Fossil Fuels’ Deadly Summer and the Growing Resistance

[Champion Jack]

In the dark, early morning hours of July 7, John and Diane Pitcock heard an explosion that shook the windows of their home in rural Doddridge County, West Virginia. Peering outside, they could see multiple fires burning on the ridgetop above their house where their neighbor had leased his land for gas drilling in the Marcellus shale.

They later learned that five workers from the site, run by Antero Resources, were flown to a burn unit in Pittsburgh. Two of the workers died from their injuries, 45-year-old Tommy Paxton and 37-year-old Jason Mearns.

The same week as Paxton’s death, Antero and Frontier Drilling settled a $12 million lawsuit with a worker who snapped his spinal cord on the job, completing a task he says was unsafe.

What else happened the same week? Jose Landeros, 50, was killed in Texas when the wastewater truck he drove for the oil and gas industry exploded as he was working on it.

Meanwhile down in the Gulf, in a scene eerily reminiscent of the deadly Deepwater Horizon disaster, a gas-drilling rig caught fire after a blowout and 44 workers were evacuated.

In Canada, a nine-week oil spill at a tar sands facility in Alberta is ongoing. Nine weeks and they’ve been unable to stop the black goo escaping from the earth.

In Lac-Megantic, Quebec, 50 people are dead and the town is destroyed, after an oil-laden train derailed earlier this month.

And the list goes on.

http://www.alternet.org/environment/fossil-fuels-deadly-summer-and-growing-resistance

[mbperrin]

1. That Cold Lake mess in Canada is not going to quit, either.

The formation is fractured to the top. IF you can figure out how to stop an earthquake, you can stop this.

Could be years before formation pressure (which the producers artificially jacked up) relents and this goo stops coming up.

[pscot]

2. Zombie tar sand waste

It won't stay buried.

[ConcernedCanuk]

3. Canada really is messing up it's environment.

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Here's a group that may interest you -

It sure won't make you happy though

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Oil-Field-Fuck-Ups/148035935398485

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[Nihil]

4. Off to the Greatest with you!

That is a really depressing list of death & destruction.