Obama Admin Approved Over 1,500 Offshore Fracking Permits in Gulf of Mexico and Mainstream Media Has Ignored ...
Submitted by vl baker on Wed, 06/29/2016 - 2:10pm
On June 24, the independent news website TruthOut broke a doozy of a story: the Obama Administration has secretly approved over 1,500 instances of offshore hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in the Gulf of Mexico, including during the Deepwater Horizon offshore spill disaster.
Albeit released on a Friday, a day where many mainstream media reporters head out of the office early and venture to late-afternoon and early-evening Happy Hour specials at the bars, the TruthOut story has received deafening silence by the corporate-owned media apparatus.
Google News, Factiva and LexisNexis searches reveal that not a single mainstream media outlet has covered the story.
Watching the video below now makes me sick. What a fool I was.
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i'm sure
they're all being extra careful to contain all that Babysafe Healthful Fracking Juice(tm) too, because otherwise they'd be polluting the fuck out of the entire gulf.
no way they'd want to do that.
GIANT ALL-CAPS SIG
Any corresponding seismic activity?
Thanks for the info. This is sickening. They're turning the geological strata into a swiss cheese.
Destruction of our oceans and groundwater suppy.
Destruction of our oceans and groundwater supply may take modern society out before climate change gets a chance. And, of course, this will be done with the purpose of producing more greenhouse gases through oil and natural gas. I can't get over natural gas being proposed as a bridge fuel to a cleaner future, what a pile of crap.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
I can't tell you how sick...
that makes me feel. We need to leave it in the ground (and under the sea), but no we're going to frack our beautiful Gulf.
And how typical no MSM covers the dastardly plan! I'm going to spread the word in my crowd.
Thanks for the info vl. And I think you provided the live stream link to the NY Bernie speech last week? I appreciated that too.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
They've approved the same off the CA coast
Fracking is set to start soon in the Santa Barbara channel, near a fault that connects with one that runs right under the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant. Maybe they plan to shut down Diablo Canyon in a decade or so, but will an earthquake caused by fracking take it out first?
It's as if our species has reached the malignant transformation stage of our uncontrolled growth, and we can't help but kill our host.
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you can't this up
It is too unbelievable. A species on the crack rock of oil and profit.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
OK, I retract my NIMBY statement--
Cali, you have it worse. My sympathies.
Jesus Christ.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
There is no "we" here.
The fact that I could breed with these people (definition of a species, yes?) does not make me part of them or what they're doing. They are turning on the rest of the human species as surely as they're turning on our home and neighbors.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
I am so angry.
I guess this is why we have a Deepwater Horizon movie coming out, complete with heroic BP worker.
Not that I have anything against the guys who were working on that rig, who had no power over BP's decisions, and suffered terribly as a result of them.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Thanks, vl. One reason I come here is for better news reports.
I guess corporate media goes mostly for the sex and violence, when this kind of activity could have wider effects.
"All Life is Problem Solving" - Karl Popper
My opinion of Planet Abusers & Climate Criminals.
Obama has just joined the the Malodorous Award's ranking as the most stinking ruler of America since King George III. He is worse than a half-witted climate denier, he is a double-crossing corporate toady... knowing what the effect will be on the planet he chooses to suck the corporate spigot and smiles as he wipes the petrolatum from his quisling lips. And dat fracking ho-bitch dominatrix Hillary is the same species of viperous snake.
I am very upset.
From the Light House.
Upset? I wouldn't have guessed[snark]
This decision and encouragement from Obama drops him to a new level of odium. Nothing funny; no silver lining; just some depressing actions from the chief executive.
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
Upset doesn't even come close!
I'm so pissed I could spit nails. But I'm not really surprised, Obama is the biggest con man of them all. Glorious speeches and then he does the opposite. Happens every time! What a sorry SOB! Can't wait to see him gone.
" El pueblo unido jamás será vencido. The people united will never be defeated "
He's a talented con man
but once you saw the con his rhetoric lost it's power and become a caricature of past talented orators that were not con men. Sure knew how to deliver those effective speeches 2007 -2008 the ones Plouffe wrote. Maybe Hillary should convince him to leave Uber and write for her. He lost me when he voted for FISA. All that flowery bs about restoring the rule of law and the importance of the constitution flew out the window for me. Still I voted for him in his 1st election and by the 2nd time around he was so much worse then I had imagined I voted for Jill Stein.
Good for you
He had me fooled for a few months until I saw a documentary on pbs about the making of Obama. True eye opener! I should've listened to my neighbor B. who called him a con man from the get go and was not impressed by the' first black president'(B is a black man).
I am to furious for words,but I will find out what the governor has to say about that.
" El pueblo unido jamás será vencido. The people united will never be defeated "
I saw that documentary also
It was on Frontline. It validated my fear about being baited and switched. I can't take any credit for seeing the handwriting on the wall as even though I quit his primary campaign here in Oregon the day after his FISA vote I still voted for a pocket full of hope. Like I said I never ever thought his administration was going to be as horrible as it was. The Bushies freaked me right out and got me active as a member of my Democratic county party. What a con. Now my city state and country is controlled by the corrupt Democratic party that tell you this is progress or inevitable. It's not it's Chinatown and nothing I will ever stop fighting against now that I know what the Democratic party is about on every level.
I'm going green!
I made up my mind. Enough is enough! Fracking in the Gulf! Like we need anymore crap leaking into the waters. The fish,the shrimp still have not recovered from the gusher. Inch thick slush is still at the bottom of the Gulf. I haven;t touched a shrimp since it happened. They won't stop until every living thing is dead and gone! I hate these people!
I'm still so angry I can't sleep. I can't believe this sob of a president came down here,smiled at the people,ate their food and told them he will take care of them. I have no more words
" El pueblo unido jamás será vencido. The people united will never be defeated "
You are not alone with feeling like a fool.
But the real fool is President Obama. There are going to be a lot of people like me, along with the millions of millennials, who will spit on his legacy with this/other shit going down.
I'm pissed about this, and it is a huge disappointment for me because I thought he was the best President since JFK. The more I read about him the worse I feel.
What the HELL is going on with him and all of our Democratic leadership!?!?!?!?!?
Kaye
I hope that question was rhetorical.
The President and Dem Leadership have been captured, just like all of the regulatory agencies and most judges. And it is not by space aliens, that might be forgivable.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Hell, I am a double fool...
I got fooled by the Republicans into thinking they actually gave a shit about personal freedoms and fiscal responsibility and then I got fooled by the DNC into believing they actually gave a shit about the worker and the planet.
There is no doubt about it, we need at least one brand new party and 2 or 3 wouldn't hurt....
I am just disgusted by this. I have watched the fishing down here in the gulf change dramatically just in the last 4 years (It took a little longer for the BP spill to really be felt hard this far south) but I guess they figure they haven't killed off enough of the planet yet.
It's almost like there is some James Bond style evil organization deliberately trying to wreck the food and water supply so they have a complete monopoly on the very basic substances needed for life itself...
That or Louie CK was right and they are lizards from outer space trying to terraform the planet. (I actually caught this one live and was laughing so hard I almost crashed. Earlier in the episode not covered by the clip they were joking around about the CT people that think alien lizard people have taken over our world governments.)
The fact that Louie had the balls to repeatedly ask Rumsfeld this was really funny.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK8Y2nO_8TM]
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Always the Gulf. Always. Always my home
right in the cross-hairs.
Yes, this is a rare instance of NIMBY, simply because, after Deepwater, this is the biggest fucking insult to injury I've ever seen.
DNC=Does Not Care.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
It really is sad isn't it?
But when you look around, it's not just in our home.
it's Always ALL our homes....
I can't think of a single state that hasn't had some kind of major ecological disaster or pillaging in the last 15 years.
These Planet Molesters need to be stopped! There is no need for this! We have the fucking tech already to transition so why are we dicking around?
Oh that's right, money and entrenched business interests along with a healthy dose of corruption.
I am really starting to think we are fucked and won't be able to stop them in time if we don't get our shit together quickly.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Call them the World Wreckers
It's an apt title even if Marion Zimmer Bradley thought of it first, 45 years ago. (She was writing science fiction, and the premise involved an offworld corporation that wrecked ecologies for pay.)
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
This ties in nicely with the platform vote,
Controlled by the H people, to not adopt an anti-fracking plank.
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