Drilling in wildlife refuges
Joe Mosby of Stephens Media provides a checklist of all the ways that the Game and Fish Commission will have some oversight over the coming gas drilling on its wildlife refuges. The list itself amounts to a lengthy catalogue of all the things that can go wrong. I'm not saying they will. But I'm saying all of the assurances of review and oversight tell you plenty about the risk. I'd invite you to SW La., my home, someday to take a look at all the places that reputable energy companies poisoned land, water, air and wildlife despite similar bills of assurance.
The state simply needs a much bigger and brawnier environmental enforcement agency -- one willing to crack down on polluters would be nice, too -- with thousands of such holes and billions of gallons of waste fluid in the offing.
The state simply needs a much bigger and brawnier environmental enforcement agency -- one willing to crack down on polluters would be nice, too -- with thousands of such holes and billions of gallons of waste fluid in the offing.
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This deal is bad, bad, bad for Arkansas. The reason we don't have a "brawnier environmental enforcement agency" is because they would never allow this to happen. They wouldn't allow it to happen because you cannot clean it up. It is a permanent fouling. That's why it should be stopped before it is started. Cease and desist. We always think you can just "fix" things in this country. You fix it by not breaking it in the first place.
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August 30, 2008 07:32 AM
The complexities of the ecologies within and outside of the human and wildlife are being manipuated. I suspect Viagra could be doesed into the folks who work for EPA the informed realize the active ingredient is in the rind of the Watermelon. Unfortuantely, the challenge to craft better governing policies requires greater degrees of integrity, something which seems to be absent at times in the political process.
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August 30, 2008 09:13 AM
Max, that trip to SW La sounds like an excellent idea. Take a camera and post a few nine minute or less segments on youtube. Do it for all of us someday soon, please.
I still think what the AGFC is doing is tantamount to the most egregious breach of their "contract" with the citizens of Arkansas. This is not why hunters and fisherman have supported them and their land holdings for all these years. They all ought to be forced to drink a glass of drill water runoff each and every day... and eat the fish which survive closest to said runoff.
Tumors, the new AR sushi special.
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August 30, 2008 01:53 PM
The Stephens Media article mentions that the waste water must go to an ADEQ-approved site.
The Searcy newspaper says there was a public hearing for one in Griffithville -
http://www.thedailycitizen.com/articles/2008/08/30/news/top_stories/top01.txt
The El Dorado newspaper says something about a pipeline to the Ouachita River, but I'm not sure whether it is related to gas drilling -
http://www.eldoradonews.com/news/localnews/2008/08/22/pipeline-proposal-26.php
Where else are permit applications pending?
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August 30, 2008 02:13 PM
The game and fish commission don't own any land because all the land they have acquired belongs to the hunters and fishers.
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August 30, 2008 06:49 PM
You might call and tell them that because they think they own it. Loren Hitchcock will tell you so.
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August 30, 2008 08:47 PM
Believe me I have emailed them and told them exactly what I thought of them..
We can and should do a petition drive to get the people of Arkansas to vote to abolish the agfc from off the face of the earth.
I have to say they are worthless and I told them so. No politician can get as low as these bums gets.
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August 31, 2008 09:51 PM