Archives for May 2014

In Illinois where Farmers Insurance believes climate damage is foreseeable, not an “Act of God.”   

 “A major insurance company is accusing dozens of localities in Illinois of failing to prepare for severe rains and flooding in lawsuits that are the first in what could be a wave of litigation over who should be liable for the possible costs of climate change.    Farmers Insurance filed class action lawsuit last month against nearly 200 communities in the Chicago area for failing to prepare for flooding. The suits argue towns should have known climate change would produce more flooding.”

https://gasvets.org/2014/05/19/562/

The AFL-CIO  Issues 23rd Annual  “Death on the Job Report”  and fracking in North Dakota shows alarming data.

  • The fatality rate in the mining and oil and gas extraction sector in North Dakota was an alarming 104.0 per 100,000, more than six times the national fatality rate of 15.9 per 100,000 in this industry; and the construction sector fatality rate in North Dakota was 97.4 per 100,000, almost ten times the national fatality rate of 9.9 per 100,000 for construction.  Read much, much more…..

https://gasvets.org/2014/05/17/552/

Environmental statutes and FERC have failed the People and Workers but brilliant legal strategies are winning based on Constitutional and Tort arguments…

(For more on legal news, visit our GasVets Legal Page.)

In Pennsylvania where the challenges continue to Act 13 which threatened all local zoning prerogatives, rights and obligations.  (These Act 13 documents include many documents submitted during the Discovery Phase of the lawsuit!)

 

In the US Supreme Court which upheld the Environmental Protection Agency’s  “Cross-State Air Pollution Rule.”

In Texas  where a  jury in Dallas  awarded $2.925 million to plaintiffs Bob and Lisa Parr, who sued Barnett shale fracking company Aruba Petroleum Inc. for  intentionally causing a nuisance on the Parr’s property which impacted their health and ruined their drinking water.   (See more…)  (Poster’s comment:  This is huge.  Bypass FERC.  Bypass statutory exemptions.  Go to “Intentional Tort.”  Truly great news from this jury trial.  And no surprise, DeSmog Blog is on top of it.)

 

https://gasvets.org/2014/05/12/brilliant-legal-strategies-are-winning-in-pennsylvania-where-the-challenges-continue-to-act-13-which-threatened-all-local-zoning-prerogatives-rights-and-obligations-these-act-13-documents-inc/

More evidence: Gas drilling GHG emissions vastly exceed government estimates

A new study by a group from the University of Colorado – Boulder, published in the American Geophysical Union’s Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmosphere has found that the impact of natural gas drilling and production on climate change is enormously greater than estimates currently being used by the government. 

For more on baseline methane testing, please read about  Damascus Citizens for Sustainability’s testing initiatives and study reports.

 

https://gasvets.org/2014/05/12/510/

Wilma Subra: Minisink, NY Environmental and Human Health Impacts

Wilma Subra Exposes Some Truths about the Minisink, NY Compressor and Gas Fired Power Plant.

https://gasvets.org/2014/05/03/502/

Without a health registry,  the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania does not know the health impacts of fracking.

(To view and/or participate in Damascus Citizens’ Natural Gas Health & Community Impacts Survey,  please visit this link.)

 

 

https://gasvets.org/2014/05/02/498/

The US Supreme Court Upholds EPA’s  “Good Neighbor”  cross-state air pollution rule.

(The link is to the actual SCOTUS majority opinion.)

https://gasvets.org/2014/05/02/496/