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 My question is: Who will pay for the cleanup? I hope not the tax payer but the profiteers from an inhumane and environmentally risky industry - hitchhiking on the legitimate right to farm...

More oil pipelines will come to area

From the Daily Telegram

Letter to the Editor: Friday, March 13, 2015

More oil pipelines will come to area

To the editor,

On Feb. 23, Ohio Farm Bureau Director of Energy Dale Arnold hosted a pipeline issues discussion at the Wood County fairgrounds in Ohio. Dale revealed shocking facts of our future in this region of northwest Ohio and southeastern Michigan. Wood, Fulton and Lenawee counties are ground zero for the fossil fuel industry.

Our easily Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) has led to an explosion of fracking in the Marcellus Shale region of the Eastern United States. This in turn has led to a export mania of our natural reserves to foreign markets that command prices three to four times than here in America. Increase demand will eventually raise prices for American consumers of their own natural reserves! This fact recently led 16 U.S. senators on Feb. 11 to write to Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz expressing their collective concerns over the long term affects of this short term rush to exploit our finite reserves.

Exploitation is of no public good throwing into question over sized pipelines like Nexus that export over 80 percent of its natural gas to Canada. This also calls into question the misuse of eminate domain where a for-profit corporation abuses our property rights for personal gain over no public good.

Dale Arnold sees five pipeline co-corridors running 7 to 10 miles apart in our region though what I’ve coined “Pipeline Alley.” Dale knows of seven pipelines in the works with many more over the coming decades. These future pipelines will run in the new co-corridors promising unending year over year disruptions to the unlucky few that land the the first pipeline on their property. As the pipelines appear, the right-a-ways increase in size making true private property ownership a thing of the past.

One last thing for all to chew on. In 1910 Wood and Hancock Counties in Ohio were the largest oil producers in the world. Some 20,000 derricks dotted the landscape. Estimates of half the oil is still in the ground because of old technology. Now we have new technology that can extract this oil and this is coming to our region! A oil boom will increase pipelines across the region. Landowners had better check to see if they own the mineral rights to their property. If you don’t you may enjoy a oil derrick next to your house without compensation.

Five years ago it was the non-polluting windfarms now we have the toxic oil and gas profiteers. At least the wind farms would of paid the landowners a share of the profits yearly and the renewable clean energy would be used domestically.

Paul Wohlfarth

Ottawa Lake

Invitation to the First Environmental Presentation of the William Issa Endowment Series

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

It is with great joy and gratitude to the William Issa Endowment that I am able to invite you to our first William Issa Environmental Talk at Siena Heights University. The speaker is Mark Z. Jacobson, Director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. Mark is one of the leading experts on renewable energy and his work shows that the world could fully depend on renewable energy sources in as little as 30 years from now. The attached program provides you with more details about Mark and his talk.

I am looking forward to seeing you at the event on April 15, at 7:00 pm in Francoeur Theater at Siena Heights University, Adrian Campus. Please forward the invitation and attachment to everybody you see fit.

Sincerely, Tom

The Inexcusable Abuse of Animals in Factory Farms (CAFOs)

In 1975, a young writer published a book arguing that no justifications exist for considering humans more important than members of other species. It slowly began to gain attention. Today, a quickly growing number of prominent individuals and political activists are adopting its conclusions. They have termed the assumption of human superiority speciesism. And, as a result, they rank these animal factories among the greatest evils in our history. Speciesism: TheMovie brings viewers face-to-face with the leaders of this developing movement, and, for the first time ever on film, fully examines the purpose of what they are setting out to do.

Speciesism: The Movie - Trailer from Speciesism: The Movie on Vimeo.

Reminder: Nexus Pipeline Open House in Adrian tomorrow 5:00-7:30 pm, Ypsilanti 2/18 5:00-7:30 pm

Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Adrian College,
Adrian Tobias Center (Adrian Room),
110 S Madison St.Adrian, MI 49221
5:00pm to 7:30pm

Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Lincoln High School
Cafeteria
7425 Willis Rd.Ypsilanti, MI 48197
5:00pm to 7:30pm

http://www.nexusgastransmission.com/timeline/open-house-informational-meetings/

There were protests in Ohio:
http://www.toledofreepress.com/2015/02/13/pipeline-open-house-story/

More about the NG liquids pipeline referred to in the article. It is already in the ground in Michigan.
http://www.kindermorgan.com/pages/business/products_pipelines/utopia

How Dangerous Are Fossil Fuel Transports? - West Virginia Oil Train Derailment Sends Crude Tanker Into River

MOUNT CARBON, W.Va. (AP) — A train carrying more than 100 tankers of crude oil derailed in southern West Virginia on Monday, sending at least one into the Kanawha River, igniting at least 14 tankers and sparking a house fire, officials said.

Read more here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/16/west-virginia-oil-train-derailment_n_6693634.html

EPA: Keystone XL Will Most Likely Increase Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Read the entire EPA statement here:

http://www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/20140032.pdf