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HELP STOP!!! Con Magistrate & Judge, Jim Mason, of Columbus,Ohio and the Fraudulent Business so-called Free Legal Aid Lawyers of Ohio, trying to destroy Children and Family life for the sake of the judge and Lawyers Job career
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By Mark Niquette
Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The millions of gallons of chemical- laced wastewater that fracking produces must flow somewhere, and Ohio is trying not to be that place.
The oil and natural-gas drilling boom spurred more permits for disposal wells there during the past two years than during the previous decade combined. The volume injected into them was on a near-record pace last year, according to the Department of Natural Resources, and more than half was from out of state. That included 92.6 percent of the water sent to a Youngstown well closed last year after 11 nearby earthquakes.
“We have become in Ohio the dumping ground for contaminated brine,” state Representative Armond Budish, the House Democratic leader, said at a Jan. 26 forum in Columbus. “We didn’t prepare adequately for the potential for earthquakes and other environmental problems.”
Now, Ohio is considering tightening regulations governing wells in response to the temblors and seeking to stem out-of- state fluid shipments. It’s an example of the challenges U.S. states face as they try to enjoy hydraulic fracturing’s economic boost while avoiding its side effects.
Ohio’s situation highlights the tradeoff that may come with the technique of using chemical-laced water to bring forth natural gas and oil, said Glen Andersen, energy program director for the National Conference of State Legislatures in Denver. While states benefit from investment by companies including Chesapeake Energy Corp., Halliburton Co. and Vallourec SA, they also may contend with roads damaged by heavy equipment and concerns about polluted drinking water, he said.
Negotiating the Constitution
“It doesn’t necessarily mean there needs to be this tradeoff with environment versus energy extraction,” Andersen said in a telephone interview. “It really comes down to the degree to which it’s regulated and whether those regulations are enforced.”
In Ohio, companies pay to operate disposal wells after they have been approved by the state, and brine haulers hired by drillers pay the companies to inject the fluid. The well owners pay a disposal fee to the state of 5 cents per barrel for brine originating in the state and 20 cents for out-of-state wastewater, according to the Ohio Natural Resources Department.
Republican Governor John Kasich said that while he’s not happy about the increasing volume of wastewater from neighboring states, the U.S. Constitution prohibits interference with shipments. He declined to speculate about what might be done.
Soaking It Up
“When people are using our things, and they could disrupt our ability to have progress here, we have to be concerned about it,” Kasich said in an interview in Columbus on Jan. 26. “We’re thinking about what we can do and not violate the interstate commerce clause.”
There were more than 150,000 so-called Class II injection wells in 33 states to handle drilling wastewater disposal, according to a 2010 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency inventory, Catherine C. Milbourn, a spokeswoman, said in an e- mail.
Ohio has fewer wells and less disposal as energy-producing locales such as Texas and Oklahoma, said Larry Wickstom, the state geologist.
Still, with fracking’s increase, Ohio’s wells absorbed 368.3 million gallons during last year’s first three quarters, according to Natural Resources Department records. That’s up from 359.3 million for all of 2010 and more than in any year since 1987, records show. The state approved 29 permits for wells last year after averaging about four a year for the past two decades.By Mark Niquette
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After viewing the documentary GASLAND, I was mortified and ashamed of what our species is capable of. If you think this is a free country... THINK AGAIN! The Bush/Cheney administration did everything in their power to take away as many freedoms as possible so doors could be opened to allow THE CORPORATE "BEING" to have free reign on getting at any type of resource no matter who or what was in the way. I know it's hard to believe that they would go so far as to ruin our planet if only to make another buck. But with every dollar, they get a nickel’s worth of power. The Power to Destroy. If you haven't seen Avatar I recommend you rent it. It is a chilling glimpse into the future of what can happen to Mother Earth when all her natural resources are depleted. Think it a fairytale? (Another... THINK AGAIN!) Watch the trailer Gasland below and The Daily Show featuring the filmmaker of Gasland, Josh Fox. Stay enlightened, information may be the only weapon we have to help save our planet against The Corporate World who will kill every living creature upon it, if they are allowed too.
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UPDATE 2012 - I blogged this page almost 2 years ago, since then we have had Earth tremors and quakes in the Fracking areas that some experts believe are the direct result of Fracking. I know the Republicans want us all to feel that Corporations will do no harm, they care about us and our Earth. To that I say... THE SHIT OF THE BULL! Even in my own hometown there are people who are willing to destroy in order to gain BIG BUCKS for themselves... Go to this link to see how greed is on a steady course of destruction EVERYWHERE. http://www.youtube.com/user/liveoaklandfill
Please watch GASLAND and then watch the propaganda film on HOW WONDERFUL NATURAL GAS IS, brought to you by one of the United Corporations of America.
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PS: 3 Cheers for Montana!!! Montana Supreme Court upholds election spending limits
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-montana-court-20120104,0,5533901.story
Ohio earthquake was not a natural event, expert says
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— A northeast Ohio well used to dispose of wastewater from oil and gas drilling almost certainly caused a series of 11 minor quakes in the Youngstown area since last spring, a seismologist investigating the quakes said Monday.— A northeast Ohio well used to dispose of wastewater from oil and gas drilling... more
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Work halted at 4 more Ohio fluid-injection wells in wake of quake
From Maggie Schneider, CNN
updated 6:18 PM EST, Sun January 1, 2012
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Officials have shut down fluid-injection wells in eastern Ohio in the aftermath of heightened seismic activity in the area.
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Ohio officials order the closure of four fluid-injection wells near Youngstown
This comes amid a probe looking at links between "fracking" and recent quakes
"We need to get more information," an official says of any possible connection
A magnitude 4.0 quake struck Saturday, one of 11 to occur in the past year
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(CNN) -- Work has been halted at four more fluid-injection wells in eastern Ohio in the aftermath of heightened seismic activity in the area, a state official said.
Ohio Department of Natural Resources Director James Zehringer had announced on Friday that one such well -- which injects "fluid deep underground into porous rock formations, such as sandstone or limestone, or into or below the shallow soil layer," the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency explains -- was closed after a series of small earthquakes in and around Youngstown.
Then on Saturday, a magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck that released at least 40 times more energy than any of the previous 10 or more tremors that had rattled the region in 2011.
Andy Ware, deputy director of Ohio's natural resources department, told CNN on Sunday that Zehringer and Gov. John Kasich subsequently have ordered the closure of four other nearby injection wells as well.
The decision comes as authorities investigate a possible link between the earthquakes and hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking. That controversial drilling technology involves injecting water, sand and chemicals deep into the ground at high pressure to crack the shale and allow the oil or gas to flow.
Last Friday's order affecting the first well in Youngstown came six days after a magnitude 2.5 earthquake that struck that area around 1:24 a.m. on December 24. After Saturday's larger earthquake, scientists recommended that operations stop at all wells within a 5-mile radius of that original site.
"We need to get more information," Ware said.
The epicenter for Saturday's tremor was 5 miles northwest of Youngstown, 6 miles southeast of Warren and 55 miles east-southeast of Cleveland, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. According to the preliminary estimate, the earthquake struck 1.4 miles deep.
There was a lot of shaking "and a rumbling sound," said Jimmy Hughes, a former Youngstown police chief running for sheriff of Mahoning County. "I could see the house move. ... It seemed like the ground was moving. "
Ohio is far from the edges of Earth's major tectonic plates, with the nearest ones in the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, the U.S. Geological Survey explains on its website. Still, there are many known faults in this region, with the federal agency noting that it is likely there are additional "smaller or deeply buried" ones that haven't been detected.
While earthquakes are not unprecedented in the area, the rate of them in the past year has been unusual. That fact led Zehringer, the Ohio department head, to act late last week.
"While conclusive evidence cannot link the seismic activity to the well, Zehringer has adopted an approach requiring prudence and caution regarding the site," the natural resources department said Friday in a press release, explaining its decision to shut the first well.
Ben Lupo -- CEO of D&L Energy, an independent natural gas and oil exploration, production and marketing group that oversees the first well that was closed -- recently told CNN affiliate WKBN that there's full cooperation with experts, though he expressed grave doubts that the injection wells were to blame for the quakes.
"We have approximately 1,000 wells between Ohio and Pennsylvania and we've never had a problem ... with an earthquake or spill," Lupo said.
Dr. Won-Young Kim, one of the Columbia University experts asked by the state to examine possible connections between fracking and seismic activity, said that a problem could arise if fluid moves through the ground and affects "a weak fault, waiting to be triggered." He explained the underground waste "slowly migrates" and could cause issues miles away, adding that the danger could persist for some time as the fluid travels and seeps down toward the fault.
"In my opinion, yes," the recent spate of earthquakes around Youngstown is related to a fluid-injection well, Kim stated -- though there has been no definitive determination, by the state or other authorities, indicating as much.
There have been "moderately frequent" reports of earthquakes in northern Ohio since the first recorded one was reported in 1823, the federal agency noted. A 1986 tremor, measuring magnitude 4.8, caused some damage. Another in 1998 measured a 4.5 and was centered in northwest Pennsylvania.
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CNN's Susan Candiotti and Ross Levitt contributed to this report.
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Work halted at 4 more Ohio fluid-injection wells in wake of quake
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So here's what happened. I wrote this song as a new labor anthem in 2008 and issued it on an album in 2009. But, as much as it was for them, I meant it to be about more than just the current organizational structures for working people. The One Big Union idea, since it was the mantra of the IWW, has for a long time been about the permanent popular offset to entrenched institutional power so often run by bad people with sociopathic motives, aka corporations and faux "public interest" organizations bankrolled by wealthy despots to proselytize the notion that their despotism is a good thing.
Those people, those institutions, have successfully winnowed the numbers of the organized. The Randroids are ascendent in America, telling us that ALL collectivity is heretical communism. But thing about that is, our collectivity is not something up for debate, as viciously as they choose to argue it, as much money as the Kochs, Chambers of Commerce, ALECs and corrupt Supreme Court justices can dump into the message. "Government is collectivity, common sense is heresy, the GI Bill is a communism, rich people paying an extra .02 percent in taxes is theft and violence. You are you and only you, you exist in a vacuum, fuck everyone else."
Except antisocial behavior simply flies in the face of society. We are all a system, which is part of other systems. One Big Union is what cures us of their predations, and what shouts down their sociopathic marketing. It is what gives us a sense of community when financial machinations and shameless propaganda insist we are alone and that we should shut up and pull ourselves up by our own damn bootstraps.
In Wisconsin, in Egypt and Tunisia, in Occupy Wall Street and its affiliate actions around the U.S. and the world, I saw people pulling each other up by each OTHER's damn bootstraps. Look what happened. I saw this song realized anew. Brave people claimed it and made it more vital. I owed them something.
I have never worked in visual media but it dawned on me I really had no choice. I taught myself iMovie and I made this. I hope it is worthy of the amazing things people have done this year in the name of forwarding civil society everywhere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwjiP6X3u1kSo here's what happened. I wrote this song as a new labor anthem in 2008 and... more
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This is the awesomeness that ensues when Oranjudio, BusTown Music, and GingerATTACK! Video Production LLC combine creative forces. Much more of these to come. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4UNNpUWI_0This is the awesomeness that ensues when Oranjudio, BusTown Music, and GingerATTACK!... more
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A Cleveland third grader who weighed more than 200 pounds was taken from his mother after officials reportedly said she did not do enough to help the boy, who suffered from a weight-related health issue, to lose weight.A Cleveland third grader who weighed more than 200 pounds was taken from his mother... more
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October 18, 2011 Zanesville, OH: 56 lions, tigers, leopards, cougars, wolves, giraffes, camels and bears escaped from the Muskingum County Animal Farm, and the owner Terry Thompson, who had just gotten out of prison was found dead there after shooting himself...
BE A VOICE FOR THE ANIMALS! Please visit this webpage to help us put an end to this abuse: http://bigcatrescue.org/get-involved/roar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Wqsd2Vl7AOctober 18, 2011 Zanesville, OH: 56 lions, tigers, leopards, cougars, wolves,... more
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BusTown Music LIVE was edited by GingerAttack! Video Productions
BusTown Music Live is the hottest live show in Columbus, Ohio. The show brings together some of the best bands and musicians in Columbus- In addition to the most amazing Artists and local businesses- to celebrate live local music w/ dynamic host, Ollie Bahba Hightower!
http://bustownvideos.blogspot.com/2011/11/bustown-music-live-performance-mojoflo.htmlBusTown Music LIVE was edited by GingerAttack! Video Productions
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Remember when John Kasich and his arrogant loudmouth Republican squatters there in Ohio’s Capitol told all of America that they didn’t really care that working families, union families were upset with them when they set out to bust Ohio’s employees’ unions? According to Kasich, it was going to be payback time to those unions who believed it was important to actually take care of Ohio workers. What you saw happen, Mr. Kasich, was a powerfully strong rejection, not just of your Fox News holdover regressive ideas – what we all saw was a rejection of Tea Party republicanism. You, personally, were rejected Mr. Kasich. What you and your Republican moral cripples stand for – that was rejected.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x633411
"Hoooray for the people of Ohio!!!"Remember when John Kasich and his arrogant loudmouth Republican squatters there in... more
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"Most of the GOP-controlled legislature, including the entire Ohio House, is up for election next year and might not be eager to be tied to a governor whose job approval rating has sunk to 36 percent, according to the latest Quinnipiac University poll."
"The implications are quite significant and they really go beyond this issue," Tokaji said. "It will be a sign of a re-emergence of the Democratic party which has used the referendum to fight back despite Republicans controlling state government."
WooHoo!"Most of the GOP-controlled legislature, including the entire Ohio House, is up... more
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Voters on Tuesday defeated a substantially limits the teachers, police and other public sector workers and trade union representatives of the power law. The law would deprive the country's 350,000 most of the right to collective bargaining and forced workers to pay for their medical care costs of at least 15% of public sector employees. Precincts reporting, 97%, 61% of voters in the referendum voted against, while 39% support, Republicans support the law, known as Senate Bill 5
http://latestcountrynews.blogspot.com/2011/11/ohio-voters-reject-public-union-limits.htmlVoters on Tuesday defeated a substantially limits the teachers, police and other... more
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New Fast Food Products Get Tested First In Columbus, Ohio
Companies that can afford to test regionally often seek out cities with populations that are reflective of the greater U.S., or whose consumer habits match the broader market.
"There's a reason Middle America is called 'Middle America,'" Wendy's spokesman Denny Lynch told Nation's Restaurant News. "Columbus is very representative of American demographics."
Median household income levels in Ohio and in the U.S. overall fall between $45,000 and $50,000, and until recently, racial demographics were more closely aligned.
It's a college town — which means there are tons of young customers who are setting trends
Several colleges and universities call Columbus home, including Ohio State University. This means there's a guaranteed population of prospective consumers, Dennis Lombardi, executive VP for food service strategies at WD Partners, told Nation's Restaurant News.
Also, younger customers provide valuable insight to companies test-marketing products. After all, they're the ones who are setting trends and steering future consumer behavior patterns. By that logic, Columbus is not only a place to learn about consumers now — it's also a place that can help groom businesses for future success.
In fact, as a whole, Columbus is "younger, more educated and with a higher disposable income"
This is ideal for companies seeking a consumer base willing and financially able to try new things, says Shawnie M. Kelley in Insider's Guide to Columbus, Ohio, who also points out that from 1996 to 2006, the average age dropped from 34.3 to 32.5.
Advertising is affordable, which is vital for test-runs
New rollouts require at least the same amount of advertising as already-existing products, but it's especially necessary to be sure consumers are aware the new product is available, marketing expert Neeli Bendapudi said on NPR's Talk of the Nation.
If launching an advertising campaign is too expensive, no one will hear about the product. In Columbus, Bendapudi says, rates are reasonable.
The media market is more contained — which means it's easier to measure the success of advertising campaigns
"You have the ability to advertise without spilling over into adjacent markets," Wendy's spokesman Lynch told Nation's Restaurant News, allowing companies to more accurately measure their efforts with more controls in place.
Columbus is situated apart from other major cities, meaning different media markets don't have too much crossover and there's a stronger guarantee that the ads taken out to target people in Columbus will actually reach them.
Major interstates pass through Columbus — which broadens the city's consumer base
Interstates 70 and 71 go through Columbus, which brings in lots of visitors who might pass through and make a pit stop at fast food restaurants.
This also means stores with test-run items are relatively convenient to a large swath of the population, WD partners' Lombardi explains to Nation's Restaurant News.
Nearly 20 fast food chains are headquartered in Columbus — which makes it easier for companies to test products in their own backyards
White Castle decided it needed a more central location, and in 1934, it moved its headquarters from Kansas to Columbus.
The trend has lasted over the past several decades, Nation's Restaurant News reports. White Castle, Wendy's, and Bob Evans Farms have helped turn the Columbus region into a veritable fast-food stronghold.
People in Columbus have jobs — and more money to spend
Columbus' latest unemployment rate, 7.6%, falls below the national average of 8.8%. This means more people with money to spend on things like dining out.
Historically, Columbus' unemployment rate has hovered below the national average continuously for the past two decades.
Locals' tastes aren't too refined
Companies see Columbus consumers as having tastes that are generalizable, marketing expert Bendapudi told NPR.
In other places, namely wealthier urban areas, fast food might be vilified as an unhealthy alternative. But Columbus residents are typically of the Midwestern variety — the kind of folks famous for their basic, hearty meat-and-potatoes culinary preference.
For this reason, companies can draw on what these All-American eaters like to form an educated guess for what will work nationwide.
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/fast-food-products-tested-first-columbus-ohio-175714022.html
http://www.nrn.com/article/why-chains-pick-columbus-ohio-test-market-targetNew Fast Food Products Get Tested First In Columbus, Ohio
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Shannon Hurley,41-year-old woman from Brunswick, Ohio, has been charged with unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and two counts of contributing to unruliness/delinquency of a minor. Hurley allegedly iquored up and had sex with at least two boys at her house during a sleepover.
Brunswick police say on August 27, Hurley provided the boys, ages 14 and 16, with alcohol. Police said the woman's children knew the two boys and had invited them to their home on Barra Drive in August. Police said Hurley plied the two boys with liquor before having sexual contact with them.
According to the police report, Hurley told police she blacked out. She is currently free on $50,000 bond and will be back in court on Monday.
http://femalesexoffenders.com/fso/index.php/the-news/449-brunswick-mom-charged-with-molesting-teensShannon Hurley,41-year-old woman from Brunswick, Ohio, has been charged with unlawful... more
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There are at least 19 laws that have already been passed throughout the United States making it more difficult to vote. There are 42 bills pending a decision and another 68 that were introduced by different states , but, failed to pass. The fact remains, Republicans are doing everything they can to try to win the Presidency back from Obama in 2012.
http://veracitystew.com/2011/11/04/the-real-evil-gop-voter-suppression-a-state-guide/There are at least 19 laws that have already been passed throughout the United States... more
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Conservationists have expressed outrage over the lack of American wildlife ownership laws after the slaughter of 49 animals, including 18 rare Bengal tigers, set free from a private Ohio farm.
link:http://news.discovery.com/animals/exotic-animals-ownership-111020.htmlConservationists have expressed outrage over the lack of American wildlife ownership... more
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