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ExxonMobil XOM bird killer

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Our regulators don’t get too excited if the fracking mafia makes families sick and turns their American Dream into a nightmare. But, kill a bird and it’s a different story.

Thank you little birdie for your sacrifice.

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  2. elizabeth burns says

    Well, the good thing about the game warden is that he does the autopsy to cut off that “natural cause of death” argument. Also, the net doesn’t fit the bin properly – so he’s already reported that to them and they have to schlep over and put new nets. They HATE that. They have to spend money on nets.

  3. elizabeth burns says

    You find a dead bird – report it. Photograph it and report it. Usually the game warden will come and bag it himself but he was out of town. We did it so Exxon didn’t throw it out.

      • elizabeth burns says

        get a zoom lens. Also, tell people to report every leak to the Railroad Commission. If it is dripping, they give a NOV (Notice of Violation) and believe it or not, that is a big deal to Exxon and other companies. It doesn’t go to the local production office – it goes to corporate and then they have to go thru a jillion levels of bureaucracy to figure out who to call and then to get an AFE for fund to make repair. It’s kind of like the game warden – their job is to write notices of violation for violations. You report a clear violation of statewide rule, they will write it up. They have to see it leaking to get the violation. If they report themselves and put duct tape so it’s not leaking at the time of the inspection – it’s not an NOV. No rules against duct taping leaks.

        • GhostBlogger says

          I want more duct tape on leak pictures, I can’t get enough! Those pictures work wonders, when someone says “Energy companies do everything they can to avoid polluting”.

  4. GhostBlogger says

    A similar thing happened in Utah. Pipeline ruptures have sent ankle deep flows of petroleum products through people’s property in various places, but, a colony of beavers soaked in diesel from a pipeline failure is getting attention:

    http://fox13now.com/2013/03/27/wildlife-center-cancels-annual-event-as-cost-of-fuel-leak-increases/

    Note that this is a non-profit wildlife rehab center, & Chevron, the owner of the failed pipeline, didn’t give any money, as of print time, to cover the expenses of their damages.

    Note also that the Utah Governor is also anti-Federal rules, yet, he blames the Federal PHMSA for not being strict enough on pipelines.

    Go figure.

  5. Jana says

    Thanks for giving ’em the bird! Tee, hee, hee, had to go there! This all just amazes me, so sometimes I just have to throw senseless humor at it. Birds, wildlife, before people. I can remember desperately searching for an endangered horny toad a few years back, down on my hands and knees in the yard, snapping pictures, scouring the internet to see if my little lizards might be the ones that could save us. Thanks Elizabeth!

  6. pak152 says

    if you think the oil industry is killing birds investigate the wind energy. they are killing thousands
    http://www.masterresource.org/2013/03/avian-mortality-wind-i/
    http://www.masterresource.org/2013/03/wind-avian-mortality-ii/

    and let us not forget bats
    “A high [bat] fatality rate was observed at a wind farm in West Virginia in 2003 and from that point on, we began seeing high fatality rates in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and then different rates across the country,” says Dr. Cris D. Hein, coordinator of the Bats and Wind Energy Program for Bat Conservation International. “So it became an issue that needed to be addressed quite rapidly, as wind development grew in the early 2000s.”

    Read more: http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/news-and-opinion/152702125.html#ixzz2OzL1ATjx