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Steve Horn wrote a new diary post: Keystone XL Activists Labeled Possible Eco-Terrorists in Internal TransCanada, Fusion Center Documents
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog Are these women really terrorists? Documents recently obtained by Bold Nebraska show that TransCanada – owner of the hotly-contested Keystone XL (KXL) tar sands pipeline – has colluded with an FBI/DHS Fusion Center in Nebraska , labeling non-violent activists as possible candidates for “terrorism” charges and other serious criminal charges. Further, the language in some of the documents is so vague that it [...] -
Steve Horn wrote a new diary post: Frackademia: University of Tennessee Set to Lease Forest For Fracking, Enriching Governor’s Family
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog Gov. Bill Haslam 8,600 acres of the Cumberland Forest owned by University of Tennessee-Knoxville will be leased off to the oil and gas industry this August in a new form of ” frackademia” – and one of the top financial beneficiaries will be the family of Republican Gov. Bill Haslam, who sits on UT-Knoxville’s Board of Trustees . “Frackademia” is usually [...] -
Steve Horn wrote a new diary post: FrackNation Part Two: The Koch Astroturf Ties That Bind
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog Part one of the DeSmogBlog investigation of FrackNation - a film made in response to Gasland 2 – honed in on the past track records and funding streams of co-directors Phelim McAller and Ann McElhinney. We revealed that Donors Trust/Donors Capital - the “dark money ATM of the right” – partially funded their first two films, Mine Your Own Business and Not Evil, Just [...] -
Steve Horn wrote a new diary post: Dirty Details: Dents, Faulty Welds Found Along Keystone XL Southern Half in Texas
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog If an ecologically hazardous accident happens to TransCanada’s Keystone XL (KXL) tar sands pipeline, we can’t say we weren’t forewarned. That’s the latest from a press release and YouTube video recently disseminated by the good government group, Public Citizen . Public Citizen’s Texas office explained , “Dozens of anomalies, including dents and welds, reportedly have been identified along a 60-mile stretch of the southern segment of [...] -
Steve Horn wrote a new diary post: Astroturf Documentary FrackNation Is Tea-Party Backed Attack on Gasland 2
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog Big Oil has deployed the ” Tobacco Playbook ” once again, this time in response to the release of Gasland 2 . It comes in the form of a documentary film titled, FrackNation, whose co-directors’ funding in the past came from Donors Capital and Donors Trust , referred to by Mothers Jones ‘ Andy Kroll as “the dark money ATM of the right” and a major [...] -
Steve Horn wrote a new diary post: State Department Inspector General Investigating Keystone XL Contractor ERM’s Conflicts of Interest
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog The Checks and Balances Project has announced that the U.S. State Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) has launched a conflicts-of-interest investigation into dirty dealings pertaining to the contractor tasked to perform the environmental review for the northern half of TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline on behalf of State. Environmental Resources Management, Inc. (ERM Group) declared the northern portion of Keystone XL as environmentally safe and [...] -
Steve Horn wrote a new diary post: Fracking “Shock Doctrine” Unveiled as 2013 Illinois Legislative Session Nears End
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog The shale gas industry has performed the ” shock doctrine ” at the 11th hour of the 2013 Illinois State Legislature’s debate over hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) , the toxic horizontal drllling process through which oil and gas is obtained from shale rock basins nationwide. This year, both the Illinois House and Senate are set to adjourn for the year on [...] -
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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