Arkansas Conservation Alliance Blog

The MSM Take on Oil and Gas

The DemoGaz weighs in on Oil and Gas here. Slightly different story in Central Arkansas print version not lost on me. Isn't news here news there? Am I being persnickety for noticing? Thank God for internet reporting.

Further:

Arkansas leaders comfort themselves with theoretical possibility because they don't truly understand physical limitation. They don't mind committing toxic water to a class 2 injection well thousands of feet below ground because they know that today the means to retrieve and treat this water does in fact exist. Regardless of cost and/or political will, it is theoretically possible to retrieve and treat this water today.

Tomorrow, with global financial assistance,  we will perchance be able to retrieve and treat our water. But wouldn't it be in the best interest of all Arkansans to negotiate our right to a healthy existence immediately?  In other words, we should be negotiating the costs of the future today. When we do not, we are wagering one generation's right to live versus another generation's right to drive an SUV and live in a house the size of a grocery store.

Eco-Psycho V

And here.

Our Most Sustainable Resource? Talent.

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The Highlight of the Legislative Session

Eco-Psycho IV

and also here.

Wake the ?@#!*% up!

My Letter to the Arkansas Senate on AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Senators,

Please read this article from Friday, March 13, 2009 on: Water Pollution from Shale Gas Drilling.

(I will also give you hard copies of this article on Monday.)

THE TIME TO INTERVENE IS NOW.

Why haven't any of these departments come forward on this issue?

1. Arkansas Department of Health
2. Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission
3. Arkansas Department on Environmental Quality
4. Arkansas Pollution, Control and Ecology Board
5. Arkansas Natural Resources Commission

Perhaps the competing budgets of these many organizations with similar functions have lead them to "Not look a gift horse in the mouth?"-- the "gift horse" being the Fayetteville Shale. The competing budgets of the above mentioned organizations remind me of the time when several state colleges, also competing for shrinking budget dollars, "looked the other way" by not allowing me to debate other candidates for Governor although I was on the ballot. It also reminds me that when colleges are desperate for money, they lessen academic integrity- like when the Community College in Hope got $1,000,000 for a new library from SWEPCO and quickly followed up with a "clean coal" summit which purposefully excluded environmental groups who publicly petitioned for inclusion- such as the Sierra Club and Audubon Arkansas. Another example occurred last October during a "Shale Summit" at UCA that included only gas company executives, construction companies and bankers.

We have too many regulatory agencies and too many colleges competing for ever shrinking dollars. The result is that the quality of work is sacrificed for increasingly short financial return on investment. This fact is not conscious malpractice; it is natural human defense mechanisms. People are subconsciously protecting their careers, pension funds, etc. The result is that we are increasingly sacrificing ARKANSAS WATER QUANTITY AND QUALITY for inversely exponential short financial return on investment. This is entropy in a system gone wild.

Any legislation regarding increased power for the Oil and Gas Commission should be treated as an opportunity for clarification, elucidation and accountability.

We have to improve the activities of our regulatory groups so that the idiosyncrasies of personalities do not preclude the enforcement of our laws.

Thank you for your consideration on this incredibly important matter.

Sincerely,

Rod Bryan

Eco-Psycho Numero Tres

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Eco-Psycho (Volume 2)

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Colt The Game. (Enabling Legislation)

House Bill 1026 (The Opposite of Accountability)

Today I distributed a card with the cartoon below to all 35 Arkansas State Senators, the Governor, his Chief of Staff, and the Lieutenant Governor. Rollover the image with your mouse to see what was inside the card. The card concerns house bill 1026. I put this document inside the card. (I have also included the text of the linked document in the comments section below.)

THIS BILL IS A SLAP IN THE FACE TO ALL ARKANSANS-- including people within the oil and gas community. It is a blank check for the opposite of accountability. It is an insurance policy for industry rights to nondisclosure. Please call your Senators right now and tell them to vote NO tomorrow on house bill 1026. The number is 501-682-2902. Find your senator by clicking here.

If the literature in the links above does not convince you, please call me at 501-749-8808 at any hour of the day or night and I will discuss this matter with you.