Environmental Politics Defined *Updated*

Paul Templet, the former state Environmental Services Agency Director in Louisiana discusses the BIG PICTURE.

The video is a little over 14 minutes that is worth every second of your time. Please watch it and see how we really are in a state of denial in Texas. Mr. Templet paints the picture very clearly. He has a lot to say about ALL of it. 

Link to the Video

Thank you, Mr. Templet.

*Important Highlights from the Video*

1) 25,000 more well-paying, permanent jobs can be created from regulation of the Oil and Gas Industry;

2) States with good environments have better economies;

3) In most cases, the gas operators costs for disposal of the waste from drilling operations is not  included in the costs for drilling and fracking;

4) Quality of public officials declines with rise in political interference because the Oil and Gas Industry is pulling the strings;

5) Difficult, at best, to get any regulation of drilling operations (specifically the shale gas industry) from state legislatures (including Texas) due to the influence of money;

6) Bribes may not appear as "bribes" but clearly are ~ for example: an industry representative may offer use of a hunting lodge to a regulatory agency director ~ Truth is:  It's NOT illegal for the Industry to offer.

No Regulation Perry Strikes Again!

Kinder Morgan Energy

From their Web site

"Kinder Morgan owns or operates more than 37,000 miles of pipelines and 180 terminals in North America.  Our companies include Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: KMI), Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: KMP), and Kinder Morgan Management, LLC (NYSE: KMR)...."

Yes. There's something wrong with the sound at the beginning of the following video...but just stay with it, you don't want to miss what the people living near this shale gas processing plant operated by Kinder Morgan have to say.



The sound immediately messes up again as the reporter talks about the operator. But Watch what Atmos, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and Kinder Morgan (the plant's operator) are saying as well. No problem as far as any of them can tell ~$$$$$$$

And some Texans want Rick Perry to be President of the United States when this kind of stuff is going on under his watch? 

Kinder Morgan says they are a "different kind of energy company." I guess that means they poison people in a different way than all the others do???    



This is what we call NO REGULATION PERRY for President of the United States. There's his ticket.  Yay, Team Perry.

Thanks to Texas Sharon for this story. It's SHAMEFUL that our state and country are allowing for the poisoning of the Ponder, TX community.

Y'All Come! Tonight!!