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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFracking is messing with our health
our homes and our future!
Please check in here if your community is facing a uphill battle with the unregulated oil industry......
We are mad as hell and don't know how to take it anymore!
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2012/04/fracking-bill-moves-forward-in-california-legislature.html
AndyA
(16,993 posts)No transparency.
Injecting chemical-laced water to blast through rock to extract oil and natural gas. Repeat thousands of times in multiple locations...no concerns there, right?
By the time people figure out how much damage this is doing to water supplies and Earth itself, it will be too late. But of course, we should trust that the oil companies will do what's best for everyone, because they have such a stellar environmental record.
(End sarcasm.)
goclark
(30,404 posts)and they won't give one inch.
California has No Regulations for them and Halliburton was involved in this mess from the beginning.
Houses in California are Fracking/Shifting/Full of Fumes and no one cares but the homeowners.
Many of the home owners are just waking up to discover this maddness.
I am attending a meeting with the Oil Company as the "host" tomorrow.
My understanding is that this " phony meeting" was the peanut that they threw at the citizens to make us think they are listening . We know they will NOT help us but I will be at that meeting!
Ms.goclarkObama is mad as hell and I have put my name on as a speaker.
I will try not to curse but when I get mad I know how to let them hear me loud and clear!
Thanks for your thoughts, wish me luck.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)goclark
(30,404 posts)We lived near this area in 1963.
After all these years I just learned that FRACKING was the problem at the Dam.
I don't recall ever seeing the shocking scenes from the video in the link....
Oil Wells then an oil wells now and still no regulations!!!
A must see video link......
http://ayresriverblog.com/2012/03/30/baldwin-hills-dam-disaster-footage-from-1963/
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Oh wait, the end times are almost here anyway might as well destroy the earth to buy a new yacht.
goclark
(30,404 posts)this evening when we meet with the OIL COMPANY....
I have been informed that this evening, you are regulating
the time that we have to speak that is ironic because
we cant regulate the damage that
YOUR WELLS do to US!
Please tell YOUR BUDDIES and OUR ENEMIES at Halliburton
and the other Money Grabbing Oil Companies
that they are Killing Us Softly with THEIR FUMES!
Tell them that we love our community and we are
Sick from and Tired of your unregulated drilling!
When youre not counting your money
do a google of the article and the VIDEO in the LA TIMES
about the Baldwin Hills Dam Break ---- 1963
That horrible memory will be forever etched in the history
of this lovely area of the CITY OF THE ANGELS!
I was a college student in 1963 yet it wasnt until I attended community meetings and learned more about
FRACKING and its affects that I became totally OUTRAGED!
Can you do me a favor?
AT YOUR EARLIEST CONVENIENCE
.Please sit down with
your families and show them the heart wrenching Video.
Remember to read them the article in the
Los Angeles Times about that horrible event.
Tell your family that we KNOW that YOU are getting Fat Pay Checks and we know that your companies give money
under/over the table to Elected Officials to shut them up!
While we, the HOME OWNERS, dont get one dime for all the Fracks/Cracks/ Fumes/Illnesses/ Doctor bills that
those Tall Ugly Eiffel Tower Looking creatures keep
pumping every day!
Dont forget to tell your families that we are Sick and Tired of what you have done to our community and to countless others.
We are not going to sit back and take it anymore!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_Hills_Reservoir
http://baldwinhillsvillageandthevillagegreen.blogspot.com/2011/03/baldwin-hills-dam-breaks-december-14.html
Anything I should add?
thanks!