Every now and then we all come across a story that really catches ones eye. A story that all should know about and may have been missed by many others. This story was told by Michael Welch and Abayomi Azikiwe on12-6-15 on The Daily Kos “Investigating the Culture of Impunity of racist police violence in the US”. Within that story there is a greater untold story from Michelle Gross of Communities United Against Police Brutality who goes on to explain about the racist courts and grand jury system of corrupted kkkops in their region. This revelation was very problematic to me to think that this type of corruption and deception could be so large and wide spread in scope and scale and allowed to exist unchecked in our country. Please listen to the radio show podcast by Michelle to become enlightened as the main street news media is not going to cover it. IMHO.
the following is an unpaid unpolitical announcement:
this past week i was afforded the opportunity to pre-screen “Earthquake State” a new episode from the Fault Lines documentary series on Al Jazeera America, which will be airing nationally for the first time tonight…as you all know, Oklahoma has serious man-made earthquake problem, and it’s been getting worse…from an average of less than two magnitude 3 earthquakes per year before 2009, the number of earthquakes of such magnitude rose to 109 in 2013, to 585 in 2014, and to over 2 per day this year…if we include the smaller magnitude quakes that are generally not noticed on the surface, their year to date earthquake count has now topped 5,000, making Oklahoma the most seismically active spot on the planet…it was that situation that prompted Al Jazeera investigative journalist Josh Rushing and the Fault Lines TV crew to head to Oklahoma this summer to cover the story…
we know these quakes are caused by injection wells; as such induced seismicity has been documented by several USGS studies and was included in the USGS seismic hazard model for 2014, a once every six year 14.4 MB PDF Tome from the USGS, which we covered in detail when it was released….the Al Jazeera take on this Oklahoma story was interesting, but for my purposes, i would have preferred to have seen some detail on how the injected water causes the quakes in that state, ie, what’s the formation that’s typically targeted with injection wells, as how it’s laid out in that area in such a way that the water pressure from the injection wells causes slippage of the underlying bedrock…i’ve seen such diagrams on at least two Ohio manmade earthquakes, and i think understanding how these quakes take place, and how certain we can be that it is the injected water or fracking pressure that caused the quake, would be important to advancing public understanding of what is going on…for instance, in the case of the Poland, Ohio quake, you can line up the formation being fracked with the exact location and depth of the earthquake that happened at the same time, which removes all doubt that the water injected at high pressure has caused these quakes…the connection is not just a smoking gun; it’s watching in slow motion as the bullet travels through the air to it’s target…
at any rate, what Fault Lines failed to cover about the technical nature of the induced seismicity, they made up for in covering the politics behind why so little has been done up till now to stop these earthquakes….my takeaway from watching this Fault Lines episode is that Oklahoma politics is worse than i thought, and as you all know by now, i usually think it’s worse than it is…nothing that would impede the oil industry had ever been discussed in the state legislature; and that we see Conoco and Halliburton are carved in large letters into the rotunda of the Oklahoma statehouse just about sums why…Governor Mary Fallin and other authorities claim they’re waiting to see the science, but they cut the budget of the Oklahoma Geological Survey, the state agency responsible for that science, from $50,000….in 2013, the state seismologist, Austin Holland, who was attached to the University of Oklahoma, put his signature on statement with USGS scientists linking earthquakes to the state’s injection wells; he was immediately called into a meeting with the university president David Boren and the notorious billionaire oilman Harold Hamm, who warned him to watch how he says things…since Hamm was a major contributor to the University and Boren was on the board of directors of his oil company, Holland was forced to back down and remained silent, at least until the time the Al Jazeera team arrived…he is prominently featured in this episode, and to his credit, understood his situation well enough that he resigned in August, with Al Jazeera crews still on the scene…thus as this episode wraps up, Holland is packing up his books to leave, the lights in his office and the broom closet where the ancient server is housed are turned off, and Oklahoma, the most seismically active state in the country, is left without a state seismologist as the earthquakes rumble on…
so FYI, here’s a minute and a half preview of the show that will be on tonight at 9 EST…and here’s a gadget where you can type in your zip code and find all the channels that it will air on in your area…you’ll get to see a major earthquake occur during the first 8 minutes of filming..
FWIW, California has 600 magnitude 2, mostly magnitude 3 quakes a year. You cannot feel a magnitude 3 if you are moving, walking. You have to be still, sitting or lying down.
My first experience; I thought it was a big deal. The earth moved! It was a 3 quickly followed by a two and a 3. That night I left my coat by the hotel room door with a flashlight in the pocket and my bicycle helmet hanging nearby — like a fireman ready to run out! Next day I looked in the paper — found the quake in a two inch column in the local section.
Later that year, after I got the idea, I was watching the news when a 3 hit (if you can call a 3 a hit) and the anchor said: “We felt it too.”
Every now and then we all come across a story that really catches ones eye. A story that all should know about and may have been missed by many others. This story was told by Michael Welch and Abayomi Azikiwe on12-6-15 on The Daily Kos “Investigating the Culture of Impunity of racist police violence in the US”. Within that story there is a greater untold story from Michelle Gross of Communities United Against Police Brutality who goes on to explain about the racist courts and grand jury system of corrupted kkkops in their region. This revelation was very problematic to me to think that this type of corruption and deception could be so large and wide spread in scope and scale and allowed to exist unchecked in our country. Please listen to the radio show podcast by Michelle to become enlightened as the main street news media is not going to cover it. IMHO.
the following is an unpaid unpolitical announcement:
this past week i was afforded the opportunity to pre-screen “Earthquake State” a new episode from the Fault Lines documentary series on Al Jazeera America, which will be airing nationally for the first time tonight…as you all know, Oklahoma has serious man-made earthquake problem, and it’s been getting worse…from an average of less than two magnitude 3 earthquakes per year before 2009, the number of earthquakes of such magnitude rose to 109 in 2013, to 585 in 2014, and to over 2 per day this year…if we include the smaller magnitude quakes that are generally not noticed on the surface, their year to date earthquake count has now topped 5,000, making Oklahoma the most seismically active spot on the planet…it was that situation that prompted Al Jazeera investigative journalist Josh Rushing and the Fault Lines TV crew to head to Oklahoma this summer to cover the story…
we know these quakes are caused by injection wells; as such induced seismicity has been documented by several USGS studies and was included in the USGS seismic hazard model for 2014, a once every six year 14.4 MB PDF Tome from the USGS, which we covered in detail when it was released….the Al Jazeera take on this Oklahoma story was interesting, but for my purposes, i would have preferred to have seen some detail on how the injected water causes the quakes in that state, ie, what’s the formation that’s typically targeted with injection wells, as how it’s laid out in that area in such a way that the water pressure from the injection wells causes slippage of the underlying bedrock…i’ve seen such diagrams on at least two Ohio manmade earthquakes, and i think understanding how these quakes take place, and how certain we can be that it is the injected water or fracking pressure that caused the quake, would be important to advancing public understanding of what is going on…for instance, in the case of the Poland, Ohio quake, you can line up the formation being fracked with the exact location and depth of the earthquake that happened at the same time, which removes all doubt that the water injected at high pressure has caused these quakes…the connection is not just a smoking gun; it’s watching in slow motion as the bullet travels through the air to it’s target…
at any rate, what Fault Lines failed to cover about the technical nature of the induced seismicity, they made up for in covering the politics behind why so little has been done up till now to stop these earthquakes….my takeaway from watching this Fault Lines episode is that Oklahoma politics is worse than i thought, and as you all know by now, i usually think it’s worse than it is…nothing that would impede the oil industry had ever been discussed in the state legislature; and that we see Conoco and Halliburton are carved in large letters into the rotunda of the Oklahoma statehouse just about sums why…Governor Mary Fallin and other authorities claim they’re waiting to see the science, but they cut the budget of the Oklahoma Geological Survey, the state agency responsible for that science, from $50,000….in 2013, the state seismologist, Austin Holland, who was attached to the University of Oklahoma, put his signature on statement with USGS scientists linking earthquakes to the state’s injection wells; he was immediately called into a meeting with the university president David Boren and the notorious billionaire oilman Harold Hamm, who warned him to watch how he says things…since Hamm was a major contributor to the University and Boren was on the board of directors of his oil company, Holland was forced to back down and remained silent, at least until the time the Al Jazeera team arrived…he is prominently featured in this episode, and to his credit, understood his situation well enough that he resigned in August, with Al Jazeera crews still on the scene…thus as this episode wraps up, Holland is packing up his books to leave, the lights in his office and the broom closet where the ancient server is housed are turned off, and Oklahoma, the most seismically active state in the country, is left without a state seismologist as the earthquakes rumble on…
so FYI, here’s a minute and a half preview of the show that will be on tonight at 9 EST…and here’s a gadget where you can type in your zip code and find all the channels that it will air on in your area…you’ll get to see a major earthquake occur during the first 8 minutes of filming..
FWIW, California has 600 magnitude 2, mostly magnitude 3 quakes a year. You cannot feel a magnitude 3 if you are moving, walking. You have to be still, sitting or lying down.
My first experience; I thought it was a big deal. The earth moved! It was a 3 quickly followed by a two and a 3. That night I left my coat by the hotel room door with a flashlight in the pocket and my bicycle helmet hanging nearby — like a fireman ready to run out! Next day I looked in the paper — found the quake in a two inch column in the local section.
Later that year, after I got the idea, I was watching the news when a 3 hit (if you can call a 3 a hit) and the anchor said: “We felt it too.”