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Frac Sand Mine Proposed Near School Sparks Battle In Small Wisconsin Town

03 Monday Jun 2013

Posted by John Loeffler in air pollution, Cancer, Crystalline Silica, Dirty Politics, Environment, Frac Sand, Frack Sand Mining, Fracking, Greed, Health, Health Hazards, Health problems, Lobbyists, Mining, Money, opposition, Politicians, residents, Sand Fracking, Sand Mining, Silica or Sand Fracking, Silica Sand, Silicosis (Lung Disease), tourism, U.S., United States, Vista Sand, Water Pollution, Wisconsin

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More than 100 frac sand mines and processing facilities, like this one outside of Bloomer, Wis., have cropped up across the state over the last few years. (photo – Jim Tittle)

After winning just one game the previous year, the Glenwood City Hilltoppers football team reveled in taking home the Wisconsin Division 7 state championship last season.

And in typical small-town fashion, the whole community rallied behind them, recalled Chris Schone, whose son quarterbacked the junior varsity squad.

But now, Schone said, something is “tearing the community apart.” A nearly 400-acre open-pit frac sand mine has been proposed for a site less than half a mile from the school, and now those residents who welcome the mine’s promises of wealth and prosperity have squared off against those who fear its consequences to their health, way of life and property values.

“Our home is also about a half-mile from the mine,” added Schone, who grew up in Glenwood City and owns a nearby gas station and restaurant. “Our four children would be exposed 24 hours a day.”

Read more important information on this here:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/01/frac-sand-mining-wisconsin-glenwood-city_n_3364963.html?utm_hp_ref=green

Greed is the motivating factor for residents and farmers who are willing to sell or lease their land to Sand Fracking companies, and the consequences are deadly Silicosis and cancer caused by Frac Sand Mining!  That and the destruction of a beautiful and unique environment here in Wisconsin in towns that count on tourism for their livelihoods! – John Loeffler, Fountain City, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

 

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READER ALERT! Police arrest 35 during frac sand protest in Winona, MN!

29 Monday Apr 2013

Posted by John Loeffler in Animals, Arrests, Cancer, Cancer-causing, CD Corp., citizens, Contamination, Corruption, Crystalline Silica, Dan Nisbit, Destruction, environmental catastrophe, environmental disaster, Frack Sand Mining, Fracking, Greedy, Health Hazards, Humans, Minnesota, Mississippi River, MN, Money, Police, Pollution, power abuse, Power-hungry, Protests, Sand Fracking, Silica or Sand Fracking, Silica Sand, Silicosis (Lung Disease), Uncategorized

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Dan Nisbit’s CD Corp. Sand Fracking Facility near the Mississippi River

WINONA, Minn. (AP) — Police arrested 35 people for trespassing Monday during a protest of frack sand mining in Winona.

Officers arrested 19 people at the city’s commercial dock after protesters were asked multiple times to leave the private property. Police then responded to a sand processing plant on Winona’s west end, where another 16 people were arrested, the Winona Daily News reported. Winona Catholic Workers organized the protest. Protesters say their goal was to halt business operations at each site.

“I think people see that the issue of silica sand is something affecting the entire region,” protester Molly Greening said. “They’ve come to stand in solidarity with this issue.”

Dan Nisbit, owner of CD Corp., which leases the commercial dock, says the protest created a distraction for workers and temporarily slowed operations at the facility.

“Obstructing business isn’t the right way to go about things,” Nisbit said.

Frack sand is used by oil and gas drilling companies. Opponents of frack sand mining have raised environmental concerns.

Monday’s protest was part of an annual celebration of the regional Catholic Worker community. Volunteers from Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Michigan and other states in the Midwest traveled to Winona to participate.

“As Catholic Workers living with the poor and marginalize, we come to this land to prevent the desecration of this land and the health of this community,” they wrote in a statement Sunday evening. “We declare Monday to be a moratorium of business as usual at the sites of production of silica sand to eliminate a necessary component of fracking.”

Catholic Workers and others in the Winona area have protested the industry for more than a year. They have blocked a rail loading terminal, demonstrated at the steps of the Winona City Hall prior to a city council meeting on frack sand regulations, and held other rallies.

During one rally at city hall in May 2012, a protester was cited for littering after he threw a handful of frack sand on the front steps.

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Information from: Winona Daily News

Article Source:  http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2013/04/29/regional/frac-sand-protests

Note:  Dan Nisbit stated that “Obstructing business isn’t the right way to go about things,” yet he continues to ruin the environment and the safety of animals and humans including his own workers?!  Hypocrite!!

Let Dan Nisbit know what you think of him and his environmentally destructive and human Silicosis and cancer-causing business:

CD Corp. of Winona – Address:  978 Riverview Dr. Winona, MN 55987. Telephone:  (507) 454-5421. Fax:  (507) 454-6230. EMAIL Dan Nisbit: DNisbit@rconnect.com

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Do The Math – The Movie (Climate Crisis)

21 Sunday Apr 2013

Posted by John Loeffler in 2013, 350.org, Barack Obama, Big Oil, Bill McKibben, BP, Cancer, Cancer-causing, Carcinogenic, CEOs, Chevron, Civil Rights, Civilization, Clean Air Act, Clean Energy Act, Clean Water Act, Climate Change, climate crisis, Congress, Conoco-Phillips, Contamination, Corporations, Corruption, Cover-up, covert operations, Crystalline Silica, D.C., Deadly, Deception, Destruction, Dirty Fossil Fuels, Dirty Politics, Divest, Do The Math, Earth, Environment, environmental catastrophe, environmental disaster, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Evidence, ExxonMobil, Fossil Fuel Industry, Fossil Fuels, Fracking, Fracking Leaks, Gas Companies, Glacier Sands LLC, Global, Global Dominance, Global Warming, Greed, Health, Health problems, Human Rights, Human Rights Violations, Humanity, Hydraulic Fracking, Hydraulic Fracturing, Keystone XL, Keystone XL Pipeline, Lies, Lobbyists, Marcellus Gas Shale, media blackout, Mining, Money, Nuclear, Nuclear Accident, nuclear disaster, Nuclear Industry, nuclear meltdown, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste, Obama, Occupy, Occupy Movement, Ocean Desalinization, Oil, Oil Companies, Oil Drilling, Oil Industry, Oil Spills, Poisoning, Politicians, Pollution, Power, power abuse, Power-hungry, public health hazard, Safety Violations, Sand Fracking, Science, Scientific Evidence, Secrecy, Shale, Shale Gas Exploration, Shell Oil, Silica, Silica or Sand Fracking, Silicosis (Lung Disease), Special Interests, Species, Species Extinction, Tar Sands, Tar Sands Oil, Taxpayers, Toxic, TransCanada, U.S., U.S. Citizens, U.S. Government, U.S. Government T.V. News Filtering, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. President, U.S. Senate, Unacceptable, Uncategorized, United States, unnecessary, Unsafe, Wall St., Washington D.C., Waste, World

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Do the Math: A Movie to Spark a Movement

The fossil fuel industry is killing us.

They have five times the amount of coal, gas and oil that is safe to burn — and they are planning on burning it all. Left to their own devices, they’ll push us past the brink of cataclysmic disaster — life as we know it will be irrevocably altered forever. Unless we rise up and fight back.

Do The Math chronicles follows the climate crusader Bill McKibben as he works with a rising global movement in a David-vs-Goliath fight to change the terrifying math of the climate crisis.

This growing groundswell of climate activists is going after the fossil fuel industry directly, energizing a movement like the ones that overturned the great immoral institutions of the past century, such as Apartheid in South Africa. The film follows people who are putting their bodies on the line the Keystone XL Pipeline and leading universities and institutions to divest in the corporate polluters hellbent on burning fossil fuels no matter the cost.

The film also features a veritable who’s who of the climate movement including Dr. James Hansen (Director, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies), Naomi Klein (Author, The Shock Doctrine), Lester Brown (President, Earth Policy Institute), Michael Brune (Executive Director, Sierra Club), Majora Carter (Founder, Sustainable South Bronx), Jessy Tolkan (Co-Executive Director of Citizen Engagement Laboratory), Phil Radford (Executive Director of Greenpeace), James Gustave Speth (Co-Founder of Natural Resources Defense Council), Mike Tidwell (Executive Director, CCAN), Van Jones (CNN Correspondent & Author, The Green Collar Economy), Bobby Kennedy Jr. (President, Waterkeeper Alliance ), among others.

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The Price of Sand Fracking Wisconsin and Minnesota!

21 Sunday Apr 2013

Posted by John Loeffler in abuse, Americans, Cancer, Cancer-causing, Carcinogenic, CEOs, Contamination, Corruption, Deception, Depletion, Environment, environmental disaster, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Farm Fields, Farmers, Fossil Fuels, Fracking, Fracking Leaks, Glacier Sands LLC, Greed, Health, Health problems, highways, Inadequate, Infrastructure, Invasion, Minnesota, Mississippi River, Money, Sand Fracking, Silica, Silica or Sand Fracking, Silicosis (Lung Disease), Texas, Toxic, U.S., Uncategorized, United States, Wisconsin

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This is a trailer for an upcoming, must-see film!

It’s all about the money! Greed, greed and more greed! These companies moving in from down south, i.e. Texas, do not care about creating jobs, preserving our pristine environment, our highways and building infrastructures or cleaning up the aftermath of their massive mess! I have been to a Glacier Sands meeting (August 2012), and I can tell you with great certainty that this is all about the almighty dollar…period.

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Our World’s ‘Dead Zones’ & Why They Are There!

13 Wednesday Mar 2013

Posted by John Loeffler in .0001% Elite, 99.999% of the World, abuse, Adults, Agriculture, America, American, Americans, Animals, Aquifer, Billionaires, BP, Bribery, British Petroleum, Cancer, Cancer-causing, Carcinogenic, CEOs, Charts, Chemicals, Children, Class Warfare, Clean Air Act, Clean Energy Act, Clean Water Act, Common Sense, Congress, Contamination, Coral Bleaching, Corporations, Corruption, Cover-up, Crackdown, crime, criminal, Crooked, Crystalline Silica, D.C., dangerous, Deception, Depletion, Destruction, Dirty Fossil Fuels, Dirty Jobs, Dirty Politics, Disaster, Domestic Policy Failure, Drinking Water, Earth, Economics, Economy, Education, Elite, Emergency, Environment, environmental disaster, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Epidemic, Exposure, Extinction, extreme, extreme measures, Extremely Dangerous, Exxon-Mobil, Failing Education, Failure, Failures, Farm Fields, Farmers, Farming, Federal Government, Formations, frack waste, Fracking, Fraud, Gas Companies, Geography, Global, Greed, Halliburton, Health, Health problems, Horizontal Fracking, House of Representatives, Human Rights, Human Rights Violations, Hurricanes, Hydraulic Fracking, Hydraulic Fracturing, Inadequate, Infrastructure, Koch Brothers, Kyoto Protocol, Lakes, Lawsuits, Leaks, Lies, liquid waste, Lobbyists, Marine Biology, Marine Life, Marine Mammals, Massive Corruption, Massive Fraud, Millionaires, Minerals, Mining, Mississippi River, Money, Money Laundering, Monopolization, Monsanto, Natural Gas, nightmare, Nutrient Depletion, Obama, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Ocean Desalinization, Oil, Oil Companies, operations, Pandemic, penalties, Photos, Plastic, Poisoning, Poisonous Chemicals, Poisonous Compounds, Politicians, Politics, Pollution, Poor, Power, power abuse, Power-hungry, President Barack Obama, Problems, public health hazard, Rivers, Runoff, Safe Drinking Water Act, Safety, Safety Violations, Sand Fracking, Science, Scientific Evidence, Shale, Shale Gas Exploration, Silica, Solutions, Special Interests, Species, Species Extinction, State of Emergency, Streams, Tar Sands, Technology, The Great Lakes, U.S., U.S. Citizens, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Government, U.S. Government T.V. News Filtering, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. President, U.S. Senate, Unacceptable, Uncategorized, Unclassified, Unconstitutional, Uneducated, United States, Unlawful, unnecessary, Victims, Violation, Voters, Wall St., Washington D.C., Wastewater, Water, Water Pollution, Wealthy, weather, weather anomalies

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Coral bleaching is on the rise thanks to warming waters throughout the world due to global warming and man-made chemicals dumped into our waters.  As the world heats up, our fresh water ice caps melt.  Devastating consequences due to global warming include fresh water entering our oceans’ natural currents from the Arctic, Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets.  This fresh water slows down the oceans’ natural salt water flow, and will eventually halt our oceans’ currents causing even bigger problems for humanity!

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That is a whole different story, however it relates to increasing dead zones in saltwater and freshwater bodies thanks to man-made global warming due to the burning of finite fossil fuels.  Global warming and the dumping and runoff of man-made chemicals are destroying the Gulf of Mexico, oceans, seas and large freshwater sources like the Great Lakes.  Our world relies on these waters to help sustain our seafood supplies and shrinking sources of freshwater which are vital to help sustain a overpopulated earth.

Let’s take a look at one specific area, the Gulf of Mexico, which explains why we are experiencing massive coral reef bleaching, and the deaths and disappearances of fish and other sea creatures.

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The most current map of dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico may not reflect BP’s massive oil spill on April 20, 2010.  It does not take into consideration that BP’s oil spill killed off a large, untold number of species of ocean dwellers like the 29 marine mammals that live in the gulf including dolphins and whales.  Why does the Gulf of Mexico have huge areas where the waters are devoid of most or all living organisms? There are two main reasons.

One factor is the shallow water depths in the Gulf of Mexico which is the world’s ninth largest body of water if technically separated from the Atlantic Ocean.  The average water temperature of the gulf during the summer months ranges from the upper 70’s to upper 80’s.  90 degree waters are not uncommon, and marine life cannot live in what is close to bath water temperatures for humans!  Why do you think hurricanes that enter the gulf during the warm months gain so much energy?  The weather systems have two forces that they need which are extremely warm water and hot temperatures to help them morph from a tropical storm into a enormously destructive hurricane.  Global warming has caused not just air temperatures to rise but water temperatures to increase as well.  Coral reefs are fragile, and they cannot live in such a warm, polluted environment.

The other synthetic reason why our oceans and the Gulf of Mexico are experiencing slow to rapid die-offs of coral reefs and the various forms of marine life that rely on them as a inter-connected life support system is man-made chemical waste.  Is it just coincidence that the ‘Dead Zone’ in the gulf is near where the Mississippi River flows into it?  Fertilizer, pesticide and herbicide run-off from farms flow into tributaries of the Mississippi River and directly into the river itself.  Industrial farms and factories have uncontrolled flows of pollutants like nitrogen and phosphorous that ultimately end up in the Gulf of Mexico where they create algae blooms and oxygen depletion.  No oxygen = no life.  Other major toxins enter our waters via illegal dumping of chemical waste that companies purposely do, because they do not want to deal with the expense of properly disposing of their garbage or toxic waste.  Any trash that enters the Mississippi River will end up in the Gulf of Mexico, and it will kill or scare off all marine life, thus creating ‘Dead Zones.’

What about what is already in the Gulf of Mexico?  That limited source of energy that we spend more energy to get at than what it actually produces:  Oil!  Take a look at the number of oil platforms in the gulf along with their locations, and think about the tainting of water and the life in it due to drilling for oil!

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Then acknowledge that drilling for oil results in oil spills which have a profound and lasting effect on the environment in general including the Gulf of Mexico:

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This is a U.S. problem, but it is not limited to just America!  Take a look at the dead zones throughout the world as we heat up, melt away, and pollute like there is no tomorrow!

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Notice that even the Great Lakes, the world’s largest source of freshwater, is in trouble directly due to pollution including plastics!  There are vast areas in the oceans too that are nothing more than giant, floating garbage dump sites!  This is the way we treat our planet, and the dying of our oceans’ and other waterways’ is akin to the ‘Canary in the Coalmine’ scenario.  Unless we drastically alter the course of society’s sails, then we are in for some rough waters ahead!

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by John E Loeffler – Fountain City, Wisconsin

Sources:  http://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/topics/deadzone/index.html

http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/bp-gulf-oil-spill-cheat-sheet-a-timeline-of-unfortunate-events.html

http://marinelife.about.com/od/habitatprofiles/tp/GulfofMexicoMarineLife.htm

http://www.ehow.com/list_6330428_ten-largest-bodies-water.html

http://weather.weatherbug.com/beach-and-boating/coastal-water-temperatures.html?bb_regionid=4&zcode=z6286

http://weather.weatherbug.com/beach-and-boating/coastal-water-temperatures.html?bb_regionid=5&zcode=z6286

http://deepseanews.com/2010/06/oil-platforms-in-the-gulf-how-many-and-who-owns-them/

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Welcome to Sand Fracking Country & Glacier Sands LLC!

06 Wednesday Mar 2013

Posted by John Loeffler in .0001% Elite, 99.999% of the World, abuse, Agriculture, America, American, Americans, Animals, appeal, Aquifer, ban, Bankruptcy, Bribery, Cancer, Cancer-causing, Carcinogenic, Careers, CEOs, Chairman, Chemicals, Chief, Children, Class Warfare, Clean Air Act, Clean Energy Act, Clean Water Act, Committee On Energy And Commerce, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Common Sense, Congress, Contamination, Corporations, Corruption, Cover-up, covert, covert operations, Crackdown, crime, criminal, Crooked, Crystalline Silica, D.C., dangerous, Deception, Depletion, desert, Design, Destruction, Dirty Fossil Fuels, Dirty Jobs, Dirty Politics, Disaster, DNR, Domestic Policy Failure, drill cuttings, Drinking Water, Earth, Economics, Economy, Education, Elite, Emergency, Energy Information Administration, Environment, environmental disaster, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Epidemic, Exposure, Extinction, extreme, extreme measures, Extremely Dangerous, Failing Education, Failure, Failures, Farm Fields, Farmers, Farming, Federal Government, Fracking, Fracking Leaks, Fraud, Gas Companies, Genocide, Geography, Global, Global Dominance, GPS, Greed, Halliburton, Health, Health problems, highways, home, Horizontal Fracking, House of Representatives, Human Rights, Human Rights Violations, Hydraulic Fracking, Hydraulic Fracturing, Inadequate, Infrastructure, Interstates, Intrusive, Invasion, Jobs, Kyoto Protocol, Lakes, Lawsuits, Leak, Leaks, Lies, Liner Leaks, liquid waste, Lobbyists, Local Government, Lost, Marcellus Gas Shale, Massive Corruption, Massive Fraud, Methane, Millionaires, Minerals, Mining, Minnesota, Mississippi River, Money, Money Laundering, Monopolization, moratorium, Murder, Natural Gas, nightmare, Nutrient Depletion, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Occupy, Occupy Movement, Oil, Oil Companies, operations, Pandemic, Petitions, Poisoning, Poisonous Chemicals, Poisonous Compounds, Political Activists, Politicians, Politics, Pollution, Pond Liner Leaks, Poor, Power, power abuse, Power-hungry, President Barack Obama, Problems, public health hazard, Radiation, Radium 226, Radon, residents, Resistance, Rivers, roads, Rock, Runoff, Safe Drinking Water Act, Safety, Safety Violations, Sand Fracking, Scandal, Science, Scientific Evidence, Shale, Shale Gas Exploration, Silica, Special Interests, State Government, State of Emergency, Storage Ponds, Streams, Structural Support, Technology, Texas, training, Transportation, travel, U.S., U.S. Citizens, U.S. Government, U.S. Government T.V. News Filtering, U.S. President, U.S. Senate, Unacceptable, Uncategorized, Unclassified, Unconstitutional, Uneducated, United States, Unlawful, unnecessary, Victims, Violation, Voters, Washington D.C., Wastewater, Water, Water Pollution, Wealthy, welfare, Well Water, WHO, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, World Health Organization (WHO)

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Is that not a pretty picture?  It is what happens to our land when we rely on finite sources of dirty fossil fuel energy.  Say goodbye to the trees, the animals, and a clean environment!  The picture is not of a Hydraulic Fracturing or Fracking site.  It is a picture of the lesser known Sand Fracking that goes on to supply the needed Silica sand for the extremely toxic Hydraulic Fracking process of which there are now 65,000 wells and counting throughout the U.S.

The premium sand that is ideal for Hydraulic Fracturing or Horizontal Fracturing has been found by businessmen, mainly from Texas, and the high quality sand is in Wisconsin and Minnesota!  A little-known company called Glacier Sands LLC a.k.a. Seven Sands LLC is responsible for this “gold rush” in the Sand Fracking industry. Their webpage looks innocent, but looks can be deceiving!

Speaking of deception, welcome to Glacier Sands LLC’s Leadership:  http://glaciersands.com/about-glacier-sands/leadership/

Let’s break down three key people in their leadership:  Brian Iverson, Ryan Thomas and Ike Thomas.  Brian Iverson drew the attention of Texas businessmen Ike and Ryan Thomas, and he formally set up Glacier Sands LLC a.k.a. Seven Sands LLC in 2011 using a Wisconsin address although he lived in Minnesota.  Brian Iverson has not only been accused of investment fraud related to a group of mining investors from Montana, but he also filed bankruptcy a little over two years ago to cover over $21 million of debt he accrued related to former business deals “and personal guaranties he gave as security for business loans.”  Source: http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/news/2012/07/09/frac-sand-or-farmland-wisconsin-farmers-face-showdown-rescheduled-august-9

Boy, this Brian Iverson guy sounds like bad news!  He’s shady at best, and he has hooked up with two Texas businessmen since 2011 to completely destroy (see picture above) Wisconsin and Minnesota’s pristine environment by slithering in like a snake to slowly poison innocent citizens who have lived here for generations.  What for? GREED, of course!  Brian Iverson needed help to become financially successful, because he has a dirty past of screwing people over, then filing bankruptcy for his losses!  Iverson is the epitome of selfishness!  He obviously does not care about people in general or his workers, since I am sure he is aware of the dangers of Silicosis and cancer.

Sand Fracking for Crystalline Silica is known to cause Silicosis and cancer.  Source:  OSHA:  http://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/data_General_Facts/crystalline-factsheet.pdf  The Silica sand from Sand Fracking can blow for miles if not continually watered down according to lame government standards.  At best, the Crystalline Silica produced from Sand Fracking to use in Hydraulic Fracking will only affect nearby areas to include the Mississippi River.  That is bad enough if you live in a state where Sand Fracking sites are popping up faster than they can be properly studied for health risks before approval!  Without proper studies on the harmful effects and affects of fracking, county boards like Buffalo County, WI just delay the permit for Sand Fracking until all of the ‘angry citizen’ dust has settled.  Then, they go in and vote 3-0 in favor of what nobody wants except for the dirty fossil fuel industry and big business like Glacier Sands LLC!  I wonder how many board members and other officials get paid to pass legislation for mining that is NOT wanted by a vast majority of U.S. citizens in general?  Probably more than one can possibly imagine!  Brian Iverson had help from Ike and Ryan Thomas though.  Anything coming out of the most polluted state (Texas) in the U.S. for over a decade and running cannot be good!

Ike Thomas’s Linked in profile suggests a man with deep roots in dirty energy and big business: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=135550272&authType=name&authToken=3tMX&locale=en_US&goback=%2Enpv_135550272_*1_*1_name_3tMX_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1  He has a company called JusRyn (President since 1980) that is not only hard to find (a red flag), but when you do find Ike’s company it’s listed in the white or yellow pages!  This seems a bit fishy to me, but what do you expect from a Texas businessman?  What about Ryan Thomas?  His Linked in profile says it all including bragging about being a Frack Sand supplier!  He has similar business roots like Ike Thomas with dirty mining and dirty energy leading the way:  http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ryan-thomas/18/592/664.

Is this what our country wants?  A monkey barrel of bullies overrunning our local governments to feed their lust for money and power?  Apparently so, because I do not see anyone standing up en masse to protest fraudulent businessmen.  Businessmen who sucker farmers or anyone else with many acres of land via a greed-laden but small payout for ruining not only the farmer’s or individual’s land, but the land, water, complete infrastructure to include roads and buildings of towns and cities, and health of humans and animals!

Do you think that Glacier Sands or any other “Fracking” business is going to pay for human health problems which show up years or decades later, or the contamination of our land and water in general?  They will be long gone by the time we catch up to the mess they have left behind!  Taxpayers, as usual, will be stuck cleaning up dirty mining’s mess due to lack of current concern or ability to do much of anything to stop the Sand Fracking nightmare that consumes Wisconsin and Minnesota!  It’s such a shame too, because if you can stop the Sand Fracking from happening then you can halt the even more dangerous Hydraulic Fracturing or Fracking that uses Crystalline Silica in large quantities.  Fracking, like Glacier Sands is doing, has already turned America’s landscape from this

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By John Loeffler – Fountain City, Wisconsin

Sources:

Glacier Sands:  http://glaciersands.com/about-glacier-sands/leadership/

Twin Cities Daily Planet:  Frac Sand or Farmland: Wisconsin farmers face showdown  http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/news/2012/07/09/frac-sand-or-farmland-wisconsin-farmers-face-showdown-rescheduled-august-9

OSHA Fact Sheet:  http://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/data_General_Facts/crystalline-factsheet.pdf

Jusryn Inc.:   http://www.directorycentral.com/business/tx/granbury/jusryn-inc-2814118.html

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Loopholes Shield Fracking Industry While Families Pay the Price!

27 Wednesday Feb 2013

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02-27-2013 Ecowatch

Laurel Peltier

In 1989, Dusty and Tamera Hagy bought 81 rural acres in Jackson County, West Virginia. Twenty-one years later, the Hagys sued four natural gas drilling firms alleging the natural gas wells drilled on their property in 2008 contaminated their drinking water and caused physical harm.

The Hagys’ water contamination lawsuit demonstrates how the natural gas industry has built a near-perfect “federal legal exemption’s framework” that when combined with lax or absent state regulations and the legal system’s high costs, inherently approves of citizen collateral damage with no restitution.

The consequence of this framework is that the burden of proof is placed on plaintiffs who, at best, are forced to settle with natural gas companies, thereby sealing the case from public scrutiny, scientific examination and legal precedence. Because the Hagys didn’t sign a non-disclosure agreement with the natural gas companies involved, their legal case gives the public a rare window into how fracking lawsuits play out in reality.

Natural gas is a critical resource. Fifty percent of American residences use natural gas. Natural gas is seen by some as a bridge fuel essential to the U.S.’s strategy to gain energy independence from foreign oil imports. Yet we must ask ourselves: Is the current fracking system one we should support? Are changes needed to level the playing field for all parties involved in fracking? Can fracking be done safely?

The land man cometh

Dusty and Tamera Hagy unwittingly fell into the fracking trap the day they bought their land in 1989. “We loved our 81-acre property, it was our life. We had paid off the mortgage and spent a lot of money fixing the place up. We raised our two boys there, buried our animals there and were  planning to give our boys some property,” said Dusty Hagy.

Mineral rights, fracking chemicals and natural gas federal environmental laws were all Greek to the Hagy family before a pleasant Equitable Production Company representative visited the couple in October 2007.

Equitable Production Company’s representative informed the Hagys that four natural gas wells were soon to be drilled on their property about 1,000 feet up the hill from their home.

In West Virginia, surface land ownership is separate from mineral rights. Mineral rights are the portion of the profits received from minerals extracted from land. Another party owns the Hagy property’s mineral rights which were granted hundreds of years ago. The Hagy family receives no gas royalties and didn’t sign a formal gas leasing contract, though, they did sign plenty of “papers” believing they did not have a choice.

Fracking starts – trucks, noise, explosions, and chemicals

On Nov. 11, 2007, trucks, back hoes, tree cutters and workers converged on the Hagy property uphill and upstream from their home. Equitable outsourced the drilling to BJ Services and for the next six months the holler, or enclosed valley, was flattened for a six-acre natural gas well pad.

Tamera Hagy describes life during the drilling and fracking: “It was nothing like what I had expected. This was a huge operation that lasted day and night for eight months. Trucks went up and down the road 24/7. The smell of fumes would make you sick. One night we heard something like a giant drill bit drilling and vibrating under our house.”

Dusty visited the well pad often and learned from the job crew that this fracking job wasn’t going smoothly. One worker mentioned that they had hit a lake of water and were moving the rig. Another worker shared in this audio tape #3 how the cement casing “went bad” and was re-cemented. Of the four open and lined fracking wastewater ponds, one overflowed and later broke, spilling the fracking wastewater into the nearby creek that flows from the well pad past the Hagy family’s home. In March 2008, Dusty noticed that another fracking pond’s wastewater was emptied by hose into the woods. After finding foam and oil slicks in the creek next to their well, and then when their large pond turned green, the Hagys knew something wasn’t right.

Dusty lodged a formal complaint with the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) on Nov. 17, 2008. DEP records reveal a gas inspector visited the site at the well’s completion and issued no violations. DEP records also reveal the three natural gas wells began producing gas in July 2008 and the wells today continue to produce about 3,000 m.c.f. of gas per month.

Be careful what you sign

As Dusty describes the Equitable representative, “We liked him, and he was a nice enough guy in the beginning and we believed everything he told us at face value.” Equitable said the natural gas drilling was simple and would cause minimal damage on 1.5 acres. When Dusty asked if fracking used anything dangerous, they were told that only water and sand were used, no chemicals were ever mentioned. A water test prior to drilling supported the Hagy’s belief that their water well was clean and safe.

On Oct. 22, 2007, Equitable paid the Hagys $19,000 to cover surface damages to their land and trees because building a well pad trashes the landscape. “I believed the Equitable guy when he said the check was just for surface damages. My property was valued at nearly $200,000. It was stupid to sign that paper, I should have gotten a lawyer,” explained Dusty. Because the well pads used more than the original 1.5 acres, Equitable paid the couple another $10,000 for damage on an additional four acres.

Later in 2008, Dusty learned the papers they had signed to receive the payments were actually damage release contracts attempting to exempt Equitable, and all drilling providers, from any and all damages associated with the drilling. “Other than shooting the family dog, this ‘contract’ covered near everything,” said Dusty Hagy.

Family gets sick—headaches, rashes and vomiting

The family drank, bathed and cooked with their well water from November 2007 to November 2008 during the gas well drilling and fracking. Ironically, the Hagy family had boasted about their pristine well water and even after their adult sons moved out, the boys brought jugs of well water back to their homes.

The Hagys began to notice changes to their water in early 2008. Their water volume was dropping and the water’s color changed from clear to brown. Often black particles were floating in water drawn from their well. Despite overwhelming evidence otherwise, Equitable never reported any issues that would impact the Hagys’ well water.

Adding to the changing water quality, both Dusty and Tamera said they were oddly tired, and woke up with “bad headaches, like a hangover.” Both smelled an “acid” odor in the house and their eyes would burn in certain rooms.

The Hagys didn’t put “two plus two together” until their youngest son went to his family doctor in Columbus, Ohio in October 2008. Their son had complained of nausea and was spitting up blood. His doctor treated him for acid reflux, a disorder he’d never experienced before, and suggested he stop drinking his parent’s well water. The son’s symptoms disappeared soon after he discontinued drinking his parent’s well water.

Tamera Hagy developed a rash that her primary care physician diagnosed as contact dermatitis, a skin inflammation caused by a foreign source. Expert medical testimony in court documents reveal the Hagys’ health symptoms mirrored chemical exposure.

Water tests reveal drinking water was bad and Hagys vacate property

Based on their complaints, Equitable re-tested the Hagy water well on Nov. 8, 2008 and their water had clearly changed. The turbidity, or murkiness, was six times greater post drilling (0.5 to 3.2) and iron, manganese and calcium levels increased significantly (Dusty replaced one hot water heater during this time due to calcium build-up).

Water tests conducted later also revealed arsenic, lead, barium and Bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate, an organic compound linked to fracking wastewater. The radon levels of the Hagy well were 1,233 pCi/l with the maximum contaminant level set at 300. When those radon levels were compared to area wells, the Hagy’s radon in their drinking water was markedly higher than eight local U.S. Geologic Survey wells in the area.

However, the water tests conducted before and after drilling were limited and included no tests for known fracking chemicals or volatile organic compounds.

In November 2008, Equitable told the couple, “the water was bad” and to stop drinking the well water and the company began supplying bottled drinking water.

On Jan. 13, 2009, Dusty and Tamera vacated their home and have never moved back. “We thought we were going to die,” said Dusty Hagy.

Relations with Equitable were getting tense; Dusty even began recording phone conversations. Repeated requests for a list of the chemicals used in fracking went unanswered.

Equitable admits “your water’s been affected because of our drilling process.”

Dusty Hagy assumed Equitable would fix the water issue based on phone conversations (audio tape #1) with his Equitable representative who stated on the phone:

“ … for whatever reason the water’s been affected because of our drilling process. But the horizontal portion of it I don’t think had anything to do with it. Something we did had something to do with it. We have done something to the water, and no one was doubting that, but it wasn’t the horizontal part. I’m not doubtin’ that fact and I don’t think anybody’s doubtin’ that, the horizontal portion wouldn’t affect it.”

Equitable offered to drill a new water well which the family declined because they believed the aquifer itself was contaminated. This belief stemmed from a neighbor’s claim that 30 of his animals had died in 2008 during the gas drilling. Plus, Equitable tied any restitution to the couple signing an non-disclosure agreement, or gag order, meant to silence the Hagys and negate any future claims.

Hagy family sues drilling firms

As this phone conversation (audio tape #3) with Equitable reveals, once the family sought legal representation in March 2009, all contact with Equitable stopped. Bottled water deliveries and hotel payments stopped. While the couple searched for a rental home, they lived in their un-heated camper. On a positive note, once they vacated their home, their negative health symptoms dissipated.

The Hagys sued Equitable Production Company, BJ Well, Halliburton and Warren Drilling in October 2009. In short, even with the taped calls, drilling records, photos, videos and water tests, the Hagys’ lawsuit was “dismissed” in August 2012. Judge Goodwin’s opinion stated, “The case presents no genuine issue of materials fact for a jury to determine.” The lawsuit is in the appeals process and the litigation costs to date are $175,000.

How does this happen?

Though the Hagys’ lawsuit appears to provide evidence of water contamination, their dismissed lawsuit supports the claim, “There are no known cases of drinking water contamination from fracking,” often touted by pro-fracking groups.

This claim isn’t true, at least 4 confirmed cases of water contamination exist:

  • 1987 Parson’s Family, W. Virginia — Outcome: settled.
  • 2011 Paradise Road, Bradford County, PA — Outcome: settled.

  • 2012 Fiorentino vs. Cabot Oil, Dimock, PA — Outcome: settled.
  • 2012 PA. DEP, Bradford County, PA — Outcome: settled.

Why so few confirmed cases and no case tried before a jury?

More than 40,000 shale gas wells have been drilled since 1996 and at least 825 serious fracking complaints have been lodged, yet only 40 fracking lawsuits have been filed. To date, a jury has never heard a fracking lawsuit.

The answer:

  • The natural gas industry is regulated on a state-by-state basis because of the federal legal exemptions granted to the industry.
  • Predatory, private contracts signed between firms and individuals favor gas companies.
  • The U.S. legal system’s high litigation costs dissuade lawsuits.

How the “the Big 7” exemptions play out in reality

The natural gas industry is exempted from seven major federal environmental laws. These laws in their simplest forms are intended to protect people, places, water and air.  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is tasked with enforcing these laws. Because the natural gas industry isn’t regulated by the U.S. EPA at the federal level because of the legal exemptions, natural gas drilling is regulated on a state-by-state basis.

The chart below outlines the seven federal environmental laws exemptions, with many exemptions dating back decades.

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The latest three exemptions were strategically written into the 1,500 page Energy Policy Act of 2005 and are now infamously named the “Halliburton loophole.” These three short paragraphs focused on eliminating water pollution oversight and also eliminated the strict environmental reviews that federal projects must undertake.

When these exemptions are combined, the benefits to natural gas industry are: no federal EPA oversight therefore pushing fracking regulation to the state level, no scientific testing, no environmental studies, no health and geologic studies and no liabilities for drillers of chemical releases into waterways and air.

The 2005 Energy Policy Act’s strategy was to provide the U.S. with “an abundant, domestic and affordable sources of fuel.” Since 2005, the gas industry has been unhampered by federal regulations and the newer shale gas drilling has grown quickly; U.S. natural gas from shale reserves has grown from one percent to 35 percent of the U.S. supply. This new supply of 8.5 trillion cubic feet of gas has forced natural gas prices down by 50 percent, even spurring coal-based electrical plants to convert to natural gas.

The coffin nail: Toxic Release Inventory exemption

The least known exemption though, the 1986 Toxic Release Inventory of Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, may offer the natural gas industry the biggest shield from liabilities and the greatest obstacle for parties alleging fracking water contamination.

In response to the Bopal, India disaster, when Union Carbide released a harmful gas into an urban area which killed more than 20,000 people, Congress required industries to list harmful chemicals on the Toxic Release Inventory to the EPA. The EPA collects and then disseminates that information to the public and local governments.

Yet, oil and gas companies were exempted from the Toxic Release Inventory, therefore chemical disclosure is different for each of the 29 fracking states. To boot, shale gas production, or fracking, is concentrated in relatively gas-friendly states: Texas, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, West Virginia, Colorado and North Dakota, listed in order of gas production volume.

According to an in-depth National Resources Defense Council report which compares today’s hodgepodge of state-level fracking regulations, no state requires full chemical disclosure. Even new regulations in Texas, the largest shale gas producer, require chemical reporting but do not require “proprietary” chemicals to be listed which can account for 50 percent of the chemicals used in one fracking. The report also concludes that state reporting is inconsistent and significant portions of data are missing altogether.

Adding to the lack of chemical disclosure, only two states (West Virginia and Colorado) inform residents about new wells before drilling. This means that in 27 states, residents are not notified of new drilling, making it impossible to conduct comprehensive (and expensive) water testing before the drilling.

How exemptions play out in the law-can you prove what you drank?

In 2007, Equitable wasn’t legally required to disclose the chemicals used in the fracking, therefore no doctor, no person or group knew what chemicals to test for or what caused the foam in the creek, the color changes in the pond or the compromised water well.

Though water tests revealed the Hagy property drinking water had changed since the drilling had occurred, the tests were not apples-to-apples comparisons.  During the lawsuit’s evidence discovery process, the natural gas firms finally furnished the list of chemical used on the Hagy property which verified the fracking chemicals used weren’t “just water and sand,” as quoted by the Equitable contact.

The absence of verifiable chemical data is displayed in Judge Goodwin’s opinion and order to grant a motion for Summary Judgement, which in layman’s terms means the Hagy lawsuit was dismissed. The burden of chemical exposure proof was placed on the plaintiffs, “to demonstrate amount, duration, intensity and frequency of chemical exposure.” A catch-22.

Gas leases and contracts: The devil’s in the fine print

Adding to the chemical disclosure catch-22 is that most gas leases heavily favor natural gas drillers. In 2011, The New York Times analyzed more than 110,000 shale gas leases and concluded; over half of gas leases provide landowners no restitution in the event of harm, most exclude any explanation of potential harm and a majority of leases include automatic contract extensions that require no landowner approval. Natural gas wells can produce for decades and gas lease contracts can be automatically renewed in perpetuity. Many leases include clauses mandating that damage disputes be heard in arbitration outside of the legal system.

The door-to-door leasing agents who represent gas drillers, a.k.a. landmen, are tasked with getting natural gas leases signed by landowners. Feedback from many landowners is that landmen are very persuasive, personable and often mis-represent facts. These revealing talking points pages were reportedly found by a Ohio homeowner who had been visited by a West Bay Exploration’s leasing agent. The talking points, marked confidential, give sales agents advice to, “not talk about the anti-fracking documentary Gasland, to not discuss chemicals or fracking and to speed up the lease signing before people think about the drilling.”

Many natural gas leases border on predatory in nature as it appears the gas leasing process relies on the ignorance of rural, landowners to enter into binding, private contracts with natural gas drillers.

The Hagys claim they were absolutely unaware they had signed a damage release waiver, twice even. “The Equitable representative sat right on my porch and said the cash was a small payment for the trees and land damage. It wasn’t until November 2008 that I even found out I supposedly had signed away any rights,” said Dusty.

These two damage release forms inadvertently signed by the Hagys have reared their ugly heads during the lawsuit process as another reason Equitable and BJ Services claim they are not liable for any water, health or property damage; the companies claim the Hagys signed away any rights to liabilities and restitution.

Suing a gas company—expensive and grueling

“Fracking has been the tragedy of the commons—freedom to a common, brings ruin to all,” according to Maxwell Kennerly, a trial lawyer at The Beasley firm in Philadelphia. Legally it’s been impossible for plaintiffs to precisely pinpoint exactly what happened underground or link exact chemicals to a situation when those chemicals aren’t divulged and the drilling process isn’t accessible. Any lawyer taking these cases has to be prepared to put their own money and resources on the line to be a trailblazer.”

The first legal team hired by the Hagy family in 2009 dropped the Hagys’ case one year later. During that year the family lost valuable time in conducting water tests and gathering evidence. Their current lawyer, Kevin Thompson, of the Law Offices of Thompson Barney in Charleston, West Virginia, has taken the case on a contingency fee basis. The Hagy family has paid no out-of-pocket expenses. The lawsuit’s litigation costs to date top $175,000.

Lastly, there is an emotional toll for using our legal system to get restitution; it’s a grueling process according to Dusty Hagy. “It’s been hell. For over two years, we’ve been reliving this awful experience. In the back-of-our-minds we realize this may be all for nothing. My wife and I feel we had our most important asset stolen from us, the drinking water that makes our property a place to live, not just 81 acres for animals. It feels like the whole system is stacked against us.”

Where are the Hagys?

Interestingly, the Hagys and 70 of their neighbors who live on a 5-mile stretch of Sugar Creek Road have petitioned Southern Jackson County Public Services to extend public water service to their homes at cost of $2 million. The project is on an 5-year waiting list and there is no guarantee it will ever be completed. According to Karl Vielhaber, general manager for the Southern Jackson County Public Service, the property owners have petitioned for municipal water because most claim their water wells are contaminated from gas drilling. Most of the homeowners haul water to their homes from a coin operated water source.

Dusty and Tamera have moved to a new property with a mortgage, and they still own their vacated property. Equitable’s three natural gas wells still produce gas today and may for years on the Hagys’ vacant property.

The winners and losers

A clear winner in fracking so far is natural gas industry. Fracking cases settled out-of-court provide critical benefits for the gas industry because the settlements include “gag orders” so that injured parties can not discuss the case and its contents. Financially, settlements reduce liabilities for natural gas firms by eliminating unpredictable jury awards. More importantly, settlements help the industry maintain their public relation’s campaign to the media, elected officials, the financial industry and the American consumer that natural gas drilling is clean and safe.

American consumers are also winners in the fracking story. According to the Energy Information Administration, residential gas prices are about 50 percent less than the 2008 natural gas price peak.

Fracking’s losers are the private landowners who have been negatively impacted by fracking and may or may not have received proper restitution. Collectively, the public loses as closed settlements shut down any learning, studies or analysis needed to create uniform industry best practices and build legal precedence for future cases.

Based on evidence and public pressure, Congress finally approved the U.S. EPA to conduct scientific fracking studies. The final study will be available for peer and public review December 2014.

Fracking regulations are slowly developing. The Obama Administration announced federal regulations mandating methane capturing at well sites. State legislatures are slowly developing new rules with Pennsylvania creating some of the toughest legislation over wastewater recycling and charging per well fees to pay for damages. But, as the Center for Energy Economics and Policy’s website and National Resourced Defense Council report illustrate, fracking regulation is complicated and convoluted.

What can you do?

Stories like this can often leave readers with an uneasy question: “What can I do?” Hear are a few ideas.

  • Contact your federal and state elected officials. Your state elected officials are key as fracking is exempt from federal regulation and it seems Washington is struggling to make any changes with pretty much anything. Sending a quick email to your state delegates and senator with a link to this post takes 30 seconds and alerts your elected officials that fracking is on your radar screen. Make your opinion on the current process known.
  • Choose a fracking group from below that matches your point of view and sign-up for their newsletters. Add them to your twitter feed or friend on facebook to keep abreast of new regulations and issues. If you’re a Flipboarder, add fracking to your list.
  • The groups below often include easy “call-to-actions” where your voice can be heard. Interestingly, all but a few people in these groups and grassroots organizations are volunteers.

Maryland: Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Choose Clean Water and Maryland’s Food & Water Watch

Pennsylvania: Protecting our Waters, Susquehanna Riverkeepers and Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air

West Virginia: Frackcheck WV and West Virginia Surface Owner’s Rights Organization

New York: Damascus Citizens for Sustainability

Mid-Atlantic and National: Food & Water Watch, Sierra Club, National Resources Defense Council andEnvironmental Working Group

If you’re interested in reading the natural gas industry’s point of view, Energy in Depth is their policy and communications group.

All photos taken by Dusty Hagy except the photo and story below is from the West Virginia Surface owner’s Right’s Organization.

 

Source:  http://ecowatch.org/2013/loopholes-shield-fracking-industry/


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America: Our Govt. Has A Spending Problem!

19 Tuesday Feb 2013

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I think it’s time for us to take a step back, and look at the big, ugly picture in front of us!  The U.S. government has a huge spending problem, and its leaders are gambling away our generations’ and future generations’ taxpayer dollars on a over-bloated U.S. Defense Budget! Why is the U.S. spending more money on defense than half of the world’s industrialized nations combined?  I think the U.S. expansion into Africa (AFRICOM), and its attempted expansion into Central America and South America, in order to preserve its lust for oil and world dominance is a clear indicator.

It is a clear indicator that the U.S. regime has one clear goal which is total global dominance leading up to the New World Order or One-World Government that nobody wants except for the most elite, wealthy weasels that already control world markets. Now those elitists want to dominate every aspect of human life!  So much for freedom and human rights!  Obama’s Executive Orders, and his secret “Executive Actions” which override any orders, are already stripping U.S. citizens bare of the Constitutional rights that were in place to protect them since the founding of America. Meanwhile, our polarized Congress is doing little to nothing to stop what I see as a dictatorial, totalitarian, authoritarian, Orwellian 1984-like society that is unfolding right in front of everyone!  Voting for “the lesser of two evils” (Republicans vs. Democrats) is at an all-time high, every facet of our government has been overrun by CEOs, mega-corporations, Super-PACS, Wall St.‘s gambling addiction, and lobbyists shoveling corporate $money$ into our elected officials’ pockets!

What is our government’s wonderful solution to reducing “wasteful spending?”  Voter-elected legislators want to cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and food assistance which are the core programs holding together what is left of our once great nation! After all, that’s what Congress really wants in order to preserve their wealthy lifestyles handed to them by Corporate America!  It’s not about you or us.  It’s all about how much greed and power, the two most evil words in this world, our government can suck in before the entire U.S. economic system implodes and crumbles into a giant mound of useless paper money!  The U.S. government will end up with nothing more than a vintage Monopoly game board with a “Go Directly to Jail” card for anyone who opposes its repressive regime.

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Tell Your Senator “No More Dirty Mining!”

16 Saturday Feb 2013

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I live in the beautiful state of Wisconsin, with the exception of the bone-chilling cold during January and February!  One of my state’s senators sent me a letter informing me that, in short, mining here can be done safely with minimal environmental impact.

There is no such thing as “safe mining!”  The two words when put together are polar opposites of each other.  I like my idea better, so I emailed it off to him!  You can do the same with all of your state’s elected officials, including your governor, by sending them a clear, resounding message that it is (way past) time to divest from dirty, finite energy and invest in cheaper, clean, renewable energy starting today!  Our climate is screaming for help, and we can no longer let our legislators promote their hidden, greed-laden agendas!

Here is a copy of a brief letter that I just sent off to Senator Cullen:

Dear Senator Cullen:
There is no need for mining of any kind in the great state of Wisconsin where I was born and raised!  Mining for finite, dirty energy sources is dangerous, unhealthy to the workers, and unhealthy to the rest of Wisconsinites, since there is always pollution runoff or overflow.  This runoff or overflow is NOT properly regulated by the EPA or its WI branch!
We have a vested interest to divest from dirty energy and invest in clean, renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, hydro-electric and geothermal power.  Our environment desperately needs this in order to avert catastrophic weather changes that are steadily increasing in numbers and intensity!  For the sake of humanity and its future generations, please take mining off of Wisconsin’s energy table!  We deserve better, cheaper energy alternatives, and most importantly, so do our children!
Thank you,
John Loeffler
Please email your representatives today!
U.S. Senate:  http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
U.S. House of Representatives:  http://www.house.gov/representatives/
State Governors:  http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Governors.shtml
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Red Wing, MN’s Mayor Moonlighting For Sand Fracking Industry!

06 Wednesday Feb 2013

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As reported by the Star Tribune:  http://www.startribune.com/local/189946441.html?refer=y
Mayor Egan’s email address:  dennis.egan@ci.red-wing.mn.us
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Mayor Egan:
You have taken on a second job as Executive Director of the Minnesota Industrial Sand Council.  Your second job is a MAJOR conflict of interest due to the harm Sand Fracking causes to humans, animals, and the environment.  Silica, the major component of Sand Fracking, is carcinogenic or cancer-causing!  Sand Fracking is environmentally destructive.  Proponents of Sand Fracking LIE when they promise local jobs to people at a time when jobs, good paying or not, are scarce!  A vast majority of the Sand Fracking jobs go to out-of-area workers like professional truck drivers, industrial workers with plenty of job experience, etc!   Did you forget that as an ELECTED OFFICIAL that you are responsible for protecting the citizens of the area that you serve?  Don’t you think that your need for GREED has overcome your ability to rationally think about the consequences of your actions?
I would call you a Shrew, an Amoeba, or even a Troll, but that would be an injustice to them!  You are a disgrace to humanity, and you better start doing some soul-searching, if you even have a shade of one left, and change your evil, money-hungry ways before you not only find yourself out of a mayoral job in Red Wing, MN, but chased out of the city by a witch-hunting, torch-bearing, angry mob of citizens like you deserve!
Shame, shame, shame on you for allowing greed and power to consume your blackened heart and filthy soul!  You are a lowly, selfish, typical politician whose judgment will come from the almighty hands of God if you do not change your wicked ways!
By the way, I’m helping this news go as viral as possible! *:) happy
Have a nice day,
John Loeffler
Fountain City, WI
jelo1317@yahoo.com
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