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- LABC = “Lets All Bet Cash” fracking was gods financial church gift & therefore safe for people
- Presby #EBOLA retrospect to #Fracking HOW DO WE STOP THIS CYCLE STUCK ON STUPID?
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I live at ground zero for urban drilling.
We have about 60 padsites in our 99 sq mile town here in Arlington TX.Our state and local governement will not enforce these two laws....
1) TEX LG. CODE ANN. A§ 253.005 : Texas Statutes – Section 253.005: LEASE OF OIL, GAS, OR MINERAL LAND
“(c) A well may not be drilled in the thickly settled part of the municipality..”2. Texas Administrative Code, Title 30, Part 1, Chapter 101, Subchapter A,
Rule 101.4, Environmental Quality, NuisanceNo person shall discharge from any source whatsoever one or more
air contaminants or combinations thereof, in such concentration and
of such duration as are or may tend to be injurious to or to adversely
affect human health or welfare, animal life, vegetation, or property, or
as to interfere with the normal use and enjoyment of animal life, vegetation, or property.
---------------------------------We had a drill spill in Lake Arlington, our drinking source, a couple of years ago. We also have about 100 drilling laterals under our lake that are at migration risk for seismic events and or cement failures.
We have had maybe a dozen gas release emission events over the last few years that I am aware of.
The following are the items lacking in our URBAN oil and gas drilling ordinance….................
1. Use electric rigs & and use nondiesel compressors and fracking and lift compressors and compressor stations (but do not use field DIRTY GAS). Blowdowns of compressors whose excess goes to the storage tanks should have Vapor Recovery Systems rather than venting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=FLw_o2P355EYmh7onTqiwcEA&feature=player_embedded&v=js5vVSpWwEw
2. Video tape ALL cement casing pours when it comes back up to the top through the annulus so that there is proof of an even pour and ensure all wells have electric bond log tests.
3. All drilling mud farming (private & commercial) and brine “road spraying” should routinely test soil and shallow ground water for toxins.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQTtI94GGd8&feature=player_embedded Brine spraying
4. We need the industry to invent technology to keep the toxic, silica dust on the padsite-those pathetic pillow case looking socks aren’t getting the job done. Ban the use of Hydroflouric Acid.
http://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2012/05/silica-fracking/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF7fkgzmgO0&feature=youtu.be5. Mandate ventless, emission free flowback tanks by using pressurized flowback tanks instead of open hatch frack tanks....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdKoeBvUHys&feature=player_embedded
6. Global Warming isn't waiting 2.5 years for the EPA mandated Green Completions equipment.... no venting ...wait for the pipeline. Ensure condensers are used on glycol units.
7. The pipeline should be in place FIRST before fracturing so that flowback doesn’t sit in the ground for months festering bacterial sulfide growth to sour and damage the well and sicken people.....
http://barnettshalehell.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/slammed-with-sudden-nausea-from-flowback-odors-business-womans-blood-pressure-soars-after-vomiting/
8. The setback away from people should be substantial. Rural method drilling is not acceptable in urban areas. An environmental tester who has a Phd said that the health effects are being seen downwind from about 1,800 – 2,500 feet. Local and state gov. need to test for methane leaks with FLIR cameras.
http://barnettshalehell.wordpress.com/2012/09/05/envir-tester-ph-d-master-public-health-on-fracking-emissions-fallout-distance-1800-2500-feet-of-the-downwind-effect/
9. Have zero tolerance for underinspected, or faked Waste Disposal Injection Well casing pressure tests. Don't risk eventual migration of toxic fluids into our drinking supplies.....
http://www.propublica.org/article/trillion-gallon-loophole-lax-rules-for-drillers-that-inject-pollutants
10. State entities overseeing oil and gas should regulate how close old wells are to new wells....
http://barnettshalehell.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/chain-reaction-well-explosions-arlingtons-old-mineral-well-downtown-to-contemplate/
Lets elect officials that will ensure a protective Oil & Gas Drilling oversight. This is in our “collective” power so we must all become active to be proactive because reactive measures are too costly.
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Protected: Pineglen Ct Home near LABC 4 sale – two buyers refused citing proximity to drill site
Perr Drilling Zone Approved near Med Dist / Nov 4 Fannin Farm meetn vote Nov 5 /BENZENE in ALL NG extraction phases
While Arlington approves new drill zone, neighbors in Mansfield lament over a fossil fuel fired lift compressor. Arlington only allows “electric” compression (once these wells peter out after 12-18 months). The electric lift compressors and compressor stations (one at Eden/Harris and the DWG one across from Camp Thurmon) has its problems too in “emission events “during monthly maintenance and when we have black outs.. Just know that even if they say they direct the stuff (raw gasses) in the pipes to the storage tanks (verses straight into the air), that the storage tanks do not have vapor recovery devices and silently, invisibly vent into the air-shed 24/7. Here is an infrared video at Lake Arlington’s compressor station’s storage tanks venting hydrocarbons.
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UPDATE>>>>2825 S Cooper has a new drilling zone as of council vote on 10/28/14 |
P&Z denied this last month (here is the blog link with videos) but council voted to hear the case anyway…if YOU don’t show up and fight, they WILL approve this expansion project in the MEDICAL DISTRICT AIRSHED!
You can speak or sign an opposition card, please stay until the case is heard before leaving in case they call your name to stand up and be recognized.
End Perr Alert
Beginning Fannin Farms Alert
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 1:00 PM
Subject: Fannin Farms – Public Meeting – SUP Amendment
To whom it may concern:Please see the attached PDF file for an invitation to the Public Meeting that will be held at the Bob Duncan Center on November 4th2014 at 6:30pm. The public meeting will be to discuss the Fannin Farms Drill site zoning case that will be held on November 5th.Please call myself at the contact information below.Patrick Filson, P.E.
4821 Merlot Avenue, Suite 210Grapevine, TX 76051817.488.4960 o817.987.9614 cEnd Fannin Farms Alert
FYI Benzene (a carcinogen) is in ALL the phases of Natural Gas Extraction. And babies are found to have higher birth defects near drilling too..
- Click here to see that the City of Arlington has MSDS sheets for Benzene that Chesapeake uses during the DRILLING STAGE …
- Click here to read how they use Benzene during FRACKING STAGE
- Click here to see how Benzene amounts are dangerous to the workers exposed to the waste during the FLOWBACK STAGE.
- Click here to learn how that waste driven to INJECTION WELLS have Phenol (a major metabolite of Benzene) had 93 million pounds injected in TX in 2011.
Keep in mind that one teaspoon of Benzene contaminates about 261,000 gallons of water
And so through cracks in the casing they are finding how the methane races up into the water wells. Unknown is if the other toxins like Benzene will later take the same route.
LABC = “Lets All Bet Cash” fracking was gods financial church gift & therefore safe for people
Pictures at LABC taken on Friday, Oct 24 2014. A massive nose bleed was reported after taking these pictures were taken by an Arlington resident.
Lake Arlington Baptist Church has a preschool near all their gas extraction activities?
They call this scorched land, but it is also known as sterile land where nothing will ever grow again there…hope the airshed doesn’t make the LABC young people sterile.
That is said to be the LABC kiddo’s baseball field.
This is one busy parking lot that the parents like to use to pick up their children #WhatWere/AreTheyThinking while they sit there staring at those tanks?
Our city gas well inspector supervisor responded that the brown building adjacent to the drill site was a church bldg maintenance shed and NOT a compressor station…oh good although that would not have surprised me. I’m still trying to find seven, small, secret, no-window-Walmart-looking alleged compressor stations that are said to be in Arlington. An industry guy told me about them.
Presby #EBOLA retrospect to #Fracking HOW DO WE STOP THIS CYCLE STUCK ON STUPID?
This what our Arlington City council wears when we send them info on air and water shed risk info on fracking.
http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/health/2014/10/16/presbyterian-fires-back-we-followed-cdc-guidelines/17345205/….“WE followed CDC guidelines”.….wanh wanh wanh! Excuses=same for urban drilling as the fracking drillers say “we were in compliance to the ordinance/TCEQ/RRC/EPA”...when the masses look back at where they live and why they are sick/loved ones died….thus this blog with (letters to officials) evidence that I tried..others tried..and so it is with the handling of EBOLA. The fast and swift nature of detection of the disease…. yet with fracking – so many slow bullets have now left the chamber (health, water, air, soil, produce, agriculture, social issues, property, climate) ….not so much on the obvious side like the threat seen in EBOLA…and with fracking-the money is so blinding to the very leaders who wear the horse blinders…YEP.
This was my comment on the WFAA article where Presby Hospital passes the buck on the Ebola FAIL…..
…HOW DO WE STOP THIS CYCLE STUCK ON STUPID? When we look back in retrospect they act like it was a learning experience and how there was room for improvement-yet those who tirelessly work to educate on FRACKING PUBLIC HEALTH RISKS feel like the info is falling on deaf ears so that one day when all the fracking related cancers are obvious to track in “proximity and fall out zone”, they can “look back in retrospect they act like it was a learning experience and how there was room for improvement”
…HOW DO WE STOP THIS CYCLE STUCK ON STUPID? When we look back in retrospect they act like it was a learning experience and how there was room for improvement-yet those who tirelessly work to educate on FRACKING PUBLIC HEALTH RISKS feel like the info is falling on deaf ears so that one day when all the fracking related cancers are obvious to track in “proximity and fall out zone”, they can “look back in retrospect they act like it was a learning experience and how there was room for improvement”
…HOW DO WE STOP THIS CYCLE STUCK ON STUPID? When we look back in retrospect they act like it was a learning experience and how there was room for improvement-yet those who tirelessly work to educate on FRACKING PUBLIC HEALTH RISKS feel like the info is falling on deaf ears so that one day when all the fracking related cancers are obvious to track in “proximity and fall out zone”, they can “look back in retrospect they act like it was a learning experience and how there was room for improvement”.
..HOW DO WE STOP THIS CYCLE STUCK ON STUPID? When we look back in retrospect they act like it was a learning experience and how there was room for improvement-yet those who tirelessly work to educate on FRACKING PUBLIC HEALTH RISKS feel like the info is falling on deaf ears so that one day when all the fracking related cancers are obvious to track in “proximity and fall out zone”, they can “look back in retrospect they act like it was a learning experience and how there was room for improvement”
…HOW DO WE STOP THIS CYCLE STUCK ON STUPID? When we look back in retrospect they act like it was a learning experience and how there was room for improvement-yet those who tirelessly work to educate on FRACKING PUBLIC HEALTH RISKS feel like the info is falling on deaf ears so that one day when all the fracking related cancers are obvious to track in “proximity and fall out zone”, they can “look back in retrospect they act like it was a learning experience and how there was room for improvement”
…HOW DO WE STOP THIS CYCLE STUCK ON STUPID? When we look back in retrospect they act like it was a learning experience and how there was room for improvement-yet those who tirelessly work to educate on FRACKING PUBLIC HEALTH RISKS feel like the info is falling on deaf ears so that one day when all the fracking related cancers are obvious to track in “proximity and fall out zone”, they can “look back in retrospect they act like it was a learning experience and how there was room for improvement”
…HOW DO WE STOP THIS CYCLE STUCK ON STUPID?
#Joe-Ebola-Barton & GOP will cost US $750 million in 6 mths for #EbolaWar from prior CDC funding cuts
As our nation is in an Ebola scare with a third confirmed case in the DFW Metroplex, more troops have been deployed in the war against TIME fighting the virus on its own turf in Africa.
Almost 600 US troops are now in Ebola harms way.
Barton at town hall meeting in Arlington Gasland TX-after meeting I told him when they were finishing the gas wells near our home that my teen got this rash and my husband’s lymph nodes were swollen and he said he was glad Arlington was aggressively drillng in urban areas.
Wanted-Citizen Designated Red Button Pusher in #fracking Emergencies
…this is Arlington Virginia not Arlington Texas that is quake ready or should I say frackquake ready..
2) Frigid temps, (like the Ederville drill site had-when the red button didn’t work all the way)
FAIL=PIR
Regis the cat says “I ain’t afraid to hit the red button if my fireman can’t get to my spewing drill site”
To: “don.jakeway@arlingtontx.gov” <don.jakeway@arlingtontx.gov>; “jay.white@arlingtontx.gov” <jay.white@arlingtontx.gov>; “trey.yelverton@arlingtontx.gov” <trey.yelverton@arlingtontx.gov>; Jay Doegey <Jay.Doegey@arlingtontx.gov>; “don.crowson@arlingtontx.gov” <don.crowson@arlingtontx.gov>; “jim.parajon@arlingtontx.gov” <jim.parajon@arlingtontx.gov>; “fbi.dallas@ic.fbi.gov” <fbi.dallas@ic.fbi.gov>
Cc: “AskChesapeake@chk.com” <AskChesapeake@chk.com>; David P. Poole <dpoole@rangeresources.com>; “brett.wiggs@dfwmidstream.com” <brett.wiggs@dfwmidstream.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 7, 2014 11:35 AM
Subject: Re: followup request…Don, how feasible is this homeowner training in manual well shut in in ER event?
Cc: “AskChesapeake@chk.com” <AskChesapeake@chk.com>; David P. Poole <dpoole@rangeresources.com>; “brett.wiggs@dfwmidstream.com” <brett.wiggs@dfwmidstream.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 5, 2013 8:29 AM
Subject: Don, how feasible is this homeowner training in manual well shut in in ER event?
*I believe some of what training community volunteers involve…
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update…. the woman interviewed in this article was trapped in her home this morning with the ice storm when the well spewed gasses….again…good news is the red button worked this time around.
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Kim Triolo Feil · Top Commenter · Works at MYtoeSPACEpillow
The reporter forgot to mention that the April 2011 Arlington event conincided with another drill site spewing on the other side of town on the DWG line, yet the people affected or calling in to 911 were from the Arlington side. -
Kim Triolo Feil · Sorry but I count almost 40 events for the DFW area that I know about (I would know more if the city didn’t want to charge me over $200 to find out)….these include foul rotten egg odors and other type releases and spills (like into Lake Arlington our drinking water source) or truck fracking traffic related spills from hurried or sleepy drivers (one child was accidently struck and killed)…but no blow out yet. Ice ice storm baby…get ready….hope the red button works if the icey roads let the experts get to it….co-existing with gas wells = risk-isting. Oh please don’t get me started on those viagra related lift compressors at alot of these sites….hope the electricity stays on or an emergency shut down will release raw gases and BTEX into the airshed or into the storage tanks where they just invisibly vent…but if you want to see what an infrared camera uncovers on those storage tanks look at the video entitled “Lake Arlington Natural Gas Storage Tanks Infrared FLIR camera reveals toxins constantly spewing”….no wonder why people say there is a cancer cluster near Marin Highschool and the Lake Arlington area.
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she is lucky her cell phone or starting her car to evacuate didn’t blow her or the neighborhood up
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28? Roughly four per year in one single city does not make it an uncommon occurrence at all. That’s one every three months, just in Fort Worth.
Those are my neighbors and yours that are having to deal with this. Uncommon my……
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Rusty I have been keeping count of the ones I find out about….we ought to share notes….the open records requests are rather expensive
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The FWST reports, “Arlington said it responded to one leak this year.”
Perhaps they forgot about these:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/168556720/Incident-Report-Overcoming-Faith-82713
http://www.scribd.com/doc/142848947/Bruder-Gas-Drill-Site-Incident-Report-052113In addition, we saw Fire Chief Crowson provide testimony during the Texas 83rd Legislative Session. He mentioned that Arlington dispatched emergency crews to gas drill sites MANY times. (Don’t remember the exact number but if those hearings are archived, his statement should be there.)
It is disappointing when the the major newspaper in our area doesn’t get their facts straight. Gas drilling IS dangerous. Leaks are NOT uncommon, and it’s going to get a lot worse ~ especially as the infrastructure ages and corrodes.
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From: kim feil <kimfeil@sbcglobal.net>
To: charlie.parker@arlingtontx.gov
Cc: jim.parajon@arlingtontx.gov;
Sent: Mon, June 3, 2013 8:41:08 AM
Subject: Need your assistance on open records chargeCharlie, as you may know by now my family is paying medical bills for my husband’s cancer treatments.
I did an open records request for 2011 and 2012 gaswell related dispatch records from the fire department because Sargent Crowsen was quoted as appearing in Austin saying that already this year we’ve had 20 dispatch calls to the padsites.
As this industry taxes our airshed, defaces our town, taxes our ER resources, as a concerned City Council member, could you on my behalf do a full inquisition and post these on your webpage or email them to me so that I can make this public info? -
Of course no reply as usual from my incompetent council person.
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NOT uncommon. We understand there was another incident of a gas release at that Chesapeake operated Ederville Gas Drill site at around 5:30 this morning. It is unfortunate that residents could not evacuate due to the icy roads.
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Does anyone else think it’s kind of wrong that cities are having to pay for extra responders in case of well site emergencies? The oil companies should be keeping an emergency staff of their own on site.
#Ebola cousin = #Marburg / MERS near Galveston suspect
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=BH-20141017-45671-USA “A man in Texas is being tested and monitored for an outbreak virus found overseas, but it’s not Ebola. Health officials at Clear Lake Regional Medical Center in Webster, TX say they are treating a patient with a suspected case of the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). According to Kurt Koopmann, public information officer for the Galveston County Health District, the patient, a man in his 70s, had recently traveled to the Arabian Peninsula. Currently laboratory analysis on the patients’s samples is pending. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is viral respiratory illness first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012. It is caused by a coronavirus called MERS-CoV. Most people who have been confirmed to have MERS-CoV infection developed severe acute respiratory illness. They had fever, cough, and shortness of breath. About 30% of people confirmed to have MERS-CoV infection have died. So far, all the cases have been linked to countries in and near the Arabian Peninsula. To date, there has been two imported MERS cases in the US, one in Indiana and one in Florida. According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Since April 2012 and as of 9 October 2014, 892 cases of MERS-CoV have been reported by local health authorities worldwide, including 356 deaths.”
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=BH-20141006-45530-UGA “…the 30-year-old radiographer died on 28 Sep 2014 while working at a hospital in Kampala. He had started feeling unwell about 10 days earlier, and his condition kept deteriorating. He complained of headache, abdominal pain, vomiting blood and diarrhea. Samples were taken and tested at the Uganda Virus Research Institute, and results confirmed the man had a marburgvirus. Doctors said his brother, one of the people he came into contact with, has developed similar symptoms and has been quarantined in a group of 80 others, 60 of whom are health workers.”
Click here for my other Ebola updates and photos of Dallas, Ebola affected, apartment sidewalk cleaners without hazmat.
Arlington (gasland) TX 10/2/14 storm pics-will update as more comes in
photo procured by Elaine Miller Hogan from Cedar Hill as it approached Arlington https://www.facebook.com/ArlingtonPolice/photos/a.206337455754.137656.186503035754/10152276380660755/?type=1&theater
click here for Arlington response to a gaswell site complaint of popping sounds during this storm.
See the ATT Cowboys Stadium inthe background? Nicole Thiel Speyrer wrote on DFW Scanner FB… “A metal roof flew through the lot and hit the back of that truck and flipped it end over end along with damaging several vehicles.” https://www.facebook.com/DFWScanner . The damaged metal roof that flipped a truck at Division and west of Collins was literally feet away from the fence line to the Truman gas well site by the ATT Stadium…..the road was closed for a while-luckily they kept Collins open because trucks come daily to that drill site to evacuate toxic waste…if the roads were impassible, I’ve been told the units auto shut in when the storage tanks get filled up…but I’ve seen where the Edderville, Fulson, Steeples, & Pappy Elkins drill sites have had releases…some of these the auto shut in’s did NOT work. Yet one more thing to worry about living in the shale.
Autozone at Collins on Division
blind photo shot of space between Autozone fence and gas well infrastructure
See where the gaswells are in proximity to the stadium? too fracking close ya’ll.
click here to see updated info on the one gas well incident response in Arlington near Bowen and Division for this storm.
end Autozone pics … click here for the 6/23/14 flood photos in Arlington
Here is a pic of my neighbor at Collins and Elm. My home is one door down.
Here is pic of roof of Arlington Highschool.
Looking north Bowen near Division…right by the LYnn Smith drillsite…hope the truck can get in these gaswell sites and evacuate the waste (toxic) waters or else the tanks will overflow if the autoshut in fails…we’ve seen auto shut in fails over half dozen times so far..lovely.
on FMBC church grounds (where I’ve gaswell protested before) facing southeast in Arlington storm on 10/2/14 straight line winds
Poor tree cut in half nar First Methodist Bap Church at Mesquite and Division
standing right at curb of Mesquite street (n of Division) facing southwest with FMBC church in the background-only half of Mesquite is open
watch the tree ants!
snapped photo on FMBC church grounds facing south on Mesquite street in Arlington for the storm of 10/2/14 straight line winds
snapped photo on FMBC church grounds facing north on Mesquite street in Arlington for the storm of 10/2/14 straight line winds
snapped photo on FMBC church grounds facing northeast on Mesquite street in Arlington for the storm of 10/2/14 straight line winds missed the big tree on the Boy Scout Troop 68 Arlington TX grounds…whew
snapped photo on FMBC church grounds facing heaven on Mesquite street in Arlington for the storm of 10/2/14 straight line winds
snapped photo facing north of FMBC church on Kooken School grounds on Mesquite street in Arlington for the storm of 10/2/14 straight line winds
Kooken tree along Mesquite street in Arlington for the storm of 10/2/14 straight line winds-saw rotted interior from possible disease or earlier lightening strike where exterior showed it was scabbed over
Scabbed over area..Kooken tree along Mesquite street in Arlington for the storm of 10/2/14 straight line winds-saw rotted interior from possible disease or earlier lightening strike where exterior showed it was scabbed over
video near Pantego …this is what I saw by the ATT Stadium…I couldn’t find my teen who was outside in this mess..I have 100 yr old home surrounded by 100 year old trees this time they stayed…whew HERE is the FB link for the video.
Video from Paul Greenberg in Pantego, Texas
Get Ebola updates here at this link as I was tracking this starting on 7/30/14 before mainstream media was.
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$350 phone accessory to detect fever – #EBOLA tool – too #fracking much money 4 CITIZEN MONITORS?
WE INTERRUPT THIS FRACKING BLOG
FOR YET “ANOTHER” PUBLIC HEALTH THREAT ….#EBOLA
click here for the Ebola updates
What good is buying this expensive tool if the local government doesn’t have a plan to mass monitor schools, businesses, and other public gathering places?
This would involve having designated citizen monitors use such a tool to locate those with fevers and have a response team to call to remove those #ebola carrying suspects into quarantine for Ebola testing. THIS IS WHAT should be in the planning stages NOW in the most unfortunate event that the DALLAS CASE ESCALATES.
Here is my (paranoid) world laws if this thang escalates past healthcare workers…..
- No common cup communion,
- no hand shakes,
- no sneezing without containment inside your shirt or get a citizen ticket or stigma stare for spreading germs..
- of course no travel by plane until we fix whats happening in Africa …
- everybody wear a mask and gloves and
- continually wipe handles in public with bleach wipes,
- get flu shots to avoid regular fever and mistagging,
- designated citizen monitors have Iphone 5 accessory to shoot a fever scan and contact CDC police to have person removed walking around with fever until proven not a high risk person for EBOLA.
Last month I presented this idea to the City of Arlington’s Public Health Official, Dr Cynthia Simmons, but again with no response. I recorded this request in my Aug 28th diary entry of Ebola updates. Even our DR Mayor Cluck is silent on any contact with me because I have pressured them both for statements on public health near fracking.
Here is what the City of Arlington (gasland Texas) is saying about #EBOLA….
“The City of Arlington’s Public Health Authority and the Arlington Fire Department’s Office of Emergency Management are monitoring the situation that has recently been reported concerning the first human case of Ebola in Dallas County.
For more information concerning Ebola, please see the information located at the Tarrant County Public Health website:
http://tcweb.tarrantcounty.com/ehealth/cwp/view.asp?a=763&Q=493230&PM=1 “
When I went to that website, I clicked on the “Checklist for Ebola Preparedness”, it refers me to the CDC…
“CDC is available 24/7 for consultation by calling the CDC Emergency Operations Center
(EOC) at 770-488-7100 or via email at eocreport@cdc.gov.”
So I called the CDC and a man from Georgia referred me to the State Dept of Public Health (DSHS) citing this was a research facility. He said the DSHS would have to decide if that was an accurate fever detecting tool, and how it would be the DSHS responsibility on the feasibility of citizen monitors.
So I called the (local) State Dept of Public Health and spoke to Scott Mize in the Epidemiology department…
Mr Mize said it was too early to worry about an outbreak and that so far we only have one Ebola case. I asked him if a week from now if this escalated, how long would it take to have a team who responds to citizen calls to remove people with fevers from public places? Not responding to my real (how much time to mobilize teams) question, all he said “at this time I do not recommend calling the police on people with fevers”.
How sad that #Ebola is trending and in the news cause its a visible and quick acting, destroying virus….I believe people will rise up and become citizen monitors and take matters in their own hands if they feel no one else is…now back to fracking…. it is a slow kill that people don’t feel till its too late. Thanks for reading…now go learn about fracking after I learned, “I” became an active fracking citizen monitor..you can too.
How old people got drilled by real estate broker for APPLE REIT, aka friends of Cheat-a-peake
Here is how REIT is friends with Chesapeake….IN A NUTSHELL… In 2009 Apple REIT Nine Ventures (whose Apple REIT Six core business was SUPPOSED to be in the business of building hotels), helped cash strapped Chesapeake (CHK) by investing $145 million in owning over 100 Barnett Shale properties ripe for Urban Drilling. CHK in turn paid REIT from $11-22 million a year for the leases from 2009-2011.Once drilled upon, those Apple Nine shale sites suffered surface property tax devaluations – some as low as as SEVEN CENTS A SQ FT on TAD records.In November of 2011 APPLE REIT made a $53 million profit off of those properties when they sold to Ft Worth Real Estate tycoon, Michael Mallick, for $198 million.Mallick, head of 111 Realty, sold the properties back to Chesapeake for an undisclosed price.Now In 2011 charges were brought against REIT & a broker exclusively selling REIT investments.REIT and affiliates were found innocent in 2013, but the broker, Lerner, was sanctioned & ordered to pay restitution on the selling of Apple REIT Ten “investments”, a non-traded $2 billion real estate investment trust.***Update 2014….Lerner is at it again targeting old people and claims he has better disclosure literature.Targeting old people should be classified as a hate crime….but then again alot of old people like the royalty checks not caring about their grand kids.With that said, it is feasible to attack our royalty loving old people claiming that “they” should be charged with hate crimes against our future generations in being profracking…so whatever.Moral of this story is promises get broken and dreams get fracked…...nothing is for free and we were all swindled here in the Barnett Shale out of the right to enjoy our properties.Now we live in industrial zones facing shale health risks.
11/14/2011
Fort Worth real estate investment partnership buys 410 acres
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http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2012/05/04/even-the-profits-are-bigger-in-texas/“A local REIT has struck it rich in Texas. Downtown-based Apple REIT Nine last week sold hundreds of acres of natural gas fields in Fort Worth for $198 million. The buyer is 111 Realty Investors LP, an entity tied to Texas real estate investor Michael Mallick. As part of the deal, Apple REIT gets $138.4 million in cash and $60 million in bonds. The land consists of about 400 acres broken into 110 parcels. According to past SEC filings, Apple REIT Nine bought the property in Fort Worth in April 2009. It then leased the land to Chesapeake Energy, the natural gas giant that has made headlines of its own lately. Chesapeake Energy made lease payments on the property to Apple REIT of $15.2 million in 2010 and $11.3 million in 2009. Apple REIT’s gamble on natural gas seems to have paid off, according to filings. It paid $145 million for the land in 2009, leaving it with a $53 million return in a little more than two years……The purchase of the land was the first and only time the REIT ventured outside the domain of buying hotels. Apple REIT Nine is one of the five funds that are part of the Apple REIT Companies. The funds own hundreds of hotels across the country and has raised billions of dollars from investors.”
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***Here is the story on how some old people got fracked out of their REIT investments by David Lerner who preyed upon unsavy people…so sad but…”buyer beware”. Funny I have a FB account called “Barnett Shale Breathers Beware”.http://www.virginiabusiness.com/index.php/news/article/323565/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailyFederal judge dismisses class action lawsuits against Apple REIT Cos. April 10, 2013 7:51 PM By Paula C. Squires... “A federal judge has dismissed securities litigation against Richmond-based Apple REIT Cos., a real estate investment trust that invests primarily in hotels.U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto of the Eastern District of New York upheld a motion to dismiss a consolidated class action complaint against Apple REIT Cos. and several of its funds in a court order issued on April 3. She ruled that investors had received sufficient disclosure to understand the risks of investing in the nontraded public companies. Matsumoto said in her order that Apple’s investment objectives “did not constitute actionable misrepresentations or omissions.”The judgment was in favor of Apple REIT Six, Apple REIT Seven, Apple REIT Eight, Apple REIT Nine, Apple REIT Ten, the company’s board of directors and certain officers and advisory companies, including David Lerner Associates Inc.The motion to dismiss was granted with “prejudice,” meaning plaintiffs cannot refile the case. News about the court’s decision was publicized in a press release distributed on Business Wire.Kelly Clarke, director of investor services for Apple REIT Cos., said in an email Wednesday, “We do not have any comments outside of the press release at this time.“The lawsuit was filed in 2011 by six investors who claimed they had been misled about the risks of the investment. It built upon allegations in a complaint filed that same year by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) against David Lerner Associates Inc. (DLA), based in Syosset, N.Y. — the firm that exclusively sold Apple REITs shares to investors around the country.FINRA’s complaint focused on the marketing of the Apple REITS. In October 2012, FINRA sanctioned Lerner and his company, ordering it to pay $12 million in restitution to affected customers who purchased shares in Apple REIT 10, a non-traded $2 billion real estate investment trust.As the sole distributor of the Apple REITs, FINRA’s statement said DLA “solicited thousands of customers, targeting unsophisticated investors and the elderly and selling the illiquid REIT without performing adequate due diligence to determine whether it was suitable for investors.” The authority said that to sell Apple REIT Ten DLA used “misleading marketing materials that presented performance results for the REITs without disclosing to customers that income from those REITs was insufficient to support the distributions to unit owners.” In addition, FINRA fined David Lerner, DLA’s founder, president and CEO, $250,000 and suspended him for one year from the securities industry, followed by a two-year suspension from acting as a principal. FINRA said in a statement on the case that Lerner “personally made false claims regarding the investment returns, market values, and performance and prospects of the Apple REITs at numerous DLA investment seminars and in letters to customers.”
