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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: November 5, 2014, 1:21 pm
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Wednesday, November 5, 2014
WHAT MIDTERM RESULTS MEAN
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The new GOP Senate is already gearing up to cause climate mayhem
Ben Adler, November 5, 2014 (Grist)
“…[Republicans] biggest win by far was taking control of the
U.S. Senate…This is not good news for the climate. The party
that controls the majority and the committee chairmanships
controls the agenda. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will now be
the majority leader. McConnell deflects questions about whether
he accepts climate science by saying he isn’t a scientist and
citing climate-denying conservative pundit George Will. But he
is clear about where he stands on fossil fuels, especially
coal…Attacking President Obama for not sharing his passion for
burning carbon was central to McConnell’s reelection
campaign…Republican Lisa Murkowski of Alaska takes the gavel [of
the Senate Energy and Commerce Committee]. Leading climate
denier James Inhofe of Oklahoma will be taking over the Senate
Environment and Public Works Committee, and fellow denier Ted
Cruz (R-Texas) will be chairing the Committee on Science and
Technology…The Republicans have two top energy-related demands:
stop EPA from regulating CO2 and approve the Keystone XL
pipeline…
Read more stomach turning proof of
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: November 20, 2014, 2:09 pm
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Investigation Exposes Revolving Door Between Fossil Fuel
Lobbyists and Politicians
Anastasia Pantsios | November 20, 2014
There was much speculation about Louisiana Senator Mary
Landrieu‘s motivation ;) :evil4: for pushing the first full
Senate vote this week on approving the Keystone XL pipeline.
Some revolved around her trying to improve her chances in the
Dec. 6 Senate runoff against Republican Congressman Bill Cassidy
(neither candidate got a majority on Nov. 4). Others say she’s
likely to lose anyway and that her grandstanding was directed at
oil and gas companies that might provide a lucrative landing
spot for her after she leaves the Senate in January.
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Politicians and government staff become lobbyists and vice
versa, and this new report follows their trails. Image credit:
DeSmogBlog/Republic Report
That latter speculation isn’t idle, as a new report from
DeSmogBlog and Republic Report indicates. Natural Gas Exports:
Washington’s Revolving Door Fuels Climate Threat lays out how
corporate lobbyists swap roles with politicians and government
officials constantly, leading to excessive influence by
corporations on lawmakers, the Obama administration and federal
agencies. It describes how this revolving door eased the way for
Big Oil to land four permits for liquified natural gas (LNG)
export facilities from the Obama administration since 2012. And
while the report, the first salvo in an ongoing investigation of
what it calls “the LNG exports influence peddling machine,”
looks specifically at LNG export facilities, its conclusions
could be applied to the entire machinery of climate denier
influence in Washington DC.
“The 2014 U.S. congressional midterm elections are now complete,
and the Republican Party controls both the House of
Representatives and the Senate,” says the report. “Some have
forecasted that this could have catastrophic impacts for
progress on climate change and environmental protection in
general. But below the radar in Washington DC—little noticed by
the media or public—a major change on energy policy has already
been long in the making. Corporate lobbyists have helped to
engineer a transformative shift with little scrutiny or
meaningful debate: plans to extract U.S. natural gas and export
the gas overseas to more lucrative markets. This shift—if fully
realized—will continue to transition the U.S. into a resource
colony, where our communities, homes, air and water are
exploited and polluted so that large multinational corporations
can pursue ever-higher profits by selling U.S. fossil fuels
abroad.”
Four permits for LNG export facilities have already been
approved, with many more in the pipeline. To feed these
facilities and as domestic gas prices rise as a result of
export, there will likely be increased pressure to expand
fracking dramatically.
“Big oil and gas companies have engineered
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policy outcome through shrewd hiring of Washington insider
lobbyists and public relations professionals: Obama and Bush
Administration veterans, as well as former Capitol Hill
staffers, who have moved through Washington’s revolving door to
high-paying influence peddling jobs,” the report authors write.
They go on to enumerate the officials who formerly served both
administrations or as congressional staffers, then moved on to
new jobs representing LNG companies where they now lobby their
former colleagues. Conversely, the report calls out former
fossil fuel industry lobbyists who are now elected officials
chairing key congressional committees. It describes how many of
those officials and lobbyists work specifically within the
Democratic Party, often working with those who give lip service
to addressing climate change while working behind the scenes to
further the interests of fossil fuel companies.”Natural gas
interests and the LNG lobby have in fact gone on a hiring spree
targeting Democratic officials and those close to the
administration,” they say.
The report includes an endless stream of revealing nuggets like
this one: “When lawmakers convened for the annual Congressional
Baseball Game for Charity in July 2014, they were greeted with
packets reminding them of the event’s sponsors: Cheniere119
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These influence peddlers have greased the regulatory process
that goes through the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), streamlining it with
inadequate attention to citizen concerns about community safety,
health and climate impacts, the report says. It cites Dominion’s
Cove Point facility in Maryland as an example. The proposed and
now approved LNG export facility led to a wave of organizing,
public testimony, protests and rallies by citizen and
environmental advocacy groups like Calvert Citizens for a Health
Community and Chesapeake Climate Action Network, charging FERC
with ignoring their input in the rush to approve it. The report
names former Democratic Congressman Lewis F. Payne, Jr. of
Virginia and three former congressional staff members who
lobbied for Dominion on behalf of Cove Point.
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While activists said their input on Dominion’s Cove Point LNG
export facility was being ignored :(, lobbyists for Dominion
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Meanwhile, a bill was introduced in Congress called H.R. 6,
which would have required the DOE to speed up the approval
process for LNG export facilities.
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The report explains that
two staff members of the House committee hearing the bill were
former LNG lobbyists and that among the 57 corporate or
corporate-backed entities lobbying for it were “Koch Industries,
ExxonMobil, Anadarko, Statoil, Eastman Chemical, FirstEnergy
Corp, General Electric, Halliburton, Dominion Resources, Dow
Chemical, Chesapeake Energy, Chevron, Sempra Energy, Marathon
Oil and BP.
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The
bill passed the House but not the Senate. ;D
“Unfortunately, as lobbying and influence peddling heats up in
Washington and elsewhere, so too does the planet,” report
authors Lee Fang of Republic Report and Steve Horn of DeSmogBlog
conclude. “Relentless fracking and opening the export floodgates
with U.S.—harvested shale gas can only make the planet hotter
still.”
Agelbert Comment:
The Fascist Fossil Fuel Government is a corporate creation
straight from the unethical and predatory sociopathic concept of
"LIMITED LIABILITY". In the physical world of cause and effect,
as in the biosphere, there is NO SUCH THING as "limited
liability". In nature, what goes around ALWAYS comes around. The
Con artists just want we-the-people to pay for the pollution and
consequent damge form climate change that THEY should be paying.
It is the criminal Homo SAPS among us that have attempted to
stuff the "limited liability" illogic down our collective
throats. Limited liability is a MYTH. The biosphere is NOT
impressed.
The question is, are YOU going to let the psychopaths make ALL
of us pay or are we-the-people going to make the psychopaths
that did the crime, PAY THE FINE AND DO THE
TIME?!!!
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[b]The Exxon Valdez PITTANCE of a settlement: PROOF we have a
Fascist Fossil Fuel Government AND the irreparably DYSFUNCTIONAL
Court System is its HANDMAIDEN[/b]
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TINA to a Low Carbon Economy
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More Proof that Mens Rea is the DEFAULT criminal position of
polluters
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: November 23, 2014, 12:46 pm
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Sign the pledge: Don't buy these Koch products
by
Rachel Colyer
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Koch industries and its subsidiaries are expansive—their
holdings include everything from gas stations to pipelines,
paper products for everyday use, greeting cards, chemicals used
to make materials, and the fabric that makes your clothing. :o
>:(
With an interest in almost everything and status as the number
two privately held company in the country–behind Cargill—Koch
industries is a behemoth that is hard to avoid.
But knowledge is power and your dollar is your vote. We can
become informed purchasers and refuse to support their political
agenda by refusing to purchase their wares.
The internet is a wonderful place, full of handy resources.
Start by memorizing and avoiding the brand logos listed, which
are commonly found throughout our daily lives. Download the
Buycott app on your phone and use it while you shop. Buycott has
an interesting connection to the netroots you can read about
here.
Do some research. Visit Koch industries, Invista, and
Georgia-Pacific to see their broad range of products for home,
business, construction, clothing manufacturing, farming
materials, and chemical additives. They are into almost
everything—including fiber optics!
If you are in charge of ordering office supplies for your
business, construction materials for your job site, or products
for events, catering, or restaurants—avoid buying from
Georgia-Pacific and its smaller subsidiaries.
Use your purchasing power to stop adding to the Koch empire,
avoid the following products as much as you can. Please sign the
pledge to not buy commonly available Koch products.
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List of familiar Koch products and brands:
-American Greetings** (took heavy Koch investment, upwards of
$200 million)
-Angel Soft
-Angel Soft Ultra
-Brawny paper towels
-Dixie products
-Insulair cups
-Mardis Gras napkins
-Perfect Touch cups, paper products
-Quilted Northern
-Sparkle paper towels
-Vanity Fair napkins & paper towels
-Zee Napkins
-Georgia-Pacific Office products
-Spectrum paper
-Georgia-Pacific's enMotion paper towel dispenser
-Georgia-Pacific's engineered lumber
INVISTA Brands
-INVISTA’s PET polymer is used in oxygen-sensitive packaging for
food and beverages.
-ADI-PURE® Adipic Acid
-ANTRON® Carpet Fiber
-C12™ Intermediates
-COMFOREL® Fiber
-COOLMAX® Fabric
-CORDURA® Fabric
-DACRON® Fiberfill
-DYTEK® Idea Intermediates
-FLEXISOLV® Solvent Solutions
-LYCRA® Fiber
-LYCRA HyFit® Fiber
-OXYCLEAR® Barrier Resin
-POLYCLEAR® PET
-POLYSHIELD® Resin
-SENZAA™ Additive
-STAINMASTER® Carpet
-SUPPLEX® Fabric
-SUPRIVA™ Fiber
-TACTEL® Fiber
-TECGEN® Garments
-TERATE® Polyols
-TERATHANE® Polyether Glycol
-TERRIN™ Polyols
-THERMOLITE® Fabric
-TORZEN® PA66 Resin
Koch Fertilizer Company's AGROTAIN® nitrogen stabilizer
fertilizer products are used around the world to improve
nitrogen efficiency and enhance crop productions.
If you use building materials, be sure to check out the
extensive list of Georgia-Pacific building products—including
their product app.
*Disclaimer: The list is a work in progress, we are striving to
keep it updated and accurate, please post corrections or
additions with citations in the comments.
**Disclaimer: Note that some of these products are made in union
facilities by union members. We are working to determine which
those are, so you can make your best informed decisions.*
Please sign the pledge to not buy commonly available Koch
products.
H/T to users kathybbb, ATexican, PeteInTX, BDA in VA, Melanie in
IA, TheNewDeal00, Truth Told Here, workinguy, and geebeebee
who've all posted similar information.
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: November 23, 2014, 1:41 pm
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::)To be filed under a TREMEDOUS CAPACITY FOR THE OBVIOUS about
the [i]modus operandi of the crooked, thieving, larcenous, low
down, rigged, monopolistic, predatory, conscience free,
polluting, etc. CESSPOOL of modern Capitalism... [/i] :P
When a Bank Owns 100 Oil Tankers, It Can Mess With the Price of
Gas >:(
A two-year Senate investigation of the financial sector has
found that banks can meddle with the economy in new and
frightening ways.
The investigation was led by Carl Levin, D-Mich., and looked
specifically at the impact of investments on the prices of
certain commodities—things like oil and uranium.
Deregulation made it possible for firms such as Goldman Sachs to
outright buy commodities and commodity suppliers. For instance,
Goldman owns a coal mine in Colombia. And that fleet of 100 oil
tankers? It belonged at one time to Morgan Stanley, which also
held 55 million barrels of oil storage. JPMorgan Chase,
according to The New York Times, once owned 31 power plants.
These are some of the same institutions that profit from your
credit card debt when the price of oil goes up.
There are myriad other conflicts of interest, and general
vulnerabilities besides.
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: November 26, 2014, 2:12 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: An EXCELLENT, APTLY DESCRIPTIVE AND ACCURATE
Comment
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on
the latest Fossil Fuel "effort"
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to use the
FASCIST COURT SYSTEM to pillage the planet.
Andrew W Johnson
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· Top
Commenter · Colorado State University
[quote]H. Sterling Burnett
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re
so short-sighted you can't see past your brown nose up the Koch
brothers' asses.
Anyone who listens to anything the Heartland Institute says
about anything is an idiot and cannot be trusted. We are trying
to protect our clean air and clean water in Colorado and around
the world, you know, so we can continue living.
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All you care about is putting more money into your and your
friend's pockets without a care for the future of all life on
Earth - which includes your own family. You are a Koch brothers
supporter which means you are anti-environment, anti-renewable
energy, and you use false science to "prove" you position.
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So, every so-called fact and quote in this article can't be
trusted just like you.
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Stay out of Colorado and Colorado politics.
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Heartland Institute (otherwise known as the Koch F ARTland Bu
lls hit factory
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Colorado’s Renewable Energy Mandate Constitutionality Challenged
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By: AGelbert Date: November 28, 2014, 2:00 pm
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Why Aren’t Rural Electric Cooperatives Champions of Local Clean
Power?
John Farrell
November 28, 2014
When it comes to ownership, there are few better structures for
keeping a community’s wealth local than a cooperative. So why is
it that America’s rural electric cooperatives are tethered to
dirty, old coal-fired power plants instead of local-wealth
generating renewable power?
There are a lot of answers to this question, but it might start
with this: electric cooperatives aren’t quite like other
cooperatives.
The Seven Slipping Cooperative Principles
Cooperatives around the world adhere to the “Seven Cooperative
Principles,” but electric cooperatives (at least in the United
States) fail on several of these principles.
1.Voluntary and open membership. Nope. If you want electric
service in cooperative territory, you sign with the cooperative.
While it’s no different than rules for other types of utilities
in the 30 states that grant utilities a monopoly service
territory, it violates the principles of cooperatives.
2.Democratic control (one member, one vote). Not always. Some
electric cooperatives award one vote per meter, and some
customers (e.g. farmers, industry) have more than one meter.
Furthermore, many cooperatives filter potential board candidates
with “nominating committees.” And look, here’s a board election
with no opposition!There’s also a big gap between cooperative
member support for (paying more for) renewable energy and
cooperative behavior. This 2013 survey in Minnesota, for
example, shows little separation between urban and rural areas
(where cooperatives are dominant) in support for renewable
energy, yet cooperatives opposed every bill favoring clean
energy in the 2013 legislative session.
3.Members control the capital of the cooperative.
4.Cooperatives maintain their autonomy and independence even if
they enter into agreements with other entities. Questionable.
Many cooperatives sign 40- or even 50-year purchase contracts
with power suppliers to supply 95% of their entire sales, mostly
from coal-fired power plants. Standard and Poor’s explains this
in an evaluation of a Seminole Electric in Florida, a generation
& transmission cooperative that sells to rural cooperatives. In
their words, one of the utility’s credit strengths is, “A
captive retail market and the ability to set rates through
take-and-pay, all-requirements wholesale power agreements with
nine of 10 members through 2045.”
5.Cooperatives provide educational opportunities to their
members and the public on the benefits of cooperatives.
Questionable. If you read rural electric cooperative
newsletters, you’ll hear a lot about climate change but you’ll
often find the phrase in quotes
6.Cooperatives work best when cooperating with other
cooperatives. Questionable, refer to #4. Some of these power
suppliers are “co-ops of co-ops,” but these long-term contracts
have tethered the economic fortunes of cooperative members to
the vagaries of the coal market (see below). More than any other
type of utility (public or investor-owned), rural electric
cooperatives are reliant on coal for their electricity fuel. The
average U.S. utility is 38% coal-fired power.
rural electric cooperatives reliant on coal >:( - public
citizen coal prices 2000-11.001
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7.Cooperatives work for sustainable development of their
community. Not enough. Most cooperatives rely heavily on
imported power purchased on long-term contracts with the goal of
cheap power, but that ironically leave them at the mercy of
unfettered price increases. They also have missed an enormous
economic development opportunity from renewable energy. For
example:Renewable energy provides significant economic impacts
($1 million per megawatt of wind, $250,000 per megawatt for
solar) with multipliers for local (i.e. cooperative) ownership
(up to 3.5 times more local economic impact, and twice as many
jobs).
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Wind and solar provide more jobs per megawatt of power capacity,
as well. RE-fossil-jobs-per-MW
Finally, rural electric cooperatives have organized a 1 million
comment campaign against EPA regulations of carbon pollution
from power plants. Hardly a commitment to “sustainable
development.”
How Can Cooperatives Change?
Restoring their 7 principles could do a lot. Improving their
structure so that the cooperative directors reflect member
opinion on renewable energy would restore the principle of
democratic control. Avoiding ridiculously long power purchase
contracts would provide local cooperatives with real autonomy
and control of their energy costs and options. Broadening their
focus on economic development beyond cheap power to include
renewable energy would make “sustainable development” much more
realistic.
Can it happen? It already has, in Iowa and on Kaua’i, and there
are more tools that ever at their disposal. But as with
electrification, no one will do it unless they do it themselves.
This piece originally appeared on ilsr.org. For timely updates,
follow John Farrell on Twitter or get the Democratic Energy
weekly update.
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A. G. Gelbert
November 28, 2014
Excellent article! Thank you.
I would add that the corporate (greed is good and so is profit
over planet) 'business' model has infiltrated cooperatives.
We have a grave situation where our environment AND OUR
DEMOCRACY have both been degraded to a mere caricature (for
propaganda purposes - see lipstick on a predator pig) to keep
we-the-people in our state of ignorance about our 24/7 fascist
fleecing.
Greed is bad. It's a cancer on society and the biosphere.
We either change the way we deal with each other and the other
life forms that inhabit this planet in order to survive and
thrive or we continue our suicidal and psychopathic path of
conscience free conquest and mendacious accounting tricks
criminally contrived to convince logic challenged economists
that "creative destruction" is not an oxymoron.
Don't expect help from our Corrupt and irreparable Court System;
it's bought and paid for by the 'greed is good'
corporate+government (see the definition of Fascism) elite.
You don't believe me? You think this is hysterical hyperbole?
Read on:
The Corporate Business Model is Psychopathic (ONE MINUTE):
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All about Fracking LEGAL chemical POISONS (3 minutes 31
seconds):
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Fossil Fuel Fascism in Action (3 minute lesson on our Orwellian
world):
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Fossil Fuel Fascist Jolly Roger "business" model (8 minutes):
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Fossil fuel Government 2 minute Video Clip from "The Age of
Stupid" Video:
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FDR on Trickle Down "Economics"
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Here's a modern example of what happens when you trust the Court
System to do what they are supposed to. There is NO [i]Ubi Jus,
Ibi Remedium any more in the USA when it comes to environmental
damage that brings sickness and death to people and other life
forms:[/i]
The Exxon Valdez PITTANCE of a settlement: PROOF we have a
Fascist Fossil Fuel Government AND the irreparably DYSFUNCTIONAL
Court System is its HANDMAIDEN
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How about Corporate control of what you eat by manipulation of
our "LAWS"? See Big Ag Fascist Heaven below:
Fascist Big Ag uses Food Disparagement Law and the Patriot Act
to threaten Truth tellers!
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Read what this giant polluter and OWNER of most of the fracking
machinery says about how to 'handle' environmental legislation:
Schlumberger N.V. (SLB): The BIG OIL Planet Polluter you never
heard of
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Yes, the plutocratic marriage of corporate and government power
over the Court System has been there for quite some time. But
now our survival is threatened by this unsustainable paradigm of
the worship of Conquest:
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. on what the LAW
is ALL ABOUT
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In any LAW dictionary you will learn that the term "Legal" is
the antithesis of the term "Equitable". Look it up if you do not
believe me.
The Lady Justice Legal Scales mean the OPPOSITE of what you
think they mean
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Don't count on our Court System to defend Americans from Fascism
- Here's why the solution to Corporate Profit over Planet is EX
CURIA
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Excellent Comment in response to an Anonymous fossil fueler that
pooh pooed renewable energy benefits that John Farrell touted in
the above Renewable Energy World article:
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John Ihle
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Anon, the hundreds of millions of dollars/year that are exported
out of communities and into neighboring states and provinces may
be or are better spent to create local jobs. When you spend more
money locally some of that money benefits local stores and
businesses and in fact create or support indirect jobs in
addition to direct jobs.
Also, local taxes increase (which otherwise you're paying to
other states). I know a lot of not wealthy people that would
support renewable energy even if their rates rise, depending
upon how far they rise (if they rise). It depends how those
polls are worded. They've done polling in my state which
supports my statements (including a majority of ratepayers would
pay some percentage more for electricity for cleaner energy that
has more local content) as polling in your area may support your
statements (maybe?) and you have no crystal ball to suggest what
utilities will "move to" or how lower cost renewables including
distributed generation will impact utility business models vs
transmission and long distance generation (when you can do it
yourself for cheaper).
Renewables keep dropping in cost while fossil fuels continue to
rise. Subsidies are doing exactly what they're supposed to do.
They are helping to bring the cost of renewables down. They are
relatively clean, wind and solar have no emissions (which is
important to many) other than those related to manufacturing,
lubricants used and perhaps decommissioning which is or may be
negligible.
I am a member of an electric cooperative. After reading the
article you apparently ;) missed some points ;D. Electric
cooperative business models have morphed from those days which
the members controlled them
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lives most members don't pay attention to cooperative business
matters or perhaps the G&T's as well as some local cooperative
managers don't want us to know that much (because we "interfere"
;) in a very complicated industry)
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Different things matter to different people and obviously cost
of electricity is a big one but it may not be the biggest one. I
think it depends on certain important factors. However, it does
no one good to make decisions based on erroneous information
generated by G&T's and/or other associations that don't
necessarily serve the better interests of the local members.
Each cooperative should serve the better interests of their
members and those members should be making decisions
cooperatively. That's a cooperative.
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One thing that has
bothered me is how "parent" G&T "non profit" for profit (sounds
like an oxymoron ;D) businesses make several hundred million
investments and billion dollar investments (with Wall Street)
for the good of their member cooperatives. They are dubious
investments, ie for the good of their members
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to
saddle with debt (through long distance transmission and
generation investment) often 30 years or more, at a time when
the cost of DG and clean energy is coming down and the local
benefits along with participation was/is totally ignored. >:(
And that is exactly what happened with my local cooperative and
the G&T who serves us with locked in contracts which a small
board approved
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properly informing to their members.
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[move]Comment just posted at Renewable Energy World[/move]
A. G. Gelbert
December 10, 2014
I must say that absolutely ANY comment that focuses on the
alleged LACK of cost effectiveness of PV, CSP or the latest CPV
type technology when compared to the horrendously costly fossil
fuels and nuclear power is the height of hypocrisy.
Where are all these "concerned citizens" so upset about wasted
taxpayer money when this kind of money is HANDED out as a so
called loan?
QUOTE:
Department of Energy Issues Final $12.5 Billion Advanced Nuclear
Energy Loan Guarantee Solicitation December 10, 2014 - 9:01am
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WHERE are those claiming the U.S. Government should not be
picking winners and losers in future applications of technology
when the Chief Scientist of British Petroleum gets named to THE
key position in the USA for determining what technology will get
the lion's share of we-the-people's money?
QUOTE:
WASHINGTON – Dr. Ellen Williams was confirmed by the United
States Senate on Monday, December 8, 2014 as the Director of the
Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency –
Energy (ARPA-E). UNQUOTE
How believable is our government's "All the Above" statement
about developing competing efficient energy technologies that
will favor Renewable Energy in the light of billion dollar
"loans" for nuclear power?
QUOTE
“With $40 billion of loan guarantee authority available to
advance our all-of-the-above energy strategy...
Authorized by Title XVII of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the
Advanced Nuclear Energy Projects Solicitation would provide loan
guarantees to support the construction of innovative nuclear
energy and front-end nuclear projects in the U.S. that reduce,
avoid, or sequester greenhouse gas emissions.
While any project that meets the eligibility requirements may
apply, the Department has identified four key technology areas
of interest in the solicitation: advanced nuclear reactors,
small modular reactors, uprates and upgrades at existing
facilities, and front-end nuclear projects. UNQUOTE
How believable is our government's "All the Above" statement
about developing competing efficient energy technologies that
will favor Renewable Energy in the light of the naming of a
fossil fuel fossil to spearhead advanced energy technology?
QUOTE:
“ARPA-E is central to the Department’s advancement of energy
technology innovation, and Ellen Williams will provide
outstanding leadership based upon her combination of world class
research in condensed matter physics and insight into how
technology impacts the energy marketplace,” said Energy
Secretary Ernest Moniz. UNQUOTE
Is the above statement by Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz
believable? NO! Why? Because Dr, Ellen Williams was at the helm
of BP when the Gulf of Mexico oil well disaster occurred. As
chief scientist she was in the key position to know exactly what
was happening and had the knowledge with a doctorate in
Chemistry to force BP to prevent all the ensuing damage from
hydrocarbons and VOCs.
We know she did next to nothing. Was she coerced to keep quiet?
We will never know. She has not said.
And THAT is the kind of "leader" which kowtows for fossil fuels,
even in the face of massive pollution, that we have in charge of
the "all the above" disingenuous US Government policy claiming
to be even handed with Renewable Energy.
QUOTE:
Prior to joining the Department, Dr. Williams was the Chief
Scientist for BP, a position she has held since 2010. UNQUOTE
NOTE: The Oil Spill by the Oil Rig "Deepwater Horizon" in Gulf
of Mexico BEGAN on April 20, 2010 and lasted for several months.
The lack of dollars and sense perspective and common sense cost
benefit analysis of the critics of Renewable Energy when
compared to fossil fuels and Nuclear power, particularly in view
of the FACT that the U.S. Government continues its over half
century of choosing nuclear power and fossil fuels as the
winners by throwing billions of taxpayer money at them while
making comparatively tiny, token investments in Renewable
Energy, is breathtaking, deplorable and despicably mendacious.
I urge the editors of Renewable Energy World to monitor as
closely as possible the actions of Dr. Ellen Williams as the
Director of the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research
Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E).
This is a sad day for Renewable Energy in America.
I firmly believe she is a dirty energy status quo defender
masquerading as a "new energy technologies" advocate.
What’s Really at Stake in the Florida Solar Battle?
Renewable Energy World Conference and Expo opens in the sunshine
state just as the state takes issue with distributed solar
power.
Lisa Wood, Contributing Editor
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ANOTHER fossil fuel Stalking Horse placed in a key position to
FAVOR fossil fuel when handing out we-the-people's money. >:(
How do I know? This fine fellow was instrumental in the
destruction of incentives for Renewable Energy in the 1980's.
He's back! Along with the MANIPULATED massive drop in the price
of crude oil, every aspect of the fossil fuel industry's
"policy" in the 1980's to strangle Renewable Energy is now in
place.
I don't think this skullduggery will work this time because the
raison d'etre for Renewable Energy is mainly that it is
sustainable, not whether it appears to cost more up front. But
that doesn't mean the fossil fuel dinosaurs won't give it the
old college try; they have a century of 'crime pays' success
behind them in buying politicians to fleece us in order for them
to continue their irrational and suicidal greedfest of profit
over the planet.
What you need to KNOW about Hezir:
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In 1979, he became a senior budget examiner for energy
technology
programs. In 1982, he joined the Corporate Planning Department
of Exxon Research and Engineering Company, responsible for the
development of technology forecasts used in corporate business
plans.
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After returning to OMB in 1983, Mr. Hezir was chief of the
Non-Nuclear Energy Branch,
responsible for energy technology R&D, conservation, and energy
regulatory programs.
From 1986 to 1992, he served as the OMB Deputy Associate
Director for Energy and
Science, managing a 25 person division with responsibility for
budgetary, regulatory,
legislative, and policy development activities of the Department
of Energy, National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science
Foundation, the Tennessee
Valley Authority, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the
Smithsonian Institution.
He also represented OMB in developing government-wide science
and technology policy
initiatives.
Mr. Hezir received the President’s Outstanding Federal Executive
Award in
1989.
UNQUOTE
President Bush gave him that award...
Now for the BOILERPLATE press release that makes him appear to
be pro renewable energy because of some MIT work on the "Future
of Solar Energy". Right. Mr. Hezir wants to make SURE the money
for solar energy technology is in the future, not the present.
QUOTE
December 4, 2014 - 10:21am
Joseph Hezir Confirmed as Chief Financial Officer
WASHINGTON – Joseph Hezir was confirmed by the Senate on
December 4, 2014 as the Department of Energy’s Chief Financial
Officer.
“Joe’s experience in the energy, environmental and budgetary
realms and his strategic approach to challenges make him a great
fit as Chief Financial Officer for the agency,” said Energy
Secretary Ernest Moniz. “I look forward to working with him as
CFO and I thank the Senate for approving his nomination.”
As Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Hezir will work to assure the
effective management and financial integrity of Department of
Energy. He will help to implement and monitor Department-wide
policies and systems in the areas of budget administration,
program analysis and evaluation, finance and accounting,
internal controls, corporate financial systems, and strategic
planning.
Prior to joining the Department of Energy, Mr. Hezir worked as a
Research Engineer and Executive Director of The Future of Solar
Energy Study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s
Energy Initiative. He was the Vice President and Managing
Partner of EOP Group, Inc. and Executive Vice President of EOP
Education, LLC and EOP Foundation, Inc. Mr. Hezir also held
various roles at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB),
Exxon Research and Engineering Company, the President’s
Reorganization Project, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), and was an advisor to a number of public policy and
public service organizations.
Mr. Hezir co-authored two books about government budget and
regulation published by the EOP Foundation: Understanding the
Budget of the United States Government and Understanding the
Regulatory Policy of the United States Government. He also
received the President’s Outstanding Federal Executive Award in
1989. Mr. Hezir attended Carnegie Mellon University, where he
received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and an M.S. from the
Heinz School of Public Policy.
UNQUOTE
I urge the editors of Renewable Energy World to watch carefully
the allocation of government funds for energy technology that,
as Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Hezir will initiate. I am
certain his agenda is to preserve the welfare queen fossil fuel
favoring status quo.
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It must be the 17th.
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Swift Energy Company SFY 4.07 +1.09 (36.58%) 163.18M
Swift Energy Company is engaged in developing, exploring,
acquiring, and operating oil and natural gas properties, with a
focus on oil and natural gas reserves in Texas as well as
onshore and in the inland waters of Louisiana.
Energy XXI Ltd EXXI 3.23 +0.63 (24.23%) 292.47M
Energy XXI Ltd, formerly Energy XXI (Bermuda) Limited, is an
independent oil and natural gas exploration and production
company with operations focused in the United States Gulf Coast
and the Gulf of Mexico. The Company is engaged in the
acquisition, exploration, development and operation of oil and
natural gas properties onshore in Louisiana and Texas and
offshore in the Gulf of Mexico
Comstock Resources Inc CRK 6.85 +1.31 (23.65%) 279.00M
Comstock Resources Inc (Comstock) is engaged in the acquisition,
development, production and exploration of oil and natural gas.
The Company’s oil and gas operations are concentrated in East
Texas/North Louisiana, South Texas and West Texas.
Approach Resources Inc. AREX 5.69 +1.01 (21.58%) 188.09M
Approach Resources Inc., is an independent energy company
engaged in the exploration, development, production and
acquisition of oil and gas properties. The Company focuses on
oil and gas reserves in oil shale and tight gas sands in the
Midland Basin of the greater Permian Basin in West Texas, where
it leases approximately 148,000 net acres. The Company’s
drilling targets include the Clearfork, Wolfcamp shale, Canyon
Sands, Strawn and Ellenburger zones. It refers to the Clearfork
and Wolfcamp zones together as the Wolffork, and its development
project in the Permian Basin as Project Pangea, which includes
the northwestern portion of Project Pangea that it refers to as
Pangea West. As of December 31, 2012, it owned and operated 594
producing oil and gas wells in the Permian Basin, and had an
estimated 2,983 identified drilling and recompletion locations,
of which 359 were proved.
SM Energy Co SM 38.22 +6.66
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SM Energy Company (SM Energy) is an independent energy company.
The Company is engaged in the acquisition, exploration,
development, and production of crude oil, natural gas, and
natural gas liquids (referred to as oil, gas, and NGLs) in
onshore North America. The Company’s operations are focused on
five operating areas in the onshore United States.
[move]Bottom Feeding BONANZA! [/move]
Dumb money?
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Not if you understand the PLAN by the fossil fuel FASCISTS.
Don't get suckered by these stocks. Let's turn this insider scam
to corner the enrgy market into a path to BANKRUPTCY for fossil
fuelers! These dinosaurs think they are smaht! Prove them wrong.
Make them LOSE their ASS instead of letting them eat our energy
lunch!
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What IS IT about the 17th? Whatever it is, I think our Fossil
Fuel Fascist GOONS have picked up on it (see fracking quakes and
MH17 downed on the 17 anniversary of said airline on July 17,
2014
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August 17th, 1959, the area just west of Yellowstone National
Park experienced an earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter
scale.
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Oct. 17, 1989, Loma Prieta earthquake.
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Mar 17, 2014 KTLA Anchors dive under the NEWS DESK while a 4.4
Earthquake rumbles through Los Angeles.
April 17, 2014 3-4pm Central time there were two back to back
SURFACE earthquakes at dormant Volcanoes in Nevada.
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July 17, 2014: Kansas Shaken By M3.6 Earthquake: More Fracking
Quakes.
Yeah, fossil fuel fascists like to use 666 and 11 to "send
messages" too. ;) I suggest we tell them to GO AHEAD, MAKE OUR
DAY!
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[quote][B]Robert F. Kennedy Jr:[/B] In the next decade there
will be an epic battle for survival for humanity against the
forces of ignorance and greed. It’s going to be Armageddon,
represented by the oil industry on one side, versus the
renewable industry on the other.
And people are going to have to choose sides – including
politically. They will have to choose sides because oil and
coal, they will not be able to survive – they are not going to
be able to burn their proven reserves.
If they do, then we are all dead. And they are quite willing to
burn it. We’re all going to be part of that battle. We are going
to watch governments being buffeted by the whims of money and
greed on one side, and idealism and hope on the other.[/quote]
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: December 18, 2014, 5:50 pm
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The Military Industrial Complex has been DOING what it DOES to
SUPPRESS accurate scientific studies that endanger corporate
profits for a LONG TIME.
From using CREDENTIALED bought and paid for scientists to
distort studies and produce innocuos "peer reviewed" papers on
the "SAFETY" of ASBESTOS (Mellon Institute), TOBACCO, Tetra
Ethyl LEAD, FLUORIDATION of Water (Mellon Institute) and
FRACKING (this is a tiny list of the "scientific" defenses of
horribly damaging industrial pollutants and technology we have
been assaulted with for about a century) to the destruction of
the careers of scientists who have gone public with the truth,
this profit over people and planet fascist [I]modus operandi[/I]
continues to this day.
If we do not impose ethical behavior on our scientific community
and MIC, we are dooming future generations to an unsustainably
degraded biosphere and corporate dictatorship. IOW, lack of
ethical behavior will cause our species to go extinct.
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