and the people who are doing the pollution are lying to keep on doing it. As you know this week I have (it’s) been examining phrases with (jam) hell in them to avoid thinking about how (band) bad things are about to get here on Planet Earth. Now it appears that even if we stop today the oceans will continue to acidify for years (friday – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySO-gryuO-c) and that means a huge loss of food.
http://www.what-the-hell-is-hell.com/Hellphrases.htm
Run like Hell seems to imply really really fast. Like you can run from hell? Or as the song says “get out of hell before they know you are there”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBcY9HGqehE&feature=related
But there is also something in the phrase that implies that you not look back,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntm1YfehK7U&feature=related
And you you do not stop running until you can run no more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRcQZ2tnWeg&feature=related
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_Like_Hell
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Yet the Energy Industry continues to lie through its teeth about our real choices:
Energy Industry Threatens Water Quality, Sways Congress With Misleading Data
The industry is misleading the public into a false choice between the economy and the environment.
The two key arguments that the oil and gas industry is using to fight federal regulation of the natural gas drilling process called hydraulic fracturing — that the costs would cripple their business and that state regulations are already strong — are challenged by the same data and reports the industry is using to bolster its position.
One widely-referenced study (PDF) estimated that complying with regulations would cost the oil and gas industry more than $100,000 per gas well. But the figures are based on 10-year-old estimates and list expensive procedures that aren’t mentioned in the proposed regulations.
Another report (PDF) concluded that state regulations for drilling, including fracturing, “are adequately designed to directly protect water.” But the report reveals that only four states require regulatory approval before hydraulic fracturing begins. It also outlines how requirements for encasing wells in cement — a practice the author has said is critical to containing hydraulic fracturing fluids and protecting water — varies from state to state.
One recommendation in that report flies in face of industry’s assertion that its processes are safe: hydraulic fracturing needs more study and should be banned in certain cases near sensitive water supplies.
Hydraulic fracturing — where water and sand laced with chemicals is injected underground to break up rock — is considered essential to harvesting deeply buried gas reserves that some predict could meet U.S. demand for 116 years.
In 2005 hydraulic fracturing was exempted from the Safe Drinking Water Act, based on assurances that the process was safe. But a series of ProPublica reports has identified a number of cases in which water has been contaminated in drilling areas across the country, and EPA scientists say they can’t fully investigate them because of the exemption.
Now, Congress is considering legislation to restore the Environmental Protection Agency’s oversight of the process. And industry — leveraging its money and political connections — is using the recent reports to fight back.
Since January at least five studies have been published making the case that state laws (PDF) are adequate and that new regulations could hamper exploration (PDF), raise fuel prices and eliminate jobs. Three of the studies were paid for by the Department of Energy and produced by consulting firms that also work with the industry. One of the DOE reports (PDF) was written by the same person who authored a study for the Independent Petroleum Association of America (PDF)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx3DtXyEqrE
If you are in England you might want to give these folks a try:
http://www.souththamesgas.co.uk
http://www.allaspectsltd.co.uk/services/plumbing-services/
Dave Stern likes them.
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