Friday, February 14, 2014

PROFIT IN OIL SPILLS...........

I've been saying this for months now.......
Because when you pay attention, it is Obvious!

Monday, Feb 10, 2014 06:57 AM PST

Profiting off polluting: How Big Oil is defrauding states to clean up toxic fuel leaks

Oil companies are being paid twice to deal with their own messes

Topics: Big Oil, Fraud, clean water, oil spill, Aquifers, Chevron, Sustainability News, Business News

(Credit: CoolKengzz/Shutterstock)

To anyone who drinks water, the rusted, leaky underground tanks storing underground fuel are the “single largest threat” to its safety. To major oil companies, they’re an opportunity to profit.
Reuters has an exclusive report on the despicable fraud being carried out by Big Oil. Call it “double-dipping”: When toxic, potentially carcinogenic leaks of gas and diesel threaten aquifers, the companies accept government funds to clean it up. Then, they apply for a second payout from the insurance companies. And all the big guys, it seems, are going for it: Chevron, Exxon, ConocoPhillips and Sunoco have agreed to settlements over the past three years totaling over $105 million.
“When I first saw these cases, I thought this is kind of incredible,” said New Mexico Assistant Attorney General Seth Cohen. “The oil companies have, in effect, profited off polluting.”
Here’s more from Reuters on the widespread fraud and the dream team working to expose it:

Approximately 40 states and the District of Columbia have special funds to cover the costs of removing and replacing the old tanks, excavating tainted dirt and pumping out dirty groundwater.
Since 1988, there have been more than half a million leaky tanks reported across the country. Nearly 80,000 spills still are waiting to be cleaned up.
In the New Mexico settlement last September, court documents show the origin of the case against Chevron was a sealed lawsuit filed by [Thomas] Schruben and [Dennis] Pantazis’ team in 2009 under a state law designed to protect taxpayers from fraud.
One document from 2006, for example, shows Chevron received a check for $19,000 from the state to clean up and monitor a leak at a gas station in the small, southern New Mexico town of Artesia. On the application to receive money from the tank fund, the company checked “No” next to the question: “Do you have insurance?”
The lawsuit accused Chevron of receiving insurance payouts to deal with many kinds of environmental contamination, including policies that would have covered leaks at the gas station in Artesia – a fact it kept hidden from the state.

About 20 more cases across the country are currently pending.
None of the companies, of course, have admitted to having done any of this wittingly. Those who have settled out of court did so on good faith that they simply didn’t realize they had applied twice for cleanup funds. As Reuters points out, the millions paid out in settlements are practically nothing for them. But for cash-strapped states, they’re a major something.

Lindsay Abrams is an assistant editor at Salon, focusing on all things sustainable. Follow her on Twitter @readingirl, email labrams@salon.com.

Thursday, February 13, 2014

North Dakota Oil Spill: Cleanup

North Dakota Oil Spill Cleanup Will Take At Least 2 More Years

Posted: 02/12/2014 11:48 am EST Updated: 02/12/2014 12:59 pm EST

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In this Oct. 8, 2013 photo provided by the North Dakota Health Department, a vacuum trucks cleans up oil in near Tioga, N.D. (AP Photo/North Dakota Health Department)

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A state health official told North Dakota lawmakers that cleanup of massive oil spill in northwestern North Dakota will take at least two more years.
The Tesoro Corp. pipeline rupture discovered in September sent more than 20,000 barrels of crude spewing across a North Dakota wheat field. The spill fouled an area about the size of seven football fields and is one of the largest onshore spills in U.S. history

State Environmental Health Chief Dave Glatt told the 12-member Energy Development and Transmission Committee on Tuesday that about 6,000 barrels of oil have been recovered. He says Tesoro has excavated soil at depths of more than 30 feet.
Glatt says the remainder may have to be baked out of the soil, and the soil renewed and replaced.

Yet Another Spill....

Can you say: "Fuck This Shit?"

Kock Bros. & Halliburton plan to promote the "safety" of Keystone XL..... as a way of saying: "See how much damage is done by rail transport... We are so much "safer". Trust Us!"

Train Carrying Canadian Oil Derails In Western Pennsylvania

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By Robert Gibbons and Elizabeth Dilts

NEW YORK, Feb 13 (Reuters) - A 120-car Norfolk Southern Corp train carrying heavy Canadian crude oil derailed and spilled in western Pennsylvania on Thursday, adding to a string of recent accidents that have prompted calls for stronger safety standards.

There were no reports of injury or fire after 21 tank cars came off the track at a bend by the Kiskiminetas River in the town of Vandergrift, according to town and company By Robert Gibbons and Elizabeth Dilts.

NEW YORK, Feb 13 (Reuters) - A 120-car Norfolk Southern Corp train carrying heavy Canadian crude oil derailed and spilled in western Pennsylvania on Thursday, adding to a string of recent accidents that have prompted calls for stronger safety standards.

There were no reports of injury or fire after 21 tank cars came off the track at a bend by the Kiskiminetas River in the town of Vandergrift, according to town and company officials.

By Robert Gibbons and Elizabeth Dilts

NEW YORK, Feb 13 (Reuters) - A 120-car Norfolk Southern Corp train carrying heavy Canadian crude oil derailed and spilled in western Pennsylvania on Thursday, adding to a string of recent accidents that have prompted calls for stronger safety standards.

There were no reports of injury or fire after 21 tank cars came off the track at a bend by the Kiskiminetas River in the town of Vandergrift, according to town and company officials. Nineteen of the derailed cars were carrying oil and two held liquefied petroleum gas, Norfolk Southern said. Three of the crude tank cars spilled after the incident, though the leaks have since been plugged. The company did not say how much oil spilled.

The train was heading from Conway to Morrisville, Pennsylvania. Some of the crude on board was destined for an asphalt plant in Paulsboro, New Jersey, owned by NuStar, a NuStar spokeswoman said.

The clean-up was underway on Thursday as a heavy winter storm gathered pace, leaving about four inches (10 cm) of snow on the ground by midday Thursday. An investigator from the Federal Railroad Administration was on route to the scene, the railroad regulator said.

"I heard a strange noise, a hollow, screeching sound," said Ray Cochran, who watched the train derail from his home on a hill above the tracks. "I looked out the window and saw three or four tankers turn over and one of them ran into the building."

The train crashed into a building owned by MSI Corporation in an industrial complex that backs onto the tracks. All employees had been accounted for, said Sandy Smythe, a public information officer with Westmoreland County's public safety department, which includes Vandergrift borough.

MSI declined to comment.

Thursday's accident is the latest in a spate of crude oil train derailments that has prompted calls for more stringent rules regulating crude by rail, shipments of which have soared in recent years as pipelines fail to keep up with growing supply.

It comes ahead of a Senate hearing concerning the safety of transporting crude by rail, which has become a major political issue as the incidents pile up. The hearing was scheduled for Thursday but was delayed by the snow.

Thursday's accident was the second in less than a month in Pennsylvania. A train hauling crude on a CSX Corp railroad jumped the tracks and nearly toppled over a bridge in Philadelphia on Jan. 20. There were no injuries or fire in that incident.

A train carrying Bakken oil from North Dakota last July derailed and exploded in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, killing 47 people and decimating much of the small town.

U.S. and Canadian railroad companies, tank car owners and regulators are investigating ways to transport crude on the rails more safely. Much of the focus is on phasing out older tank cars, known as DOT-111s, that do not meet the latest safety standards.

DOT-111s built before 2011 are prone to puncture and fire during accidents, regulators say.

It is as yet unclear what type of cars were involved in Thursday's accident.

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A train carrying crude oil from Canada derailed in Pennsylvania on Thursday, spilling an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 gallons of oil.

Twenty-one cars of the 118-car train derailed at around 8:30 Thursday morning, 19 of which were carrying oil and two of which were carrying liquefied petroleum gas, according to Norfolk Southern Corp., the train’s owner. Three of those cars spilled oil, but the leaks were plugged and the company did not say the how much oil spilled. The train was headed for Morrisville, Pennsylvania and derailed in the town of Vandergrift in western Pennsylvania.

The train crashed into a building, but employees that worked there were evacuated and all were accounted for and no injuries were reported.

“I was down in there and all of a sudden the building shook. It was a couple of guys running up, and said the train derailed in the back of the building,” one of the employees who works in the building, which houses the MSI corporation, told WPXI News.

The train is just the latest to cause a spill in recent months. Earlier this month in Minnesota, a train leaked 12,000 gallons of oil, which spilled along the train tracks for 68 miles. In November, an oil train derailed and exploded in Alabama, spilling oil and causing flames that shot 300 feet into the sky. And a North Dakota train derailment in December spilled 475,000 gallons of crude oil.

A recent analysis found that rail cars spilled more than 1.15 million gallons of oil in 2013, more than was spilled in the previous four decades combined. Still, some companies are looking to expand their oil-by-rail transport: expansion plans for oil-by-rail projects on the West Coast could mean that as many as 11 fully loaded oil trains would travel each day through Spokane, Washington. A Senate subcommittee was scheduled to hold a hearing Thursday on rail safety, but it had to be rescheduled due to bad weather that forced the closure of the federal government.

So, yeah, Fuck This Shit!

Weather, Ionosphere, Mind Modification: HAARP

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What the government is doing...... The man who built this w/ the Pentagon... Bernard Eastlund

A radio wave transmitter disrupting the Ionosphere....

HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) is a little-known, yet critically important U.S. military defense project which has generated quite a bit of controversy over its alleged weather control capabilities and much more.
Geo-physical warfare...... Eagle River, AK

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The gal who works there is pretty stupid.......

The man interviewed is an unmitigated liar........ John Hexter (sp) of the Pentagon denies that HAARP is anything dangerous or threatening to anyone.....

Technical Memorandum 195: 600 pages, unpublished paper regarding HAARP and the possibilities of its use of warfare and other types of control.

You can use the HAARP radio frequencies to change brain waves & patterns & Central Nervous Systems..... Classified information talks about using the radio waves to disrupt human thoughts & physical being... Instigating among other things "depression".

"It isn't just conspiracy theorists who are concerned about HAARP. The European Union called the project a global concern and passed a resolution calling for more information on its health and environmental risks. Despite those concerns, officials at HAARP insist the project is nothing more sinister than a radio science research facility."
-- From documentary on HAARP project's weather control by Canada's public broadcasting network CBC

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