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Your yard, your kids, their pipeline
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Calvin Tillman: What happened to conservative values?
What happened to conservative values? It has been very disappointing to see our conservative values continue to dwindle under the pressure from large corporations. In Texas our politicians talk conservative values right up to the point where they fail to follow them. Two foundation pieces of conservatism, are property rights and the free market system. In Texas,…
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“There is a major pipeline incident every other day in this country”
From an Associated Press article published 9/13/10: “‘That’s an issue we’re going to have to look on a bigger scale — situations in which pipes of some age were put in before the dense population arrived and now the dense population is right over the pipe,’ he said. “Thousands of pipelines nationwide fit the same…
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Alberta, Canada: A glimpse of New York’s future
‘Petro-pirates’ robbing Alberta’s resources Flushing justice down the pipeline with Wiebo Ludwig’s arrestPublished January 14, 2010 by Jack Locke in Viewpoint Corey Pierce . . . . . Alberta is not a democratic province. It is a province controlled by international corporations that see profit and extraction of natural resources as their prime object. In order to accomplish their…
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Thursday a.m. pipeline explosion, Texas
The Associated Press reports: Gas line explodes in Panhandle Nov. 5, 2009, 9:29AM Flames blazed more than 400 feet high above a natural gas line explosion that rocked Bushland, Texas about 1 a.m. today. BUSHLAND — A natural gas pipeline exploded in the Texas Panhandle on Thursday, shaking homes, melting window blinds and shooting flames…
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“My babies are gone” – gas pipelines kill again
http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/article/20091031/NEWS01/91031008 Two teens killed in gas pipeline explosion Two teenagers died in an early morning explosion at a gas pipeline in Carnes. Wade White, 18, and Devon Byrd, 16, died at site of the explosion, which happened around 4 a.m. today near White’s home on Phillip White Road. Byrd was a sophomore at Forrest County…
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Time magazine: “Add soap, spin.”
Well, never let it be said that the energy industries won’t find a way to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear: At http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,501061211-1565620,00.html It’s tough to put a positive spin on the massive eruption of mud that has displaced more than 12,000 people and buried a large swath of eastern Java in roiling,…
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November 2008: Gas line explosion in Oklahoma destroyed 3 homes, injured 2
http://www.newson6.com/Global/story.asp?S=9349075&nav=menu682_2 Natural Gas Pipeline Explosion SKYNEWS 9 HD Surveys Damage From Gas Line Explosion Gas line explodes in Grady County The explosion and fire near Alex closed down State Highway 19. Associated Press ALEX, Okla. (AP) — Two people were hospitalized after natural gas pipeline operated by Enogex exploded early Friday morning in Grady County. Three…
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Industry lies: Mayor of DISH, TX, on “the camel’s nose in the tent” – or what happens to a small town when it believes what the industry reps say
Thanks to http://txsharon.blogspot.com/2009/04/barnett-shale-industries-dish-it-out-to.html for this story: From Calvin Tillman, Mayor of DISH, TexasI continue to bring up the negative illustrations of the impact the numerous pipelines, compressors and metering stations which have forced themselves upon our small community. In fighting the last four years, it has been a hope of mine that at some point the assault…
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Why are we using this stuff anyway?: Rash of fatal residential gas explosions across New England
So, the natural gas industry wants to increase demand, eh? Here are a few reasons we need to reduce it: this winter’s rash of natural gas explosions in New England suburbs, and the lives lost: 1. One dead in house explosionhttp://www.theunionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=One+dead+in+house+explosion&articleId=b0836fb5-ce5c-4986-aa7b-168dc60b083e 2. Gas leak forces evacuations in Keenehttp://www.theunionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Gas+leak+forces+evacuations+in+Keene&articleId=31ffaf73-a619-4cee-83e5-8afedc73b28f 3. Woman killed in gas explosion in Somerset http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090220/NEWS/902200349 Before explosion, gas…