(un) Natural Gas FACTOID

Due to falling natural gas prices, the nation's second largest gas producer, Chesapeake Energy, said it will slash drilling by nearly half...WHICH BEGS THE QUESTION, "Could Chesapeake Energy find itself going BANKRUPT? Might explain why they have sold off so much of America's natural gas to CNOOC (as in CHINA).

We're just saying...

One last question...if they are cutting their drilling in HALF, where are they coming up with all those FALSE jobs created numbers, and if drilling is cut in half, why not just BAN FRACKING here in New York?  I mean we help out Chesapeake by letting them NOT DRILL HERE, and we keep our water safe.  Win win situation right?

With All Due Respect President Obama FRACK OFF

Dear Mr. Obama...

With all due respect, FRACK OFF...you just lost my vote, my respect, and the right to expect me to see you as my President.  Go rape someone else's lands, contaminate someone other than myself and my community's water in the name of your National Energy Policy, in the name of the Natural Gas industry.  Times have changed, and we have heard both Dick Chaney, and Vice President Biden drop the F-Bomb...so, FUCK OFF OBAMA...you just sold out to the Natural Gas industry, just showed yourself a demon spawn of the worst kind, a Republican in Democrats clothing.

Fracking is NOT BEING DONE SAFELY, and as for the government developing the technology...you mean like the time that the DOE tried Atomic Fracking, detonating a nuclear bomb in the hopes of freeing up Natural Gas trapped underground?  The gas so contaminated as to be unusable...refined technology...the kind that contaminates our drinking water, causes untold THOUSANDS of cancer cases, but leaves the Natural Gas usable, ready to be SOLD TO CHINA.

If you think you can ruin our communities, poison our lands, spoil our waters, and visit death upon our children by clearing the road for wholesale fracking with the stroke of your pen Mr. Obama, you are wrong, and the Anti-Fractivists, those in the Occupy Movement will show you we have far more backbone for this fight than you are giving us credit for.  When you get your head out of the ass of Chesapeake Energy, Cabot oil, when you grow tired of pandering to special interests in the name of a second term, perhaps the two sides can talk, but till then, you have just put yourself in a position of BEING AGAINST THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE.

Fracking Foes Yesterday Marched In Albany

Average Law Abiding Citizens Seek Ban on Fracking

The fracking war continues as well funded Industry Lobbyist try buying off government officials at every level of our government, from the local politician to the halls of Congress in Washington, DC.  Meanwhile, average every day citizens are continuing the good fight, trying to save our water, our health, and our pristine environment here in New York state, many of those average citizens taking yesterday off from work to get in buses to head to Albany to march down the halls of our Legislative Building seeking articulate, intelligent elected officials who willing to listen to their call for an "Out Right Ban" on hydraulic fracturing here in New York state, and there are ever mounting numbers of reason to pass a bill that would create such a ban.

The old adage says, "where there is smoke there is fire" and with each passing day, week, there is mounting evidence that "Horizontal Hydraulic Fracturing" causes lots of problems, and does contaminate both our water, and our environment, that there is FIRE that the industry is trying to sweep under the carpet.  

There is also ever mounting proof that the Natural Gas industry is playing a con game on both America, and the world in the name of PROFITS and shale gas drilling.  No better example of this can be found than the industry's claim that Hydraulic Fracturing has been done safely now for 60 years...NOT EXACTLY.  They are comparing apples to oranges.  Vertical Horizontal fracking has been used for 60 years, and on average uses maybe 60,000 gallons of water to frack a well, and is done at much shallower depths.  

Horizontal Fracking in many cases drills down into Mother Earth over a mile deep, then horizontally drills just as far sideways...so, a mile deep, and a mile in any direction is much different than singular bore hole vertical fracking.  No greater example of the difference can be found in these two diametrically opposing techniques than looking at the huge amount of water needed to frack just one Horizontal well....these horizontal wells use on average more than 2.5 MILLION GALLONS of our precious water supplies.  Do the math folks....60,000 gallons verse 2.5 million gallons per well...and don't forget the CANCER CAUSING CHEMICALS mixed in with that 2.5 million gallons of water.

Want another con...Cabot was excused from delivering water to the citizens of Dimock Pennsylvania even though they CONTAMINATED THE WATER SUPPLIES, and now in Dimock and other communities where fracking is taking place, the US EPA is delivering citizens drinkable water AT THE TAXPAYER's EXPENSE!  That's right...the (un)Natural Gas industry comes in, drills for gas, contaminates wells and underground water aquifers, then leaves out of town leaving the burden and expenses of repairing the damage they did on WE THE PEOPLE.

Norma Fiorentino’s drink­ing water well was a time bomb. For weeks, work­ers in her small north­east­ern Penn­syl­va­nia town had been plumb­ing nat­ural gas deposits from a drilling rig a few hun­dred yards away. They cracked the earth and pumped in flu­ids to force the gas out. Some­how, stray gas worked into tiny crevasses in the rock, leak­ing upward into the aquifer and slip­ping qui­etly into Fiorentino’s well. Then, accord­ing to the state’s work­ing the­ory, a motor­ized pump turned on in her well house, flicked a spark and caused a New Year’s morn­ing blast that tossed aside a con­crete slab weigh­ing sev­eral thou­sand pounds.

Fiorentino wasn’t home at the time, so it’s dif­fi­cult to know exactly what hap­pened. But after­ward, state offi­cials found methane, the largest com­po­nent of nat­ural gas, in her drink­ing water. If the fumes that built up in her well house had col­lected in her base­ment, the explo­sion could have killed her.

As yourselves Sullivan County residents..."can our rural community afford the costs that come with Horizontal Hydraulic Fracturing?"  All those heavy trucks will take a heavy toll on our rural roads, but the Natural Gas industry is not going to pick up the tab to repair them.  Some of us, perhaps a large number of us will see our fresh water supplies negatively impacted, perhaps even forever RUINED, but the (un)Natural Gas industry has already shown their true colors, will not be there picking up the tab when we have no choice but to BUY WATER to drink, cook, and clean with.  Some of us will suffer very serious, even deadly negative health impacts...the (un)Natural Gas industry is not going to be there to pay our medical bills, is not going to give us a pay check when we are too sick to work.

The time has come for every small hamlet, village, town and city in our county to demand local legislation BANNING FRACKING.  It is time for our state officials in Albany to do the right thing and pass a law that BANS FRACKING, and it is time for Governor Cuomo to SIGN THAT BILL INTO LAW.

The Latest Fracking News

First Up...if you have not yet submitted comments to the NYDEC opposing the inadequate fracking regulations found in the SGEIS, now is the time to do it (deadline is January 11th...this upcoming Wednesday) is now. To make it easier for citizens to submit comments, Catskill Citizens has put up a page with 20 READY TO GO comments here. They are great comments, but if you want some serious IMPACT to your statement, want to have it receive MORE ATTENTION, it is recommended you use their suggested comments as a model to write your own. The more the merrier, so consider to some or even all of them! As a stakeholder, it is also recommended you ask to be put on the document SERVICE LIST.

Catskill Citizens will make sure that anything you send to us by Monday January 9th will be delivered to the DEC on time. After Monday the 9th, use the DEC's web-based comment form.[http://www.dec.ny.gov/energy/76838.html]

Next up...is the US EPA going to start delivering water to the citizens of Dimock, Pennsylvania? Cabot has reneged on doing right by the citizens of Dimock, even though they are the guilty party that has contaminated the community water, and sadly, the state of Pennsylvania's own DEC is letting them get away with it...however, all is not lost. Seems that the US EPA is weighing to their own investigations, and bringing in water.

If the EPA delivers water to the village, it would be the clearest sign yet regulators are concerned about the effect of drilling on drinking water there.
Dimock may become pivotal in a national debate about the environmental impact of fracking, the drilling technique that could unlock decades' worth of natural gas trapped in shale deposits, but which environmentalists say contaminates water supplies.

11 minor earthquakes in Ohio attributed to FRACKING. First, this raises some serious question about allowing fracking anywhere near any earthquake faults. More importantly, it raises a much more serious question...why is the Hydraulic Fracturing industry being allowed to DUMP THEIR CANCER CAUSING WASTE STREAMS into the ground with our potable water supplies. Seriously, how safe can it really be to be dumping all these toxic chemicals into the ground, and will not those toxic chemicals PERCULATE up into the aquifers if said chemicals are causing earthquakes?

Now, seismologists have attributed a recent series of 11 minor earthquakes in Ohio to injection wells that disposed of wastewater byproducts from fracking operations.

Will opponents of Fracking here in New York be successful in getting another one year moratorium on the dangerous industrial drilling practice known as Hydraulic Fracturing, or would such a moratorium amount to putting lipstick on a pig. As it is, the DEC cannot issue permits before 2013, as there is no money in the budget for the added employees needed to enforce the proposed rules moving their way through the process now. Symbolically it would be a big victory for the Anti's, but we need to make sure it is not window dressing meant to appease.

Pointing to experiences in other states, including Pennsylvania and Colorado, critics say the practice could contaminate drinking water and air, cause small earthquakes and lower property values. Supporters say allowing fracking in New York would create an important domestic source of energy and thousands of jobs for depressed rural areas.

State Assembly Environmental Committee Chair Robert Sweeney said on Friday he would soon introduce a proposal to have a moratorium on fracking until June 1, 2013. Sweeney pointed to recent reports that fracking may have caused a series of small earthquakes in Ohio and contaminated drinking water in Wyoming and Dimock, Pennsylvania.

Bottom line is simple...at every step of the way, Fracking seems to get more dangerous, and at some point politicians and regulators have to accept that some risks are not worth taking, and Hydraulic Fracturing is one of those risks that small rural communities like our own cannot afford to have the DEC force us into accepting. How many examples of problems do regulators need to have presented before they just tell the Exxon's, Cabot's and Chesapeake Energy's of the world NO?

Ugly Factoid of Day...Haliburton and FRACKING Just Go Together

Dick Cheney, Halliburton, both make most Americans cringe. Well, get ready to cringe...seems that Haliburton stands to reap lots and lots of profits from...drum roll please...increased North American FRACKING ACTIVITIES. Have any of us known Haliburton to do anything RIGHT? Can we all quickly go back to the Gulf Oil Rig explosion and collapse, remember that Halliburton is now accused of DESTROYING evidence?

New Yorkers ask yourselves...do you really want hundreds of thousands of Natural Gas wells being drilled and maintained in our state by HALLIBURTON?

The Frack FUCK Primer...Do Not Let DOE Committee Fool You

DOE trotting out Fracking Committee dog and pony show for public consumption.  Sorry, but do not buy into this supposed IMPORTANT Committee....you do not form a committee of this magnitude, and then give it just three months to review fracking if the outcome of the committee's findings are not already pre-determined. The three articles below will give you a quick PRIMER on FRACKING.

More on Fracking
More Fracking Problems: Surface Blowouts as Gas Wells Likely to Increase
Natural Gas Far Less Green Than Claimed - Fracking Emissions 1000s Times Higher Than Reported
Natural Gas From Fracking Emissions Can Double Those From Coal

LOOKING TO GET MORE INVOLVED IN THE FIGHT AGAINST FRACKING?

Sullivan County's Future with Natural Gas Fracking

I live in Sullivan County New York...a place in the big picture of shale gas that is GROUND ZERO when it comes to FRACKING FOR NATURAL GAS in the Marcellus Shale because of the thickness of the vein that runs through our lands (some estimates put it at over 300 foot).  Sullivan county is some of the most historical and pristine land one would ever hope to enjoy...I discovered the beauty of the place back about six years ago when I started coming up each summer as a seasonal camper.  I got to know the people, found a great sense of community here, and took up residence.  It was after I moved into the area while attending a Slow Foods event that I became aware of the issue of Fracking thanks to the people at Catskill Citizens, who have been the leaders of the Frack Fight here in our area for quite some time.

We all know that the fight is gearing up, and that it is going to get a lot costlier in so many ways as David (our small rural communities) take on Goliath (the big Natural Gas companies and their BILLIONS of dollars) as we try to protect a way of life, try to protect our pristine lands and water resources, as well as the human health of our inhabitants. 

Catskill Citizens is looking for additional grassroots activists, is looking for people with ideas and energy.  If you are a person living in the southern teir of New York (Sullivan, Ulster, Westchester, Dutchess counties as example, or anyone living in New York City as we supply your fresh beautiful drinking water supply from our watershed) and have been wanting to get involved in this important Social/Health issue, would encourage you to Contact Catskill Citizens, or attend their Volunteer's Meeting on May 1st, 2011.

Catskill Citizens Volunteer Meeting

North Branch Inn

869 North Branch-Hortonville Road
North Branch, New York 12766
(845) 482-5925

Meeting Time:

11 AM on Sunday May 1

Bring your ideas, energy, and enthusiasm. Whatever skills you have can be put to good use. Remember, Catskill Citizens is an all-volunteer organization! For more information, contact: info@catskillcitizens.org or call (845) 468 7063.

Students AGAINST HydroFRACKING...Rally April 20th, 2011...We NEED A CUNY/SUNY System Wide ALERT

THE APRIL 20TH STUDENTS AGAINST HYDROFRACKING RALLY 

Curious...doesn't the CUNY and SUNY College/University systems have a means of issuing a notice on this to ALL THEIR STUDENTS?...if they do, someone should see if that can happen.

Please TWEET, RETWEET this, and if you can, link to it.

Press Advisory

For immediate release—April 18, 2011

Students say to New York: Jump on the BAN Wagon

Coalition Stands Up for Clean Energy Future, Demands Ban on Fracking

   Who: Students Against Fracking, United for Action and other activist groups

  What: Rally against Fracking, entitled “Jump on the BAN Wagon”

 When: Wednesday, April 20^th at 12:30 p.m.

Where: Washington Square Park, NYC

On Wednesday, April 20 from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. a coalition of student activists from NYU, the New School, and other universities will rally in Washington Square Park for a statewide ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the dangerous process by which natural gas is extracted through the pumping of high volumes water, sand and chemicals below ground. Hosted by Oxfam Club at NYU, the Students Against Fracking coalition will be joined by former Commissioner of the NYC Department of Environmental Protection Al Appleton, activist performers Reverend Billy and the Earthaluja Choir, student performers, activists and representatives to press the state legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to replace the existing moratorium on fracking that expires on July 1st with an all-out ban.

“As students, we’re concerned that there won’t be a future for us in New York after we graduate if our water supply is contaminated because of fracking,” student activist Ben Davalos said. Several companies have already applied for permits to drill in the Delaware River Basin, a primary source of drinking water for New York.

Millions of gallons of chemicals, such as benzene, a known carcinogen, have been injected into wells in the U.S. in recent years. Between 2005 and 2009 14 of the leading oil and gas companies engaged in fracking used more than 2,500 products containing 750 chemicals and other components. Twenty-nine of the chemicals used are either known or possible human carcinogens, regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act or considered hazardous air pollutants. The dangerous cocktail of chemicals used in the process enjoys many exemptions from federal regulations.

Because of the hazards demonstrated by this drilling practice in other areas, Students Against Fracking and its allies are calling for a statewide ban on hydraulic fracturing until it is proven safe. Communities such as Quebec and Buffalo have already passed bans on fracking, which is why the students are calling this rally “Jump on the BAN Wagon,” a call for New Yorkers to join the global awakening to the dangers of this unsafe extraction method.

THE DETAILS REPEATED!

• Where:  Washington Square Park, NYC

• When: Saturday April 23rd, 12:20 pm - 2:00 pm. 

• Why: We believe the voice of the people need to be heard.  Fracking is dangerous not just for all who live in NY state today, but for the future of our lives and our planet as well.  We want to make the point to politicians that natural gas from fracking is NOT a transition fuel. We want a future that can benefit all living things, not just the gas companies... Stop Fracking and give us a Renewable Energy Future TODAY!

• Please bring costumes, signs, and everything in between.  Every body counts!

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Natural Gas MAGIC SHOW-A must see CARTOON

A friend of mine sent me the above cartoon on fracking...

It says SO MUCH about the vile industry that is bent on destroying our lands, poisoning our drinking water in the name of profits, while at the same time wrongly playing on peoples hopes, dreams and patriotism to get their signature on a lease.  Lets dispel some of the myths the industry puts out to us.

1.  Natural Gas is clean and green...it is not.  Over a 20 year period, Natural Gas is perhaps dirtier than coal, but more importantly, the methane makes it a larger contributor to GREEN HOUSE GASES that cause Global Warming/Climate Change.

2.  Natural Gas Fracking will not poison your water, there has never been one case of ground water being damaged by fracking...this is not true, or at best a HALF TRUTH.  Fracking STARTS THE CHAIN OF EVENTS THAT WILL POISON YOUR WATER.  If you are hit by a bus, but die from internal bleeding, the Natural Gas folks would have you believe that a BUS CANNOT KILL YOU.

Look for more of these smaller articles in the says and weeks to come...please link to them, or put them on your own ANTI FRACK SITES.

REFRACTURING...Getting RAPED TWICE!

The old saying says one picture is worth a 1000 words...well, how about one picture as proof, and a word all those opposed to Fracking will soon fear!  The word is REFRACTURING!...imagine them coming in and Fracturing your land, then COMING IN A SECOND or even THIRD TIME! From a presentation from one"Mohd Zaki bin Awang" the staff production technologist for "Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd" I give you the slide that talks about REFRACTURING!...well let your imaginations contemplate this.

Pa Shale Gas Incentives (The Great Rich White Republican Lie) Coming To a State Near You

The Beauty FRACKING Will Steal Away

First, political correctness is killing America...so if the title of this article, the tone of the writing offends someone, do apologize in advance. Politics in America is still a white, rich mans sport (White Privilege should be changed to RICH WHITE PRIVILEGE, or just RICH PRIVILEGE) for the most part, and if you do not believe me look at some simple facts.  At every level of government, we have more millionaires and billionaires than ever before, most of them stuffed shirt white men who have bought themselves a SEAT AT THE TABLE.  In New York, we have Billionaire Mayor Bloomberg as a perfect example...when he wanted to stay in office longer, he used his MONEY to change the law.  Our current President is expected to spend a billion dollars trying to get re-elected in 2012, and if his silver tongued self promoting self is too be believed, goofy haired Billionaire wheeler dealer man Donald Trump is going to run for the office of President himself.  

Secondly, because I want to set the stage, and voicing just my own opinion here, prejudice and bigotry are expertly manipulated tools of the UBER RICH used to keep our collective focus off of themselves, and on each other as we seek someone to blame for our own plight...maybe, just maybe it is time for those in the middle and lower class to realize our problems are caused not by peoples of a different race, color or sexual orientation, but by those holding well over ninety percent of America's wealth, while expecting us far too often to work for slave wages, while our taxes are used to subsidize the industries of the UBER RICH, with (un)Natural Gas just the lastest example of how our land, communities, water and health are attacked in the name of WEALTH BUILDING, the people in power thinking nothing about visiting Environemental Racism on those communities who cannot AFFORD TO PROTECT THEMSELVES.

There is a blog article talking about Republicans in Pennsylvania keeping Pennsylvania Shale Gas in the state to benefit the people of the state through a set of incentives (paid for with YOUR TAXES).   Though the number will grow, right now over $47 Million state tax dollars would go to support the Shale Gas industry, and their building of infrastructure...this, even though lunatic Governor Corbett and his Robber Barons are refusing to tax even ONE DROP of the (un)Natural Gas coming out of the state.  These incentives, the package of seven House bills, known as Marcellus Works, would use tax credits and grants to expand the number of natural gas-powered vehicles on the state's roads, the theory being more Natural Gas vehicles would thus keep more of the Natural Gas at home in Pennsylvania.  Another part of the bill would provide money to the industry to build (un)Natural Gas stations all along the Pennsylvanian Interstate system...could someone explain to all us poor people why our taxes are being given to UBER RICH PEOPLE to use to build gas stations to sell us gas they took/stole from our lands?

These incentives MAKE NO SENSE...more importantly, they are based on a FALSE PROMISE.  Supposedly, these incentives will keep Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale Gas in Pennsylvania.  Do this dishonest politicians do ANY HOMEWORK AT ALL?  Do they know, are they aware of just how much of our American Shale Gas leases have already been sold to FOREIGN INTERESTS, with the largest purchaser of our Shale Gas resources being none other than COMMUNIST CHINA, who also happens to be the holder of most of our American Government's DEBT.  

If any one is foolish enough to believe China (through wholly owned companies like CNOOC) is buying up massive mineral, gas and oil rights as just a good investment, you are either A) living under a rock, or B) devoid of patriotism, and caring only about lining your own pockets with GOLD...most politicians fall into this later category.  China has a population of BILLIONS, and their people have gotten a taste for this flawed MASS CONSUMPTION economic model that is raping the earth, and with every passing day, the citizens of China are demanding more and more access to goods, and in that demand consuming an every increasing amount of the Earth's dwindling stockpile of natural resources, and the Central Communist Committee in China is doing everything in their power to corner the market on the world's most precious (and limited) natural resources, both Gas and Oil being on that list.

Would like to have some of these politicians explain to us how incentives to keep our resources at home is not MONEY DOWN A RAT HOLE, when these same politicians are doing NOTHING to keep companies like Cabot and Chesapeake Energy to buy up leases, bundle them and sell them off to foreign companies like so much graffiti as the (un)Natural Gas industry races down the same road of despair that the Home Mortgage business ran down not that long ago.  We do not need Natural Gas welfare, do not need to be offering incentives that make no sense.  We need ENFORCEMENT, and we need laws that PRESERVE America's resources FOR AMERICANS...a simple fact that the Natural Gas industry cannot refute, "If a national law were passed tomorrow nationalizing America's Shale Gas reserves for reasons of National Security, if that law forbid the outsourcing of this commodity, the BOTTOM WOULD INSTANTLY FALL OUT OF THE AMERICAN NATURAL GAS MARKET"...why?  Because what is driving the industry is not our own market here at home, but the world demand for what will soon be a scarce resource.

So far, politicians and the Natural Gas industry have just what they want...local governments, state capitals and Washington DC paying lip service to their constituents while PAVING THE ROAD of the Natural Gas industry with Gold (with our taxes) while locally, we have neighbors fighting neighbors, as one group hopes to cash in, get a small slice of the pie, while the other fights to preserve our lands, water, environment and health. It is time that WE WAKE UP...time that we stop letting the UBER RICH manipulate us, pit us one against the other, and instead start looking at the true root of our problems here in America...a system gone bad, a government that no longer listens to and represents the will of the people.

200 plus years ago we rose in protest (Boston Tea Party) over taxation without representation, fought a war to gain our Independence from England.  Now, two centuries later, we have lost our way, are so stuck in our own morass to be bothered with problems larger than ourselves.  If we want to see true democracy in action in 2011, we have to look to the Middle East where average every day people are joining together in common goals, in a unified voice as they throw off their own chains of oppression.  Natural Gas and all that it represents is the POSTER CHILD of just what is wrong right now in America, and we are running out of time to stop this runaway train, running out of time to SAVE AMERICA.  

We cannot win this war, cannot stop the raping of our lands one small community at a time and the (un)Natural Gas Industry, our own politicians KNOW THIS...we need a National Movement, and played right, we have the power to MAKE THAT HAPPEN.  How many small communities have small Anti-Fracking groups and organizations fighting their own wars against Goliath, and how many of those communities ARE LOSING THE FIGHT?  What happens if we all start linking up together to form one NATIONAL ORGANIZATION, one NATIONAL MOVEMENT to fight the (un)Natural Gas industry, their lobbyists and the politicians THEY OWN?  We have the internet, we have twitter, and joined together we have the VOTERS to become a force to be reckoned with.

If this post, this message resonates with you, your group, if you are interested in working toward building and Anti-Fracking Army of grassroots volunteers please leave a comment on this post, private message me via Fracktoid News, or find me on Twitter.  Will leave you with this...if One Million concerned citizens opposed to Fracking each donated $100 to a National Organization, we would have enough to field at least fifty candidates for NATIONAL OFFICE...what kind of a game changer would it be if we sent 50 Anti Fracking Congressman into the Halls of Congress?  Love them or hate them, look at the effect Tea Party backed candidates who won Congressional Elections are having in Washington!  Isn't it time we had that kind of voice ourselves?

SCUMBAGS, Be All You Can Be, Oil and Gas Industry Landman JOBS

For all those in the Oil and Gas Industry that think raping our lands, despoiling our environment, and poisoning our Fresh Drinking Water supplies in the name of meeting a never ending demand for energy, regardless of the costs to communities is an honorable profession, do apologize in advance for my opinions expressed here.  People with that mentality, those ascribing to embrace that mentality are SCUMBAGS.   That said, and as a public service to SCUMBAGS everywhere, thought I would make it easy for you...the Oil and Gas Industry is looking for a few good Scum Bags (this seems to be a male dominated industry, but sure there is not a gas company in the world that would turn down a good Scumbag, regardless of race, creed, or sexual orientation) to become LANDMEN...hmmmm...Landwoman.

If reports from landowners are too be trusted, some of the qualifications would include, but are not limited to, making false promises while being careful not to put them in writing ANYWHERE, speaking with a forked tongue, and out of both sides of your mouth...extra points for silver tongued devils.  Those capable of lying with a straight face move to the front of the line, and of course those who can get people to swallow and believe BOLD FACED LIES are hired on the spot.  So, if you have these qualifications, you might want to consider applying for some of the jobs listed below that are now available for Landmen and aspiring landmen.  Again, your opinion of the (un)Natural Gas Industry, and those working in it may vary, but if the ever increasing number of complaints and violations about the Shale Gas drilling practices are too be believed, you really have to be a serious loser, or a scumbag to work in this industry that puts so little stock in doing the right thing, in an industry that seems to have no moral compass, an industry with NO ETHICS, or if they have ethics, the ethics of a snake.

Featured Job Postings from the Web
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Natural Gas PROPAGANDA Piece

A good example of the PROPAGANDA being fed us compliments of the Natural Gas Industry...studies have shown that Natural Gas from grave to grave IS JUST AS DIRTY AS COAL, and basic research shows us companies like Chesapeake Energy are selling America's Natural Gas as fast as their Landmen can deliver new bundles of leases...it is like the home mortgage debacle all over again...wonder when the bubble will burst?