What sickens people in oil spills......

http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130618/what-sickens-people-oil-spills-and-how-badly-anybodys-guess

We saw many of my symptoms once you get into the article.  Very informative. 

SINKHOLE AND MICHIGAN

http://youtu.be/dIh28bYbpbQ   


This could happen to us as well.  Poke too many holes you get what you get. 

Hurricane Sandy

http://www.weca.org/SET/report/node6.html

Interesting that they had a simulation with a "Hurricane Sandy" back in 1997.  What else aren't they telling us.

By the way I was told Pennsylvania banned Fracking?   Proud of you.  Now Michigan, now let's us get our act together.  

Stay safe in the Hurricane coming   on the east coast.  Get water, food, NOW because the stores will be out of it soon, if not already.  A thought,,,,,,,,you can use water from your hot water heater, especially if you have a water filter, which everyone should have .  A better one not some of those cheapy ones.  If that is all your can afford, like us, something is better than nothing. 
Stay safe.

Not just in your backyard people

http://tapestry.usgs.gov/features/09michigan.html


Once again, thousands of wells in Northern Michigan with the ANTRIM  FRACKING GAS SHALE AND THE NIAGARAN REEF FOR OIL AND THOSE HUNDREDS OF OIL.  Not to Mention the  HYDROFRACKING wells they have runing.  

YES, MICHIGAN IS VERY INVOLVED AND IT IS ABOUT TIME PEOPLE   RECOGNIZED NORTHERN MICHIGAN AND ALL OF MICHIGAN IN ALL THEIR TALKS.  WE ARE SUFFERING HERE ALSO FROM FRACKING.

Jaime
Northern Michigan

MESS IN THE NORTH SEA

http://news.yahoo.com/flare-still-burning-north-sea-gas-leak-111809772.html



Here we go again. Will they every learn. It IS H2S gas coming out and burning off
sulfur dioxoide.  What a flustercluck.  Man, my sister lives in UK, 3 hours west of
London, thus nearer to this mess than I prefer.
UK Watch out!

JAIME
Northern Michigan

What we have to put up with also........

http://oilandgasinnorthernmichigan.blogspot.com/2012/03/what-we-have-to-put-up-with-also.html

I had to go to the Emergency Room in my town of Cheboygan.  It is into bankruptcy and had a scare of a closure but I guess someone else is going to buy them.  They had already shut down OB/Peds, Intensive Care and many other things they offered. They plan (I hear) to keep the ER open but have a few beds for observation for 23 hours and then ship patient to Petoskey, larger town. I feel bad for all of those working there. We have family working there and we are so worried for them.  Well, this was my experience on March 17, my chronic myofascial pain, fibromyalgia other bone and muscle problems.  I DON'T go to ANY ER unless I am at the end of my rope.  My chiropractor friend and even my doctor insisted I go to the hospital.  My friend said I was too exhausted from fighting severe pain for almost 2 weeks.  She assured me I would be treated right, my doctor's nurse assured me he understood my hesitation but thought my body needed a break.  I waited until the next day.
  THAT BE TOLD HERE IS WHAT HAPPENED.  I was told it was in my head, couldn't believe an industry would do what it had done to my small town of Lewiston.  The doctor sat down, crossed his legs and looked like he was staying a while.  He then tried to psychoanalyze me.  Wrong thing to do, I could  far psychoanalyze him through my life experiences. 
     Thank God Joe was right there with me and had had enough of the "interrogation" I was in no shape to take.  Joe's ex wife had been exposed to floor wax stripper when she worked at the Hospital years ago and that doctor remembered it.  Once he realized, I think, that he could no longer bully me-in the nice, professional way they try to-my care was finally addressed.
    I know what I need when I get to that point I should not have had to get to.  Severe pain is stressful on the body and unnecessary these days but it still happens.
    They are good people at that hospital.  I wish the doctor's would educate themselves and make the job easier for the nurses, PA's or whoever works with them.  Your ignorance only shows by not listening to your patient.  Listen to me, I DON'T WANT TO BE HERE BUT AS LONG AS I MADE THE DECISION AFTER HOURS OR DAYS OF SUFFERING PLEASE HELP ME.  I'm sure it was written clearly on my face.  I can't hide my "bad days" very well. My friends and family know that.
    IN THE END, NOT ALL OF PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC, DEBILITATING, OUT OF CONTROL PAIN EXACERBATION IS  A DRUG ADDICT.  Look at their eyes, eyes
will give all away usually.
    We don't want to lose our hospital so let's show them how good you are and save yourselves and the community.  You have given excellent care most of the time, don't let the ER doctor make all of you look bad, help your patient communicate with the doctor. The nurse has to be their patients advocate. Someone has to........
    After some criticism, the ER  personnel have kind hearts, just help us when we can't help ourselves at the time.

H2S and what it does to the pipeline

http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/oilandgas/general_safety/h2s_monitoring.html
if you look partway down the page you will see a pipeline that has had H2S running through it.  It doesn't take that long as it is so caustic.  Trying to find Michigan health info. but came across this. 
jaime
northern michigan
Metal Fatigue

Fig. 4. H2S metal fatigue

Metal fatigue, including hydrogen embrittlement or sulfide stress cracking, can result in a release of hydrogen sulfide gas.

Potential Hazard:

• Being exposed to Hydrogen Sulfide.
  
  
• Getting Injured due to equipment failure.
  

Possible Solutions:

• Select materials in accordance with the MR0175/ISO15156 criteria for H₂S service.
   
  • MR 0175C, Metals for Sulfide Stress Cracking and Stress Corrosion Cracking Resistance in Sour Oilfield Environments. National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE), (2003, December) [Also ISO 15156, Petroleum and natural gas industries—Materials for use in H₂S containing environments in oil and gas production, International Standards Organization (ISO)].
   
  • About MR 0175. Reviewed and approved 15 proposals for change to the standard.
    
    
• Treat drilling fluids to chemically reduce corrosion failures.

I said it all along it was from the GAS INDUSTRY.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-02-04/tourette-teen-mystery/52961882/1I said it all along it was from the Gas Industry but no one seemed to want to hear that.  Glad they finally came around to it. 
jaime

Another Story-9 PEOPLE DIED

http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1997_3014406

I was told by a very reputable person to read this. The pictures aren't there but here is the
article.  Thanks Dot.

Where the water went????

Thanks Amy, I found this on Wikipedia.  Makes sense on where the water and whatever chemicals is going when it doesn't come back up. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_circulation

Could this be an answer??
jaime

Life After Oil and Gas Exploration

LIFE AFTER OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION

Several people have asked me to write the revised edition of our story and here it is, shortened for you.

My name is Jaime Lorraine Long Chimner. I am a casualty of the Oil and Gas Industry. I was 45 years old (I'm now 54) when the facility I lived by let off an alleged illegal release of H2S, hydrogen sulfide or rotten egg smell, without notifying local residents or EMS. My life would never be the same.

Because of the gas and oil industry I now have fibromyalgia, a neurological muscular disease, trouble walking and some days can't. A lot of pain, more than anyone can imagine except those living this nightmare, osteoporosis, worsening of my asthma, muscles in my vocal cords can close off. I only go outside when I have to because it is easier that way. I check the air quality every day on the computer. We were told to get the heck out of Michigan, the air was not good and so much land and water had been contaminated. I can see all that now.

I can't remember the exact date any more (2004) but I can tell you that my life, as well as others, was turned upside down. We called it the twilight zone. What had occurred, we found later, that the floating lid on one of three 150,000 gallon storage tanks had broken and dropped to the level in the tank. Pushing all the H2S up and we lived straight downwind, H2S is heavier than air. H2S can kill or destroy a life in seconds. We didn't have the choice of seconds. We were alive and slowly being crippled.

We met a couple Dan and De who had been investigating this facility. They had come to our door because De had heard I was very ill. I'd never heard of H2S before but knew the rotten egg smell. My husband and De plunged into research. We were on the attack, legally.

I became weaker and weaker. I was so hoarse (as are others from Lewiston, MI, my town). My muscles go to jello and some days I can barely stand from the pain. Then and now.

After heart pains for a month ( a side affect of H2S exposure) my family doctor sent me to a cardiologist. He ordered a treadmill test. It was positive. The doctor proceeded to recommend a heart catherization. Having been a Emergency Medical Technician for 16 years I knew there were risks. In recovery I eventually couldn't talk and my head hurt so much. The nurse thought I was having a stroke. They never found out except I had “a Huge, Major Neurological event” as my chart says. The catheter and the chemicals inside me clashed and caused stroke like symptoms that I still have today.

After that event I could no longer work. My memory was affected severely, my balance was bad and just getting around was difficult. I was losing my hair, I couldn't urinate, I felt like in a fog some days. My doctor said I needed to leave Lewiston and the area and get north of these wells or they were going to do me great harm (like they hadn't already) or I could die. I have met or heard from many people who have said that when they left the Lewiston area they felt better. I have had emails recently saying families left Lewiston because it smelled. I get so many emails from people having heard of me. One man even said he thought we were crazy years ago but now he could see we weren't crazy, people just wouldn't listen to us then.

Lewiston was a cute little tourist town. It is an oil and gas town now. I can no longer visit and my boundary is 20 miles south from where I am now, no further.

During all this in Lewiston, I had 4 nasal surgeries, the first finding aspergillis. It is a mold that is not found up here in Northern Michigan often I was told. It shows up on the oil and gas industries list of things you can get from that industry. Interesting, my dad had to quit visiting us as he would get so sick and go into pneumonia and usually ended up in Cheboygan Hospital (he also got aspergillis.)

Finally my doctor said there was nothing more he could do. There was an “experimental drug” that I could qualify for. Having a suppressed immune system right after the exposure and high dose Prednisone, I was desperate to give anything a try. My life will never be the same. In desperation I didn't always make wise choices in my health care.

My ENT doctor wrote a letter stating that H2S and the chemicals where I lived were causing my problems. I have multiple chemical sensitive. This was sent along to the Environmental Protection Agency along with two other doctor letters. In fact during our many local Township meetings back in 2004-2006 I saw DEQ officials passing my medical records around themselves.

We have dealt with the Department of Environmental Quality people, who by the way are supposed to protect the public from these kind of things. We've dealt with the Department of Natural Resources who approve the drilling permits, the DEQ makes the final decision. As the DEQ and DNR get revenues from the mineral rights on State Land to run these two agencies who would turn down a permit? No one. The State puts up ten of thousands of mineral rights on the land they owned out for bid for the oil or gas companies to buy up and drill baby drill.

We have caught the industry in so many alleged deceptions. We have paperwork.

No one seems to care in this State and we could find no one to help us. Lawyers disappeared and we felt helpless. I wrote a newsletter back then. I tried once a week to keep informed my home town and all over the world. One DEQ official named Mark Stephens, in the Air Quality devision said after a heated phone debate that “he would rather work for rich people who fight people like me.” What a nice thing to come out of a DEQ's official mouth. We were fighting for our lives and this was what we had to put up with?

We contacted Rep. Bart Stupak who wrote the head of the DEQ who had the nerve to an alleged lie of not knowing any H2S was going in that facility. Rep. Stupak realized he was lying and not much happened after that. We contacted Senator Stabenow who got the EPA to come due air testing for 3 days. They did, but the DEQ was right there with them. The interesting part was during that air sampling it did show CONSTANT H2S, no matter how low, it was chronic, exposure to those people in Lewiston of hydrogen sulfide. Of course the companies didn't care. The claimed vapor recovery on the trucks delivering the product to the station, I allege they never had it. It all vents into the air, as they can vent natural gas Antrim wells up to five miles, last I knew, and if it is by a house, like my friend Patty, it didn't matter.

There was a study out about the affects of constant low level of H2S exposure in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. We fit the bill but not enough air monitors for us.

Our lives were threatened. We lost everything from friends to eternity or friends who didn't understand what we were doing or thought we would fix it. To those family members who turned their backs on us for fighting for our lives, shame on all of you.

We had four years to find a lawyer and get a lawsuit going. We tried in Michigan and all over the country and no one wanted to help. Yes they would say there was a problem but it was too big for them. Our case was before its time to be believed. How could an industry do this to people? There is no answer to that other than greed.

I putter around the old farmhouse we're redoing. It goes very slow as Joe has to see if I am going to react to something he's using. He tries hard to get non scented building items. I can't do any cleaning because of the fumes. When I can I use baking soda or vodka to clean. They are great cleaning supplies. I have to look at ALL the labels of items I might be using, including medication.

Doctors up here don't know how to deal with someone like me. I'm trying to educate them and the public about the affects this industry, whether deep fracking or shallow fracking or oil occur. It is a slow process. I had a doctor in the Cheboygan Hospital Emergency Department look at my medical record (which I carry with me to remember) and said no one could have 16 allergies to medications. Guess what....it's up to 19.) As my life goes on more diagnosis's are found with no money to get the bathroom enlarged for the special tub I need or the ramp to make leaving the house tolerable or any special needs I have. People ask how much the industry paid us off. I don't get offended anymore I just say nothing, I lost everything.

I have a special mask and 2 special air cleaners in my house. We have the special tub I need but no one to help expand our bathroom. It is in the living room with the bed with a hose running from the bathroom to fill it. We drive 45 miles one way for the continuous physical therapy I need. I need a ramp that we can't afford to build onto the deck. We moved the bed downstairs in our living room because I can no longer do steps or do them safely.
We can't afford the face masks I need just to go outside, including the big one seen in the picture. We can't afford someone to come clean my house. My husband tries so hard. The Oil and Gas industry must be laughing at us.

Injury was and is so hard to prove in a court of law because of overlapping symptoms. We couldn't afford the expert witnesses so our statute of limitations went by and we lost everything. My family (other than my children) turned their backs on me for reasons they will never understand. Friends tend to stay away, especially when we were fighting full time for 2 years.

If you come away with anything from this is if you see someone constantly sick ask them what they live around and 9 times out of 10 there is a well, compression station, or trucks that go by that may be causing their problem, a paper mill or air venting from the petroleum tanks by the river where we live.

I never thought my life would end up like this in a thousand years. I am alive and kicking one day at a time. A good day is a miracle and cherished. Through the horror I found my soul mate, my joe. Ironically his ex wife was exposed to floor stripper at a local hospital. She eventually died from it over 2 years ago. He looked after her for 14 years even though divorced. That says a lot for a man. He can get me to smile through my tears on those all too frequent “bad” weeks.

I would be glad to speak on the subject and/ or educate people about Hydrogen Sulfide. Watch for Propylene glycol on labels as it is an antifreeze. It can be found from ice cream to shampoos to creams. There are many others petroleum chemicals in our foods and househould items so read your labels and watch what is around you.

What we go through is so frustrating but if we can help one person and/or save one life than all this hell has been worth it. That's my story in a nutshell with lots in between.

Thank you

Jaime Long Chimner

Cheboygan, MI 49721

231-627-6374

You have to check this out and bookmark it

http://www.dhs.gov/files/programs/editorial_0542.shtm

Check out this website and then bookmark it, very interesting. Look at Texas.
Jaime
Northern Michigan

Where will the satellite land?

Wonder where that satellite you don't hear about. You can track it on this site.  Depends where it goes could impact the gas and oil industry. 
jaime

Darn gas wells and forever fighting the health problems

I am so mad I could spit!!! You go to the doctor not expecting to be made worse by poor education by cleaning crews. OH! I went into the bathroom, there was no yellow cone outside the bathroom saying it was being cleaned and walked in floor wet, yellow cone inside the bathroom and chemical smell ......Joe found me and got a wheelchair and I got names to complain to as well as my incident report. Oh, I will go to the top with this and I will educate them on chemically sensitive people! There goes the next few days Damn! Even had my paper mask on with the big mask in the car. Never had a problem here before. Burns Clinic in Petoskey, you will know me personally!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jaime Chimner
Cheboygan, MI

More on nuclear plant

http://digg.com/news/politics/us_orders_news_blackout_over_crippled_nebraska_nuclear_plant_report

Another item of proof, always need that proof.
jaime

Sunspots

Remember in 2003 the power grid went out in the East? These certain solar flares even though I don't want to know
you need to be aware.  Prepare with water and food and don't listen to mainstream news, Don't be sun bathing the next few days because
the sun is so bright right now that it is unsafe to be "sunbathing".
Just some info you might want to know.  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2000596/Solar-flare-Sunspot-cycle-threatens-disrupt-Earth-communications-power.html

Just for your info, could affect lots of wells also. 
jaime

Michigan now has ER booklet out for disasters, by the STATE

Michigan has now put out an emergency preparedness booklet from chemical and biological emergency to earthquakes and floods etc.  Wierd.  Tells you what you should have in your as we call a "bug out bag".  They way 3 days of food and water, people, we've been told a year's worth of anything you might need.  Strange.  http://www.michigan.gov/emd
jaime

• Hair conditioner
  
• Sunblock
  
• Nail polish
  
• Deodorant
  
• Mineral oil
  
• Lip gloss
  
• Gasoline
  
• Fertilizer
  
• Furniture polish
  
• Pesticides
  
• Plastics

• Paint thinners
  
• Solvents
  
• Motor oil
  
• Fuels (propane, butane, diesel)
  
• Petroleum jelly
  
• Art supplies (oil painting medium)
  
• Paste and liquid car waxes and polishes
  
• Kerosene
  
• Paraffin wax
  
• Tar
  
• Adhesives      SORRY IT TOOK ME SO LONG, BUT THE LINK WASN'T WORKING. HERE IS THE LIST.  

click on the link

http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/05/03/08/petroleum-distillate-in-your-lip-gloss-and-furniture-polish-shown-to-cause-tissue-disease.htm

To SEE THE PRODUCTS CLICK ON THE LINK. THANK YOU

Chemical Sensitive here could be why.....

http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/05/03/08/petroleum-distillate-in-your-lip-gloss-and-furniture-polish-shown-to-cause-tissue-disease.htm

Petroleum Distillate in Your Lip Gloss and Furniture Polish Shown to Cause Tissue Disease!
by SixWise.com

Perhaps you have never heard of petroleum distillates before, or given them much thought if you have, but it is almost certain you've used products that contain them - perhaps daily. These compounds, which are also called hydrocarbons or petrochemicals, are extracted by distillation during the refining of crude oil, and they're used as heating agents, propellants (gasoline) and solvents.
A study in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that being exposed to petroleum distillates increases the risk of developing undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD), a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease that involves a disorder of the body's connective tissues.
UCTD could include symptoms from, or evolve into any combination of, connective tissue diseases like lupus, scleroderma, polymyositis, vasculitis, rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren's syndrome or fibromyalgia, yet has not met the official diagnostic criteria to be diagnosed as such.
Where are Petroleum Distillates Found?
Petroleum distillates are in hundreds of consumer products including:

Hair conditioner Sunblock Nail polish Deodorant Mineral oil Lip gloss Gasoline Fertilizer Furniture polish Pesticides Plastics

Paint thinners Solvents Motor oil Fuels (propane, butane, diesel) Petroleum jelly Art supplies (oil painting medium) Paste and liquid car waxes and polishes Kerosene Paraffin wax Tar Adhesives

According to the EPA, "Products that contain petroleum distillates should be used carefully. Wear gloves to avoid skin contact and avoid breathing vapors of volatile compounds."

Hundreds of products, including lip gloss, nail polish and hair conditioner, contain petroleum distillates that the EPA says should be used with caution.

That's because, in addition to raising the risk of UCTD, petroleum distillates can cause chemical pneumonia and can interfere with the lungs' functions-even resulting in death-if inhaled or swallowed. They can also irritate the skin and cause sensitivity to light.
Can Petroleum Distillates be Avoided?
As it stands, the average household contains, in the form of chemical products, about 10 gallons of potentially hazardous petrochemicals. Many, many household cleaners are based on petrochemicals, and while manufacturers are required to include warning labels on products that contain them, a New York Poison Control Center study found that 85 percent of product warning labels are inadequate.
So, when you clean, always seek out natural cleaners and use PerfectClean's ultramicrofiber cloths, which require the use of no cleaners at all yet clean down to a microscopic level-something ordinary cloth wipes can't do.
Further, petroleum distillates pose the greatest risk when they're breathed in. According to the EPA, even small amounts can cause harm. That's why ensuring that the air you breathe in your home is clean and free from toxins has become as important and necessary as locking your doors at night. Unfortunately, with all of the chemical products our society has come to rely on, indoor air can be two to 100 times more polluted than outdoor air, says the EPA!
When it comes to reducing your exposure to petroleum distillates, avoiding noxious chemical cleaners and other chemical products and purifying the air you and your family breathe while indoors are two of the best steps you can take.
Recommended Reading
The Health Dangers of Phenols Found in Common Household Cleaners
Exposure to Air Pollution Linked to Genetic Abnormalities
Dust Dangers: What Exactly is Dust, and Why Can it be so Dangerous

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Environmental Protection Agency: Petroleum
Household Products Database
American Journal of Epidemiology
Express Newsline January 16, 2005
Household Products Database