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.
