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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: December 21, 2014, 4:23 pm
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Nice video!
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The REAL real world makes an inroad into the "real world" of
Zero Hedge, TBP, Nicole Foss, Ilargi, Gail Tverberg, Charles
Hall, SLB (stock symbol) and the local Fracking defenders at the
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: January 3, 2015, 7:45 pm
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[move] More Evidence that the Fossil Fuel Industry in general,
and the Frackers in particular, are involved in a market
cornering "cheap" oil price HEAD FAKE. [/move]
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If energy stock raters weren't convinced that dirty energy
producers will be successful in their conspiracy to recapture
market share, said raters would be UPGRADING Renewable Energy
and DOWNGRADING Polluting Energy Stocks.
But the opposite is the case.
Exxon Mobil Co. (NYSE:XOM) was upgraded by analysts at BMO
Capital Markets from an "underperform" rating to a "market
perform" rating on Tuesday. Previous closing price of $92.83.
The stock has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target
price of $101.55.
Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating,
eleven have assigned a hold rating and six have given a buy
rating to the company.[/I]
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Halliburton Company (NYSE:HAL) was upgraded by analysts at RBC
Capital from a "sector perform" rating to an "outperform" rating
on Tuesday. Previous closing price of $39.49. This rating was
viewed 984 times.
Halliburton Company (NYSE:HAL) opened at 40.00 on Tuesday
(December 30, 2014). Halliburton Company has a one year low of
$37.21 and a one year high of $74.33. The stock’s 50-day moving
average is $43.91 and its 200-day moving average is $59.81. The
company has a market cap of $33.898 billion and a P/E ratio of
9.99.
Halliburton Company also saw a significant decline in short
interest during the month of December. As of December 15th,
there was short interest totaling 24,555,422 shares, a decline
of 18.3% from the November 28th total of 30,068,632 shares.
Currently, 2.9% of the shares of the stock are sold short. Based
on an average trading volume of 32,742,507 shares, the
short-interest ratio is currently 0.7 days.
Seven research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating,
twenty-three have issued a buy rating and one has assigned a
strong buy rating to the company.
The stock has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average target
price of $68.17.
[i]The above information was obtained at the following link:
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: January 13, 2015, 2:19 pm
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: January 13, 2015, 5:31 pm
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How Fossil Fuel Fascists "DO THE MATH" that makes their poison
"competitive".
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[quote]It shows that with rising costs for hard-to-reach
reserves, and falling coal and oil prices, generous public
subsidies are propping up fossil fuel exploration which would
otherwise be deemed uneconomic.
The worst villain is, not surprisingly, the U.S.
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which splashed out
$5.1 billion annually in subsidies for fossil fuel exploration
in 2013—ironically ;) almost double the level in 2009 when the
G20 pledged to phase out fossil fuel subsidies.
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Although President Obama has proposed to cut subsidies, the
oil-washed Congress has failed to pass any subsidy cuts.
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By: AGelbert Date: January 27, 2015, 8:14 pm
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Coal industry chemicals and waste “have tainted hundreds of
waterways and groundwater supplies, spoiling private wells,
shutting down fishing and rendering streams virtually lifeless,”
the Associated Press reports.
And here’s the damning detail from this important AP
investigation: “Because these contaminants are released
gradually and in some cases not tracked or regulated, they
attract much less attention than a massive spill such as the
recent one in West Virginia.”
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West Virginia: First State to Repeal Renewable Portolio
Standard!
SustainableBusiness.com News
Congratulations, ALEC and Koch Brothers - your hard work is
starting to pay off.
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West Virginia is the first state to completely repeal its
Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) - its incentives for
renewable energy.
The state Senate voted unanimously for repeal and the House
passed the bill, 95-4 (all four are Democrats). They discussed
it for about an hour before the vote.
Enacted in 2009, the RPS requires utilities with over 30,000
residential customers to get 25% of electricity from renewables
by 2025, with as much as 10% from natural gas.
It would have been phased in, reaching:
•10% renewables from 2015-2019
•15% from 2020-2024
•25% by January 1st 2025
While utilities no longer need to worry about adding renewable
energy, the House bill keeps net-metering for individuals and
businesses that choose to install solar. We'll see if it remains
in the final legislation.
"I rise to oppose repeal of this bill," said Nancy Guthrie
(D-Kanawha), one of the four Democrats that voted NO. "For the
life of me, what I can't understand is why this body wants to
make a name for itself," she said during the brief debate,
reports WOWK TV.
"We are running out of coal, it's that simple. We are going to
wear coal around our neck like a yoke that will drag all of us
down. This is just political theater, this piece of
legislation," she said.
Gary Howell (R-Mineral) retorted that coal is a "diamond
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Another legislator, Randy Smith (R-Preston), who is also a coal
miner, said he ran for public office specifically to repeal the
RPS. ;)
In the Senate, Minority Leader Jeff Kessler (D-Marshall) offered
an amendment asking a study of the economic and job impact of
the RPS. It was rejected.
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Mountaintop Removal Mining
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Other than North Carolina, West Virginia is the only
southeastern state with an RPS - Virginia's is voluntary. Yes,
coal rules in West Virginia, even though its residents suffer
under an industry that doesn't care about their health or the
environment.
ALEC and Americans for Prosperity are working hard across the
states to eliminate support for renewable energy.
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Last
year, Ohio voted to freeze its RPS, which has already resulted
in wind and solar companies leaving the state.
Read our article, West Virginia, Where Solar Growth Would Help.
South Carolina Approves Net-Metering
Late last year, South Carolina became the 44th state to
institute solar net-metering, and unlike many states, people
will be paid at the full retail rate when they send excess
electricity to the grid.
"We can expect that public support for local solar power will
gain more traction as customers are fairly compensated for the
power they generate," Hamilton Davis of the Coastal Conservation
League told The State. Environmental groups negotiated for the
policy, which keeps the retail rate in place for 10 years. Also,
utilities can't lobby for any fixed solar charges until 2021.
Additionally, the state will allow third party solar leasing,
one of the few in the Deep South.
Read more about the bill:
Website:
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Agelbert NOTE: This is scientific evidence that the bought and
paid for politicians of West Virginia are helping the biosphere
naturally deselect Homo SAPS. It's wonderful to be able to watch
natural selection doing what it does (i.e. SUBTRACTING faulty
genetic material ;D). I hope they enjoy the ride.
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: March 2, 2015, 10:48 pm
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The Fossil Fuel Government OWNED UNLAWFUL COURT SYSTEM just
passed the lion's share of the bill to clean up New Jersey
Pollution (caused by EXXON) to WE-THE-PEOPLE. It 's the EXXON
Valdez law suit PITTANCE award all over again.
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[quote]A long-fought legal battle to recover $8.9 billion in
damages from Exxon Mobil Corporation for the contamination and
loss of use of more than 1,500 acres of wetlands, marshes,
meadows and waters in northern New Jersey has been quietly
settled by the state for around $250 million.
The lawsuits, filed by the State Department of Environmental
Protection in 2004, had been litigated by the administrations of
four New Jersey governors, finally advancing last year to trial.
By then, Exxon’s liability was no longer in dispute; the only
issue was how much it would pay in damages.
...
Exxon did contribute $500,000 to the Republican Governors
Association in May 2014, when Mr. Christie was serving a
one-year term as its chairman; the company has contributed
annually to the group since at least 2008, records show.
...
A spokesman for Mr. Christie referred questions about the
settlement to the attorney general’s office. A spokesman for the
acting attorney general, John J. Hoffman, said on Thursday that
the office had no comment, as was its practice with pending
litigation. Exxon also declined to comment on the settlement.
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Democracy? Constitutional Law? A Court System that defends the
right to health and well being of American Citizens?
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Fri Feb 27, 2015 at 06:46 PM PST.
[move][font=courier]Christie Settles $9 Billion NJ Pollution
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[move]The Courts WILL NOT STOP EXXON AND FRIENDS FROM CONTINUING
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By: AGelbert Date: April 8, 2015, 6:07 pm
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By: AGelbert Date: April 27, 2015, 7:49 pm
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By: AGelbert Date: April 28, 2015, 7:34 pm
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[quote]Net primary production—the biomass that plants make from
photosynthesis every day, all over the world—is the basis of all
wealth and food security. It underwrites all other human and
animal activity.[/quote]
Could Fracking Spark a Modern-Day Dust Bowl?
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Tim Radford, Climate News Network | April 28, 2015 11:25 am
Oil wells and natural gas may have made individual Americans
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A farmer and his sons struggle through a dust storm in 1930s
Oklahoma. Photo credit: U.S. Department of Agriculture via
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Fossil fuel prospectors have sunk 50,000 new wells a year since
2000 in three Canadian provinces and 11 U.S. states, and have
damaged the foundation of all economic growth: net primary
production—otherwise known as biomass, or vegetation.
Brady Allred, assistant professor of rangeland ecology at the
University of Montana’s College of Forestry and Conservation,
and colleagues write in the journal Science that they combined
years of high-resolution satellite data with information from
industry and public records to track the impact of oil drilling
on natural and crop growth.
They conclude that the vegetation lost or removed by the
expansion of the oil and gas business between 2000 and 2012
added up to 10 million tonnes of dry vegetation, or 4.5 million
tonnes of carbon that otherwise would have been removed from the
atmosphere.
[center]Loss of fodder[/center]
Put another way, this loss amounted to the equivalent of fodder
for five million cattle for one month from the rangelands, and
120 million bushels of wheat from the croplands. This wheat
equivalent, they point out, adds up to the equivalent of 13
percent of the wheat exported by the U.S. in 2013.
Net primary production—the biomass that plants make from
photosynthesis every day, all over the world—is the basis of all
wealth and food security. It underwrites all other human and
animal activity.
Human wealth depends ultimately on what grows in the ground, or
what can be dug from the ground, and most of the latter—such as
coal, oil and peat—was once stuff that grew in the ground.
The same net primary production is the basis of what economists
sometimes call ecosystem services on which all civilisation
depends: the natural replenishment of the water supply,
pollination of crops, provision of natural nitrogen fertilizers,
and the renewal of natural habitat for wild things.
And what worries the conservation scientists is that this loss
of net primary production is likely to be “long-lasting and
potentially permanent, as recovery or reclamation of previously
drilled land has not kept pace with accelerated drilling.”
“This is not surprising because current reclamation practices
vary by land ownership and governing body, target only limited
portions of the energy landscape, require substantial funding
and implementation commitments, and are often not initiated
until the end life of a well.”
They say that the land actually taken up by wells, roads and
storage facilities just between 2000 and 2012 is about 3 million
hectares. This is the land area equivalent to three Yellowstone
National Parks.
The hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” used to extract oil and
gas is between 8,000 cubic meters and 50,000 cubic meters per
well, which means that the total quantity of water squirted into
the ground at high pressure during the 12 years to 2012 could
exceed 33,900 million cubic meters. At least half of this was
used in areas already defined as “water-stressed.”
[center]New wells[/center]
The researchers considered the drilling of new wells in Alberta,
Manitoba and Saskatchewan in Canada, and in Colorado, Kansas,
Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South
Dakota, Texas, Utah and Wyoming in the U.S.
Although there is legislation, it is limited to lands subject to
federal jurisdiction, and 90 percent of all drilling
infrastructure is now on privately-owned land—at least, in the
U.S.
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A tanker drives past a flaring oil well in North Dakota. Photo
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The study’s authors want decision-makers to confront the
challenges of this kind of ecological disruption. There are
lessons from history in all this, they warn.
“In the early 20th century, rapid agricultural expansion and
widespread displacement of native vegetation reduced the
resilience of the region to drought, ultimately contributing to
the Dust Bowl of the 1930s,” they write.
“It took catastrophic disruption of livelihoods and economies to
trigger policy reforms that addressed environmental and social
risks of land-use change.”
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Agelbert NOTE: You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the
consequences of ignoring reality. As those CONSEQUENCES arrive,
expect the fossil fuelers to make SURE WE-THE-PEOPLE PAY for
consequences of their biosphere trashing, profit over planet
CRIME. Have a nice day.
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: May 2, 2015, 4:04 pm
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Captivating Video Shows True Cost of Offshore Oil Drilling
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