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

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.

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.

Story in Indiana too

This was in the news in Indiana. 

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

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

(may be long but it is a story that needs to be told)

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

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

You've got to see this!

http://www.pccts.com/usa_plan_chaos_11_218_49/


Gas and oil, all related if this happens.  Interesting map, check out the false front page. click on either one but the center one, the word and the sympbol and see what map comes up then click on the states.
jaime

Fracking

http://earthjustice.org/features/campaigns/fracking-across-the-united-states

Afraid but must be prepared

I've been sitting here looking at these maps...I know my daughter will probably be ok in NC and me and joe are in trouble in the upper part of the lower part of michigan and my son and his family may be ok towards the middle of the state.  I just think my sister and her family will be gone and my step mother is right on the edge. I have no idea where my brothers are but I wish I hadn't seen these maps.  But, we have to be prepared (as psa commercials on main stream media is telling us. If they are running commercials on being prepared for disasters something must be amiss) If the fault lines go as the seismo guys think there will be major change in this country.  My heart aches when I know my family in St. Louis MO will be in harms way also.  
I'm not a "doomer" but these maps make me scared and sad because my family is fractured, as will be all those gas and oil wells will be when these earthquakes happen.  
PSA's are telling us to be prepared and know where to go?  
Do you? Would you be prepared if something bizarre were to happen as these maps show?  Enough food for months, water also.  This is what these commercials are trying to tell us.  
Sad.....
Look at where the majority of wells are and think of what one of these maps will do to the infrastructure of the oil and gas industry.  I hope never in my lifetime or my children's...I fear that is not the saying people will be saying anymore...in our lifetime........jaime

People in this Industry couldn't survive with what we put up with!

    Northern Michigan here again.  I just have this feeling in the pit of my stomach that something is not right.  It has to do with going by that smelly Halliburton, A1 and Waste Management places.  I wonder how many of their children are sick with sinus issues (I had 4 nasal surgeries due to the industry, H2S in particular), or "mommy my heart feels funny", or short term memory goes on a trip or "look mommy, tommy tripped again over nothing".  Do their spouses try to tell these people when their own children aren't feeling well?  Ever wonder why you feel like you have bought the pediatricians new addition with so many visits? 
    How many victims are there out there, needlessly suffering not knowing there are people like us fighting for people like them.   
      Has a person working in this industry had to bring their 18 year old son to the Emergency Room because his heart was racing towards 200 beats per minute?  Had their 18 year old, athletic son, look at you like the little boy you are seeing him as at that moment?  How you feel every cell in your body stop as they put in the drug to stop my son's heart for a second hoping it would go back into a normal rhythm instead of atrial fibrillation.  Seeing the fear in this childs eyes as I hung onto his hand and gave him all the strength I had as they had to stop his heart again because the first time didn't work.  To have him working so close to these emissions and my hands are tied.  I have educated my children and they know they dangers but have they ever had to experience what we all have had to?!  
   If they had they wouldn't be doing what they are doing now. Operating with no regard to people or environment.  
Damn you industry, DAMN YOU!!
Jaime
Northern Michigan

MICHIGAN IS UNFORTUNATELY FINALLY NOTICED FOR OIL/GAS

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MI_GAS_DRILLING_LEAK_MIOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Recent State Land Auction

Look at Charlevoix at the upper West of Northern Michigan. They sure auctioned alot of land in that area. Those poor people. I will be alerting you to the different health issues from the oil and gas industry.
Here is a website showing what they auctioned off and the $178 million the State of Michigan got off the selling of state land mineral rights.

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/Summary_323617_7.pdf