THIS SITE HISTORICAL:
In 2008 through 2010, an "Independent mom & pop" oil company violated the "Alaskan Public Trust" doctrine, allowing malfeasance and environmental atrocities upon the "Last Frontier". This "blog" is dedicated to follow the outcome of the illegal activities that have now become front and center attention before the regulators in charge of making sure the "Public Trust" is upheld, as a centralized forum to make sure Alaskans and others are kept abreast of penalties and fines upon those that feel Alaska is the "Last Frontier Dumping Grounds".

The above image depicts a crude oil well flow-back test, wherein for days hydrocarbon saturated "wet" natural gas was allowed to vent to the atmosphere out a safety relief valve, with temperatures and ambient conditions such that the "wet" vapors most likely condensed and fell upon the pristine waters of Harrison Bay of the Colville River delta, a place so far removed from man-made pollution. This image is also the cover photo of the report called "Alaska's Deadliest Sin", a culmination of malfeasance and environmental corruption evidence upon this Independent, collected by an ex-employee who has made it a personal "mission" to make sure this kind of irresponsible behavior is stopped and never again repeated on this "Frontier". To date, the company – Pioneer Natural Resources - has attempted to deny all allegations, but the evidence allowing denial is too strong. With that, the company has started to admit true so serious these violations. They have admitted their actions are indeed a violation of "Public Trust". With a 3rd party ongoing investigation following the submittal of the "Sin", the end result should be stiff fines and penalties upon the perpetrators, that which sends a message to those that want to "Go North" for oil exploration and exploitation.

"Drill Baby Drill" is upon us, thanks to Sarah Palin and others, and we must stand up against this all out blitzkrieg assault upon the ecosystem, to protect the environment from continued malfeasance and environmental atrocities, as it is not worth another Love Canal!
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Worse then British Petroleum

In 1998, British Petroleum was slapped a felony and fined $500,000 along with a requirement to establish an “Environmental Management Program” at an estimated cost of $15-million, all because one of its drilling contractors decided it was all right to violate the Clean Water Act, by injecting hazardous waste - like used glycol - down an injection well not permitted by the state of Alaska to receive such crap. Doyon, the drilling contractor who sent BP in trouble, was indicted on 15 counts, with fines totaling $3-million, plus the person with his finger on the trigger found out what life in a jail cell was all about. And the U.S. Department of Justice, handling this case for the EPA, literally “threw the book” at BP and Doyon, as a means to demonstrate this penalty as a deterrent, so future oil developers on Alaska’s North Slope would realize they “shall” abide by the rules and regulations, or else. Well Pioneer Natural Resources, the 1st Independent to brave the “slope” when the “Drill Baby Drill Open for Business” sign became Alaska’s motto, this small Texas based company has found itself in trouble with the regulators, for the same dam thing. ECXEPT, the volumes miss-injected in comparison makes Pioneer the worst of the worse in the entire life time of the Prudhoe Bay oil field – some 30 years! If what BP went in trouble for was like a rain storm on the scale of environmental atrocities, Pioneer gets to use its name on the next hurricane! And finally, Pioneer has admitted to injecting 49,000-gallons of used glycol down a well, to get rid of it, without a permit. This admittance after they informed the regulators having jurisdiction that it didn’t happen, as there was “no incentive” to do such a cowardly deed! So this should be the granddaddy fine of all times, way beyond what BP and Doyon combined have paid out for violating the “Acts”, most likely enough cash that could send this “mom & pop” company packing and heading back home, maybe to jail! “Don’t come back now, ya hear!”