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all i heard they co's are working on settlement. so i hope it soon
law suit was file the state of il.
i have a friend that works for this co, in ca. he gave me the skinny. this co's has gov't deals too. man i am buy because there alot wall street aware of the going on.
i saw on yahoo message board that gameczar, if that the girl from fl. she a big money player.
the law suit is being settle, evsp will get there 1.5b back
here what get me with esph, they just sign an agreement my friend work for them. i ask him how much, all he said, we going have o.t.
where the news.???????????????????????????????
Ecosphere Energy Services Closes $7.5 Million Financing with Fidelity National Financial
STUART, Fla., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ecosphere Energy Services LLC, EES, a majority owned subsidiary of Ecosphere Technologies, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ESPH), announces today that it has closed a financing round of $7.5 million with Fidelity National Financial, Inc. FNF is a leading provider of title insurance, mortgage services, specialty insurance, claims management services and information services. FNF will own 19% of EES.
EES is a provider of proprietary water purification and management services to the energy industry. The company manufactures water purification and management units, utilizing the proprietary Ozonix(TM) technology. Ozonix(TM) offers an eco-friendly "Total Water Management" system that is capable of cost effectively reclaiming water for maximum reuse and minimal waste.
John Kuelbs, Chairman of Ecosphere Energy Services, stated, "We are excited to be partnering with FNF, a world class organization. After seeing our mobile Ozonix technology at work in the field and speaking with the operators, FNF decided to make an equity investment in our company. This important $7.5 million round of capital will allow EES to build all of the equipment that we need to fully fund our Southwestern Energy contract."
"EES is a company with a tremendous proprietary technology that we believe can deliver a great return on our investment. EES provides an eco-friendly, cost-effective solution that can make a real difference in the energy industry," said FNF Chairman William P. Foley, II. "EES' technology helps major energy producers extract clean energy from abundant shale plays, while at the same time reducing CO2 emissions and protecting vital water resources. We look forward to being partners with Ecosphere to help bring this technology to its customers."
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The company operates approximately 175 service locations in North America, including 52 active hazardous waste management properties in 36 U.S. states, 7 Canadian provinces, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, as well as international locations in Bulgaria, China, Sweden, Singapore, Thailand, and the United Kingdom. Clean Harbors, Inc. was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Norwell, Massachusetts.
from yahoo message board, ESPH, PERFORMANCE RATING:OUTPERFORM"
PERFORMANCE RATING:OUTPERFORM" by Reuters Company Research 3-Sep-10 10:11 am "PERFORMANCE RATING:OUTPERFORM" by Reuters Company Research. This is a great independent report by a highly respected company. I have been a shareholder in Ecosphere for many years now and am more excited and confident than ever that this company will revolutionize the way the world treats water and the environment! I have based my investments in this great company on its state of the art technology, many revolutionary patents, management team and board members. Equally important to me is that this company is doing the right thing...protecting our water! The old way of treating water, "using chemicals" should and I belive will change. Ecosphere has been tried and tested by many of the best and have proven the ability to treat very contaminated water at an extremely high volume rate without the use of chemicals. Check out the attached link.
http://www.montanalandoffice.com/pdf/ESP...
just got call, tech problem, it just came back on????
goodbye yahoo message its gone
hey joey who are you b.s. you love it what's going on here, you playing both side of the fence.
FROM YAHOO MESSAGE BOARD, LEVEL II MARKET MAKERS PLAYERS 2 minutes ago VI - KEY LEVEL II PLAYERS
TOP 5 MMs or wholesalers/retail (typically out of dilution): NITE, GVRC SCHB, TDCM, GNET
Examples of wholesalers: HRZG, MASH, NITE, SHWD
Examples of ECNs: ARCA, BRUT, BTRD, INCA, ISLD, REDI
Top Dilutors (retailers): ACAP, AGIS, BAMM, BMIC, CHIG, CLYP, FANC, FRAN, JIMK, MAYF, PERT, SACM, UCAP, VERT, VFIN
NITE : This is the king MM of the OTC. He intimides traders and other MMs use that to their advantage knowing that he scares them. That's why NITE is the shaker on most stock runs; he is the most common ax. NITE could be on the ask all the time, he could be leading a dip scaring sellers to his buddies SCHB and TDCM on the bid.
TDCM : Retailer MM, you love him on the bid.
Biggest OTCBB ECNs : GNET, TRAC & DATA - you love them on bids also.
Big Shorters : JIMK, POND, GNET or ARCA (anyone can use GNET, even other MMs because it's an ECN).
Sentiment : Strong Buy
ESTING????
Date: 06/21/2000 5:22 PM
Subject: file number- S7-24-99
To SEC: Regarding Market Makers Shorting Stocks on OTCBB
File No. S7-24-99
From: John Herby & Richard Raabe- 209 Pike Street,Covington,Ky 41011
859-291-9127 Business Owners- Printing Company
& Investors in Small Emerging
Growth Companies
It is quite obvious to me and my business parter,Rick, that many market
makers
have large short positions in many of the OTC Bulletin Board stocks. It is to
the
market maker's financial gain to collapse the stock prices of most, if not
all, of the
OTCBB stocks that they have shorted. Taking a look at most OTCBB stocks since
March,2000 the OTCBB stocks show that a very large majority of the stocks have
dropped approximately 60 to 80 percent from their highs. I do believe that
many of
the big stock declines were related to the large short positions held by the
criminal
market makers. The market makers do not make a market that reflects any "true
stock demand:, the only thing the market makers are interested in doing is to
"crash" the stock's price in a downward movement which will enable the market
makers to cover their large short positions at extremely low stock prices
which allows the market makers a large profit on covering their short
positions. Then after
they have screwed most of the investors(by scaring most investors to sell
because of
the fear the market makers have induced with these artifically-induced low
stock
prices), they then will start the entire illegal process over again.
I definitely am going to talk to my lawyer, my congressmen in Kentucky
and
probably the FBI to see if anything can be enacted to prevent the OTCBB
market makers from having unlimited power on controlling the market by
allowing unlimited
shorting which they have taken to the "criminal level". I don't understand
why the SEC allows this shorting to continue( the market makers don''t post
short positions
for public record and probably hide this from almost anyone including the
SEC).
The market maker's shorting is far worst than insider trading in my honest
opinion.
The market makers in the OTCBB market have created a monopoly market which
they control for their financial gain, and not based on supply and demand on
trades
by honest investors who should determine the actual market price.
One example of stock price manipulation(we own stock in Invest America-
Stock
Symbol- INVT). the market makers are dropping the price on sells of only 100
to
500 shares, but continual buying of 5,000, 10,000 share lots and even recently
300,000 plus share lot did not move the stock price upwards. The trading by
market
makers in Invest America indicate to me that several market makers have
extremely
large short positions and that the market makers are "acting in collusion" to
drive the
price of Invest America stock downward so to force investors to take their
losses and
get out of Invest America and then eventually the market makers will cover
when they
get the price low enough or have accumulated enough cheap shares to cover
their
large short position in Invest America. The market makers are artifically
destroying
Invest America stock price, but the market makers are running into a dilema
because Invest America investors keep buying more stock than is being sold, so
now the market makers are sitting on the stock at these low prices trying to
play
a waiting game and outlast Invest America shareholder's patience and drive
the
shareholders to sell out of this stock at extremely low prices. The market
makers
are nothing more but old fashioned gangster -styled crooks distorting
investment
dollars from honest investors who had no idea how rigged this game is in
letting the
market makers screw us honest investors. I say bullshit to these dishonest
market
makers and send them to hell if possible. The FBI needs to investigate the
illegal
practices of these market makers and put some of these crooks in jail where
they
belong.
Sincerely yours,
John
Herby
Richard Raabe
Search ResultsDate: 06/21/2000 5:22 PM Subject: file number- S7-24-99 To SEC ...
Jun 21, 2000 ... It is to the market maker's financial gain to collapse the stock prices ... makers are "acting in collusion" to drive the price of Invest America ... fashioned gangster -styled crooks distorting investment dollars from ...
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Activists ask council to ban gas drilling in Pittsburgh
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By Adam Brandolph
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Worried that Marcellus shale drilling could contaminate water sources and contribute to poor air quality in the city, environmental activists filled City Council chambers last night to voice their concern.
"The gas drillers are coming, and this is not a drill," said Ed Bortz of the North Side. "It is good common sense to protect our air, our water, our neighborhoods and our people."
About 120 people attended a public hearing held at the request of a petition by city residents. The hearing followed a half-hour protest on the steps of the City-County Building, Downtown.
"We're not a bunch of emotional residents," said Elizabeth Schneider of Lincoln Place, where residents have leased about 40 acres of land to gas companies. "We've done our research. We've done our homework. ... We don't want this."
Those who attended the protest and meeting carried signs and wore T-shirts urging City Council to approve a measure introduced last week by Councilman Doug Shields that would effectively ban drilling for natural gas within Pittsburgh's borders.
Experts say the natural gas could be worth hundreds of billions of dollars, and proponents of drilling say it would be a boon to the economy. But critics say the water, sand and chemical solutions used at high pressure to break apart rocks 8,000 feet underground could seep into rivers and streams and pollute water sources.
"The costs will outweigh any of the benefits," said Sarah Miller of Lawrenceville, where more than three dozen residents have signed contracts to lease their land to gas companies.
Attorneys representing gas companies have said the ban would likely set the city up for a legal fight since it could deprive residents -- and, in some cases, gas companies -- of taking advantage of the rights and resources they own or lease.
Some residents said if a ban could not be implemented, they'd be happy to see a moratorium on drilling until new technology exists to keep it safe.
"That gas has been there 300 million years," said Kenneth Weir of Lincoln Place. "It's not going anywhere."
Pennsylvania urges gas industry to support environmental efforts
Published: Sep 7, 2010
From the Office of the Governor of Pennsylvania
A series of accidents and environmental concerns illustrate the challenges the natural gas industry poses to the state and the reason why drilling companies need to pay their fair share to address them, Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell said recently during a visit to southwestern Pennsylvania.
During a stop in Washington County – the most active county for drilling in the region – the governor spoke to local elected officials, sportsmen’s groups, emergency responders, business leaders, and environmental groups.
“Travel virtually anywhere throughout southwestern Pennsylvania and you'll see that there's been a phenomenal resurgence in drilling activities as big oil and gas companies seek to extract the trillions and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas that is a mile beneath our feet in the Marcellus Shale," said Rendell.
"There's no doubt that this activity and this industry is creating new economic opportunities for our state, but it also creates a lot of new challenges for the host communities and poses a threat to our environment."
He added, "The public recognizes this, and that's why 8 out of 10 Pennsylvanians recently polled said that they favor a tax on gas companies to fund programs that will protect our environment and help local governments handled increased demands on their services." Rendell noted that 413 permits have been issued and 244 wells have been drilled in Washington County as part of the Marcellus Shale play since the beginning of 2009.
Rendell said that drilling activity has resulted in “dangerous incidents” that have required action by local emergency responders. He pointed to a hydraulic fracturing wastewater pond that ignited in the spring of 2010 in the county's Hopewell Township. The resulting cloud of black smoke could be seen for miles.
The governor also cited the June 2010 well blowout in Clearfield County, which sent natural gas and fracking fluid into the air for 16 hours before the well could be brought back under control.
"In each of these instances, local emergency responders such as firefighters, police officers, medics, and hazmat crews were called to manage the emergencies until gas company experts could further address the situations," said the governor. "That created considerable costs to the municipalities and taxpayers that support those crews. It underscores the reason we need a robust severance tax – so the communities where drilling is taking place get the financial help they need to tackle these problems."
He also said a similar share should go to environmental programs and organizations such as county conservation districts and the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. Rendell was joined by John Arway, the commission's executive director, and Commissioner Tom Shetterly.
"These gentlemen made the trip here today because they know what is at stake, and want to make sure our streams and gamelands are protected for today's sportsmen, sportswomen, and for our sons and daughters," said Rendell.
Earlier this year, Rendell proposed implementing a severance tax on natural gas extraction that would be modeled after West Virginia's levy – a straight 5% on sales, plus an additional 4.7 cents for each thousand cubic feet of gas produced.
As part of the state budget deal reached in July, the General Assembly agreed to enact a severance tax by October 1st.
"Pennsylvania is quickly becoming one of the top 10 states for natural gas production in the country – up from 15th just a few years ago – but is the only major fossil fuel producer that does not levy a tax on natural gas extraction," he said.
To date this year, 1,885 natural gas wells have been drilled in Pennsylvania. Of that total, 897 have been drilled to access gas deposits in the Marcellus Shale.
The Department of Environmental Protection has also issued nearly 4,549 drilling permits this year, of which 1,976 were for Marcellus development. The department is on track to issue approximately 2,700 Marcellus permits this year – a 36% increase over permits issued in 2009.
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Matthews International acquires Reynoldsville Casket Co ...
Apr 12, 2010 ... Matthews International Corp. said today it acquired Reynoldsville Casket Co. of Reynoldsville, Jefferson County, for an undisclosed price. ...
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these 2000 casket you said that matw is buying, matw owns casket's
company's now.
which one
I NEVER SEEN WAL MART EVER GIVE THERE WORKER, AND RETIRED PEOPLE
ANY THING FREE. I RECALL 10 YEARS AGO, SOME CASKET CO WAS TRYING TO CUT A DEAL WITH SOME UNION'S PART OF THERE RETIREMENT WAS CASKET
NEVER HAPPIN.
WELL GURU, WHEN YOU ARE THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN, AND ESPH KNOW IT
GET READY FOR BULL.S. LAW SUIT'S COMMING FROM BIG OIL CO'S
I HAVE TO GIVE DENNIS CREDIT TO HANDLE ALL THESE SUIT'S.
LET ME TIP YOU OFF DENNIS HAS A VERY STRONG BOARD AND CREW.
WORKING FOR ESPH. THE ISSUE HERE IS TIME AND WAITING.
PDF] Eternal Image Inc.
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Inc. (“Eternal Image”) and Matthews International Corporation ... and immediately repurchase them for sale and distribution through Matthews' network of ..... to create a general partnership, joint venture, agency or employment ...
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Feb 25, 2010... them for sale and distribution through Matthews' network of associated funeral homes and cemeteries. ... Upon placement of an order by Eternal Image, Matthews shall have ..... or be deemed to create a general partnership, joint venture, ... ETERNAL IMAGE, INC. MATTHEWS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION ...
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WELL GOOD LUCK, I BEEN IN THIS FIELD FOR 30 YEARS.
HEY WHAT DO YOU THINK OF WAL MART SELLING CASKET ON THE INTERNET
GO TO GOOGLE LOOK AT THERE LINE OF CASKETS??????
matw, has brought out alot of company's from casket co, to mausolum co, you never know who next in line to be taken out.
call matw, and ask them what going on.
uw, what will it take to light a fire to move ur stock up.
this co.Houston-based Southwestern they like esph ideal. rumor is there is some thing in the wind, is what i am hearing.
well joe, you are right, it makes esph a good target on a buy out
Drillers draw stronger warnings
By Andrew Conte, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
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Natural gas drilling companies should identify the chemicals they put into the ground, embrace a tax on production and find ways to avoid simple mistakes, the state's top environmental regulator said Tuesday.
With public confidence eroding, companies need to prove their industry's worth, John Hanger, secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection, told industry officials at the Pennsylvania Independent Oil & Gas Association's conference in Monroeville.
"We have to have the vast majority of Pennsylvanians believing that this (gas industry) is a good thing -- or certainly not a bad thing -- for Pennsylvania," Hanger said.
Hanger has increased his warnings to gas operators in recent weeks. He used the event to praise the benefits of natural gas while demanding "operations excellence" from the industry. At the start of his 40-minute speech, Hanger invited the audience to "fasten their seatbelts" or "get their tomatoes ready" -- depending on their perspective.
The crowd of about 300 politely clapped when Hanger finished. He said afterward that some companies seem to be "hard of hearing," but industry executives vowed to amplify his message to operators with violations.
"If the DEP finds people who won't follow the rules, they should have their permits revoked, and they should go back where they came from," said J. Brett Harvey, CEO of Consol Energy Inc., who did not attend the meeting. "Everybody should step up and start doing it right."
Separately, Harvey and other industry officials gathered in Washington County yesterday to talk about the economic benefits of Marcellus shale gas drilling.
So many companies wanted to exhibit at the Monroeville conference that the gas association ran out of room. A parking lot in front of the Monroeville Convention Center showcased shiny tanker trucks, compressors and fluid storage tanks.
Gas operators are damaging their reputations by refusing to say what chemicals they use in hydraulic fracturing, a process in which they send millions of gallons of water, sand and additives into the ground, Hanger said. Consol, Range Resources and a few others have started identifying the additives.
"A lot of very good people, reasonable people, don't accept the version that says, 'I'm not telling you what is in the mix that we're injecting down the well,' more or less, 'Trust us,' " Hanger said. "They're not buying that, and they're not ever going to buy it."
Officials at two companies that Hanger recently identified as having too many violations per well -- Chief Oil & Gas of Dallas and Citrus Energy of Castle Rock, Colo., have asked to meet with regulators, he said after his speech. Other companies remain on the state's watch list, Hanger said, but he declined to identify them
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Natural gas drilling companies should identify the chemicals they put into the ground, embrace a tax on production and find ways to avoid simple mistakes, the state's top environmental regulator said Tuesday.
With public confidence eroding, companies need to prove their industry's worth, John Hanger, secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection, told industry officials at the Pennsylvania Independent Oil & Gas Association's conference in Monroeville.
"We have to have the vast majority of Pennsylvanians believing that this (gas industry) is a good thing -- or certainly not a bad thing -- for Pennsylvania," Hanger said.
Hanger has increased his warnings to gas operators in recent weeks. He used the event to praise the benefits of natural gas while demanding "operations excellence" from the industry. At the start of his 40-minute speech, Hanger invited the audience to "fasten their seatbelts" or "get their tomatoes ready" -- depending on their perspective.
The crowd of about 300 politely clapped when Hanger finished. He said afterward that some companies seem to be "hard of hearing," but industry executives vowed to amplify his message to operators with violations.
"If the DEP finds people who won't follow the rules, they should have their permits revoked, and they should go back where they came from," said J. Brett Harvey, CEO of Consol Energy Inc., who did not attend the meeting. "Everybody should step up and start doing it right."
Separately, Harvey and other industry officials gathered in Washington County yesterday to talk about the economic benefits of Marcellus shale gas drilling.
So many companies wanted to exhibit at the Monroeville conference that the gas association ran out of room. A parking lot in front of the Monroeville Convention Center showcased shiny tanker trucks, compressors and fluid storage tanks.
Gas operators are damaging their reputations by refusing to say what chemicals they use in hydraulic fracturing, a process in which they send millions of gallons of water, sand and additives into the ground, Hanger said. Consol, Range Resources and a few others have started identifying the additives.
"A lot of very good people, reasonable people, don't accept the version that says, 'I'm not telling you what is in the mix that we're injecting down the well,' more or less, 'Trust us,' " Hanger said. "They're not buying that, and they're not ever going to buy it."
Officials at two companies that Hanger recently identified as having too many violations per well -- Chief Oil & Gas of Dallas and Citrus Energy of Castle Rock, Colo., have asked to meet with regulators, he said after his speech. Other companies remain on the state's watch list, Hanger said, but he declined to identify them
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Matthews International Corporation, through a partnership with Eternal Image, is pleased to offer this official Star Trek cremation urn. This marks the first time that Star Trek has ever licensed its name and design palette for use in the funeral industry. Furthermore, this urn features an image of the Starship Enterprise and star field background that is completely unique to this product—it has never been in print prior to this product. Matthews and Eternal Image have empowered the consumer to purchase an urn that is a reflection of a lifelong passion: a love for Star Trek.
This 190 cubic inch capacity urn is built with an urn body made from a composite blend of natural minerals, an etched stainless steel face plate and name scroll and an image of the Starship Enterprise printed on anodized aluminum. It features a cut-out of the famous Star Trek Delta symbol through which you can see the famed Starship Enterprise flying through space. Above this graphic is where the nameplate is affixed, and below it is printed the name of this particular model: TO BOLDLY GO. We also offer a model called THE VOYAGE CONTINUES.
Entertainment brands come and go, but few have had the staying power and worldwide appeal of Star Trek considering it first debuted on TV in 1966. The brand continues to attract younger followers through its newly launched series of motion pictures. Pre-orders for this product have already exceeded 200 and have come from as far away as the Philippines. As long as there are Trekkies, there will be demand for an urn such as this.
The benefits of this urn extend beyond just the fine quality in which they are built (discussed above). People have passion—it runs through all we do. Matthews International and Eternal Image are giving people the option of honoring that lifelong passion in the preplanning of their funeral or in the death of a loved one. This Star Trek urn enables a grieving family to purchase a product that is a fitting tribute to someone who was a fan of this franchise in life
Just a taste about the Vatican Urn? This is from Eternal Image the ones working with MATW on the Star Trek and Vatican products...Any questions about will they sell?
"Product Milestone
Eternal Image is pleased to announce that we sold our 2,000th MLB urn in Q2 2010. This is especially encouraging because by industry standards, a particular urn design is deemed successful if it sells 100-units annually. It only took about 30-months for us to achieve this sales milestone, and that with only 13 of the 30 MLB teams currently available!
We hope these products continue to be a choice of families everywhere who wish to honor the life of a loved one by purchasing an official MLB memorial product from Eternal Image.
Thank you for your continued support.
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repost this is HUGE. 30-Aug-10 10:04 pm "Front-end (Completions or Frac fluid) FROM YAHOO BOARD $$$$$$$$$$$$$$
We have been unable to identify any other company in the world that can provide exploration and production companies with clean, bacteria-free frac fluid at high volume without the use of chemicals at
the well site. Due to the fact that most drilling companies are using chemicals in their completions solutions, Ecosphere’s primary competitors/substitutes (on the front end) are the major chemical
companies that manufacture and sell the chemicals to the drillers going down hole, such as Nalco (a division of Dow Chemical) and Champion.
Back-End (Frac Flowback)
Being able to convert frac flowback water (contaminated with heavy metals) at high volumes into a valuable byproduct (EcosBrine) that can be reused for hydraulic fracturing not only provides the
completions team with chemical-free frac fluid but also eliminates waste and is therefore considered a closed loop system. The energy companies use a myriad of different approaches to dealing with frac
flowback waters. The primary method of dealing with these waters throughout the U.S. is hauling them to a permitted underground injection site. In some cases vapor distillation technology is being used to treat frac flowback and produced waters at a disposal facility. Ecosphere’s business model is completely different from any other wastewater recycling/treatment company. Ecosphere is using its technology is to create a high volume “closed loop” system providing a total water management solution, without the use of chemicals, to E&P companies drilling for natural gas in unconventional plays."
Ultrasonic Fluid
Schlumberger spokeswoman Mary Jo Caliandro, who confirmed the company is testing new technology, declined to comment on any advance before it’s “commercial.”
Houston-based Southwestern has tested an ultrasonic technique that moves water faster than the speed of sound through a cone-shaped vortex to kill bacteria before the fluid is sent down the well, Mueller said.
“At high speeds, something will happen called cavitation,” he said. “You’re basically smacking the bugs upside the head and killing them.”
Chemicals, including biocides such as chlorine, make up less than 1 percent of fracking fluids. The rest is water and sand. Companies haven’t identified the chemicals they use, citing competitive reasons. Advocacy organizations such as the Environmental Working Group in Washington have called for lawmakers to require energy companies to disclose the chemicals.
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Gas drilling leases could yield millions for Pittsburgh
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By Jeremy Boren
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, August 20, 2010
A solution to some of Pittsburgh's money problems could be just below the surface.
Leasing the drilling rights to natural gas trapped in a portion of the Marcellus shale formation under Pittsburgh's 2,000 acres of parks could net the city $6 million to $16 million in one-time access fees and potentially millions more in royalties if officials make deals similar to those struck elsewhere in Western Pennsylvania and Texas.
"It's something we would be willing to look into," said Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's spokeswoman Joanna Doven, noting that the city is up against a $15 million to $30 million budget deficit.
"Access fees should start at $7,000 to $8,000 an acre if the city's going to do this," said Duquesne University professor Kent Moors, an authority on oil and gas finance and policy.
Moors said that's much higher than the $3,000- to $4,000-per-acre prices private and public land owners got in past years because unleased land "is becoming a premium."
Drilling in urban areas ruins roads from heavy tanker truck traffic and creates noise when drillers use high-pressure water to fracture shale and release gas, a process called fracking. Those issues merit extra compensation, he said.
"The drilling process will be extremely invasive," Moors said. "You want to get a maximum amount of return out of the access for drilling."
Spokeswomen for the city's Urban Redevelopment Authority and Ravenstahl's office said officials have not been approached about leasing public land.
But drillers have courted many governments in Western Pennsylvania, which have eagerly cashed in.
North Fayette supervisors leased 164 acres of land this month -- including two parks and the site of its municipal building -- to Range Resources of Ft. Worth, Texas, for $3,000 an acre and 17.5 percent of revenues from any wells drilled there, said Brian Temple, director of development.
Temple said the township signed the lease because many adjacent private property owners already had done so and it could use the $492,000 for infrastructure needs. He said the township limits when drilling may occur during the day and requires drillers rebuild damaged roads.
In Washington County, officials are beginning to see the fruits of a 2003 lease that paid the county $17,500 up-front and $10 an acre for rights to 2,800-acre Cross Creek County Park and its lake.
Nine wells have been drilled. Royalties are bringing in $96,000 to $122,000 a month.
Half the money is going to build roads to access the expansive park, develop a horse riding trail, build a boat launch and put in new shelters and bathrooms, said Lisa Cessna, executive director of the county's planning commission. The department's $850,000 annual budget could not otherwise afford those "big ticket" projects, she said.
"There's still noise and dust," Cessna said. "We had a leak issue once before, culverts have been crushed and sometimes it can be frustrating, but we've gotten lucky."
Environmentalists worry that chemically treated water used in fracking could harm the environment around drill sites.
Elizabeth Schneider of Lincoln Place, an anti-drilling activist, said a Chesapeake Energy official at a recent meeting in Lawrenceville tried to allay fears that drilling would begin soon in the city.
"We've always looked at that as, well, maybe not for right now," she said.
Roy Kraynyk, Allegheny Land Trust executive director, said drilling companies have approached him several times to sign leases. The group hasn't ruled out permitting horizontal drilling, but it would not allow drilling directly on its land.
The nonprofit is weighing the financial gain against the dangers to 1,500 acres of green space it protects in Allegheny and Washington counties.
"We're in a position where the revenue is very, very attractive but we also have a mission to protect woodlands and streams," Kraynyk said.
In Dallas and Ft. Worth, Texas, drilling rights to the Barnett Shale formation have paid well.
Dallas received $33.4 million to balance its 2008 budget when officials signed leases on more than 5,000 acres with XTO Energy Inc. and Trinity East Energy, officials said.
The per-acre prices ranged from $4,125 to $9,360. Only a few wells have been drilled.
Pittsburgh finance officials are scrambling to plug a $15 million hole created when Ravenstahl's plan to tax college students to boost the city's recession-battered pension funds fizzled.
The city needs money, but it cannot afford to risk environmental damage or public safety hazards that could come from gas well drilling, said Councilman Doug Shields, who wants to ban drilling in the city.
"I understand every government is strapped for cash, but that's not a good reason to degrade our quality of life and environment," Shields said. "We could make money off of prostitution, too, but we're not going to do that."
Catholic Cemeteries to permit gas drilling among the headstones
By Jeremy Boren and Andrew Conte, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
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A Monroeville drilling company could tap natural gas beneath 15 cemeteries in Allegheny and Washington counties under a lease signed by the Catholic Cemeteries Association of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, the association's director said Tuesday.
The association leased nearly 1,060 acres of cemetery land in 2008 to Huntley & Huntley Inc., including the 200-acre Calvary Cemetery in Hazelwood, which City Councilman Doug Shields called "ground zero" in the debate over whether natural gas drilling should be permitted in Pittsburgh.
"You don't put oil and gas fields in urban areas," Shields said during a news conference about legislation he will propose next month to ban drilling in city limits. "There's too much that can go wrong."
Even as a high-priced consultant to the gas industry, former Gov. Tom Ridge said he wouldn't want to spend his afterlife on a drill site.
"I'd have a tough time putting a rig down next to my tomb or next to anyone I'm related to," Ridge, a strategic consultant to the Marcellus Shale Coalition, said before addressing an energy conference Downtown yesterday. "Not next to mine."
Annabelle McGannon, executive director of the cemeteries association, said Huntley & Huntley has a five-year option to drill on cemetery land, but the company expressed no interest in drilling at Calvary. She said she signed the lease during the "height of the frenzy" to establish drilling rights on the Marcellus shale formation. She declined to say how much money the association received.
"It's a 200-acre property, but it's filled with burials," she said. "I believe they need five acres minimum to drill. It's not there."
McGannon said no drilling is occurring in any of the association's cemeteries but acknowledged that drilling could begin at any time under the lease. With horizontal drilling, a rig could be located at the edge of a cemetery or on property near it to access the shale layer about a mile below the surface.
"If and when the company would express any interest in drilling, the property owner is in complete control of the location of the drilling activity," McGannon said. "There certainly wouldn't be any interference with where active burials are occurring."
Huntley & Huntley President Keith Mangini called Calvary "the least likely to be drilled."
"It lacks accessibility and pipeline infrastructure to market the gas produced from the property, which is an inherent characteristic of most properties located within the city of Pittsburgh."
The lease also covers cemeteries in Lawrenceville, Hazelwood, Braddock Hills, Ross, Moon, Penn Hills, Monroeville, Shaler, Robinson, Richland, Pine and Peters, real estate records show. Calvary is the largest of the cemeteries, closely followed by the 195-acre Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Peters and the 186-acre Good Shepherd Cemetery in Monroeville.
"The other diocese properties offered us the possibility to drill horizontally beneath the tracts from adjoining leases without encroaching on the surface," Mangini said.
A study released this week shows drilling companies signed leases for 2,600 pieces of land in Allegheny County, mostly outside city limits. The Marcellus Shale Coalition said the companies are far from starting any drilling in the city. The coalition's president, Kathryn Klaber, said Shields' proposed ban could set a "dangerous precedent" and overlooks potential economic benefits.
But it has supporters.
"They have cemeteries signed on for Christ's sake. It's disgusting is what it is," said Elizabeth Schneider, an anti-drilling activist from Lincoln Place, where drilling companies have leases on more than 70 properties. "It's very sacrilegious."
Bishop David Zubik and the Rev. Ronald Lengwin, spokesman for the diocese, could not be reached for comment.
Ridge said Marcellus gas extraction could transform Pennsylvania, but needs to be done in a way that protects the environment.
"We don't want to repeat the mistakes we made in the past with the coal industry and with clear-cutting," Ridge said in his first public speech since the coalition hired his Washington-based consulting company for $75,000 a month to help with public outreach, education and coalition building.
The state Department of Environmental Protection yesterday levied a $97,350 fine against Atlas Resources LLC, a subsidiary of Moon-based Atlas Energy Inc., for its Marcellus drilling operations. The company allowed diluted wastewater from a Washington County gas well to overfill its containment pit in December and contaminate a tributary of Dunkle Run in Hopewell, according to the DEP.
The company blamed the failure on a contractor's water pump. The DEP fined Atlas $85,000 in January for infractions at 13 natural gas well sites in Fayette, Washington and Greene counties. The southwest region's biggest-ever fine was $141,175, against Range Resources Corp. for another spill in Hopewell
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Documents indicate heavy use of dispersants in gulf oil spill
By David A. Fahrenthold and Steven Mufson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 1, 2010; A01
While the BP well was still gushing, the Obama administration issued an order that limited the spreading of controversial dispersant chemicals on the Gulf of Mexico's surface. Their use, officials said, should be restricted to "rare cases."
But in reality, federal documents show, the use of dispersants wasn't rare at all.
Despite the order -- and concerns about the environmental effects of the dispersants -- the Coast Guard granted requests to use them 74 times over 54 days, and to use them on the surface and deep underwater at the well site. The Coast Guard approved every request submitted by BP or local Coast Guard commanders in Houma, La., although in some cases it reduced the amount of the chemicals they could use, according to an analysis of the documents prepared by the office of Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.).
The documents indicate that "these exemptions are in no way a 'rare' occurrence, and have allowed surface application of the dispersant to occur virtually every day since the directive was issued," Markey wrote in a letter dated Aug. 1 to retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad W. Allen, the government's point man on the spill. Markey chairs the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.
Some of them dealt with separate dispersant applications on the same day. Markey said it appeared that the order "has become more of a meaningless paperwork exercise" than a real attempt to curb use of the dispersants.
In an interview Saturday, Allen defended the decisions to grant the waivers, saying that overall use of dispersants declined sharply after that May 26 order to limit their use. The total use of dispersants underwater and on the surface declined about 72 percent from its peak, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Allen said that on some days the amount of oil on the surface justified a "tactical" decision, by on-scene Coast Guard commanders, to spray some dispersants.
"There's a dynamic tension that goes on when you're managing an incident that has no precedent," Allen said. "You establish general rules and guidelines, but knowing that the people on scene have the information" means trusting them to make decisions, he said.
In the end, Allen said: "You can quibble on the semantics related to 'rare.' I like to focus on the effects we achieved" by dispersing the oil. Officials have said that, in the days since the gusher was stopped, thick sheets of oil have nearly disappeared from the gulf's surface.
EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson conceded that there had been "frustration in the field" from EPA officials about the waivers. But Jackson said it was partly alleviated June 22, nearly a month after the order was issued, when Coast Guard officials began giving the EPA a greater role in the discussions over whether to approve dispersant use.
"EPA may not have concurred with every single waiver," Jackson said. But, she said, the Coast Guard had the ultimate say: "The final decision-making rests with the federal on-scene coordinator. That's where the judgment, the ultimate decision-making ability, had to lie."
The dispersants -- variants of a Nalco product called Corexit -- break up the oil, acting like a detergent on kitchen grease. They are intended to keep the oil from reaching shore in large sheets and to make it easier for microbes to consume the oil underwater.
Charles M. Pajor, a Nalco spokesman, said that the amount of dispersant the company recommends depends on the acreage sprayed and the amount of oil spilled, with variations for oil quality, degree of weathering, temperature and thickness. Typically, two to 10 gallons per acre are used or one gallon for every 10 to 50 gallons of oil, Pajor said.
Similar dispersants were used after the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska in 1989, and afterward government officials vowed to study their environmental effects more carefully. But urgency faded, research dollars evaporated, and when this spill arrived, the questions were still unanswered.
Now, scientists say, it's difficult to tell what the added use of dispersants permitted by the Coast Guard meant for the gulf. The chemicals may have helped break up some oil before it reached sensitive marshes along the Louisiana coast. But it also may have poisoned ecosystems offshore, helped deplete underwater oxygen and sent oil swirling through the open-water habitats of fish and coral.
"It's still a trade-off. I mean, you're using dispersants to protect the shoreline, and you're going to be killing things in the water column," said Carys Mitchelmore, a professor at the University of Maryland. By using more dispersants, Mitchelmore said, "you're just going to be killing more things in the water column."
In May, under pressure from environmental groups, the EPA and the Coast Guard issued a directive to BP, ordering the company to "eliminate" the use of dispersants on the surface. The directive said BP could seek an exemption in rare cases when other cleanup methods were not feasible.
The government allowed BP to continue injecting dispersants below the surface, as oil leaked from the well on the gulf floor. Their logic was that the chemicals could be used more efficiently underwater, where the gushing of BP's well provided a turbulence that helped them work.
"Because so much is still unknown about the potential impact of dispersants, BP should use no more dispersant than is necessary," Jackson wrote in a letter to BP that day.
But, over the next nine days, BP made daily waiver requests for the use of surface dispersants. Every day the Coast Guard gave its approval. On May 28, for instance, BP sprayed 6,400 gallons of dispersant on the surface, saying it was needed to control dangerous fumes -- volatile organic compounds -- where rig and platform workers were trying to get the blowout under control.
In early June, federal documents show, an EPA official raised concerns about the ease with which BP was obtaining waivers.
"The approval process appears to be somewhat pro forma, and not as rigorous as EPA desires," the official wrote, according to a Coast Guard memo that quoted him. It said BP "must be put on notice that the request for exemptions cannot be presumed to be approved at the point they are submitted."
Two weeks later, on June 22, Jackson said that the Coast Guard had begun giving her agency a greater role in the approval of dispersant use. But federal documents show that the chemicals were still being used, sometimes more than 10,000 gallons a day. A federal official said the last surface dispersants were sprayed July 19.
Scott Dean, a BP spokesman, said that his company had been careful to obtain federal permission before using dispersants on the ocean's surface.
"Since the very beginning, BP has operated in a unified command and we have always worked hand in hand with the Coast Guard and EPA on dispersants," Dean said, "and we've complied with EPA requests regarding dispersants." He added that "dispersants are an EPA-approved and recognized tool in fighting oil spills."
Aaron Viles, at the Louisiana-based Gulf Restoration Network, said the Obama administration gave the impression of controlling the controversial dispersants while allowing their use to continue. The result, he said, was that more oil sank out of sight and out of reach of the cleanup operation.
"Clearly, you know, there was a bit of a show here," Viles said. "Whether EPA wasn't serious, or the Coast Guard didn't care, they kept cranking, and kept exposing the Gulf of Mexico to this giant science experiment
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Ecosphere Technologies Announces Aaron Horn President and Robert Cathey to Senior VP and COO of Ecosphere Energy Services Subsidiary
Tuesday September 8, 2009 8:30 am ET
New Office Opened in Dallas for Expansion
STUART, FL--(Marketwire - 09/08/09) - Ecosphere Technologies, Inc. (OTC.BB:ESPH - News), a diversified water engineering and environmental services company, announces today that Ecosphere Energy Services, LLC (EES), its majority owned subsidiary in the energy services sector, appointed Mr. Aaron D. Horn to be President. Additionally, Mr. Robert Cathey has been promoted to Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of EES.
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Dennis McGuire, CEO of Ecosphere Technologies (ETI), said, "I am delighted that we are able to bring Mr. Horn onto the team as we rapidly expand our business in the energy sector. Aaron's oilfield background and military experience will help him to successfully oversee and direct the current operations in Oklahoma, set up our field office and operations in Arkansas, and open our new office in Dallas. He will also be responsible for managing our new contracts in Utah and Wyoming. Aaron brings an in depth knowledge of the completions side of the natural gas business as well as an extensive firsthand understanding of the oilfield economics of frac and flowback water recycling using our Ecosphere Ozonix process. It is also a pleasure to announce the promotion of Mr. Cathey to Senior VP and COO for EES. He has been an outstanding employee for ETI as VP of Natural Gas Field Operations and we are confident that Aaron and Robert will be a great team together as we move forward."
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Mr. Horn stated, "I look forward to the challenges we have before us. Since I first became aware of the Ecosphere Ozonix technology I believed it was the right solution for the many water issues facing the oil and natural gas business. I was able to test and see the Ozonix Systems work in the field from the customer's perspective and wanted to be a part of the Ecosphere team as they expand and capture market share in the natural gas industry."
Mr. Horn was formerly a Completions Engineer at Newfield Exploration. Mr. Horn and Mr. Cathey are graduates of West Point and both served in Iraq as Army officers.
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