The Nightmarish Legacy Of Millions Of Oil Wells

in #informationwar4 years ago (edited)

Yes the MSM also happens to tell the truth and more than one would think, but that type of information so rarely makes the headline on TV, nor is it spun for years like the Russians interfering with the US elections nor the venezuelan conflict for example.

The article below is a 15 min read and it has to go viral!

The oil industry has poisoned just everything we can think of. We also have reported on several occasions that the mining industry is too extremely damaging for the ecosystem as a whole. Yes, let's repeat that: all deep mining and drilling are very toxic to life. The renewable energy sector pushes for solar and wind turbines but the latter require so much "rare earths" mining that the benefits become meaningless if factoring the environmental costs.

How is all this going to end?

It was a fairytale that industrialization turned into an absolute nightmare. Yes and let's stress it again, this is the mind virus Wetiko destroying our civilization and we all participate in it at a different level. Not that we have to completely stop what we are doing but we definitely need to organize for the paradigm shift and fast.

Back to the article below, how can regulators and engineers authorize the use of a toxic blend of hydrogen sulfide, a drilling byproduct, be injected into the ground for decades at oil sites -- and all over the world? We, as consumers, couldn't know what was really happening because the system teaches us to trust policymakers and work as much as we can to keep the capitalist economy roaring.

Though if we have the courage to look back, how does it all make us feel in the end, knowing that we have worked toward the day of reckoning and will most likely leave our kids and grandkids with the burden to regenerate the planet, a Herculean task considering that BigTech is restlessly working on our cyber prison despite the so many organizations defending our privacy laws?

Of course, now that the planet is going broke, and the end of the petrodollar is in sight, many oil firms are already on the brink dealing with oil prices at all time low. So what now? But regulators have known this for decades, reads the article. The problem is ever-growing because of fracking does as much damage. Abandoned wells jumped 12% since 2008. 

Fortunately, we're excellent at keeping track of what is happening worldwide and if you remember we wrote a blog about this sickening situation last December: Our Ecosystem Breakdown Was Predicted 50 Years Ago!

This alone is enough to spark a global outrage with a massive call for carpooling while starting a class action against all the CEOs (or their descendants) that have benefited from the oil industry since the mid-1900s and demand the tribunal to strip them from most of their assets. Such an action could be extended to all the people who have headed whatever department supposedly working for the protection of the environment and all other industry giants guilty of crimes against humanity and ecocide.

Yes, a legal action to end the rule of the 0.1%!

More than 3.2 million oil and gas wells abandoned around the world and astonishingly UN officials are only starting to comprehend the problem. What does that mean? That we are governed by idiot-savants accepting bribes and thinking that it is how business is done.

This mindset must be terminated and "People Of The Earth" have to understand that "profits" do not exist in Nature.

Money may only exist to measure outputs and inputs but once it is used for personal enrichment, bad things start happening. To replace money we can create an accounting system without reward and incentives so that we can keep track of our impact on Nature and our own working hours, to keep everything balanced.

Happiness does not rely on consumption but on life experiences and human exchanges.

Retrospectively and this is a very harsh reality-check, capitalism never really improved the quality of life, and it is about time to admit that once and for all. It has destroyed the fabric of society and the human soul.

JUNE 16 2020 | Special Report: Millions of abandoned oil wells are leaking methane, a climate menace (Reuters)

The incident, while extreme, reflects a growing global problem: More than a century of oil and gas drilling has left behind millions of abandoned wells, many of which are leaching pollutants into the air and water. And drilling companies are likely to abandon many more wells due to bankruptcies, as oil prices struggle to recover from historic lows after the coronavirus pandemic crushed global fuel demand, according to bankruptcy lawyers, industry analysts and state regulators.

The U.S. figures are sobering: More than 3.2 million abandoned oil and gas wells together emitted 281 kilotons of methane in 2018, according to the data, which was included in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s most recent report on April 14 to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. That’s the climate-damage equivalent of consuming about 16 million barrels of crude oil, according to an EPA calculation, or about as much as the United States, the world’s biggest oil consumer, uses in a typical day.

“It’s not like they leak for one year, and then they stop,” said Kang, now a professor of civil engineering at McGill University in Montreal. “Some of these have been there maybe for 100 years. And they are going to be there for another 100 years.”
“When prices are this low, it becomes a very serious problem. It becomes a fight over who is going to ultimately have to pay” for cleaning up abandoned wells, said John Penn, a bankruptcy attorney with Perkins Coie LLP in Dallas. “It makes it really bad, and it’s going to get worse.”

The pollution threat goes beyond climate change. Leaks from abandoned wells have been found to contaminate groundwater and soil. In extreme cases, gas from abandoned wells has caused explosions.

More recently, in 2018, the U.S. EPA was alerted to the presence of nearly 50 abandoned oil and gas wells on Navajo Nation lands within the borders of Utah and New Mexico that were bubbling water at the surface. Tests showed the way from some of the wells contained potentially dangerous levels of arsenic, sulfate, benzene and chloride.

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The earth is not our mother, it is a large spinning ball of nickle/iron. It doesn't give a shit about us because it doesn't think.

You wouldn't be on the internet complaining if those oil wells never existed. Cheap energy from oil fuels our technology age. If you are so concerned about the pollution from old wells, perhaps you should DO something about it, rather than complaining about it.

I bet if we just get rid of money, those oil wells will clean themselves up! lol

Harmonic resonance is a thing. Perhaps stones and elements exist on a level of consciousness we are unable to fathom. I do have one question though. Who killed the electric car?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F

Yes, harmonic resonance is a thing. And it has zero to do with consciousness. I cannot fathom the level of stupidity of some people, this is true.

Who killed Tesla? No one, it is the largest car manufacturer in the world by far.

Why does Tesla require such government hand outs. If it was a viable company then it would thrive. There was an electric car before the petrol engine. Perhaps if the auto manufacturers weren't permitted to suppress technology and innovation then water power would be viable. There are so many ways to harness energy.

Opinions spewed forth without attempting to understand the other side are vile and stink. Stupidity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. Maybe the next time people like you will get lucky and a crumb will fall from the corporations table. It still means doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result.

If you even thought about who killed the electric car you might find that there was an EV law in CA. All of the companies were forced to make them. They never sold a single car. When the companies got the law changed back in their favor they recalled all of the autos and crushed them. Many people standing outside the boneyard sith a giant check didnt stop the crushing.

If you studied propaganda you might learn from history that there is such a thing as a nickel iron battery that can last for 100 years and handle dedp cycles and rapid charging on some level. I hope you learn from these words so I dont read about some we both love burning in a Tesla Fire/Explosion.

Finally, you understand so much about consciousness you must be devine. Admitting ignorance is not weakness. Arrogance that life can only exist in one form is stupidity in my eyes. I hope you wake up to the crony capitalists and take your toys to your own sandbox with the silver liberation army.

The help that Tesla has received from government is badly exaggerated.
https://evannex.com/blogs/news/the-true-amount-of-tesla-s-federal-subsidies-zero
States give the company tax breaks to build its factories there. This is true of any large corp. The corp gets tax breaks, and the state gets jobs and tax revenue.
Yes, the earliest cars were electric. Some were steam powered. But the internal combustion engine beat them out for power and range and reliability.

Water powered cars? Oh lord, Please take some chemistry classes!

I don't live my life waiting for crumbs. You can take control of your own life, and capitalism is the engine that can make that happen. I did it by learning how capitalism works and then putting it to work for me. It is an enormously great feeling to be in charge of your own life. I highly recommend it. If you are a young person it is not hard. Save money. Live on half of what you earn. Invest your savings on whatever grabs your fancy or interests you. If it doesn't work, try something else. Sooner or later you will hit on something that will scale and make you financially independent.

Good luck to you and your endeavors!

There is a song that goes here. Another one bites the dust? No, dirty deeds done dirt cheap? Nah. Im out of ideas.

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/tesla-veers-oncoming-traffic-germany-causing-head-collision-killing-three

Edit: so mr chemist. What do you get when you electrolise water?

Oxygen and hydrogen.

Around 70% of energy is wasted converting water to gases, then burning gases for energy. You need to put in about 3 times the energy that you get out. This is why you can't run cars on water. It's impossible without another energy source.

Now, if you directly use the electrical energy to power an electric motor instead of breaking apart water and burning the gases, you get 3 times the efficiency.

he is an atheist and absolute capitalist... so you know

Congrats for speaking the truth, in a world in which the truth contradicts the mentality of the majority!
You're right: we can head toward a better world:

  • when we can see that destination in our mind,
  • when we're free of the money mentality.

Keep up the good work!

thanks for dropping by I just saw your comment :)

It seems to me that we're not too effective in reaching people, otherwise,
-Why do we have to respect measures that are based on zero proof?

What do you think about that?