[Vision2020] FW: Countdown to 25,000

Tue Aug 8 16:34:14 PDT 2006

Wayne,
Not only has BP failed to maintain their lines; the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC), EPA, and the state have not performed
inspections or even requested a paperwork trail showing that inspections
have been performed.   The SMART PIG (large device sent through the line
with metallurgical equipment that tests for corrosion - not politician
or corporate types) has not been inserted into this part of the system
since 1992.   There is a long trail of unemployed regulators, both state
and federal, who had asked the wrong questions or demanded tests and
suddenly lost their jobs. 
American should demand congressional hearings into the failure of the
North Slope system.  National candidates should include in their
platforms demands for inspections of not only the Alaska system but
other lines throughout the country.  It was not too many years ago that
a gas pipeline explosion on the west side of Washington State killed
some children.  We hear of refinery fires, pipeline leaks and so forth
yet it seems that no one is paying attention.  Our infrastructure is
falling apart around us because our government has failed in its role as
a regulator; this is not the first failure and certainly will not be the
last.  

Chris    

-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com
[mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of Art Deco
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 2:58 PM
To: Vision 2020
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] FW: Countdown to 25,000

Chris,

When one sees what has happened, it is, as you point out, a result of
very 
shoddy preventative maintenance.  I wonder what congress will do.  The 
impact on businesses of this cock-up should motivate the Republicans to
look 
a little more closely at BIG OIL.

W.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Storhok" <cstorhok at co.fairbanks.ak.us>
To: "TIM RIGSBY" <tim.rigsby at hotmail.com>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] FW: Countdown to 25,000

> How about of instead of wasting your time trying to convince Wal-Mart
to
> change their corporate hiring practices (after all someone has to hire
> the high school drop outs of the world) and spend your valuable time
> convincing big oil to reinvest some of their huge profits on
maintaining
> their production and transmission infrastructure?????
> You will shortly be raped at the pumps because BP has not inspected
its
> Alaska operations infrastructure since the mid 1990's despite claims
to
> the state and the EPA that they have.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com
> [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of TIM RIGSBY
> Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 9:02 AM
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] FW: Countdown to 25,000
>
>
>
> Once again, I must copyright these emails as Dale insists on taking
them
> out
> of context and posting them on his blahg without the prior consent of
> the
> author.  When will he ever learn?  What a dumb fuck.  Copyrighted
> 2006!!!
>
> " 'Politics is the art of controlling your environment.' That is one
of
> the
> key things I learned in these years, and I learned it the hard way.
> Anybody
> who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been
> Drafted
> and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid War on the other
side
> of
> the World -- or been beaten and gassed by Police for trespassing on
> public
> property -- or been hounded by the IRS for purely political reasons --
> or
> locked up in the Cook County Jail with a broken nose and no phone
access
> and
> twelve perverts wanting to stomp your ass in the shower. That is when
it
>
> matters who is President or Governor or Police Chief. That is when you
> will
> wish you had voted." - Hunter S. Thompson
>
>
>
>
>>From: "Jeremy Bird, WakeUpWalMart.com" <info at wakeupwalmart.com>
>>Reply-To: info at wakeupwalmart.com
>>To: tim.rigsby at hotmail.com
>>Subject: Countdown to 25,000
>>Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:39 -0400
>>
>>Dear Tim,
>>
>>Are you ready to fight for health care for all?
>>
>>Are you ready to fight for good paying jobs?
>>
>>Are you ready to fight for a better America?
>>
>>Then get on the bus and join the 2006 Change Wal-Mart, Change America
>>national bus tour that is sweeping the nation.  As part of the tour,
we
>
>>have set a goal of signing up 25,000 supporters during the month of
> August.
>>
>>http://wakeupwalmart.com/friends
>>
>>You are part of one of the most exciting, fastest growing social
> movements
>>in America today.  And, on the tour, Democrats all across America,
like
>
>>Senator John Edwards, are uniting in calling on Wal-Mart, a company
> with
>>over $11 billion in profits, to do the right thing and provide
> affordable
>>health care, protect American jobs and pay a living wage.
>>
>>We are tired of big, powerful corporations like Wal-Mart taking our
> country
>>in the wrong direction.  In the last year, Wal-Mart has lobbied to
ship
>
>>American jobs overseas, opposed expanding health care for working
> families
>>and fought against a living wage.  Wal-Mart's agenda is so harmful to
> our
>>nation's future that it threatens to weaken America's position as the
>>world's leader.
>>
>>Our fight is a fight for a better America.  It is a fight to put
> America
>>and the American people first.  Will you help us build a grassroots
> army to
>>fight for change?
>>
>>Great!  http://wakeupwalmart.com/friends to sign up to the campaign
> today
>>and help us meet our goal of signing up 25,000 new supporters on our
>>national bus tour:
>>
>>http://wakeupwalmart.com/friends
>>
>>As we travel across the country, we are reminded of how optimistic and
>>hopeful the American people are.  Despite Wal-Mart's efforts to lower
>>wages, lower benefits and destroy U.S. manufacturing jobs, the
American
>
>>people, as do we, believe by joining together we have the power to
> change
>>even the largest of corporations.
>>
>>Please help us continue to build our movement because together we are
> going
>>to change Wal-Mart and change America for the better.
>>
>>Thank you for all that you do,
>>
>>Jeremy Bird
>>http://wakeupwalmart.com
>>
>>P.S.  We are posting pictures and giving tour bus updates every day at
>>www.WakeUpWalMart.com so please check it out and join us on the tour!
>>
>>
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