OIL EVERYWHERE: ECUADOR´S OIL EXPLOITATION FUCKS UP PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENT

Ecuador´s oil. Source: amazonwatch.org.

By Gundhramns Hammer

December 13, 2014

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Oil here, oil there. Oil everywhere. Wherever man is, so is his beloved oil. He dreams of oil. He eats out of the hand of oil.  He farts oil. He shits oil. He stinks of oil. He fucks or is fucked with oil. He is fucking addicted to oil. He is up to his neck in oil. 

Most likely, the way things are going today, he will probably be buried damn oiled.

The way modern cannibalistic economies have been set up and with an ever growing population of human cattle (Homo insapiens) and a never ending demand for more and more resources, the whole damn thing has gotten to a point where nearly everybody is now crying like babies for more oil all over the planet. 

Oil, oil...And more oil. Man has the hots for oil. He is terribly is love with oil.

And it does not matter where the oil comes from as long as it is put where human cattle need it. It does not matter how much the environment is damaged as long as the profits are humongous.

And big oil companies will do their damn best to get the oil wherever it is found around the world. Otherwise, the whole damn economy would go fucking nuts.

The bottom line for petro-companies is big money. The bottom line for the industry that depends upon this black gold is to have the energy to power man´s vicious economic cycle with its eyes put on big bucks. And the bottom line for consumers is to have fuel to jack or cruise around, to take a airplane to go to foreign lands to fuck or get fucked or to go to work so the masters can suck their vital juice in exchange of money for a fancy living forever in debt stuck in a fucking Matrix pod. 

Meanwhile, somewhere along this power game to power an ailing system, not everybody comes out smiling. 

Someone or something is bound to get fucked up. 

Despite all the oil companies´ mambo jumbo preaching on the logo "we care for nature" pumped on the media, somewhere in the world, the environment will be left intoxicated at the starting point of the line, sooner or later.

We all know about this. We all know that this, along with other things to get things, the business of fucking up pristine spots in Nature is called "progress". 

But "progress" means many things for different people, especially if they have not yet been brainwashed to idolise money.

So far, some "progress" is neat for a lot of human cattle. 

Is it not neat we can send you this port via electronics so you can masturbate your brain? Is it not neat to have anaesthesia at the hospital when meds have to amputate your arm or leg because of a war (Video 1), a damn car crash (Video 2) in an accident or when you total your car when acting stupid (Video 3)? Some "progress" things are neat, aren´t they? No question about it. 

Warning! Graphic enanctment!

Video 1. The result of man´s favourite past time: War. After sex, of course!

Video 2. Car crash compilation.

Video 3. Drag racing crashes.

But some "progress" is a total pain in the neck. 

What the fuck! Let us put it more bluntly: Some progress can be a fucking pain in the ass (Video 4).

 Video 4. A pain in the ass: Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Man´s tecnology is not perfect.

All in all, in today´s world - to achieve this never ending quest for "progress", a lot of which is nothing more than the elite´s companies finding another way to sell you more crap at the stores ("sustainable development"... Yeah!; Video 5) so you can fill up ("alleviate") your hellish emotional holes ("negative moods") with a fucking shopping spree ("shopping therapy"), for example, to keep man´s economic machinery bursting at its seams - oil is a must. Oil is the key. 

 Video 5. Man´s chasing "sustainable development":Two container ships beat each other up. What a fucking waste!

And those countries in the world that have this key are prime targets for big oil companies nowadays. 

Prime targets to exploit them so the world´s crying babies can have their oil.

If some of these oil rich countries are not careful, they will be left with fucking toxic messes (Fig. 1) in their hands and eventually without the damn key to run their own homes to chase the grand dream at the fancy style of the wasteful West - i.e., basically adopting a USA´s wasteful lifestyle, for everybody around the world is imitating to all environmental and human costs this wasteful and painfully meaty standard of living (Video 6).

Figure 1. The tar sands mess of Alberta (Canada). Source: Greenpeace.

 Video 6. Food waste at Europe´s largest supermarkets.

Thus, far from being a blessing, many a times having this energy key can be more of a pain in the neck for some oil rich nations.

Ecuador is one example where this key is giving its people a lot of headaches in the Amazonian region. 

In some Ecuador´s Amazonian spots, people and environment have literally been fucked up by various big oil companies (Videos 7-8).

 Video 7. Ecuador´s oil headaches in the Amazon.

 Video 8. Ecuador´s oil messes and lies.

So, let us check up Ecuador´s energy key. Let us see how oil exploitation has a negative impact on the environment and its people. In other words, let us take a look at Ecuador´s oil fucking mess:

For this purpose, we shall let others take the floor:

Quote:

"Oil has been and continues to be not only one of the principal sources of income for Ecuador, but also a destructive force on its environment. Since 1972, international oil companies led by Texaco in collaboration with the national company, Petroecuador (previously CEPE), have extracted almost two billion barrels of oil mainly from the region of the Amazon. In this process, millions of gallons of oil and toxic waste have been dumped directly into the environment. Indian communities and farmers, as well as national environmental groups, have spoken out during the past years in clear opposition to the lack of regulation of oil industry development, complaining that the contamination has caused enormous damage to the environment as well as to the health of the people." [San Sebatián & Córdoba, 1999, pag. 1. See below]

Read the full document:

"Yara Curi" Report: The impact of oil development on the health of the people of the Ecuadorian Amazon, by Dr. Miguel San Sebastián & Dr. José Antonio Córdoba (1999). Translation by Kristen Keating. Departamento de Pastoral Social del Vicariato de Aguarico, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Medicus Mundi. 33 p.

More information: 

Hill D. (2013). The Battle over Ecuador´s Oil Takes New Twist. Amazon Watch, October 2013: 1-3.


Rich but poor in the hands of puppets

Ecuador is rich... But why are there so many poor people there, mon Capitaine?

It is a historical process. In Ecuador like other places around the world, human cattle are ill managed by ambitious puppets of other puppets in a global Matrix of puppets´ puppets, mon ami.

Mon capitaine, have you had your oil today?

Oui, mon ami!

Merde! Fuck!



See you later alligators! 

Source: Jessica´s Health Blog.

CANADA´S TAR SANDS: A GIANT ENVIRONMENTAL MESS

Canada´s tar sands. Source: priceofoil.org.

Canada's Tar Sands is the third-largest proven crude oil reserve in the world behind Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. In 2011 it was believed the reserve amounted to 170.2 billion barrels of oil, or about 11% of total global oil reserves. But the development of Canada's Oil Sands is concerning environmentalists for several reasons, not least the fact that producing "tar oil", or "sand oil" as it's also known, releases three times the volume of greenhouse gas emissions as conventional oil. [Truthloader]

WHEN ALASKA WAS CUT IN HALF: THE OIL PIPELINE

Source: American Experience.

By Gundhramns Hammer
July 4, 2014
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Its existence was no secret. Iñupiat people in the North Slope of Alaska had known about it for thousands of years. Whenever they needed it for heating or putting some light in their tents or igloos, all they had to do was to go to the right spot and take a hunk of peat soaked with it.

Whalers and other "white" explorers came to know about it as well. The government too. 

It sat there as reminder of Nature´s forces and the cycles of life.

In this land, long winters gave way to brief springs which lead to capricious summers and these to fleeting autumns until the cold weather came back with all its might once more. 

Life went on as usual, in harmonious ways. But soon this mysterious burning substance became the centre of a rush. 

Now we know what it is. It is what keeps the industrial revolution machines and power plants spitting smoke and fire, threatening life itself with the contamination of the atmosphere.  Its name is petroleum.

One day it came to happen that in the hands of greedy people, this "black gold" turned Alaska into a mad anthill filled with fortune seekers of all walks of life when, after the 1973 oil crisis, it was decided that it was about time to get the bigs bucks out of it. 

To do so it was necessary to come up with an engineering scheme that would face the hardships of cold weather, sit on unstable permafrost, cut through mountains, cross streams and rivers and travel underground in some sections.

So it was devised and implanted. From 1974 to 1977 more than 20.000 men and women worked like hell to build this pipeline.

Despite the thousands of environmentally concerned activists that held long protests against such project for a long time, big business prevailed in the end. 

Alaska, a pristine territory, was cut in half.

Man violated Mother Nature once again in the name of "development" and "progress".  

Ever since this pipeline has been constructed more than 16 billion of barrels of crude oil have flowed through it. The oil travels from Prudhoe Bay way above the Arctic Circle to the port of Valdez on Prince William Sound.

This is a whopping 1.287 km (800 miles) of pipes (Fig. 1). Although it is considered one of man´s greatest engineering feats of the 20th century, we must remember one thing: Somewhere on the face of Earth there must be a huge hole from which the iron ore was dug out to build the thousands of pipes needed for this Nature buster. Without mentioning the headaches such as Exxon Valdez oil spill.

Figure 1. The Trans-Alaska pipeline system. Source: Alaska-in-Pictures.com.

But this story has not ended yet. It has just begun.

Alaska is under modern man´s pounding fist to meet the ever expanding oil and mineral demands.

Most likely, man will not put an end to this industrial fiery tale. Eventually, Nature will. 

And when Nature punishes its creatures, it hits where it hurts the most.  

Grizzly bears in Alaska know this very well, for example. They adapt to survive. 

Although we humans are quite adaptable via cultural means, we are too short-sighted, get stuck with anti-biospheric addictions too easily and thus tend to behave like biological moronic robots too frequently, interested only in fucking, screwing up our neighbours and Mother Nature and making wads of money.

Unless the problem hits our faces, we do not wake up. And if we ever do so, it is only temporarily. 

There lies the gist of our problem.

And the problem it is not energy. It is us, the way we think and act, with no wisdom. 

We misuse what should never be misused: The finite natural resources of planet Earth.

We must move on beyond from the business adjustable and convenient concept of "sustainable". We must reach the point  of being Nature entuned or harmonious.

For that we need a new paradigm. 

Have we already run out of time for that?

The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System

The following documentary (Video 1) will show you what it took for the construction ot the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System.

 
Source: History Earth via YouTube
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"In the early weeks of 1968, after a decade-long search for oil in Alaska's frozen wilderness, gas burst up out of an exploratory well on the North Slope with such force the crew thought it was about to blow. Geologists soon calculated that as much as ten billion barrels of oil lay below the frozen tundra of Prudhoe Bay -- the largest oil find in North America.

The pipeline built to bring that oil to market was one of the greatest engineering feats of the 20th century. For more than three years, workers battled brutal Arctic weather to construct an eight hundred mile pipeline that traversed three mountain ranges, thirty-four rivers, and eight hundred streams, and that withstood earthquakes and sub-zero temperatures. The men, machines and money the pipeline brought to Alaska would forever transform what had long been regarded as America's last great wilderness. The pipeline's construction pitted America's need for energy against its desire to protect land and wildlife, sparking one of the most passionate conservation battles in American history.

This American Experience program explores the impact the pipeline had on culture and society in Alaska as well as the environment, featuring the men and women who worked on the line as well as long-time Alaska residents, members of the Native Alaskan community, environmentalists, government geologists, congressional supporters and foes of the project, and local Alaska politicians."

Video 1. The Alaska oil pipeline.