#gas drill

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Army nurses, at their post at Fort Jay, Governors Island, wear gas masks as they have a civil defense drill, November 27, 1941.

Photo: Associated Press

[majimasleftasscheek]

we here at Majima Construction

[room-of-lies]

someone get him a washcloth!!! cooties!!!

[skrunksthatwunk]

sickie sickie

ref under the cut

[frenchgremlim1808]

yttd fandom what are your thoughts about the fact that midori was litterally like drilled to death, like he was pounded so deep that in the state he was he probably can't walk ever again, he got HAMMERED BY A LONG GIANT SHARP OBJECT RIGHT IN THE BUTT. Like his ussy must have been wrecked, wait if forget his entire bodyussy was ! Like he got destroyed by that drill, like he got-

[grelleswife]

Even with the possibility of travels abroad in Mitsuki’s future, the pull of their unspoken attraction is as undeniable as gravity.

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

House Democrats launch probe of Trump’s dinner with oil executives | The Washington Post

House Democrats are launching an investigation into Donald Trump’s meeting with oil executives last month at his Mar-a-Lago Club, where the former president asked the executives to steer $1 billion to his 2024 campaign and promised to reverse dozens of President Biden’s environmental policies.

The probe comes after The Washington Post on Thursday first reported the fundraising dinner, where Trump said that giving $1 billion would be a “deal” because of the taxation and regulation the oil companies would avoid thanks to him, according to people with knowledge of the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private conversation.

In letters sent Monday evening, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee asked nine oil executives to provide detailed information on their companies’ participation in the meeting. The Democrats voiced concern that Trump’s request at the dinner may have been a quid pro quo and may have violated campaign finance laws, although experts say his conduct probably did not cross the threshold of being illegal.

Lawmakers sent the letters to the CEOs of Cheniere Energy, Chesapeake Energy, Chevron, Continental Resources, EQT Corporation, ExxonMobil, Occidental Petroleum and Venture Global. They also fired off a missive to the head of the American Petroleum Institute, the oil industry’s top lobbying arm in Washington.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, asked the executives to provide the names and titles of any company representatives who attended the Mar-a-Lago dinner, copies of any materials shared with the attendees, a description of any policy proposals discussed at the event, and a list of any contributions to the Trump campaign made during or after the event.

Raskin also asked the executives to provide a copy of any draft executive orders or policy paperwork that their companies have prepared for Trump or his campaign. Politico reported that oil industry lawyers and lobbyists have drawn up executive orders for Trump to sign in a possible second term, including directives aimed at boosting natural gas exports and offshore oil drilling.

Asked about the letter, Andrea Woods, a spokeswoman for the American Petroleum Institute, said in an email that the group “meets with policymakers and candidates from across the political spectrum on topics important to our industry that range from strengthening energy security to addressing persistent U.S. inflation.”

A Venture Global spokeswoman said of the meeting with Trump: “Venture Global regularly engages with government officials — both past and present — on a bipartisan basis and this meeting was no different. We would welcome a similar conversation with President Biden at any time.”

A spokesman for Cheniere Energy declined to comment on the letter. Spokespeople for the other oil companies did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Democrats on the Oversight Committee lack certain investigative powers because Republicans control the House. If the oil companies decline to turn over the information, Democrats will not be able to subpoena the firms, stymying their investigation.

Yet Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), a vocal climate advocate who chairs the Senate Budget Committee, which wields subpoena power, has voiced interest in launching his own probe.

Trump’s comments at the dinner are “practically an invitation to ask questions about Big Oil’s political corruption and manipulation,” Whitehouse said in an emailed statement.

“Fossil fuel malfeasance will cost Americans trillions in climate damages, and the Budget Committee is looking at how to ensure the industry cannot simply buy off politicians in order to saddle taxpayers with the bill,” he added.

At the Mar-a-Lago meeting, Trump promised to immediately end the Biden administration’s freeze on permits for new liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports in a second term, according to people who attended. He also pledged to start auctioning off more leases for oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and to reverse restrictions on drilling in the Alaskan Arctic.

Experts said Trump’s remarks at the dinner probably didn’t violate campaign finance laws as currently interpreted by the Federal Election Commission and the Supreme Court. They said a violation would need to involve a clear quid pro quo in which Trump promised to take a specific policy action in exchange for a specific campaign contribution.

“This alone is probably not enough to indicate the existence of a quid pro quo,” said Dan Weiner, director of elections and government at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University’s law school.

Trump “was doing what candidates often do, which is saying, ‘Please give me money, and I will do the things that I know you want,’” Weiner added. “The brazenness is still quite astonishing, and it certainly flies in the face of the spirit of the law, if not the letter.”

Former Obama White House ethics adviser Norm Eisen, a Trump critic and prominent supporter of the four criminal cases against him, agreed.

“I’m not saying it’s a violation of the law,” said Eisen, who served as special counsel to the House’s first impeachment of Trump. “But it raises serious questions, and it’s a reminder of why we have those laws on the books.”

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from the Anchorage Daily News:

A federal judge on Tuesday overturned a 2022 lease sale held in Cook Inlet’s federal waters southwest of Anchorage.

The decision by U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason sides with conservation groups who had argued that the environmental review leading to the sale was inadequate. The groups argued that the government did not fully analyze the impacts of potential oil and gas activity from the lease sale to Cook Inlet’s endangered beluga whales, among other shortcomings.

Gleason also suspended the single lease acquired by an oil company in the sale until the deficiencies are fixed, according to the 49-page decision released Tuesday.

The Interior Department held the lease sale in December 2022, offering nearly 1 million acres of federal waters in Cook Inlet to companies for potential oil and gas drilling.

Hilcorp acquired the lone tract in the auction for $64,000, out of 193 tracts offered. Though natural gas from Cook Inlet is the primary source of heat and electricity in Southcentral Alaska, lease sales in state and federal waters over many years have generally sparked little to no interest.

The lease sale was mandated by the Inflation Reduction Act signed by President Joe Biden in 2022, after the Biden administration had initially canceled the auction, citing a lack of industry interest. U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a former Democrat who registered as an independent this spring, had insisted that the provision be included in the act.

The Center for Biological Diversity and Natural Resources Defense Council filed the lawsuit in 2022 with Earthjustice, on behalf of Cook Inletkeeper, Kachemak Bay Conservation Society, and Alaska Community Action on Toxics. The state of Alaska intervened in the case on the side of the federal government.

[tomorrowusa]

The Biden administration is pausing new projects, for environmental reasons, to increase the export of liquefied natural gas (LNG) overseas.

Natural gas by itself is the least bad fossil fuel. But gas cannot be shipped – so it needs to be liquefied. This process causes it to become more damaging to the climate.

There's also the matter of methane leaks associated with natural gas.

Donald Trump has already stated that on Day One of his dictatorship that he will "drill drill drill". Trump is an existential threat to the planet.

[honorthysalad]

HIS PURSE IS BACK

[workersolidarity]

⛽⛴️ 🏭 🚨 MORE THAN 70'000KM OF NEW GAS PIPELINE UNDER CONSTRUCTION GLOBALLY

In excess of 70'000km (43'495mi) of new gas pipeline is being constructed globally at a cost of approximately $194 billion, according to data published by Global Energy Monitor (GEM), a San Francisco-based company in the United States.

The data published points out that 83% of new gas pipeline being built in Asia at a cost of $117.2 billion, with India and China leading the way in new pipeline construction.

New pipeline construction increased by 18% in 2023, with 57'000km being built in Asia, 5'600km under construction in Europe, 4'700km in the Americas, and another 1'800km in Africa.

The top ten builders of new pipelines include China, India, Iran, Russia, Pakistan, the United States, Nigeria, Italy, Argentina and Canada.

In Asia, China is in the process of constructing 30'300km of new gas pipeline in 150 total projects. Russia, meanwhile, is building another 2'900km of pipeline for approximately $8.2 billion.

In Iran, 5'000km of new gas pipeline is under construction for a total cost of roughly $18 billion, while Pakistan is currently building 1'800km of pipeline for an estimated cost of $3.7 billion.

Across the globe, the total length of proposed gas pipelines and pipelines currently in the project phase totals approximately 159'000km.

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[lenbryant]

Holy Boiling Greenhouse! But please, Republicans, continue your bleating calls to “Drill, Baby, Drill.” It’s doing wonders for our planet.

[skrunksthatwunk]

frostbitten

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anyway haha. who's feeling normal about this scene. me probably

[s1renityblogs]

To be a child of the water, to allow thy holy mother to take over my fears, the waves of my soul thrashing to escape back into the calm of her arms. To have a heavenly divine and sultry aura given to me from the ocean makes my energy that much more precious .

[plethoraworldatlas]

A large majority of the global population, including people who live in oil, gas, and coal producing countries, supports a fast transition to clean energy and a phaseout of fossil fuels, a poll released Thursday showed.

Across 77 countries, 72% of those surveyed supported a quick fossil fuel phaseout, while an even higher percentage, 80%, supported stronger climate action in general, according to the poll, called Peoples' Climate Vote and conducted for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) with the University of Oxford and GeoPoll.

"There can be no doubt that citizens across the world are saying to their leaders, you have to act and, above all, have to act faster," UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner toldThe Guardian. "This is an issue that almost everyone, everywhere, can agree on."