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Steve Horn wrote a new diary post: Obama Admin. Approves ALEC Model Bill for Fracking Chemical Fluid Disclosure on Public Lands
On May 16, the Obama Interior Department announced its long-awaited rules governing hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) on federal lands. As part of its 171-page document of rules , the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), part of the U.S. Dept. of Interior (DOI), revealed it will adopt the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) model bill written by ExxonMobil for fracking chemical fluid disclosure [...] -
Steve Horn wrote a new diary post: “Gasland 2″ Grassroots Premiere in Illinois Highlights Industry PSYOPS and Ongoing Fracking Fights
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog Gasland 2 screened yesterday in Normal, IL and DeSmogBlog was there to gain a sneak peak of the documentary set for a July 8 HBO national premiere. Josh Fox’s documentary played at the Normal Theater , the second-ever screening since the film officially premiered on April 21 at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City . The movie builds on Fox’s Academy [...] -
Steve Horn wrote a new diary post: Friday Trash Dump: Obama DOE Approves 2nd Fracked Gas LNG Export Terminal
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog Friday is the proverbial “take out the trash day” for the release of bad news among public relations practitioners and this Friday was no different. In that vein, yesterday the Obama Department of Energy (DOE) announced a conditional approval of the second-ever LNG (liquefied natural gas) export terminal. LNG is the super-chilled final product of gas obtained – predominantly in today’s [...] -
Steve Horn wrote a new diary post: Faulkner County: ExxonMobil’s “Sacrifice Zone” for Tar Sands Pipelines, Fracking
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog There are few better examples of a ” sacrifice zone ” for ExxonMobil and the fossil fuel industry at-large than Faulkner County, Arkansas and the counties surrounding it.
Six weeks have passed since a 22-foot gash in ExxonMobil’s Pegasus tar sands Pipeline spilled over 500,000 gallons of heavy crude into the quaint neighborhood of Mayflower, AR, a township with a population of roughly 2,300 [...] -
Steve Horn wrote a new diary post: Interview: Energy Investor Bill Powers Discusses Looming Shale Gas Bubble
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog On Sat., April 27, I met up with energy investor Bill Powers at Prairie Moon Restaurant in Evanston, IL for a mid-afternoon lunch to discuss his forthcoming book set to hit bookstores on June 18. The book’s title – Cold, Hungry and in the Dark: Exploding the Natural Gas Supply Myth - pokes fun at the statement made [...] -
Steve Horn wrote a new diary post: Obama’s Former PR Flack’s Firm Does PR For Keystone XL Pipeline, Tar Sands Rail Transport
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog Double-dipping is a “no go” in the real world of eating chips and salsa with a circle of friends but an everyday reality in the world of lobbyists and PR professionals. Enter double-dipper Anita Dunn , former White House Communications Director for President Barack Obama who now runs the firm SKDKnickerbocker (Squier Knapp Dunn ), a firm that ”brings [...] -
Steve Horn wrote a new diary post: Keystone Kops: TransCanada Spent $280,000 Lobbying For Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline In First Quarter
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog TransCanada, the multinational corporation hoping to build the controversial northern half of the Keystone XL pipeline , spent over $280,000 on lobbying the U.S. government in the first quarter (Q1) of 2013, according to lobbying disclosure records. In addition to the $250,000 paid to Paul Elliott - TransCanada’s infamous in-house lobbyist and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s national deputy campaign manager during [...] -
Steve Horn wrote a new diary post: Keystone Kops: TransCanada Spent $280,000 Lobbying For Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline In First QuarterPrimary
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog TransCanada, the multinational corporation hoping to build the controversial northern half of the Keystone XL pipeline , spent over $280,000 on lobbying the U.S. government in the first quarter (Q1) of 2013, according to lobbying disclosure records. In addition to the $250,000 paid to Paul Elliott - TransCanada’s infamous in-house lobbyist and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s national deputy campaign manager during [...]
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Steve Horn wrote a new diary post: Sand Land: Fracking Industry Mining Iowa’s Iconic Sand Bluffs in New Form of Mountaintop Removal
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog This is a collaborative report by DeSmog’s Steve Horn and Mint Press News staff writer Trisha Marczak. Within immediate vicinity of a central battleground of the Black Hawk War of 1832, land rife with a resource necessary for hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) is in the crosshairs of an industry prepared to turn the area into a battle zone once again. [...] -
Steve Horn wrote a new diary post: 30 Toxic Chemicals at High Levels at Mayflower Exxon Tar Sands Spill
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog An independent study co-published by the Faulkner County Citizens Advisory Group and Global Community Monitor reveals that, in the aftermath of ExxonMobil’s Pegasus tar sands pipeline spill of over 500,000 gallons of diluted bitumen (dilbit) into Mayflower, AR, air quality in the area surrounding the spill has been affected by high levels of cancer-causing chemicals. Roughly four weeks after the spill took place, many basic [...]
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Steve Horn commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes David Graeber, The Democracy Project: A History, A Crisis, A Movement
Interesting. Thanks for the response!
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Steve Horn commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes David Graeber, The Democracy Project: A History, A Crisis, A Movement
Occupy itself has a unique culture that to many is a bit of a shock to many “mainstream” (for lack of a better term…maybe “dominant culture” is a better way of putting it) US citizens in the broadly defined Left. As a trained anthropologist, what do you make of bridging the gap or is it an insurmountable one? And as an aside, why is smoking cigs such a big part of Occupy’s culture? Seems odd, given huge labor-abusive, multinational tobacco corporations produce these carcinogens on a stick.
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Steve Horn commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes David Graeber, The Democracy Project: A History, A Crisis, A Movement
Your book has the overall assumption of a mass movement being built and in its early stages. Morris Berman, the cultural historian and author of the book “Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline,” says that the books are cooked and there’ll never been an American revolution. The logic of “free enterprise” is embedded too deeply within the ethos of the US citizenry. What do you make of his argument, that an imperial decline is basically almost inevitable and how do you reconcile that with your work covering, following, and writing about Occupy?
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Steve Horn wrote a new diary post: Oops, Inc.: Firm with History of Cover-Ups Hired to Clean Up Arkansas Tar Sands Spill
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog Arkansas’ Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has contracted out the “independent analysis of the cleanup” of the ExxonMobil Pegasus tar sands pipeline spill to Witt O’Brien’s, a firm with a history of oil spill cover-ups, a DeSmogBlog investigation reveals. At his April 10 press conference about the Mayflower spill response, AG McDaniel confirmed that Exxon had turned over 12,500 pages of documents to his office [...] -
Steve Horn wrote a new diary post: ExxonMobil Arkansas Tar Sands Pipeline Gash 22 Feet Long, Attorney General McDaniel Confirms
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDanielannounced today that ExxonMobil’s Pegasus pipeline suffered a 22 foot long gash that led to the rupture that gushed up to 294,000 gallons of tar sands dilbit down the streets of Mayflower on March 29. McDaniel revealed the news of the 22-foot gash at a press conference this afternoon and stated that – to [...] -
Steve Horn wrote a new diary post: Ties That Bind: Ernest Moniz, Keystone XL Contractor, American Petroleum Institute and Fracked Gas Exports
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog Congress will review the Obama Administration’s nomination of Ernest Moniz for Secretary of the Department of Energy (DOE) in hearings that start today, April 9 . Moniz has come under fire for his outspoken support of nuclear power , hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) for shale gas and the overarching “all-of-the-above” energy policy advocated by both President Barack Obama and his Republican opponent in [...] -
Steve Horn wrote a new diary post: Exxon’s Skies: Why Is Exxon Controlling the No-Fly Zone Over Arkansas Tar Sands Spill?
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has had a “no fly zone” in place in Mayflower, Arkansas since April 1 at 2:12 PM and will be in place ” until further notice ,” according to the FAA website and it’s being overseen by ExxonMobil itself . In other words, any media or independent observers who want to witness the tar sands [...] -
Steve Horn wrote a new diary post: State Dept. Keystone XL Contractor Also OK’d Explosive, Faulty Peruvian Pipeline Project
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog
Environmental Resources Management (ERM), the State Department consulting firm that claims TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline proposal is safe and sound, previously provided a similarly rosy approval for the expansion of a Peruvian natural gas project that has since racked up a disastrous track record.On March 1, the U.S. State Department declared KXL’s proposed northern half [...] -
Steve Horn commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Melvin A. Goodman, National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism
I’d close by asking: you say the CIA has more benevolent roots, but what do you make of their role in the overthrow of Salvadore Allende in Chile, Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran, Sukarno in Indonesia, etc? Is it really a “reformable” institution or has it always been one that serves malevolent American power projection abroad alongside outfits like the World Bank/IMF, etc.?
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Steve Horn commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Melvin A. Goodman, National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism
Another must-see movie:
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