Lee Co NC Government Fracking Video

Okay everyone here is the video , get ready for a whole lot of Bull Crap . Including the title  ...Workshop ???
 These people were specially picked , I think from the gas and oil folks ! Regardless it was a whole bunch of well rehearsed bull in my opinion. 
Let me know what you think ? 
Even better let them know...I am going to post this link to their Lee County Government page on Facebook.
 Let's see if they delete it too?
This next statement was found with the video below. NOT my words.

"The Triangle J Council of Governments hosted a workshop for local elected officials, managers, and local commission members entitled: Hydraulic Fracturing: Practical Considerations and First-Hand Experience. The workshop was held at the Lee County Farm Bureau Auditorium in Sanford, NC, at 1:30 PM on March 29, 2012.

This video covers the 2h:52m workshop, including the Q&A session.

Speakers include: Kirby Bowers, Executive Director, Triangle J Council of Governments; Ryke Longest, Duke University School of Law; Jim Hassinger, Executive Director, Southwest Pennsylvania Regional Commission; Rod Ruddock, Chairman, Indiana County Board of Commissioners, Byron Stauffer, Economic Development Director, Indiana County; and Richard Whisnant, UNC School of Government

The workshop gave an excellent overview of the fracking process, the issues and concerns related to the industy, the status of NC laws and regulations related to fracking, and the truth behind many of the myths, rumors, and misinformation that abound."

March 29, 2012 Triangle J Hydraulic Fracturing Workshop from William P. Cochrane, Jr. on Vimeo.

 Peace and good earth to you.
You can find more Fracking videos at 
http://vimeo.com/tag:fracking/sort:newest 

Antifracking Songs on video

Music reaches people when nothing else can . These people have stood up to the big Gas and Oil companies with their own songs .Please enjoy then share with others too.

We must unite in this fight! 

We have to Educate ,before too late !

Song about the dangers of hydro-fracking, written by Bev Grant and Daniel A. Weiss, performed by WOOL&GRANT (Ina May Wool & Bev Grant). 

Columbus-area resident singer Jenny Morgan offers here own musical take on fracking, with a song called "You Can't Drink Money," during a protest at the Ohio Statehouse.

Fracking Devil artist unknown

Well have you been inspired yet? Ready to fight the fight? If you are on Facebook come to our page and get information or just search for a NO-fracking group near you more are popping up everyday . Just clicking share of the blog will help . 
Sharing is caring. 
Numbers count , get involved.
https://www.facebook.com/LeeCoNcSayNoToFracking 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Say-no-to-fracking-in-NC 


 

Peace

Will North Carolina Frack up a GOOD law ?

Hello everyone , I am going to be posting a little different for a while . 

Instead  of writing and posting about flowers,trees , birds

click this and you can see Cow hair weaved in the nest from nearby pasture.

 Nature and all the things that keep me at peace in my life...

instead I will be writing about something that totally disgust me .  

As one of my heroes says , I can't do nothing!

I am Out raged and heart-broken that our dear state of North Carolina is considering changing a very important law. 
A law they are acting like it out of date and needs reconsidering?? A law that was set up to Protect our great state and All the living things in it now and for the future generations!

It is the Law against Hydro-fracking!

Can you believe it , they actually have a law in effect that protects our environment and they want to throw it away???
I started looking for the law?
I found this article ...   http://portal.ncdenr.org/web/guest/current-regulation

I highlighted the regulations in Green since that is why they were made to 'Keep NC Green'.

our DOT sign

Permitting and construction of oil and gas wells are regulated under Article 27 of GS 113 and rules in 15A NCAC 5D (Article 27 of G.S. 113 was amended this year by Session Law 2011-276 ). The minimum well construction standards in 15A NCAC 2C .0100 are also applicable.

In North Carolina, several regulations currently prevent hydrofracking or other practices commonly conducted in exploration and production of shale gas in some other states. These practices/regulations include:

Practice: Horizontal drilling to allow a greater extent of the gas-producing shale to be reached from a single well. Without horizontal drilling, many more wells would be necessary to extract gas from the same volume of shale.

North Carolina Law: 15A NCAC 5D .0107(e) requires that oil and gas wells be drilled within 3 degrees of vertical.

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Practice: Injection wells are used for disposal of produced water and other fluids associated with oil & gas exploration and production.

North Carolina Law: G.S. 143-214.2(b) prohibits the use of wells for disposal of wastes.

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Practice: Injection wells are used in oil and gas production to inject chemicals, water or wastewater in order to enhance the movement of oil or gas towards a production well.

North Carolina Law: 15A NCAC 2C .0209(b) prohibits injection wells used to dispose of fluids produced in the extraction of oil & gas or wells used for enhanced recovery of oil & gas.

In addition, direct discharges of wastewater from oil and gas exploration/production are prohibited under federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, or NPDES, permit program regulations. Land-based disposal of wastewaters, produced waters and drilling wastes may be permissible under DENR’s land application and solid waste regulatory programs, but at this time no such activities have been permitted or are known to have occurred.

As one piece of the state’s shale gas study, DENR has requested a nonprofit organization called State Review of Oil & Natural Gas Environmental Regulations (STRONGER) to perform a review of North Carolina’s oil and gas regulatory programs. 

The STRONGER review process brings together representatives from the state, the oil and gas industry, and public interest stakeholders to evaluate the state’s regulatory programs against STRONGER’s set of national guidelines. 

 STRONGER’s review panel will meet in late October to gather information about the state’s processes, and will issue a report in late 2011 or early 2012.

http://www.strongerinc.org/documents/North%20Carolina%20Initial%20Review%202-2012.pdf

Now to get organized to fight this? 
What can WE do against big Politicians and Corps with Greed on their minds? 
Well the one thing I know is we Can't count on them to Speak for Us.
 So we have to... I found this video and I hope We can have something here in Lee County NC soon to help educate our community of what could happen if we let them legalize fracking?
Till then I have started a page on Facebook for Lee County and I am reaching out to all the "fracktivist " I can find .
https://www.facebook.com/LeeCoNcSayNoToFracking

This is just 1 of 1000's of video that are out there and more coming in every day. These are Real they are not commercials as we are seeing about how Fracking is good for the future.
 

from the video at youtube

Natural Gas Exxposed tells the stories of Americans whose lives have been devastated by gas drilling. All across the country, gas companies are poisoning water, tearing apart communities and destroying the American dream for thousands of families who can't protect their children from what comes out of the tap. 

Go to

 www.waterdefense.org 

to learn how you can involve your local community in the fight against natural gas drilling.

Now here is a real kicker , I already live at  a Propane pipeline !

I have been posting pictures of the lovely wildflowers that grows there. I get a calender once a year from them reminding how they do everything possible to keep Us safe ...

But if we happen to hear anything weird ,please report it ?
they tell you an evacuation route too! hmmm maybe I need to learn more about them too?  

this is what is looks like now full of redbud trees !

 

this is one of many signs on the pipeline I tend to chop from my photos !

Okay so I am going to end this now and hope to get feed back on this. Be it pro or con .I am ready to stand up for NC , are You?
to learn more and give your input go here.

http://portal.ncdenr.org/web/guest/public-input 

North Carolina Blueberries

 North Carolina Blueberries .
We have recently been interested in the idea of growing blueberries. 
Are there native blueberries we wondered? Who would we ask to figure it out? 
Well I live in Lee county now but there was a time I lived in Chatham. So when I think of who knows NC plants or where to get them?
 I think of Debbie Roos. 

Grower Resource List 

Compiled by Debbie Roos, Agricultural Extension Agent.

 http://chatham.ces.ncsu.edu/growingsmallfarms/plantlist.html
you can get some great information at Debbie's site. 





 danfinch.com

at this site you can find
TIPS FOR GROWING BLUEBERRIES
I read the tips here on buying and it said,
"Find out what grows good in my area" :>)
 
So I searched for NC blueberries and found this...
http://www.ncagr.gov/markets/commodit/horticul/blueberr/ 

I also found this site was very handy . I will probably be printing their information to have at hand when we get  ready to grow.  

Growing Blueberries in the Home Garden

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/hil-8207.html 
Here are some of the NC places they mention sell plants
Finch Blueberry Nursery
P. O. Box 669
Bailey, NC 27807
(252) 235-4664
(Rabbiteye, southern highbush, highbush)

N.C. Foundation Seed Production
P. O. Box 33245, Method Station
Raleigh, NC 27606
(919) 737-2821
(Recent NC releases)

Ed Darden
106 Yellow Cut Road
Rose Hill, NC 28458
(910) 289-2849
(Southern highbush, highbush rabbiteye)

 Coastal Plain and Piedmont - Rabbiteye: ‘Climax’, ‘Premier’, ‘Tifblue’, ‘Powderblue’, ‘Centurion’.
 Highbush: ‘Blue Ridge’ (southern highbush) and ‘O’Neal’ (southern highbush) have also been grown successfully on Piedmont soils. ‘Legacy’ (southern highbush) is worthy of trial in these regions, as well.

What Species - Both highbush (Vaccinium corymbosum) 
http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook/trees/vaco.html
and the rabbiteye (V. ashei) types of blueberries can be grown in the Coastal Plain and Piedmont. However, only highbush will consistently survive the minimum winter temperatures below 10o F that regularly occur in the Mountains. The rabbiteye is more drought and heat resistant and will tolerate a wider range of soil types than the highbush. For these reasons, rabbiteye is easier to establish and grow successfully in the Piedmont and on the drier soils of the Coastal Plain than highbush. More recently, a group of varieties referred to as southern highbush have been released. These varieties are intermediate between highbush and rabbiteye in soil and climate adaptation.
for even more details on NC blueberries try this PDF
http://www.ipmcenters.org/cropprofiles/docs/ncblueberries.pdf

Well now I am off to find out about asparagus ?  
right after I go grab some blueberries from the frig .
Peace and Happy Gardening

LET'S KEEP North Carolina CLEAN

I normally blog of happier things here , like flowers ,animals and the wonders of nature.

Now I am writing about what maybe changing the wonderful nature of our state. 
When I first moved to NC over 30 years ago ,one of the things that stuck out to that young kid's eye was the signs everywhere on the highways ...
LET'S KEEP North Carolina CLEAN
Now you can't even find one?not even on  google? 

I am  scared to think how far North Carolina will go for more jobs that Won't last??
 
Are they willing to risk our environment to do it ? There are lots of examples out there about the damage Fracking has done all over the US.
I live in Lee county ,one of the areas they want to Frack around the environment .    

click pic for bigger show

   

Please

North Carolina say No Fracking Way 
here is a facebook page trying to help educate
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Say-no-to-fracking-in-NC/208150309204038
They are talking about it everywhere for Good reason. 

Here are just a few things I found this morning.The first was from our local paper , which seems to be pushing the fracking most the time.

1) found at  Sanford Herald Fracking debate calls for Caution, Wisdom
To the Editor:
I am surprised, but not concerned, that some municipalities have taken the initiative to oppose/outlaw fracking in order to send a signal to the N.C. General Assembly, and to the shale gas industry, that they will be vigorously opposed to any quick, ill-considered, late-night legislation that gives the green light to fracking in North Carolina before it is thoroughly researched and exposed for what it is and what it is not; discussed and debated in open public hearings and possibly decided by a statewide referendum before action is taken and legislation is crafted.

So, while I can see how this action may be seen as premature by some, it is not obviously to others. It is symbolic at this stage, showing that citizens, through their elected leaders at the local level, are concerned and willing to fight to protect their land and water from the perception and possible reality of predation on the local environment by the shale gas industry, especially after what has happened in Pennsylvania and other states where oil and gas companies have, in some well documented areas (not all), extracted the gas and left some land owners wealthier but the countryside used up and in ruins at public expense.

I am on the side of caution — taking whatever time is necessary to learn from and greatly improve upon what other states have experienced and paid for, making every effort to understand this relatively new technology and whether it is something we want to open the door to in our beautiful state, which has always intelligently protected it natural resources.

While this could be a source of considerable new tax revenue to North Carolina, and royalties to land owners where shale gas is extracted, we must be prudent and wise and not rush into a new enterprise based on the disarming promise of new jobs and new revenues short term, decisions which could cost our citizens and environment dearly in the long run.

Richard Hayes /Lee County Commissioner

2)North Carolina Extracting natural gas from shale rock - commonly called "fracking" - is fraught with environmental risk, danger and uncertainty, speaker after speaker warned Monday at a daylong conference at Duke University

3) OHIO After a handful of earthquakes in Mahoning County, most recently on New Year’s Eve, Ohio’s Department of Natural Resources shut down five deep wells used by natural gas drillers to dispose of chemical-laden gunk recovered from natural gas fracking operations. The quakes, biggest of which measured 4 on the Richter scale, coincided with injections into the wells, pretty much ruling out coincidence.

 http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2012/01/10/should-we-freak-out-about-fracking-induced-earthquakes/

4)http://www.wral.com/news/local/wral_investigates/story/10369212/

Shale rock in the Deep River Basin runs through several counties. Lee County is considered the hot spot, but the line of shale also hits parts of Chatham, Durham, Granville, Moore and Wake counties.Dan Butler owns 2,700 acres in Lee County that are under lease for the prospect of gas production.

Pennsylvania farmers Carol French and Carolyn Knapp have spent the past few days warning North Carolina about water contamination, traffic and the frustration for neighbors not under lease.
“Our safety and well-being are in question,” French said.

Now I leave you with a song
May Peace and Blessings be upon You and NC

tribute to Trees

Hello Everyone and Happy 2012 . I saw this video and thought it was worth sharing. there is a weird commercial in the middle ,just click skip. Peace and Happy Gardening 

Plants that have silicon hairs

 Plants that have silicon hairs aka plants that Sting you.
 
  Stinging nettles (Urtica dioica) produce stinging cells shaped like hypodermic needles that break off when disturbed and inject highly irritating toxins into herbivore tissues. Some stinging cells contain prostaglandins, hormones that amplify pain receptors in vertebrate animals and increase the sensation of pain.

Grasses and sedges contain rows of silica cells in their epidermal layers which give strength and rigidity to the growing leaf blades and deter feeding by chewing insects. 
Seems there are many plants that have some mean defenses. 
Here are a few to be careful of touching .

Nettle family  , there are several kinds!
[URTICA] Nettles


 (Urtica Dioica)  Stinging Nettle. has silicon hairs (trichomes) this nettle has the worst sting but the other 2 listed sting also.

click pictures for larger images

 Small Nettle (Urtica Urens)

 Fen Nettle (Urtica Galeopsifolia)

 A note from experience :>{  Stinging nettle is instant Pain , Jewel weed often grows near and it's juices can relieve the pain. If you don't see it find MUD asap and cover the area .

Jewelweed also good for poison ivy too