Wednesday 30 December 2015
tip of the spear ... fractured land trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe591PtCfa0&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe591PtCfa0&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe591PtCfa0&feature=youtu.be
Wednesday 23 December 2015
Tuesday 1 December 2015
Monday 30 November 2015
Tuesday 24 November 2015
Aussie against fracking new documentary frackman
https://au.tv.yahoo.com/video/watch/26464078/no-fracking-way/?cmp=st
https://au.tv.yahoo.com/video/watch/26464078/no-fracking-way/?cmp=st
john jenkyn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFLop5lc7OQ
https://au.tv.yahoo.com/video/watch/26464078/no-fracking-way/?cmp=st
john jenkyn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFLop5lc7OQ
Tuesday 10 November 2015
The incredible hulk says no to fracking
https://www.facebook.com/dearobamafilm/videos/503609063147284/
https://www.facebook.com/dearobamafilm/videos/503609063147284/
https://www.facebook.com/dearobamafilm/videos/503609063147284/
Saturday 7 November 2015
Tuesday 3 November 2015
Friday 30 October 2015
Monday 26 October 2015
helen bender asking some tough questions about csg
https://www.facebook.com/616449788491607/videos/696622073807711/
it should not take suicide to get people to flippen listen ...
it should not take suicide to get people to flippen listen ...
Monday 19 October 2015
Fracking Vera scroggns
https://vimeo.com/142923711
https://vimeo.com/142923711
2015 quick summary of the reasons to say no to fracking.
The whole process is exempt from environmental laws in USA. Haliburton loophole and "not a single case". Never publically admitting liability.
Explosions from compressor stations = gas refineries. All the various byproducts from the gas coming up.
Trucks in rural areas.
Number of wells per area.
VOCs and particulates In the air and fracking.
Dissolved solids in water and dodgy cleanup operations.
https://vimeo.com/142923711
2015 quick summary of the reasons to say no to fracking.
The whole process is exempt from environmental laws in USA. Haliburton loophole and "not a single case". Never publically admitting liability.
Explosions from compressor stations = gas refineries. All the various byproducts from the gas coming up.
Trucks in rural areas.
Number of wells per area.
VOCs and particulates In the air and fracking.
Dissolved solids in water and dodgy cleanup operations.
Friday 16 October 2015
Water and waste management in the 21 century.
Water and waste management are going to be incredibly important in the 21 century.
Stop fracking the water away, stop nestle siphoning off millions of gallons for bottled water. Start real future city design on intelligent use of water. Dams = evaporation risk. Solar floats to stop the evaporation. Maybe a desalination plant. A purple pipe for washing clothes,cars and lawns, A reuse system that reuses bath water for the toilet. Theres a really challenging free course in doing atm that deals to with this.
Related coursera courses
Water in the Western United States
This course combines an overview of the science behind water and climate in the Western United States with a survey of the major legal, political, and cultural issues focused on this precious resource.
Starts April first.
Qanats water system
There was also Roman concrete...
I have found this free course to be incredibly illuminating, informative and challenging. It offers some real practical solutions to making water resilient, liveable and sustainable water based cities.
It is based on the solutions found by Australia during the millennial drought/ floods. It is run by monash uni.
Water cities of the future
Day 1
Day 1 pt 2
Day 2 pt 1
Day 2 pt 2
Day 3 pt 1
Day 4 pt1
Day 4 pt 2
Day 5 pt 1
Day 5 pt 2
Day 6 pt 1
Day 6 pt 2
Day 7 pt 1
Arabian city of e future
Film to prevent flooding
Queen Elizabeth park
Bbc what Britain wants somewhere to live
Property crisis
Us drought monitor
Day 1
London sewage upgrade
Ok I did a mark one standard vision of the future. Slightly utopian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUQQGJe4M-o&feature=youtu.be
I am working on a dystopian mistake city.
As I learn more on the course I will try to apply what I've learned to sim city examples. Iam already thinking about a canal based city.
Climate change
Cost effective upstream Flood prevention
See also
Water and Mexico
Good read?
Save our concrete
Greener roads
Water sensitive urban design
My animation
Thursday 15 October 2015
Incompetence and greed. The fall of empires.
Incompetence and greed. The fall of empires.
Was reading how Tina woke up and I try to remember how I woke up.
I was perfectly aware of Noam Chomsky but felt that maybe consent did need to be manufactured in a complex democracy and was not impressed by the proponents of radical rural anarchism. Every thing should be free but not my stuff brigade. Buy my book about revolution against capitalism for ten quid or more. Etc.
The one thing I was increasingly worried about was the water shortages. The droughts.
I also wondered when the housing market would crash / correct itself.
How could England have hosepipe bans?
I realised it was a manufactured water crisis. Incompetence and greed. Instead of building reservoirs and water management systems we were just building new houses on old reservoirs and older infrastructure.
Especially the last one which was a "drought" during one of the wetter summers we ever had, water was pouring all over us and they were saying it was a drought. Just a bit of rain still a drought.
On and on it rained. people got flooded out their houses. "Funny drought we are having I used to say to people" as the rain poured over our heads. That was the beginning of the loss of credibility towards the bbc and local radio for me.
Cameron was a green Tory remember? Got rid of the clown brown sell all the gold, save the world by printing money and bailing out banks excessive "new labour" everything seemed kinda ok. Was a bit concerned that we were relying on the conservatives to curb the excesses of the bankers.
Lib dems promised and pledged an end to stupid loans for people's education. To moderate and put the breakers on the conservatives.
Everything seemed ok and moderate in the world of politics. Wasn't that keen on what was happening in the rise of the police state in America but thanked God and the queen that I didn't live in America or any other corrupt Republic. Obama was going to change that BS anyway.
2008 was the wake up call to stop all the London City madness with property price bubbles and rental Ponzi schemes.
We were all going to do something worthwhile with our lives like teach or be a doctor. Leave politics to the undesirables on all sides.
Then the frackers caused an earthquake near Blackpool and I thought "good that's the end of that! They have pushed for a chance and proved themselves to be totally incompetent with an unsafe technology. They have hung themselves with their own incompetence." And again I went back to sleep politically.... And then the lies started. All over the place relentless.
Then They decided to prod balcombe, that's near my drinking water supply reservoir.
"It's all perfectly safe" came the comforting whisper on the media breeze, and I just started getting angry. of course it isn't safe don't tell me black is white and white is black. You caused a bloody earthquake the one and only time you tried to do it, dumped radioactive water in a canal and tried to cover it all up. Just google fracking and see what it's done to others.
"We have been fracking for 50 odd years without any problems" wth are you talking about you did the modern fracking once in Lancashire and caused "mild earth tremors" aka AN EARTHQUAKE.
"Gold plate regulations" what regulation, what enforcement, where are the liability bonds. Oh we phone them up on Friday we don't do site visits...
"Not a single case of fracking harming drinking water" and I discovered the haliburton loophole. No case because you were made exempt.
"Doesn't really use that much water three swimming pools or a golf course over a month" a golf course in a desert. That's per frack and you are talking of thousands of fracks. Most of the water is lost to the water cycle and sequestered in the ground and the rest is some sort of radioactive salt water sludge.
"Well it's better than coal/ nuclear." I would not want them in residential areas near our water supplies either.
"Quiet as a bubbling stream" and I saw traffic logs of all the trucks on rural roads in America. The compressors. The people living in misery near the flares. The fireball accidents as trucks crashed or things blew up. The clouds of silica dust over kids play areas.
The lies were relentless. The mainstream media tried to spin it as nothing to worry about. Best thing ever think of all that money for the nations economy.
I started losing the shred of respect I had for the main stream media.
When stupid incompetent people lie to my face it triggers in me a need to correct them.
They are tainting so many institutions with their incompetence and greed. The paid for academic shills. The media. The monarchy for allowing so many scumbags to operate and even give them honours. Mr suited and booted Lord Browne of cuadrilla for example.
The thing is there is still so many people asleep who kinda agree with the daily mail perspective on life. Egged on by the elites to hate the skivers and the foreigners.
Now we have atos Maximus and ids. Denying anything to do with sick people dying after being declared fit for work. Don't forget new labour started all that fit for work stuff rolling.
It reminds me of the 1930s and the rise of fascism through propaganda.
Thursday 17 September 2015
quiet as a bubbling stream video of gas compressor in australia
video of gas compressor station in australia sept 2015
courtesy of john jenkyn
"quiet as a bubbling stream"
people need to wake the F up in the uk (facepalm)
https://www.facebook.com/john.jenkyn/videos/vb.100006698432369/1688185808081351/?type=2&theater¬if_t=video_reply
https://www.facebook.com/john.jenkyn/videos/vb.100006698432369/1688185808081351/?type=2&theater¬if_t=video_reply
courtesy of john jenkyn
"quiet as a bubbling stream"
people need to wake the F up in the uk (facepalm)
https://www.facebook.com/john.jenkyn/videos/vb.100006698432369/1688185808081351/?type=2&theater¬if_t=video_reply
https://www.facebook.com/john.jenkyn/videos/vb.100006698432369/1688185808081351/?type=2&theater¬if_t=video_reply
Wednesday 26 August 2015
August 2015 summary of resources for fact finding trip to USA
So in answer to what are the key
questions and tasks you would
like an mp to do when they go on a fact
finding mission to the
US about fracking....
Why not talk to ...
Oklahoma State University Geology
Professor Todd Halihan on
Earthquakes Rattling The State.
Jessica Ernst, professional in the
field. Environmental scientist.
Dr Sandra Steingraber, PhD in new york
colorado and building on a flood plain
John Fenton ' Warning From Wyoming'
incidentally fracking next to
yellowstone supervolcano.
Dish texas. ex mayor calvin tillman
rex tillerson. Nimby and ceo of
fracking company.
A small Texas town - and a fracking
hotbed" MSNBC All In
02/25/14
truck traffic
Silica dust
water pollution info
Tuesday 18 August 2015
Tuesday 9 June 2015
Thursday 7 May 2015
Saturday 11 April 2015
Marvelous Melbourne a sustainable water live able city versus CSG in the country
Marvelous Melbourne a sustainable water live able city versus CSG in the countryside.
How can Australian cities be doing such great work with
green washing cities
( Reclaim the roads! See greener roads from concrete.
See also LA https://www.treepeople.org/?hc_location=ufi )
and at the same time national government destroying rural
people's lives with csg extraction? In the country so not an urban problem?
Doesn't unconventional gas extraction have huge implications
on water supply?
John jenkyn....
Ian crane and Brian
monk Australia
I am pretty sure this isn’t going to help liveable cities…
Friday 27 March 2015
Water purification at point of use
At source water purification
There's a lot to be done in the world of water management. Millions of lives could be saved by people boiling their water before drinking. Boiling also gets rid of excess chlorine.
Millions of lives could be saved by better food prep and hygiene. Washing hands before cooking, making sure food such as cooked rice doesn't stay at room temperature for too long.
Boiling does not clean the water from some algaes eg Great Lakes, In some cases boiling algae water can make the water more toxic.
Some methods to clean and desalinate water at point of use.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_still
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_osmosis
Solar kettles, fragile but they do work on sunny days
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Contemporary-Energy-Ltd-T-43-Kettle/dp/B009YFSKKY
Home distillation units
http://www.moneycrashers.com/make-distilled-water-drinking-home/
Home filtration units, (A lot of bother maintaining replacing filters) pro pure seems pretty good. Anything has to be better than trusting the crap coming out the tap.
Water purification tablets and powders.
(Can't help thinking that relying on powder for clean water something has gone terribly wrong.)
Monday 16 March 2015
Water resilient cities of the future
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/liveable-cities
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/liveable-cities
See also this post on the energy food water nexus.
http://frackingvideos.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/water-energy-food-nexus.html
http://frackingvideos.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/water-energy-food-nexus.html
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/liveable-cities
See also this post on the energy food water nexus.
http://frackingvideos.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/water-energy-food-nexus.html
http://frackingvideos.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/water-energy-food-nexus.html
I have found this free course to be incredibly illuminating, informative and challenging. It offers some real practical solutions to making water resilient, liveable and sustainable water based cities.
It is based on the solutions found by Australia during the millennial drought/ floods. It is run by monash uni.
Day 1 pt 2
Day 2 pt 1
Arabian city of e future
Film to prevent flooding
Saturday 14 March 2015
Water energy food nexus
Water Energy Food Nexus
TEDxWWF - Andy Wales: The
Water-Food-Energy Nexus - Why Eve
Some very interesting points on water usage.
WEEK 2: Integrated urban water management (IUWM)
see futurelearn for free course
Water for Liveable and Resilient Cities by MONASH UNIVERSITY
With so much potential to do so much in this world we need
to be looking at cleaner more sustainable forms of energy.
China now has more wind power capability than the entire
nuclear output of the USA.
Integrated urban water management (IUWM)
Professor Gustaf Olsson of the Lund University of Sweden has
researched and published widely on the Water-Energy Nexus. Olsson also mentions water cost of hydroelectric in africa through evaporation. I wonder if this could be mitigated with solar panel covers floating on the water. Possible impacts on wildlife and water quality i guess.
Guardian talk about food energy water nexus
Larry Swatuk on the water-energy-food "nexus"
Be Positive about the environment !
TEDxWWF - Andy Wales: The
Water-Food-Energy Nexus - Why Eve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-eATjiXTOQ
china now has a wind capability greater than the nuclear output of the usa
http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/environment/china-s-wind-farms-produce-more-energy-than-all-us-nuclear-plants/article/427802
http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/environment/china-s-wind-farms-produce-more-energy-than-all-us-nuclear-plants/article/427802
china now has a wind capability greater than the nuclear output of the usa
http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/environment/china-s-wind-farms-produce-more-energy-than-all-us-nuclear-plants/article/427802
http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/environment/china-s-wind-farms-produce-more-energy-than-all-us-nuclear-plants/article/427802
Tuesday 10 March 2015
Congressman and senator vs fracking
Congressman and senator vs fracking
Congressman Maurice hinchey
Senator tony avella
Lord Wigley House of Lords
Starts 4 mins in here interview with senator tony avella
The Halliburton loophole
Explain to me please why fracking is exempt from the Safe drinking water act ?
This was introduced by dick cheny who was Vice President of halliburton.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/opinion/03tue3.html?_r=0
http://www.earthworksaction.org/issues/detail/inadequate_regulation_of_hydraulic_fracturing#.VP9U0IbfWrU
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/opinion/03tue3.html?_r=0
Epa whistleblowers on epa cover up.
http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059985281
http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/08/05/censored-epa-pennsylvania-fracking-water-contamination-presentation-published-first-time
Just mix it with orange juice
"Just mix it with orange juice"
People make mistakes, accidents happen.
Water companies may attempt to cover up mistakes to avoid liability.
A buffer helps to catch these mistakes before people drink it.
See this case study camelford.
Some idiot connected the wrong pipes and poisoned 20 thousand people.
People who phoned up to complain and report the accident where told there was nothing wrong and just to mix the water with orange juice.
Friday 6 March 2015
Tuesday 3 March 2015
Human canaries in the coal mine
Canaries in the coal mine.
The main reason to be hardline about it is watching the experiences of others who niavely said yes to the gentle lies and then found their entire land, livelihood and living standards violated. Fracking is all or nothing. You cannot be a little bit fracked. Once they are in across the threshold they do what they want. That has been the experience everywhere else .
If ucg processes i.e. csg and fracking are such benevolent boons to a community why is it that in every area that it has been introduced there are vociferous locals saying they wish it had never been allowed in their locality?
john jenkyn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFLop5lc7OQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFLop5lc7OQ
The main reason to be hardline about it is watching the experiences of others who niavely said yes to the gentle lies and then found their entire land, livelihood and living standards violated. Fracking is all or nothing. You cannot be a little bit fracked. Once they are in across the threshold they do what they want. That has been the experience everywhere else .
If ucg processes i.e. csg and fracking are such benevolent boons to a community why is it that in every area that it has been introduced there are vociferous locals saying they wish it had never been allowed in their locality?
john jenkyn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFLop5lc7OQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFLop5lc7OQ
This industry has made normal people so angry with their lies, incompetence, secrets, corruption and non disclosure agreements it has made activists out of normal people.
Here are some of the human canaries singing out for help and in warning.
Terry greenwood america
http://youtu.be/Mq-8nCCGSzg
(Animation Doreen's story http://youtu.be/BYniYtJEeeI )
John Fenton america
Jessica Ernst Canada
(Animation Doreen's story http://youtu.be/BYniYtJEeeI )
Ian crane and Brian monk Australia
http://www.gofundme.com/lot0m0
David monk
Deborah Rogers frackanomics
Gasland doc
Scott Ely
http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/gas-company-whistle-blower-details-spills-errors-1.1234817#axzz1fPP4MNnN
http://www.propublica.org/article/so-is-dimocks-water-really-safe-to-drink
Former mayor Calvin Tillman advocate against fracking
Monday 2 March 2015
42 DB bubbling stream or a library
Posted to this mooc .... Re sound levels 42 db goal.
42 DB. "A bubbling stream as quiet as a library."
42 db is a blatant lie.
Re noise, nuisance and public health .....
It depends when and where the noise measurement is being taken.
This a deliberately misleading number. Depending a great deal on distance and measuring at the quiet times of an operation.
This just cannot be true for peak noise levels during the entire fracking drilling and production process.
It's good to set goals ....
What are the financial penalties for breaching those sound boundaries?
Will the dbs be monitored hourly?
I recommend something like 1000 to 10000 pound fine every hour or part there of that the sound level limit is breached. To be paid to local residents affected.
Traffic noise is 70 to 90 dbs passing on street.
The diesel generators pump out that kind of noise. Approx 120 db.
The flaring can reach jet engine levels. Approx 150 db.
Realistically it has to be measured from people's gardens and their bedrooms.
Noise obeys the inverse square law so distance from residential is the key. Double the distance and divide the noise by 4.
If we measure at origin noise levels easily above 100 db.
Examples of fracking noise
Independent monitoring assets
Friday 27 February 2015
Wednesday 25 February 2015
West Newton case study hse breach
Case study: West Newton video diary highlights / lowlights. Breaches of HSE regs.
See also this video from Barton moss https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=FCl-l6DnJSQ
See also this video from Barton moss https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=FCl-l6DnJSQ
These people have to watched like Hawks by independent observers.
Hard hats breach one
Hard hat breach two
Possible hse violation? Working at height.
Versus the correct way hastily implemented
Retraining ordered.
Part of the convoy arrives
Nitrogen blowout
Strange mist spill over
Local resident reports strong smell of gas
West Newton purple flare from "covered stack"
More info.
Monday 23 February 2015
Locks keep honest people out of houses
Locks keep honest people out of houses.
Regulations keep honest companies liable.
Cuadrilla and Lord Browne have proven themselves to be dishonest.
6 months of cover up to finally admit to "probably" causing earth "tremors"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/8864669/Cuadrilla-admits-drilling-caused-Blackpool-earthquakes.html
http://www.refracktion.com/index.php/lies-damned-lies-and-cuadrillas-community-newsletter/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-452194/Seedy-website-centre-Lord-Brownes-lie.html
I'm not sure how criticising lack of regulatory enforcement becomes a talk about energy outages as some means of justification for dumping toxic waste.
Irrelevant correlations between shale gas and brownouts. Maybe the next time someone dies from lack of power you can talk about how horrible wind turbines, solar panels and tidal barrages look.
If we don't want power outages we need to be putting a massive investment in renewables.
Personally I am far more troubled by the amount of legal and illegal dumping of toxic waste from fracking on roads, fields, canals and rivers.
http://www.messengernewspapers.co.uk/news/10971603.MP_demands_answers_on_why_waste_water_from_fracking_was_dumped_into_the_Manchester_Ship_Canal/?ref=rss
In America they sprayed the waste on to roads and fields. Legally and illegally.
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20140519/illegal-dumping-texas-frack-waste-caught-video
http://www.neogap.org/neogap/2013/07/19/treatment-plants-accused-of-illegally-disposing-radioactive-fracking-wastewater/
http://www.nyenvironmentreport.com/fracking-waste-on-nys-roads-why-the-details-matter/
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=fracking+dumping+in+great+lakes
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