fox 26 was providing live coverage: @briancalliari4421: More extensive list from SRS’s products list: *Aromatics – Ketones – … Continue reading
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Nov 1, 2023 Webinar on Frac Harm Compendium 9
Dr. Sandra Steingraber @ssteingraber1: Friends! TOMORROW 11-1, 2 pm EDT please join Texas activist Ranjana Bhandari @Ranjana_LA of @LivablArlington and me for a webinar on the findings of the fracking science compendium, 9th ed. Register: https://lu.ma/lkwg1y7c Especially for frontline communities; … Continue reading
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Free Palestine. BC’s Jenny Kwan: “Canada must end arms sales to Israel and condemn settler attacks in the West Bank.” Benjamin Netanyahu is proving himself worse than Hamas and must step down. Stop using our tax dollars to obliterate Palestinians.
A growing number of reports indicate Israeli forces responsible for Israeli civilian and military deaths following October 7 attack, Many details of what transpired on October 7 continue to be shrouded in mystery, including how the 1,400 Israelis who died … Continue reading
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Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS): Fossil fuel industry and enablers pick perfect bend over liar at Geological Survey of Canada: Honn Kao. Not only can CO2 injection cause earthquakes, it won’t stay put, busts caprock, shoots to surface, pollutes ground water, migrates into and contaminates petroleum wells, kills, impairs cognitive function, harms families and communities
FIRST, A REALITY CHECK: 2006 May: The Role of the Upper Geosphere in Mitigating CO2 Surface Releases in Wellbore Leakage Scenarios USA Dept Energy removed the paper. Access it here. Think of the many millions high pressure fracs in oil … Continue reading
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Nov 14, 2023: 11th annual shale & public health conference
Eleventh Annual Shale & Public Health ConferenceTuesday, November 14, 2023From 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM – registration/sign-in opens at 8:30 AM University of Pittsburgh University Club 123 University Place, Pittsburgh. PA 15260 The conference is presented by the League of … Continue reading
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Updated Hartford Ohio: Brine tanker rolls, spills. Why call Hazmat if frac waste is perfectly safe?
Road reopens following tanker crash in Trumbull County by Nadine Grimley, Oct 24, 2023, WKBN Youngstown State Route 305 is back open after a commercial tanker overturned Monday. The accident triggered a large response from emergency personnel, hazmat, the EPA, … Continue reading
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Take Back Alberta deeper into the Cave with prayer, racism, hatred & bigotry! Keynote promoting terrorism by repulsive old white man, Nigel Hannaford – Steve Harper’s ex speech writer no less (did he help pick Harper’s racist judges that continue to harm Canadians?)
Adam Toy@Adam_Toy: [Calgary] prayer breakfast hears anti-LGBTQ2 rhetoric, residential school denialism @troyliss.bsky.social@Troyliss; Incredibly scary that this audience is cheering on White Christian supremacy. Mark Lehman@Mlehman99: What a great reason to skip breakfast and the disgusting message that was shared. I’m … Continue reading
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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي on the Al Ahli hospital massacre. “I also want to say that I hold Jewish life to be as sacred as Palestinian life.”
@iyad_elbaghdadi Oct 18, 2023: Good afternoon (or morning, or evening). I went dark yesterday, really dark. But I managed to sleep and I have some clarity about the Al Ahli hospital massacre that I want to share with you. I’ll … Continue reading
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Life’s future under humanity’s inhumanity, greed, selfishness (over population), and pollution-induced climate chaos: Starvation for us and other species. “The future increasingly features catastrophes that have never been recorded before”
Scientists discover why dozens of endangered elephants dropped dead, In 2020, 350 elephants mysteriously died in Botswana, with a further 35 dying in similar circumstances in Zimbabwe. Now scientists think they may have found the reason why by Phoebe Weston, … Continue reading
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Frac Harm Compendium 9 released by Physicians for Social Responsibility, Concerned Health Professionals of NY, Science and Environmental Health Network: “The risks and harms of fracking for public health, the climate, and environmental justice are real and growing. Many early warnings in our previous editions have been borne out. … The rapidly expanding body of evidence compiled here is massive, troubling, and cries out for decisive action.”
The summary accompanying the 9th Compendium is rather alarming when over 80% of U.S.A.’s and more than 60% of Canada’s energy consumption is from fossil fuels. How many families live with frac’d water and harms like I do? I live … Continue reading
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Confidential: Chesapeake with $13Billion in debt looks to buy Southwestern Energy (SWN, valued at $12Billion) which tried to frac New Brunswick but wise Maritimers said “NO!” Is Chesapeake prepping to unload billions more in debt and snag more free billions from frac-friendly judges via bankruptcy?
Exclusive: Natgas producer Chesapeake explores buying Southwestern Energy -sources by David French, October 17, 2023, Reuters Oct 17 (Reuters) – U.S. natural gas producer Chesapeake Energy Corp (CHK.O) has approached Southwestern Energy (SWN.N), a peer valued by the stock market … Continue reading
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