Destroy Our Future Meetings

[jay]

The photo with the story shows some of the oil that flowed between houses in a residential area.

Sometimes Youtube videos give a resident's perspective of a news story.  With the advent of small video and cell phone cameras, we no longer always have to wait for a tv camera crew to arrive at the scene of any news story.

This is a 33 second video of the Arkansas neighborhood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u30m8U6VP3E

[jay]

do you pay any attention to any of the drug industry ads that have to list side effects to the drugs they are promoting?

The drug industry would not have told the public of the side effects of drugs without some group pushing for this type of disclosure.  This is sort of what the clean water people are saying.  Water contamination is one of the "side effects" of gas and oil extraction.

[Towntalk]

Oh, by the way ... cars kill thousands each year, so should we ban cars? If we banned everything that is harmful to life or the environment, we would have to go back to the 16th century. We would also have to shut down modern medicine ... do you pay any attention to any of the drug industry ads that have to list side effects to the drugs they are promoting?

[Towntalk]

What on earth are you talking about Jay ... WKBN Radio would welcome them on any of their local talk shows and WKBN TV and WYTV would welcome them on their early morning shows. As to the Vindicator they are doing tons of stories on all sides of the issue ... FREE. By the way, the folks that are the presenters belong to well funded anti-shale oil outfits so your assumptions do not hold.

I provided a link to the group earlier, did you go to it at all?


http://www.fwapoh.com/

[Towntalk]

Billy, I'll put it very simply, not intending to offend anyone ... but this outfit is nothing more nor less than the eco-Talaban wanting to drive us back to the stone age. Witness the fact that they will not have anyone present the pro-shale oil side, and they are demanding $50.00 to $100.00 each to listen to their propaganda.

[jay]

There's risks involved with any industry.  I think the Warren, Ohio meeting is to present a side of the issue by those who can't pay millions of dollars for commercials on the TV, newspaper and radio.

This was a story on today's news
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57577164/homes-evacuated-after-exxonmobil-oil-pipeline-spill-in-arkansas/

The photo with the story shows some of the oil that flowed between houses in a residential area.

[Youngstownshrimp]

WhyTown, very true, Jack Wean must be turning over in his grave to see his honorable name and money used by the likes of MVOC, YNDC and now the Fractivist, or................ maybe his heirs are ashamed of their legacy.
Similar to the Dearing compressor family, the business is doing millions in business in drilling components while one of the Dearing's is a very active Fractivist.

[Billy Mumphrey]

How is this meeting destroying our future?

[Towntalk]

And those "public meetings to educate people" ain't cheap.

[Why?Town]

Interesting that the Wean Foundation, started by Jack Wean, one of the big players in the 20 century local steel industry that brought untold riches to the area would support efforts to hamper the oil and gas industry that could very well do the same for the 21st century.

[Towntalk]

It's interesting to note that there will be a panel discussion in Warren next week about fracking ... or should we say anti-fracking ... because there will be no one on the panel to tell the pro-side of the shale oil industry ... and this session is being sponsored by the Wean Foundation.

This meeting will take place this coming Friday and Saturday from 9:00 am to 4:00 PM, and the costs are $50.00 for single day or $99.00 for both days, and among the speakers will be:

  Keynote speaker will be Deborah Rogers of Energy Policy Forum of Dallas, who will talk about financial aspects of the industry in an address titled "Was the decline in natural-gas prices orchestrated?"
Bernard D. Goldstein will talk about potential public-health impacts.
Among the organizers of the conference are FracTracker Alliance, which has an office in the Wean Foundation's incubator office space; Buckeye Forest Council; and FreshWater Acountability Project Ohio.
The conference will present researchers who have studied human health effects of hydraulic fracturing. Other presenters will talk about the history and effects of hydraulic fracturing and policy implications.
http://www.fwapoh.com/