I'm a college graduate from the Environmental program of AU. Welcome to my f***ed-up humor and stories about my kitties, family, or old papers/DB I wrote for the industrious student to recycle. I also like to post things about fracking from time to time. Hey, I'm all about sharing my intellectual property (if you can call it that) with anyone who is running short on time or intellect :)
OK...I'm a big Pokemon fan and this latest meme just made me laugh out loud. Team Rocket, that's right. Read it left to right; in other words one sentence from Romney then one from Ryan and end with Meowth's line. BTW, I know "fore" is wrong, but I'm not the one who did this...go complain to the original site: http://weknowmemes.com/2012/09/romney-and-ryan-are-team-rocket/
30 July 2012
So, I saw my first "FRACK ON" sign this summer. It's less than a mile away from my home...(I wanted to put up my own "FRACK OFF" sign, but someone beat me to it.) It grates on my nerves to have to see it every day.
Last week my son asked me how I felt about that sign--he likes to aggravate as much as any teen likes to... but I laughed and said jokingly "If God doesn't think fracking is good for us, He'll take care of that sign."
To my surprise that night we had some windy weather...the sign blew down...in a few days the sign was back up only to have it completely disappear within two days...still not back up :)
Does this mean that God agrees with a Liberal tree hugger? Someone should notify the Republicans.
05 July 2012
"A water and methane geyser, bubbling water, and mud volcanoes have Pennsylvania shale-field residents scared and demanding answers. A number of dramatic methane emissions were reported to have begun in Leroy Township, Bradford County on May 19, 2012. Initial reports from residents suggested that there may have been a substantial loss of control of natural gas from one or more of the shale gas wells in the area..."
Now that the God Particle has been found (well technically one that resembles the Higgs boson), science can move onto discovering things like sparticles, the sixth, seventh, eighth, eleventh, even twelfth dimensions or that mysterious stuff that dark matter is made of. Congrats to all you smarter-than-me geeky science people.
16 May 2012
CONNECT THE DOTS
There are significant health and environmental impacts when examining the full life-cycle of shale gas.
Air pollution comes from the exhaust of generators and compressors (that run 24/7) at shale well sites, from heavy-duty truck traffic and from the venting of wastewater storage tanks.
Shale development results in more emissions of greenhouse gases, smog-inducing compounds and other hazardous air pollutants than conventional oil and gas development.
Increased use of shale gas instead of coal may actually accelerate climate change in the coming decades, not reduce climate change impacts.
Air pollutants found near fracking sites include methanol, formaldehyde, carbon disulfide, and VOCs (including nitrogen oxides, benzene and toluene) are also discharged during fracking
Emissions from well sites form ground-level ozone combine with particulate matter to form smog
In Dish, Texas air samples contained high levels of neurotoxins and carcinogens
In Wyoming, drilling and fracking have caused ground-level ozone pollution to exceed amounts recorded in Los Angeles.
Shale gas is not an alternative fuel that can serve as a bridge to a future powered by clean, renewable energy resources, but a path to more environmental degradation.
References:
Food and Water Watch. (2012, March). Fracking: The new global water crisis.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (2011, June). The future of natural gas: An interdisciplinary MIT study.
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester. ( 2011, January). Shale gas: a provisional assessment of climate change and environmental impacts.
Brown, Stephen P.A. et al. (2009, December). Natural gas: a bridge to a low-carbon future?
United States House of Representatives: Committee on Energy and
Commerce. [Minority Staff Report]. (2011, April). Chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing.
April 2011
Think about what people fought for a little over a century ago then ask yourself: Are the "job creators" really creating jobs with their ever-growing tax breaks/loopholes? Or is this mantra just a way to fool the 99% into supporting their agenda? What regulations can we do without; cleaner air, unpolluted water, or protection from unsafe work places? Higher taxes for us so the gap between rich and poor can grow even wider? Does "Trickle Down Economics" really trickle down to the 99% or is it reverting our society to a Middle Age feudal system where the wealthy few have all the say and the rest of us do their bidding?
Definitely a re-post--not my own words since I didn't take time to research and find info about the original May Day in the US....
Most people living in the United States know little about the International Workers' Day of May Day. For many others there is an assumption that it is a holiday celebrated in state communist countries like Cuba or the former Soviet Union. Most Americans don't realize that May Day has its origins here in this country and is as "American" as baseball and apple pie, and stemmed from the pre-Christian holiday of Beltane, a celebration of rebirth and fertility.
In the late nineteenth century, the working class was in constant struggle to gain the 8-hour work day. Working conditions were severe and it was quite common to work 10 to 16 hour days in unsafe conditions. Death and injury were commonplace at many work places and inspired such books as Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and Jack London's The Iron Heel. As early as the 1860's, working people agitated to shorten the workday without a cut in pay, but it wasn't until the late 1880's that organized labor was able to garner enough strength to declare the 8-hour workday...
