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Let’s Stand By Each Other

December 26, 2008 By TXsharon

Let's stand by each other in the coming new year. With much love...Lifted from Texas Kaos where you can read about the background of this video.Playing for Change: Peace through music … [Read more...]

Mike Connell Information Clearinghouse.

December 26, 2008 By TXsharon

Mike Connell: A Trail of Questions At the End of the RoadAn impressive amount of work at ePluribus Media.After nearly a decade in which Karl Rove politically engineered the policy machine of Federal government, the death of embedded information … [Read more...]

Tennessee Spill: Huge Environmental Disaster

December 24, 2008 By TXsharon

Water Supplies Tested After Tennessee Spill New York Times - United StatesEnvironmentalists said the spill, more than 30 times larger than the Exxon Valdez oil spill, belied the notion of the "clean coal" technologyThey are testing for heavy metals … [Read more...]

Congress Sends Letter to Obama Protesting Bush’s Natural Gas Record

December 24, 2008 By TXsharon

Woo Hoo! Maybe the new administration and new Congress will do something to rein in the dangerous path we are currently taking in the domestic drilling agenda.The letter is protesting the recent leasing of BLM lands.Congress to Obama: Undo Bush's … [Read more...]

Disasterous Radioactive Waste Spillage Doesn’t Make News

December 24, 2008 By TXsharon

This is a major rnvironmental disaster! The scale is 48 times larger than the Exxon Valdez spill in volume and equally as dangerous. Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste: Scientific … [Read more...]

Pictures: Hydraulic Fracturing Emissions in Wise and Denton Counties

December 23, 2008 By TXsharon

Click pictures to see a larger version.Denton County, FM 1173I watched these fumes every day for over a week. They show up much better at night.Don't forget that sludge pits also have emmissions.Wise County FM 730Emissions sometimes show up better at … [Read more...]

Colorado Passes New Drilling Regulations. GOP Vows to Fight,

December 23, 2008 By TXsharon

Finally, Colorado passed the new drilling regulations that were proposed a while back.Among the protections the regulations impose are:• A 300-foot no-drill buffer around streams used for drinking-water supplies.• Controls on odors and dust on … [Read more...]

Viewer Reactions to Hydraulic Fracturing Film

December 23, 2008 By TXsharon

Thanks to Don Young who sent me this article: Viewers discuss film about hydraulic fracturing. If people will watch these films, they will be as alarmed as I am.The Google helped me find the film on YouTube in 6 parts:Part 1Part 2 Listen to the … [Read more...]

Methane dangers in Los Angeles linked to waste disposal in old oilfields

December 22, 2008 By TXsharon

Paper to be presented at Meeting of thePacific Section Convention American Association Petroleum GeologistsandWestern Regional Meeting of the Society of Petroleum EngineersWestin Hotel, Long Beach8 am Tuesday June 20.Session: "Environmental … [Read more...]

Tim DeChristopher “bought” 22,000 acres of land in an attempt to save the property from drilling.

December 22, 2008 By TXsharon

Posing as a Bidder, Utah Student Disrupts Government Auction of 150,000 Acres of Wilderness for Oil & Gas DrillingThe Bureau of Land Management held a controversial auction Friday to sell oil and gas drilling rights to nearly 150,000 acres of … [Read more...]

Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round-up

December 22, 2008 By TXsharon

It's Monday, and that means it is time for another edition of the Texas Progressive Alliance's Weekly Blog Round-Up. This week's round up--the last weekly round-up of 2008--is compiled by Vince from Capitol Annex.Next week, the Texas Progressive … [Read more...]