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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: March 15, 2016, 7:37 pm
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[center]One dead after Green Canyon platform accident in Gulf of
Mexico[/center]
Nicolas Torres March 14, 2016
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[center]Platform A at Green Canyon Block 18. Image courtesy of
the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement[/center]
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) is
investigating a platform accident in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico
that left one worker dead.
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) said
an offshore worker was fatally injured on Friday while working
on Platform A at the Green Canyon Block 18 in the Gulf of
Mexico, 150 miles south of New Orleans.
Further details about the accident have not been disclosed yet.
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/>or additional injuries reported.
The platform’s operator, Whistler Energy II, has suspended all
drilling operations at the platform and operations will remain
suspended until the BSEE grants approval to restart drilling.
However, because the rig has a separate production deck,
production will be allowed to continue.
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The BSEE said its investigators are actively engaging with the
operator and will investigate the incident.
As weather permits, BSEE inspectors and investigators will visit
the location.
According to Whistler Energy, the GC 18 platform was originally
set in 1987 and is rated at 30,000 barrels of oil per day.
The platform is a 30-slot, 25,000-ton structure located in 760
ft of water, 79 miles south of Port of Fourchon.
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Agelbert NOTE: No pollution may have been connected to the
accident, but the FLARING REQUIRED to get up to 30,000 barrels
of oil per day 24/7 spews MASSIVE toxic gases pollution.
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Ask a fossil fueler to explain to you what the WATER CURTAIN is
and WHY they invented it. HINT: If they didn't have it, their
would be a lot more sick and cancer stricken "salt of the earth"
workers on those platforms than there are now from TOXIC,
CARCINOGENIC flared gases (you know, those gases the fossil
fuelers claim can be flared without endangering your health or
that of the biosphere...).
[quote]
"The Water Curtain® is the original Rig Cooling system designed
to provide a protective "curtain," or barrier of water between
high risk flaring systems and valuable personnel, equipment and
facilities."
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: March 17, 2016, 7:50 pm
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[center]The documentary he Koch Brothers Don't want you to
see[/center]
The Kochs control one to two million acres of tar sands in
Alberta, Canada, worth tens of billions of dollars. But climate
scientists say up to 240 billion tons of carbon would be
released into the atmosphere if the oil sands are developed.
Meanwhile, the Kochs’ are waging well-financed campaigns to deny
climate change and using their wealth to get conservatives
elected to office to approve the Keystone XL pipeline and
further their corporate interests.
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[quote]
"The Koch Brothers fortune was made refining Canadian
Oil."
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: March 22, 2016, 9:44 pm
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[center]The Oilman Who Loved Dictators, or How Texaco Supported
Fascism [/center]
Posted on Mar 21, 2016
SNIPPET:
[quote]No corporations have been more aggressive in forging
their own foreign policies than the big oil companies. With
operations spanning the world, they—and not the governments who
weakly try to tax or regulate them—largely decide whom they do
business with and how. In its quest for oil in the anarchic
Niger Delta, according to journalist Steve Coll, ExxonMobil, for
example, gave boats to the Nigerian navy, and recruited and
supplied part of the country’s army, while local police sported
the company’s red flying horse logo on their uniforms.
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[size=12pt] Jane Mayer’s new book, Dark Money, on how the
brothers and oil magnates Charles and David Koch spent hundreds
of millions of dollars to buy the Republican Party and America’s
democratic politics, offers a vivid account of the way their
father Fred launched the energy business they would inherit. It
was a classic case of not letting “attachments” stand in the way
of gain. Fred happily set up oil installations for Soviet
dictator Joseph Stalin before the United States recognized the
Soviet Union in 1933, and then helped Adolf Hitler build one of
Nazi Germany’s largest oil refineries that would later supply
fuel to its air force, the Luftwaffe.
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His unsavory tale is now part of the historical record, thanks
to Mayer. That of another American oil tycoon of the 1930s, who
quietly lent a helping hand to a different grim dictator, has,
however, gone almost unnoticed. In our world where the big oil
outfits have become powerful forces and his company, Texaco,
became part of the oil giant Chevron, it’s an instructive tale.
He helped determine the course of a war that would shape our
world for decades to come.
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Flying the Skull and Crossbones Atop an Empire of Oil
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: March 23, 2016, 2:48 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: Another example of "responsible behavior" by a
proud, prudent, hard working corporation of the fossil Fuel
Industry (i. e. the old Chapter 11 TRICK)...
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Venoco files for bankruptcy a year after California spill
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Nicolas Torres March 23, 2016
Colorado-based private upstream Venoco has become the latest
firm to file for bankruptcy protection, citing continued
financial strain stemming from a 2015 pipeline spill in
California.
The company said Friday that it has reached an agreement with
its senior lenders to reduce its debt load
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and restructure its
balance sheet.
Venoco cited low oil prices and the shutdown of Line 901
following a May 2015 oil spill in Santa Barbara as “serious
problems” for the firm.
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According to a court filing seen by Bloomberg, the shutdown also
halted production at the company’s South Elwood Field located
about two miles off the coast of Santa Barbara.
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration said
last month that preliminary findings indicate the spill was most
likely caused by external pipeline corrosion.
The 48,000 barrel per day Line 901, operated by Plains All
American, has been shutdown since the spill along with the
nearby Line 903.
Venoco did not disclose the financial impact of the pipeline
shutdowns.
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“It is unfortunate that a third party pipeline spill has
impacted Venoco, but this process
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will make it stronger
and ensure its continued contributions to the Santa Barbara
County community,” Venoco founder Tim Marquez.
Under the terms of the agreement, the company’s senior lenders
have agreed to support a restructuring transaction that will
eliminate about $1 billion of debt from Venoco’s balance sheet.
To facilitate the restructuring, Venoco filed a voluntary
petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy
Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of
Delaware on March 18.
The company expects to maintain all operations during the
restructuring process.
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“While we continue to be in a strong cash position, the
declining price of oil and the ongoing closure of Plains All
American pipeline 901 continue to be serious problems. With this
agreement, Venoco will be in a much stronger position to
withstand these challenges and others that may follow,” Venoco
CEO Mark DePuy
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The company said it has sufficient liquidity to continue its
normal oil and gas activities and meet its ongoing financial and
regulatory obligations.
Venoco expects existing liquidity and generated cash from
ongoing operations will be used to support the company during
the restructuring process once it receives approval from the
Bankruptcy Court.
Marquez will remain executive chairman during the restructuring
process and has been retained to “provide leadership and
strategic counsel” to the firm after the restructuring is
complete.
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Would you like to learn a thing or two about how the oil
industry operates in California?
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Would you
like to know why those anti-monopoly laws passed in 1911 (and
ignored by Reagan in order to look the other way while 2,000
plus oil industry mergers took place in the 1980s) were called
"anti-trust" and not called "anti-corporate monopoly" laws?
Please watch this video:
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: March 23, 2016, 3:14 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: As you know if you haven't been living under a
rock for the past year, SHELL lost a lot of money DUE DIRECTLY
to decisions by MANAGEMENT, not just due to the cratering crude
oil prices. The appropriate response to MISMANAGEMENT (see
fiduciary obligations often brought up by fossil fuelers as a
"justification/obligation" for their profit over planet MO) for
stockholders with controlling interest in the board of directors
is to [s] reduce compensation or demote or fire[/s] give the CEO
a raise, obviously.
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Staff Writers March 21, 2016
Shell CEO Ben van Beurden saw his annual bonus climb about 6
percent in 2015 despite weak oil prices.
According to the Evening Standard, van Beurden’s bonus ticked up
6 percent to $3.83 million (£2.7 million) in 2015 from the
previous year while his basic pay package climbed to $1.62
million.
In its annual report, Shell said that van Beurden’s basic salary
grew 2.1 percent year-over-year while employee salaries climbed
3.7 percent from 2014 levels.
The annual report also noted that annual employee bonuses fell
17 percent from year ago levels.
Van Beurden earned a total pay package of about $26 million in
2014 when he was appointed CEO, but that package was impacted by
tax benefits and other payments tied to his promotion.
The pay bump comes despite over a year of weak oil prices and
Shell’s disappointing Arctic exploration campaign.
Last year, van Buerden guided Shell through its $70 billion
merger with BG Group that was officially completed in February.
In an op-ed published by The Times when the deal closed, van
Beurden said the merger is expected to “provide a strong
injection to our operating cashflow” despite tough market
condition.
Van Buerden’s 2015 pay package was dwarfed by the $20 million
pay package BP CEO Bob Dudley took home last year.
According to Reuters, Dudley saw his pay jump by nearly 20
percent in 2015 despite BP falling to a $6.5 billion loss for
the full year.
Shell’s fourth quarter 2015 current cost of supplies (CCS)
earnings fell to $1.84 billion, a 56 percent drop compared to
the same quarter last year, while full year 2015 CCS earnings
fell 80 percent year-over-year to $3.84 billion.
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: March 23, 2016, 6:21 pm
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/>[font=times new roman]Global Warming’s Terrifying New
Chemistry[/font]
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[move]Our leaders thought fracking would save our climate. They
were wrong. [i]Very wrong. [/i][/move]
By Bill McKibben
SNIPPET:
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Howarth and Ingraffea
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/>began producing a series of papers claiming that if even a sma
ll
percentage of the methane leaked—maybe as little as 3
percent—then fracked gas would do more climate damage than coal.
And their preliminary data showed that leak rates could be at
least that high: that somewhere between 3.6 and 7.9 percent of
methane gas from shale-drilling operations actually escapes into
the atmosphere.
To say that no one in power wanted to hear this would be an
understatement
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The two
scientists were roundly attacked
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by the industry; one
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/>called their study the “Ivory Tower’s latest fact-free assault
on shale gas exploration.” Most of the energy establishment
joined in. An MIT team, for instance, had just finished an
industry-funded ;D report that found “the environmental impacts
of shale development are challenging but manageable”
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/>one of its lead authors, the ur-establishment energy expert
Henry Jacoby [img
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r
authors, Ernest Moniz [img
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n
hearings in 2013, he lauded the “stunning increase” in natural
gas as a “revolution” and pledged to increase its use
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The trouble for the fracking establishment
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was that new research
kept backing up Howarth and Ingraffea. In January 2013, for
instance, aerial overflights of fracking basins in Utah found
leak rates as high as 9 percent. “We were expecting to see high
methane levels, but I don’t think anybody really comprehended
the true magnitude of what we would see,” said the study’s
director. But such work was always piecemeal, one area at a
time, while other studies—often conducted with industry-supplied
data—came up with lower numbers.
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That’s why last month’s Harvard study came as such a shock. It
used satellite data from across the country over a span of more
than a decade to demonstrate that US methane emissions had
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The EPA had been insisting throughout that period that methane
emissions were actually falling, but it was clearly wrong—on a
massive scale. In fact, emissions “are substantially higher than
we’ve understood,” EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy admitted in
early March.
The Harvard study wasn’t designed to show why US methane
emissions were growing—in other parts of the world, as new
research makes clear, cattle and wetlands seem to be causing
emissions to accelerate. But the spike that the satellites
recorded coincided almost perfectly with the era when fracking
went big-time.
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To make matters worse, during the same decade, experts had
become steadily more worried about the effects of methane in any
quantity on the atmosphere.
Everyone agrees that, molecule for molecule, methane traps far
more heat than CO2—but exactly how much wasn’t clear. One reason
the EPA estimates of America’s greenhouse-gas emissions showed
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/>and measuring its impact over a 100-year period. But a methan
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molecule lasts only a couple of decades in the air, compared
with centuries for CO2. That’s good news, in that methane’s
effects are transient—and very bad news because that transient
but intense effect happens right now, when we’re breaking the
back of the planet’s climate.
The EPA’s old chemistry and 100-year time frame assigned methane
a heating value of 28 to 36 times that of carbon dioxide; a more
accurate figure, says Howarth, is between 86 and 105 times the
potency of CO2 over the next decade or two.
If you combine Howarth’s estimates of leakage rates and the new
standard values for the heat-trapping potential of methane, then
the picture of America’s total greenhouse-gas emissions over the
last 15 years looks very different: Instead of peaking in 2007
and then trending downward, as the EPA has maintained, our
combined emissions of methane and carbon dioxide have gone
steadily and sharply up during the Obama years, Howarth says.
We closed coal plants and opened methane leaks, and the result
is that things have gotten worse. [/quote]
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Full article with irrefutable hard scientific data (that the
liars and crooks working for the fossil fuel industry will, of
course, rush to try to deny with mendacious propaganda[/I] [img
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[i]Please pass this on
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/>These dirty stinking fossil fuel industry crooks, their front
men in government, their bought and paid for scientists and
their propagandist scum need to be held accountable for
degrading our biosphere AND our democracy.
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: March 24, 2016, 3:08 pm
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03/23/2016 03:10 PM
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SustainableBusiness.com News
This spring, huge rallies and protests are planned around the
world against fossil fuels and to restore Democracy in the US.
On April 16-18, Democracy Awakening takes place in Washington
DC.
We can't protect the environment without democracy, and
environmental groups are joining with activists across the
social spectrum to preserve our voice, such as labor, students
and civil rights advocates.
"Corporate interests are holding our democracy hostage
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/>Voter suppression is running rampant
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/>fossil fuel money is warping our electoral process and now
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/>leaders in Congress are even blocking fair consideration of a
Supreme Court nominee
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/>," says Rachel Rye Butler of Greenpeace.
Democracy Awakening is about:
•Restoring Voting rights by stopping voter suppression.
This is the first presidential election where state voter
suppression laws are in force, making it much harder for
students, minorities and older people to vote.
In Texas, for example, a special state-issued ID is required to
vote, a drivers license or a student ID won't work. In North
Carolina and Wisconsin, university students can't vote if their
families live elsewhere, and so many campus voting places have
been eliminated that it can take hours to even find a place to
vote.
•Getting Money Out of politics through campaign finance reform,
transparency and overturning Citizens United
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/>knocking on every Congressperson's door, a renewable energy
economy is within our reach, for example.
They are calling for:
•Voting Rights Advancement Act: to restore and increase
protection against voting discrimination.
•Voter Empowerment Act: to modernize voter registration and
ensure equal access to voting for all.
•Democracy For All Amendment: would overturn Supreme Court
decisions like Citizens United and limit influence of money in
politics.
•Government By the People Act/Fair Elections Now Act: would
amplify small contributions from everyday Americans.
May 4-15, Break Free From Fossil Fuels
People are mobilizing across the world to demand a rapid
transition to renewable energy, and an end to taking fossil
fuels out of the ground.
Globally coordinated mass actions are planned in the UK,
Germany, Spain, Turkey, Israel, Australia, Brazil, Indonesia,
Philippines Nigeria, South Africa, Canada and across the US.
They plan to occupy major fossil fuel sites, such as the largest
coal mine in South Wales, where another may be built next door.
In the US, there will be "mass trespass at fracking sites",
blockades at oil refineries and trains carrying oil.
The goal is to disrupt the power of the fossil fuel industry
through "a series of peaceful, escalating actions...targeting
the world's most dangerous and unnecessary fossil fuel
projects," says organizer 350.org.
"The fossil fuel industry faces an unprecedented crisis - from
collapsing prices, a new global climate deal, and an
ever-growing movement calling for change.
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We have never had a better chance in history to break free from
fossil fuels and build a just transition to clean and renewable
energy," they say.
"There are no major economic or technical barriers to a future
supported by renewable energy. Any new infrastructure built to
support fossil fuel expansion, such as coal mines, power plants,
oil rigs and export terminals will be a waste of money and
further lock us into a path to irreversible climate change,"
states Arif Fiyanto, Coal Campaigner at Greenpeace Indonesia.
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Agelbert NOTE: Yes, the goons for the fossil fuel industry in
the USA and abroad will be waiting for the protesters defending
democracy and demanding the end of profit over planet. Yes, the
"authorities", the media and the police will ensure the
responsible citizens of this world present will be demonized,
brutalized, tased, shot at and, when they aren't arrested, even
murdered.
AND THAT VIOLENCE will spell the final doom of the fossil fuel
fascist pigs EVERYWHERE. Of course the bought and paid for media
will do their damnedest to prevent those who died from being
given martyr status. They will fail.
And for those of you clever bastards working for the fossil fuel
industry that think your fascist intimidation tactics will work
(as usual), let me remind you that the people you have hired to
do your murder and mayhem will overreach in their violence. If
you think you can "damage control" the fallout from the violence
your goons love to dish out, you are going to be very
disappointed. All those thousands of fossil fuel industry
employees just fired and police with families experiencing the
health downsides of petroleum pollution are not going to remain
"loyal" to the profit over planet "business model".
Everyday people will WELCOME severe energy disruption and
rolling black outs just to see the end of subsidy swag and the
pollution buck passing from the fossil fuel fascists jumping on
the Chapter 11 "bankruptcy" wagon.
The people finally KNOW that the fossil fuel industry Modus
Operandi has NEVER been abut providing low priced energy and has
ALWAYS been about competitor destruction through government
corruption based monopoly price control.
The fossil fuel industry has lost the support of the people.
When that happens to any industry or government, no matter how
effective its police state tactics are, it FALLS. The quislings
in government, Wall Street and Main Street will rush to the
support of the fossil fuel profit over planet "business model",
but they will not be able to prevent the FALL of the fossil fuel
industry/GOVERNMENT.
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TWO historical examples of what is about to happen:
Truman wasn't the only president that pushed the use of nuclear
weapons. Eisenhower wanted to nuke North Korea in the 1950s and
Nixon wanted to nuke North Korea in 1969 as a "scare the
commies" tactic to end the Viet Nam War. Eisenhower telegraphed
his intent with a nukes=bullets speech that caused such an
uproar he had to hastily shelve his "nuke bullets" (as you can
see he, really did not believe the bomb was such an "awful
thing" as he claimed). Nixon was convinced by the MASSES of
people around the White House and across the country demanding
an end to the Viet Nam War that he would be run out of office if
he executed his nuke barbarity (I will provide documented
evidence of what I just said to anyone interested. ;D).
The fossil fuel industry, a business that became powerful and
influential through corruption and violence, with a stranglehold
on governments all over the world, is about to learn a lesson
(see: French Revolution times 1000).
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: March 26, 2016, 1:28 pm
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[center]SEC Forces Exxon to Bring Climate-Friendly Accounting to
Shareholder Vote[/center]
[font=times new roman]As You Sow [/font]| March 25, 2016 12:37
pm
SNIPPET:
In a key win [img
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/>the Oakland-based non-profit advocacy group, As You Sow defeat
ed
ExxonMobil’s attempt to suppress an innovative, first of its
kind shareholder resolution. The resolution asks Exxon to report
its energy resources in an energy-neutral metric—BTUs—in
addition to the traditional “barrels of oil equivalent”
standard.
Establishing a climate-friendly measure of energy reserves is a
key step in incentivizing management, and the market, to support
the transition to a clean energy economy.
HTML http://ecowatch.com/2016/03/25/exxon-climate-friendly-accounting/
Agelbert COMMENT: The fossil fuel industry, a business that
became powerful and influential through corruption and violence,
with a stranglehold on governments all over the world, is about
to learn a lesson.
A "barrel of oil" is a polluting energy [s]re[/s]source, NOT an
energy resource.
The BTU standard should REQUIRE that the BTUs needed to
bio-remediate the pollution produced by each barrel of oil be
SUBTRACTED from that energy return on energy invested (ERoEI) of
said barrel of oil.
The fossil fuel industry's "business model" is not profitable
when all the energy math is done. They know that. That is why do
everything they can to corrupt government officials.
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
ution
By: AGelbert Date: March 26, 2016, 2:31 pm
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[center]Mark Ruffalo and Annie Leonard: We Must Rebuild Our
Democracy[/center]
Annie Leonard and Mark Ruffalo | March 25, 2016 8:23 am
SNIPPET:
2016 will be the first American presidential election since 1965
with major new voting restrictions—photo identification
requirements, cuts to early voting and the elimination of same
day voting registration are just a few of the roadblocks thrown
up by special interests in 15 states.
Not only that, but once voters overcome these obstacles to
actually vote, the candidates they have to choose from will be
largely self-selected from the economic elites [img
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/>looking out for banks like Goldman Sachs instead of everyday
people.
[quote]Rather than a government of the people, by the people and
for the people, we have a government of super-PACs and dark
money, by the 1% and for corporate interests.
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
ution
By: AGelbert Date: March 27, 2016, 3:35 pm
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[center]Rockefeller Fund Votes to Divest, Knocks Exxon[/center]
SNIPPET:
The Rockefeller Family Fund will divest from fossil fuels and
ditch its holdings of Exxon Mobil, citing the oil giant’s
"morally reprehensible” stance on climate change issues. John D.
Rockefeller, the fund’s founding father, made his fortune on
Exxon’s predecessor, Standard Oil, but spokespeople for
Rockefeller stated,
[quote]
"There is no sane rationale for companies to continue to explore
for new sources of hydrocarbons."
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Fossil-fuel investments make up about 6 percent of the
Rockefeller Family Fund’s $130 million endowment.
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