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The Fascinating (to Someone, I'm Not Sure Who) Adventures of a Slashcon Newbie
I'm tired.
Chapter One: Random Travel Stupidity
It will surprise no one who remotely knows me that I stayed up until three, packing and dubbing a video, when I had to be up at 5 to leave for the airport. Nor will it surprise anyone that I woke up at quarter to six. So. My flight left Indianapolis at 6:35 on Friday morning. I, however, was not on it. I was in fact standing forlornly at the Northwest airlines counter, being informed by the nice lady that yes, I had arrived on time for my flight, but not on time for the new thirty minute advanced boarding rules, which didn't exist at Christmas. Bugger.
(Remember this new rule, kids. There'll be a quiz.)
However, they were very good about putting me on the next available flight, updating my connection in Detroit, and getting me to Baltimore only about an hour and a half later than planned. This proved indicative of the whole stay, actually. Everybody on the airlines, the hotel staff, restaurant staff, my cabbie coming home, etc, was incredibly helpful and idiot-tolerant. Other people apparently had issues with the hotel, but my experience (and I think wolfling's) was nothing but pleasant.
Chapter Two: In the Kingdom of the Geeks, the Extremely Shy Geek Will Still Try Not to Look Like A Dork
Of course, wolfling knew nothing of how helpful and idiot-tolerant Northwest Airlines was being, because I didn't have the hotel's phone number, or know what room Wolf was in, or if she would be in the room, should I even be able to call. So she was expecting me at 10:45 instead of 1:30, and had begun to wonder if I'd been swallowed by the Luggage Carousel of Doom. When I arrived, I checked in to find a note from her at the front desk: "I'm on the mezzanine level with our room key. Come find me..."
Which would have been extremely helpful and idiot-tolerant, if I'd had a clue on earth what she looked like...
Wolfling quite logically points out that I could've just wandered about asking random fen, "Do you know Wolfling? Have you seen Wolfling? I must find her, for she has my room key." That would have worked, for anybody except a painfully-shy-with-strangers person who's never been to a fan con before, and even amongst the happy kingdom of geekage, was afraid of looking like a git. Because there's a difference between geek and a dork. Except on my case.
I registered, then wandered about, not asking anyone if they'd seen Wolfling. Was about to call home to tell them I'd gotten in, but still hadn't found my roommate, when I heard someone taking my name in vain from within the bowels of the Crossovers panel room, revealing to all and sundry that I was seriously considering slashing Giles and the seventh Doctor. (As in, Doctor Who.) And lo, it was Wolfling. And loreleif and Minotaur and several other people whom I've blanked from my memory, though it was a tiny panel. Blankage based purely on the fact that I was still too brainfuzzled and "Whee, I'm at my first con!" to pay attention to anyone except whomever was speaking slowly and carefully to me, maintaining eye contact at all times...
So my first actual panel was half a panel, and we sat about on the floor and discussed the most insane universes we could possibly cross over to slash, and still find believable. Fun was had, and then I got to finally dump off my luggage and see the room.
Random Sidebar #1
The kingsized beds in the Best Western are, besides being quite comfortable, big enough for at least three traditionally fan-sized people, or two of us, and three victoriabitters. Not, unfortunately, that we had three VB's to try this out with.
Chapter Three: I Want Naked Vampires
After some bumming about, receipt of Evil Comics from Evil Comics-Pimping Bitch, loreleif, and eating of McFood (with simultaneous conclusion that the tiny McChairs in the tiny McDonalds are not big enough for human sized McAsses), we checked out the Art Show, which was finally open.
It was gorgeous, no question. You know, naked men. On canvas. With floppy bits hanging out for all to see. And smooshy sweet sleeping-together scenes, and the hotness that is Aragorn... I almost bid on one of versaphile's beautiful SG-1 manips, for a non-slasher friend (it was Jack, solo). The only thing that stopped me was how many people were already interested in it, and how high the bidding had already gone, pre-auction.
I was disappointed, though, that there wasn't a single BtVS/Angel piece in the whole show. T'was all Sentinel, Stargate, LoTR, or non-slash general fantasy things. I'm given to understand that this wasn't the case last year, so it was just a matter of who brought what, who's into what, at the moment. Just my luck, to have the fandoms represented be ones that I either don't watch at all (Sentinel, Stargate) or enjoy but am still ambivalent about slashing (LoTR). I understand. I really do.
But I want my naked vampires! And Watchers! And Xanders! Buffy art people? Make porn for me. Now! Great porn makers? Love Buffy. Now!
Chapter Four: Are We Beginning to See a Pattern Here?
The Dealers' Room at any convention, fan or actor-based, has twice the specific gravity of any known black hole. It's a proven fact. Well, it would be, if any of the scientists testing the theorem had ever come out of the Dealers' Room again.
Zines. Zines. Zines. Have I mentioned zines? Slash heaven, for someone who's only ever been to actor cons before, where the zines are sparse, and the slash, if present at all, was hidden discreetly under the tables, and you had to knock three times and say the secret code word of the day before the dealer would let you back there to paw through the boxes. Or at least that was my experience.
So, um, did I buy any of these wonderful, out in the open, menfolk with dueling nekkidnesses (...esssessessessessess...hi, people who were in my room on Sunday night) on the cover, slash zines? Er.
Sentinel. Trek. LoTR. Pros. Starsky and Hutch. Stargate.
It's not that I'm not familiar with some of these fandoms, or that I wouldn't read stories in them. I just wouldn't pay 20$ for a bound volume of stories in them, when I know none of the authors, and am not that desperate for smut that I could ignore the fact that I don't know the canon characters well enough in many cases to judge whether the story's good or not.
There were Buffy zines, but...
Few and far between, and what there was, well... Me being me, I wasn't about to buy a zine that didn't have at least one Spike/Xander story in it. That left out the Giles-centric zines, of which there were several. Just moodiness, I spect -- at another moment, I might have gone for them. There was a Xander-centric, and a Spike-centric zine, both of which had S/X pieces. But one of them contained pieces by not one, but two authors whose work I find...less than palatable -- and that gives me no confidence in the editor's ability to recognise good writing in the case of the other stories. And both zines were created by the same editor. If someone else had bought them, I'd have read them to make up my mind, and might have purchased based on one of the other stories, but given the balance... Nah.
I seriously considered buying Lisa Martin's two S/X novels, and am still thinking about ordering them online, now that I've had the chance to skim through and take a look. I'm a bit leery of what seems to be bitch!Anya (turned Anyanka, but even so...), but I have to give her props for a realistic, non-bitch!Buffy characterization, from what I could see.
So. Buffy zines. I want them. I want ones where I can trust the editors to recognise quality fic, and I want a good variety of pairings, with at least some of my lust-objects represented together.
Unlike the art show, since I can't draw to save my life, this is something I can do something about. Thoughts were thunked. Discussions were discussed. Something might come of it, or not.
This is in no way a complaint about the Art Show or the Dealers' Room -- everything was great -- it's all about what people's tastes are, or have been in the past. And there ain't no use bitchin', when you could be pitchin' in.
I bought muchos magnets and keychains and chocolate dicks and cd's, though. Almost bought Buffy Season 2 on VHS, but held out for the DVD. Good Amy.
Chapter Five: Paneling, 6$ per Square Foot
The first full panel I attended at my first ever slash con was, ironically, one for a show I've never seen a single episode of -- and have only read a few fics, purely for their kink content, since I didn't know the characters from Adam: Queer As Folk.
Wolfling is a fan, so even though I don't have Showtime (or any of the pay channels), I tagged along, and kept my mouth decorously shut, pretending to be a devoted fan who simply had nothing pertinent to say, rather than a Buffy-obsessed Philistine who only knows the names of the US QAF characters because she read abut a season's worth of Television Without Pity recaps, for the sheer snark value.
I think I gained something from the experience, though. Since I knew nothing about the show or the fandom, I could sit back and people-watch, without feeling like I had to get my thoughts out there. I could see the sort of concerns that came up, how the mods handled questions, discussion, etc. And it was enough of a taste of the show to catch my interest. I'm not likely to be pimped into the fandom soon, in terms of writing -- it's not got enough of a non-relationship aspect to it, for me to write relationship fic for it, if that makes sense -- but I wouldn't turn down watching the eps if anyone wants to play them in my direction.
Angel panel was next, in the same room, which was the other reason I tagged along to QAF. The hot and heavy topic of discussion was, "Does anybody like Fred?" Surprisingly, I wasn't the only person who said yes. My take is that it's not Fred who's the problem -- it's a) the lines she's been given that should beling to other characters and b) the way other characters act towards her. Though the Brat Queen pointed out, and I agree, that the bit where she suggested Wes date an apparent grieving mother, was completely insensitive. Not to say insane.
Which is what everyone wants to see, I think. Wants to see insane!Fred, because her Pylea-induced paranoia and trauma was just wiped away far too fast. She needs a PTSD episode, imho. You can't just paint over the scribblings on the wall, and poof, it's gone.
I'm jumping ahead in con-time here, but let's talk panels overall, instead.
Buffy panel: Just as enjoyable as the Angel panel -- may I say that the Brat Queen is a hoot and a half? Without sounding like my grandfather? Wolf and I spent Saturday night after the vid show in long conversation with witchwillow and thebratqueen. It was kind of the pre-Buffy panel Buffy panel -- I can't get enough of talking BtVS/Angel with people who like BtVS/Angel. Whee!
The subject of choice there being Bad!Marti and the drug storyline. Why it's awful, and how, if they *had* to use that metaphor, it could've been done better. There were a few dissenting opinions on that -- some people buy the drug metaphor, and their explanations of why were sound. Not agreed with, but believeable.
Also, collective mourning of Giles-lackage, and collective "What the fuck?" over Marti's implication that Willow was supposed to have been raped by Rack, the magical drug pusher. Or magic pusher? Whatever. I repeat: what the fuck? Willow *walked* into that sitiuation with her eyes open.
BDSM panel:
Interesting. Fun. Nothing I was especially surprised by, and (are we sensing a pattern here) the stories recced are all not in fandoms I'm familiar with, though in many cases I'll read them simply for the kink, to see how well it's done. At some point during the weekend -- I don't think at that panel -- Wolf and I were talking with... TBQ? And undoubtedly witchwillow, because we spent much time having fun with her. About "Company In Hell" and the LOC we'd received where the reader didn't really seem to think fisting was believable/possible/likely/happens on a regular basis. And the reflection was made that aside from the blood/biting/scratching, and occasional leatherbased vamp-kink between the Fanged Four, Buffy fans as a whole seem rather innocent about kink. About more kinky kinks, I guess.
The comment was made quietly during the BDSM panel, that there was another panel, in the DIY room, at three that same day, on DD. Domestic Discipline. Big button-pushing suckerface monster, in some fandoms. I, of course, because I'm perverse (as differentiated from perverted) wanted to go to it, to see what people were saying. Because I've read quite a bit of the back-and-forth argument over this, and I can get behind the bad characterization argument, but I can't get behind the "That's just wrong, no one should do that in real life, and no fic characters whom I like should do that, and you shouldn't write it" argument. That smacks of "My kink is kinky but yours is perverted," and it bugs me. Not only because the consensual version of it is my own fic kink (looks around for expressions of surprise, sees none) but because I see most DD stories as extended scenes, the whole acting as if it *isn't* about sex being part of the deal. Mileage may vary, which is why I was interested to see what people who actually write it had to say about it.
And (see comments about geeks and dorks) of course I didn't go. Because I got this silent impression that it would be a pariah panel, and anyone being seen to flit through the doorway would get things said about them behind their backs. I'm a great flipping coward, I am.
Underage slash panel, surprisingly, was not inundated with Clark-Lex talk. It was very evenly divided between people who write it and people who have issues with it, and the co-moderators were great, both in how they expressed their opinons, and how they kept order. The only bit of weirdness came when a hotel staff member came in and started refilling water glasses, and we all had to shush. I understand not freaking the mundanes, and that it's a delicate subject -- but if we're talking about how it's all about art, how it's just fiction, how there are differences in maturity levels, etc etc etc, why should we be shutting up? Not that I was one of the ones still talking; I respected the moderators' wishes on that -- I just wonder whether the concept of protecting the con by not offending the staff, isn't sort of violating the whole freedom of speech thing we stopped discussing because said staff member was there.
The Blog/LJ panel was probably one of the most enjoyable, though the Buffy/Angel panels are right up there. The thing about the blog panel is, aside from the discussion of who, how, why, what's good about it, what's bad, etc, is that we did one thing that hadn't been done in any of the other panels I attended: went around the room and introduced ourselves. It only took about 5 minutes, and it was one of the largest panels I was in, so I don't think it would be a bad thing to do in other arenas. All of a sudden, people I had been seeing all weekend and had no idea who they were, became zvi_likes_tv and latxcvi and gblvr and devon and indalia and Rowan and Shrift and..... and I wish I'd known who everybody was before four o' clock on Saturday. It was wonderful.
One thing I found interesting about the "are blogs taking the place of list conversation/ killing the list culture" is that some blog/lj users actually said yes -- and it's good! Or rather, they said that they'd been slowly doing less and less list activity already -- and blog/lj connections are giving them things that list culture wasn't providing. victoriabitter suggsted that with the LJ friends list, she's able to avoid the teenyboppers and the elfsquee/hobbitsquick folk and basically, the people onlist who annoy her (insert your peeves here) and create via her own tailored selection of journals to read, her own personal fandom. Not the VB fandom, though I'm sure it's gained many members over this weekend ;-) but "Fandom" as a whole -- Tolkien, Buffy, etc. -- pared down to the parts of it with whom we want to communicate. It might'nt take the place of listlife, but it's something that has other advantages. Having been on fic-only lists all along, I've never been part of that discussion community, so I can't really comment on its loss or not, but I buy in to that idea of extending fandom the way we want to extend it, instead of the way specialized discussion lists force us to channel it. Someone else (Lorelei? Brak?) pointed out that the blog comments feature is almost back to a BBS system -- so it's not so much the crumbling of some fandom institution, as natural recycling, with better technology.
So, panels=fun.
Thought, though, that I didn't have until Monday, as we were all scrambling (slowly) to get ready to drag ourselves to the airport: While I loved the Buffy and Angel panels, we spent all of our time talking about Buffy and Angel. The shows. What we liked about this season. What we disliked. What we hope will happen. What didn't we talk about? Slash.
It freaked me out, because I didn't realize we hadn't. But we hadn't. We hadn't talked about slash in the shows; we hadn't talked about writing slash for the shows. How have the season's current storylines made slashwriting harder or easier, for various pairings? What are the hot pairings now, and what's cooling down because it seems less likely, or less sexy? What about this seeming exodus from BtVS/Angel to other fandoms -- is it just the sparkliness of the new fandoms, or is it the current writing/acting/characterisation, that's making it difficult to write slash for some authors? I think that would be a worthwhile second panel for each show -- I wouldn't want to lose the pure show-discussion; it was great. I just think that next year, we might think about having two Buffy and two Angel panels -- current show developents, and slash in the shows. Or current show and its slashy aspects, since technically it's all supposed to be about slash, and then one on the fanfic writing aspects. I don't think the writing workshop is the same thing -- it's not fandom-specific, and I'm not necessarily talking about getting help with Buffy and Angel slash writing. Just discussing it.
Chapter Six: Vids
I drool. Hell, they've almost pimped me into checking out Sentinel tapes. I want Buffy vids. I want to make them. I have no talent. See the bit about the art show. Someone make good Buffy vids. I command it. (Listens to the silence....) Er, I whine for it?
Chapter Seven: Crackfic, the VB Experience, and it's all James' Fault
Someone who shall remain nameless described victoriabitter to me before I met her as "Very tiny, very young, and very British. She sounds like a female Spike." Er, yes. Except for the Spike part. Because Spike at his drunkest sounds like Derek Jacobi compared to VB in non-drunk, non-hungover, non-sugar-buzzed mode. When I first saw her, she was running up and down the mezzanine in pink footy pj's, shouting that she'd had four strips of peeps, five Cadbury eggs, and she wanted more sugar now. Or something along those lines. I offered her Turkish Delight, not actually on my person. She offered to trade me a zillion Cadbury eggs for it. I don't like Cadbury eggs. Stumped her for a second, until she narrowed her eyes, put her hands on her pj-clad hips, and said, "I draw porn."
On Sunday night, between nine pm and 2 in the morning, VB ate all of my Turkish Delight, and I refuse to be responsible for the fact that black Chuckles are licorice flavoured. It's not my fault she's English (not Scottish) and doesn't know these things. I say she owes us all much porn.
At some point during the night, after at least three Cadbury eggs, herself suggested that we write hobbit porn. We being wolfling, loreleif, Kath, self, and VB. I've never written anything LoTR. My take on the characters is that of someone who's seen the movie once and couldn't get more than a third of the way through the FoTR novel before giving up, years ago. I was politely told that this was crackfic, and I should shut up and start coming up with smutty things for hobbits to do.
We finished said smutty crackfic in the bus station at midnight.
I have written nine-way Fellowship smut in which the line "It does come in pints" features prominently.
I must be punished.
It's all zortified's fault. We've decided this between us. Everything is zortified's fault.
Sounds good to me.
Chapter Eight: Pop Quiz
How long do before your flight leaves do you have to be at the airport?
a) Half an hour
b) Whenever you damn well feel like it
c) After three people pry VB out of bed with a pitchfork, shove things into bags, check out, force the nice hotel lady to take a picture of us which cuts off the top of Wolfling's head, but at least it's in panoramic so we all fit in, and wait for the cab to arrive, after which we debate whose luggage VB would fit into most easily. Because she can hold her breath for an extraordinarily long time, you see, and so depressurisation isn't an issue...
If you chose a, you're sweetly naive.
I took the next flight.
There was going to be a Top Ten Things I Learned At Connexions list, but that somehow turned into Top Ten Things MP, Lorelei, Wolfling, and VB Learned at Connexions, and Lorelei has the list. I'll link to it when it's up. Likewise, crackfic. Likewise, pictures, when I can get my &%^*&^%& scanner to scan them in more than 256 colours.
Have I mentioned I'm tired?
The End
Edited the next morning, to correct 2 a.m. spelling, add people I'd forgotten I'd met, and links to bloggers. (The lj links are a snap, but the blog links required thinking in html at 2 in the morning, and just, no.)


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In the end America went her own way as if the Obamas had never come.
That is a paraphrase of the last sentence, "In the end China went her own way as if the Americans had never come," of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman's book "Sand Against the Wind -- Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45."
Obama ended his administration as it began, with a participation trophy. In 2009, he was given the Nobel Peace Prize for what he might do, and now, less than three weeks before he leaves office, Obama awarded himself the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service for what he didn't do.
Delusional is the only term that I can muster to describe the chasm that has existed between what the Obama administration perceived or wanted us to believe and the actual state of the nation.
Over the course of eight years, Obama's pronouncements steadily became, not motivational instruments or representations of a desired state of affairs, but feats of political transubstantiation, where, if he utters them, words become reality.
Reflecting upon his time in office, Obama recently noted the "extraordinary progress" the country has made over the last eight years.
Like beauty, progress is in the eye of the beholder.
Obama thinks race relations have gotten better during his administration, while 2016 polls have indicated that Americans believe race relations have gotten worse and their concern about it is at the highest level since 2001, when data were first collected.
In the political equivalent of a "Jedi Mind Trick", Valarie Jarrett, Obama's close friend and longtime adviser, as well as much of the main stream media, claimed that his administration "hasn't had a scandal," ignoring such outrages as Benghazi, the IRS fiasco, Fast and Furious, Solyndra, ObamaCare, Pigford, the Veterans Administration's death list and others.
Obama's "progress" no doubt includes the Democrat Party's net loss of 1,042 congressional and state legislative seats, governorships and, finally, the presidency.
A week after the election, Obama said that Americans were "indisputably better off" because of him despite a doubling of national debt, Gross Domestic Product growth of less than 3%, a decrease in the work force participation rate, a stagnant median household income and an increase in the number of food stamp recipients by 10.7 million people, 32% higherthan when he took office.
In his weekly address to the nation on Christmas Eve 2016, Barack and Michelle claimed "we made America more respected around the world." Even college students, their core constituency, don't believe that, seventy-three percent having said that the United States is less respected by other countries than it was in the past.
I will not mention the threat of radical Islam, because Obama thinks it doesn't exist.
It was an administration built upon a combination of ideology and incompetence. Ultimately it became an architect of errors rather than a supplier of solutions. Final recognition of which will occur when public awareness exceeds the media's capacity to varnish the truth.
In the end, Obama's legacy will be his pursuit of the appearance rather than the substance of accomplishment, an illusion, as enduring as sand against the wind.
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Delusional wow Obama acted more like he was king of the world; he said something and expected us all to jump
too bad the world does not work that way. He has stepped on the constitution and the cornerstones of America.
he feels the coal and oil are his and the oceans well not more than what he wants done to them. bah humbug to the UN climate Treaty which he passed w/o SENATE RATIFICATION.........................WHERE IS CLOWN SCHUMER AND HITLER
REID SCREAMING THAT HE DID THIS..........................NOWHERE. He has stepped on our individuality and has not
given a rats ass for what Americans wanted he would just issue an exec order and poooof a new law or he changed an
existing one W/O ANY AUTHORITY TO DO SO. NOT MUCH BOTHERS HIM AND WHY B/C HE DOES NOT CARE
Obama is a TRAITOR and assassination is too good for him, he should be publically executed, by firing squad or hanging by the neck, until he be dead, dead, DEAD.
Lee, you are dead on correct. Too bad no one in government cares about that little piece of paper called the Constitution. If they had cared 8 years ago, he would not have been allowed to run, but since they ignored the Constitution with no consequences, he spent his entire tenure as an unlawful POTUS ignoring the Constitution just like congress did. As for executing him, well, while I completely agree, we all know the cowards, traitors, and leeches in the government are not about to do anything that might kill their golden goose. So hang them all, then we can start over with a new bunch who knows what will happen if they betray us again.
Along with Valerie Jarrett, who is also a Muslim adviser.
By far Obama's biggest legacy will be the story when people find out who he really is!. They have dumbed down America over a number of years and were almost on the point of take-over when America finally woke up and said "enough". Through their Marxist / Alinsky tactics, they almost gained control as they played on the sensibilities of the public who, generally hate ridicule.
I maintain to this day that we still do not know who he really is!. Can you imagine how we elected a President who even lies about the most basic thing, his identity!. Yet they made us feel it was the wrong thing to do, to dare to question the President became like some major, earth-shaking criminal act of stupidity.
Clever, but we do need to learn from this and make sure it can never happen again. If they are not fully exposed for what and who they are, rest assured, it WILL !'
See my reply above to Bonnie Somer.
Sorry I posted my before reading yours. At least I am glad that I am not the only one who would like to see the answers to all those questions.
All so true! I'm hoping that after he leaves office (if he actually does) that somebody will come forward with a complete expose' of whoever he is, his true background and heritage. There is so much that is known, but none of it has come from the MSM. When somebody proves he occupied the office illegally, it will nullify all of the laws, orders, bills, etc. that he signed.
In January, 2010, Obama told Egyptian Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit in confidence that he is Muslim. Mr. Gheit did not honor the confidentiality of their conversation, and subsequently made some significant relevations on Egyptian television. He told viewers that he had a one-on-one meeting with Obama, where the US President told him that he was still a Muslim, the son of a Muslim father, the step son of Muslim stepfather, that his half brothers in Kenya are Muslims, and that he was sympathetic towards the Muslim agenda. Aboul Gheit claimed Obama told the Arabs to show patience, and Obama promised that once he overcame some domestic issues, like the Health care reform, he would show the Muslim World how to deal with Israel. (This obviously explains Obama's relationship and actions toward Israel and Netanyahu.)
This information is available on the internet, in several different places (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcnVALuar_w, http://pamelageller.com/2010/06/obama-tells-egyptian-foreign-minist..., and http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/07/flashback-barack-hussein-obama-ad...) Mr. Gheit later broke his confidence and shared this information on Nile TV, and these revelations were published in the May, 2010, issue of Israel Today in an article on page 3 entitled a "Strategic Catastrophe," by Aviel Schneider. For unknown reasons, the American media have totally ignored this news event in Egypt.
It is extremely disturbing to me that our American media, INCLUDING Fox News (unfortunately), are concealing critical information about Obama's past: the medical, educational and other records that Obama ordered to be sealed in his very first act after taking office in 2009; his forged birth certificate; stolen security number; and forged draft registration, among others. There is plenty of proof of all of this, and yet the one television network that most conservatives thought they could trust has obviously forbidden their news anchors and contributors from revealing information which not only would be grounds for impeachment, but crimes of treason for which he should be arrested and tried.
As disturbing as it is that Obama has sufficiently destroyed this country to the extent I do not believe it will be able to quickly recover, it is equally disturbing to me that Congress was totally aware of all of this, and yet has refused to use the constitutional tools given to them to remove him from office. They were aware of most of the facts that rendered Obama constitutionally unqualified to be President even before the 2008 election, and refused to take any action to stop it. And since then, they have refused to impeach him or have him arrested. So our U.S. Congress is every bit as guilty as Obama by being complicit and failing to act to prevent the destruction Obama has perpetrated on the U.S. My own Representative told me in person that he was not aware of any "high crimes" that Obama committed. I sent him a list of about 50 (at that time), along with a definition of "high crimes and misdemeanors." Never heard any more from him - and haven't voted for him since.
I wish they had a way to force him to show the records he had sealed prior to taking office. Be that would answer a LOT of unanswered questions.
Besides all that He is also a Homosexual "married" to a Transvestite and his kids are loaners from a friend. The biggest farce ever played on America.
We need to demand the Trump administration through his Justice Department and Attorney General do a full scale, in-depth investigation of the usurper Obama. In the mean time detain him as an enemy combatant until all investigations are complete. Once the truth emerges, and IT WILL, sentence him to death in the public arena, e. g. force the MSM to air his execution live so as to set a example to anyone else that would commit treason against our country.
Obama is a legend in his own mind. This is an excellent article.


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Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill special guest at NI Boys FA Cup draw
Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill was the special guest at the draws for the Northern Ireland Boys' FA Cup U11 to U17 inclusive.
The competitions run from November to May across all affiliated youth leagues in Northern Ireland and this season Meadowbank Leisure Centre in Magherafelt will host the finals on Monday 2nd May 2016.
At the launch event in Belfast's Ramada Plaza Hotel, O'Neill said how pleased he was to be supporting NIBFA and acknowledged the important role the local boys' clubs teams have in developing Northern Ireland's youth talent.
He also recognised the need for investment in youth and praised Subway, the food franchise, for their financial support for the cup competitions over the next three seasons.
NIBFA Chairman Gerry Ward said he hoped both youth players and coaches will draw inspiration from their efforts in reaching the UEFA EURO 2016 finals in France.
Ward also revealed that through their competitions NIBFA were able to make a donation of £5,000 to the Save the Children charity to support its work in the Nepal region following last year's earthquake.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The winners of a $57.6 million Powerball prize have collected their money without ever showing their faces.
Lottery officials say the identities of people who split the Nov. 22 Powerball jackpot may never be made public.
A lawyer and an accountant representing SWS Investments, LLC, a group of "between eight and 13 people", collected the winnings Tuesday at Hoosier Lottery headquarters in Indianapolis.
Lottery officials say the winners wished to remain anonymous. The group decided to take the lump sum payment of $30,815,336.
The group purchased the winning ticket at Kanti's Lifestyles, a gift shop on Monument Circle in downtown Indianapolis. The company received a $100,000 bonus check for selling the winning ticket.
The big prize-winning ticket has been sold in Indiana 35 times, the most of any of the 29 states that take part in Powerball.
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The winners of a $57.6 million Powerball prize have collected their money without ever showing their faces.
Lottery officials say the identities of people who split the Nov. 22 Powerball jackpot may never be made public.
Congratulations to the winners and what a smart move it was on their part to remain anonymous!
Keep dreaming the impossible dream, it just may come true!
However,I didn't know until now that Indiana winners could remain anonymous.All states should allow winners to remain anonymous if they so choose.
I don't think they "allow" it -- the winners kinda forced the issue by getting a smart lawyer.
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This is very good on their part. EVERYONE who wins a jp should now know they could get a smart lawyer and remain anonymous. That's the way to go.
How can you tell if a politician is lying?
Answer: His lips are moving.
It is going to be a lot harder for people to suddenly decide that they were part of the pool too, since they are anonymous. :)
I need to get that lawyer's name just incase.
I wonder what Katini's will do with the 100K
Absolutely. I'll bet they are shaking their heads at this mess.
When you win millions of dollars it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that your lifestyle will change and some people will notice. People who know you, people who work with you. You know, the kind of people that pools are made of. If the people who won were involved in any pools, it's safe bet that other members of the pool(s) will notice, and get suspicious. If anybody who played in a pool thinks pool tickets were bought at the store where the winning ticket was sold they may just start paying attention to the other members of their pool. The lottery may not release the names to the general public, but anybody can serve them with a subpoena. Even without a subpoena, if somebody tells the lottery they were in a pool with John Jones, and it turns out the anonymous winner was John Jones, the lottery may well confirm it, or at least suggest that they get the subpoena. The downside of trying to be anonymous and then getting sued by people who claim to have been part of a pool is that they'll probably claim they were deliberately defrauded, which could result in losing more than just the shares the others would have gotten.
I don't blame them. Although it's nice to read the stories, I'd want to remain anonymous too. Florida insists that the names of all winners must be public information, but I wonder if a good lawyer could find a loophole. Even when claimed as a Trust or LLC, the names of the individuals are listed in the press releases. I'd hate my name to be announced in the newspaper. However, if I ever win millions, I guess I'll learn to suffer the consequences!
Regarding a pool, I think they're fine, but I'd only join one with a written agreement and if copies of the tickets are distributed to each member. I mean, you'd never buy a TV or even a pair of shoes without getting a receipt, so it only makes sense to get a copy of any tickets played by a group to which you belong.
Now that's how it's done. You gotta find me first.
Anyways I would check out a tax lawyer or investment company .
Dont want the world know who I am . lol
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What is the point of social business? Have you been trying to figure it out? If you were asking that question from a corporate standpoint, you'd say: oh, to reap the benefits of social media inside the enterprise. If you were an NGO you'd say, actually it's to raise capability levels across the globe.
I had an interesting conversation today with Malcolm Frank, strategy chief at Cognizant, on the first of those.
Malcolm sees in 2012 an echo of 1993 when the Wintel application stack began taking over enterprise processes. Social business is about to do the same, he says. We're all primed for significant long term business process redesign.
The problem is, while we're on the cusp of the most significant process redesign in 20 years, we haven't got close to a consensus on what social business means. Come to that do we know how to initiate the changes to get us there, and are we even articulating the benefits properly?
There are four quick takeaways from my discussion with Malcolm that I thought were worth sharing. There will be more.
# 1. Creating better business processes
A lot of the discussion of social business is over-focused on issues like social media and collaboration. Yet the main point is to identify those business processes that will benefit from a social application or improved social interaction. It's not about social media, it is about identifying business processes that you can render faster, cheaper, better.
#2. Changing knowledge-based processes
Business proceses are too often designed as if they take place only in the physical world, using a factory or assembly line analogy. But physical and virtual worlds are converging. And many business processes are knowledge-based, end-to-end. They don't need a physical world analogy. Break out of it by identifying knowledge-based processes and by raising awareness of this analogy default.
# 3. Creating deeper relationships
A lot of companies are stuck in the trap of thinking it is. The very term social implies a move back to human level interaction. In fact it can mean designing processes that raise the level of intimacy between the company and the customer but that doesn't have to be face to face and most often is not. Think Amazon. In retail ffor example, social is finding ways of knowing your best customers the minute they walk into your territory, rather than at the till, and giving them all the tools it takes to get the most out of their visit. That might not mean face-to-face contact. It does mean enabling them to use social tools, for example to do price comparison.
#4. A rational decision process
Companies are making decisions based on this premise: social tools are better than non-social so buy a social platform. And avoiding the difficult one: how do we reengineer the business (I would say how do we re-imagine it)?
Of all four points the first is the easiest to absorb but the fourth might be the most important.
Companies have become poor decision makers and that can't have happened by design. A fifth point would be to front up on this one. Are your decision processes driven by your platform vendors or by really knowing how you business will function in a more socially supplemented environment?
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History of oil and gas production from shale in pictures and charts: Why American shale is heading for a crash and fracking in the UK is doomed to costly failure1. History of oil and gas production from shale in pictures and charts Why American shale is heading for a crash and fracking in the UK is doomed to costly failure Jeremy Leggett2. Preface This is a presentation based on the Future Today chronology of selected developments in climate, energy, tech and the future of civilization: www.jeremyleggett.net The powerpoint version includes source urls as notes, and is available free for any use, by anybody, at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pJlLMT57QZbUP0ZjWf5RMrexzDuanaC2 I know something about this subject not just because of my fear of climate change and passion for the energy transition, but from the research work I did for more than a decade in my first career
.3. A paper in the Journal of The Geological Society analyses widespread shale rocks in the UK 7th Jan 2016 Apr 1980 I researched shale and related rocks while on the faculty at Imperial College (1978 1989), funded among others by BP and Shell.4. At first pass, the reversal of US gas and oil production after fracking of shale began in earnest around 2007-8 looks like a modern industrial miracle5. 7th Jan 2016 2015 Fracking of shale from c. 2006 pushes US gas production steeply up after 5 years of decline Trillioncubicfeet Source: EIA Annual Energy Outlook 2016 US dry natural gas production by resource type6. 1940: 6 in 7 barrels used by Allies in WW2 come from the US 1950: Car use and oil imports soar Nov 1970 Peak 1977 Alaska comes onstream 2008: Fracking in shale 2014 Price collapse
recovery 7th Jan 2016 31st Jan 2018 Fracking of shale from 2008 pushes US oil production above 10 mbd: heights last seen in 1970 millionbarrelsperday7. 7th Jan 2016 2011 This game changer for oil & gas triggers euphoria, including in the political, media and analyst worlds8. Tar sands US shale oil Conventional crude oil Global crude oil production 20052014 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 80,000 68,000 70,000 72,000 74,000 76,000 78,000 66,000 64,000 62,000 60,000 Thousandbarrelsperday Source:IEA US shale is propping up global crude oil production, and has derailed / deferred fears of a supply peak 7th Jan 201620149. But meanwhile there are some inconvenient truths concerning the economics10. The US shale oil and gas business hasnt funded itself at any oil price in any year since the beginning 7th Jan 2016 27th Dec 2017 Even at $100 oil prices in 2012 and 2013, the 33 companies spent more money producing shale energy than they made from operations. 33 shale-weighted E&P companies in the 4 main shale oil plays: Free cash flow Source: Bloomberg11. 7th Jan 2016 6th Feb 2018 The US shale boom has been a Ponzi scheme since day one, doomed to collapse as fast as it has grown So argues @SRSroccoReport, based on the buildup of debt as evidenced in data collated e.g. by the Financial Times as above.12. Even at the relatively high oil prices of 2017 fracked shale oil is a marginally profitable business at best 7th Jan 2016 3rd Mar 2018 Capex v cash from operations based on 10K full 2017 filings13. Accounts of the main US exploration & production companies show 73% of them are losing money 7th Jan 2016 3rd Mar 2018 Capex v cash from operations based on 10K full 2017 filings14. 7th Jan 2016 13th Feb 2018 A summary of the finances of fracked gas in the USA since the dawn of the shale gas boom Prof David Smythe for TEDx: income has been half costs plus borrowing
and rapid production declines wont allow bonds to be repaid. Unconventional well finances 2007 2016 inclusive 350 70 227 647 Historic income (gas sales) 1 Drilling / completion cost 2 Royalties, leases, interest etc 3 Issuance of debt junk bonds 4 324 $ billion15. And even if somehow the majority of companies fracking shale could find their way to profitability they would face another problem of economics coming fast at them down the tracks
.16. 7th Jan 2016 12th Feb 2018 A Powerful Mix of Solar and Batteries Is Beating Natural Gas e.g. Arizona PS Co. opts for a solar-battery project cheaper than gas. California PURC requires PG&E to use batteries over gas. The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About To Change Forever17. Case for coal and gas plants is crumbling as wind, solar and battery costs plunge 7th Jan 2016 28th Mar 2018 Bloomberg New Energy Finance says its latest conclusions have chilling implications for fossil generators. Global LCOE falls 18% YOY for both onshore wind and PV in first six months of 2018
to $55/MWh and $70MWh respectively Offshore wind down 5% to $118/MWh 79% fall in lithium-ion battery costs since 201018. There have been clear warnings about the debt mountain from early on in the shale story, and all the way through it
.in this respect the shale debt bubble is unlike the mortgage-backed securities debt bubble that built up before the credit crunch of 2007 and financial crisis of 2008 (In some of the pictures and charts that follow, the oil price of the day [Brent crude] is in yellow)19. 1 mile © Hughes GSR Inc, 2014 (data from Drillinginfo, February, 2014) Is the U.S. Shale Boom Going Bust? (
even at $100 oil) 22nd Apr 2014 $108 Another Bloomberg report, on 30th April, digs further. Its headline: Shale Drillers Feast on Junk Debt to Stay on Treadmill.20. The Shale Industry Could Be Swallowed By Its Own Debt 17th Jun 2015 $60 Drillers debt ballooned to $235 billion at the end of the first quarter, a 16 percent increase in the past year, even as revenue shrank.21. Oil price plunge sparks bankruptcy concerns 11th Jan 2016 $29 Long-term debt for 134 public oil exploration and production companies in the US and Canada. 2015 figure is through December 17th.22. Both trains and drillers are increasingly getting burned in the shale boom BHP writes down US shale assets by $7.2bn 15th Jan 2016 $2823. 7th Jan 2016 29th Jun 2017 After $13bn of writedowns, BHP chairman says $20bn US shale investment in 2011 was a mistake Jacques Nasser: If we knew (in 2011) what we knew today, we wouldn't do it, of course we wouldn't do it.24. It will take more than an oil price rally to restart the US shale boom 10th Feb 2016 $30 "Its not really like just turning on the light switch." Bill Thomas, chief executive EOG Resources Reasons include cannibalization and degradation of idled equipment, workers relocating to growth sectors such as solar.25. Oil industry faces huge worker shortage7th Jan 2016 8th July 2016 $44 The average age of the oil industry worker is 49 c. 350,000 workers laid off industry-wide, c. 60% of fracking workforce laid off, c. 70% fracking equipment idled, >70 companies bankrupt26. The industry is innovating its costs down constantly: global average oil breakeven cost is now at $51 7th Jan 2016 13th July 2016 $44 This is down $19 since 2014, and shale costs are among the lowest. But it is not enough to reverse the buildup of the debt mountain.27. Energy companies buy time by paying debt interest with more debt 7th Jan 2016 25th July 2016 W&T Offshore, for example: they are offering bondholders 45% of equity plus more debt notes deferring cash payments due. 7th Jan 2016 25th July 2016 $4328. 7th Jan 2016 24th Oct 2016 $49 Bankruptcy bust: How zombie companies are killing the oil rally c.70 bankrupt companies are producing fully 1.1 mbd, restricting the oil price rise that can offer at least some hope of profitability.29. 7th Jan 2016 1st June 2017 $50 Michael Bloomberg: US cities, states and businesses will still meet Paris targets The Global Oil & Gas Industry Is Cannibalizing Itself To Stay Alive 75% of operating cash flow just to pay interest The Debt Wall Amount of bonds below investment grade that the US energy companies need to pay back each year30. Oil and gas extraction has been the least profitable US industry over the last year 7th Jan 2016 24th Sep 2017 $58 Negative net profit averaging almost 7% over the 12 months to end July.31. 20th Apr 2017 2 of the 3 main US shale oil production plays have peaked
.meaning much now rides on the Permian32. 7th Jan 2016 5th Oct 2017 $57 Land deals are plunging as costs rise & production figures disappoint: latest piece of evidence to suggest that Permania might be easing.. The Permian Boom Is Coming To An End33. Has the US shale drilling revolution peaked? 7th Jan 2016 18th Oct 2017 $58 Rather inconvenient if so, because production must be maintained for a long time, at high oil prices, in order to service / reduce the debt wall.34. Shale gas represents 64% of US dry gas production: the US economy can ill afford any kind of collapse 7th Jan 2016 2nd Mar 2018 $64 Much depends on the Marcellus Shale (mostly in Pennsylvania), which provides 38% of shale gas production and 24% of US gas production.35. Wary shale investors warn against drilling at all costs 7th Jan 2016 1st Apr 2018 $69 Says one: If you outspend cash flow on stupid investments & destroy capital, Im not just going to be mad at you, Im going to punish you
36. 7th Jan 2016 29th Apr 2017 $75 More Rigs Don't Mean More U.S. Gas
producers are running hard to stand still. Rigs double since August
and production drops37. Fast shale-well depletion means the oil and gas infrastructure bubble is over: John Dizard in the FT 7th Jan 2016 13th Apr 2018 Investors dilemma: No matter how many years service the pipes and plants could provide, there will not be the production to fill them.38. Shale Industry Drills More Debt Than Profit: DeSmogBlog launches series on $280 bn debt pile 7th Jan 2016 18th Apr 2018 The American oil and gas boom spurred by fracking innovations may be one of the largest money-losing endeavors in the nation's history.39. e.g. EOG Resources: $1.1 bn loss in 2016. Would have lost $0.7 bn in 2017 but for GOP tax handout of $2.2 bn. It is still $6bn in debt. US fracking companies tipped from yet more debt to profit by Trump tax law change at end of 2016 7th Jan 2016 26th Apr 201840. The US shale industry has been a money pit: FT. Chart shows free cash flow per barrel produced for a sample of leading companies. As the oil price rises, some US shale drillers finally just about recoup the cost of their drilling 7th Jan 2016 22nd Apr 2018 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Source: FT $2 0 -2 -4 -641. Unprofitability of fracking means the industry must keep borrowing new debt to pay back existing debt:
the very definition of a Ponzi Scheme. How Lousy Shale Economics Will Pull Down The U.S. Economy: SRSrocco Report 7th Jan 2016 18th May 2018 $78 Future Today 2015 2016 2017 Plotting production decline by year of first flow shows just how fast the decline rates are This plot is of the Permian, the biggest oil basin, showing e.g. 60% decline in 2 years from beginning 2016 to end 2017 (red circles) Replacing that decline requires taking on another massive increment of debt to bankroll new production 1 2 million barrels / day 1.5 0.542. To keep production ahead of such decline, most companies are piling on debt even at current oil prices. Cash flow in top 10 Q1 2018: - $455 m. 7th Jan 2016 25th July 2018 $73 Decline rate in the top US shale oilfields has steadily increased to half a million barrels per day now43. As though this state of play were not bad enough, some shale players have demonstrably inflated share prices fraudulently. If this tendency proves to be as widespread as some fear, the shale-debt crisis could end up worse than summarized here44. 2nd Mar 2016 2nd Mar 2016 1st Mar 2016 xEx Chesapeake boss indicted for conspiracy Anti-trust investigations of other drillers ongoing45. 2nd Mar 2016 2nd Mar 2016 2nd Mar 2016 x Ex Chesapeake boss dies in fiery car crash46. 2nd Mar 2016 2nd Mar 2016 4th Mar 2016 xMcClendon's Actions Aren't Uncommon Across U.S. Shale Patch47. 7th Jan 2016 15th June 2016 Why Billions in Proven Shale Oil Reserves Suddenly Became Unproven 2016 deletions: = 9.2 bn barrels across 59 U.S. oil and gas companies - more than 20 % of their inventories. The SEC is investigating.48. The track record of resource exaggeration is not encouraging49. EIA revises down its estimate of oil recoverable in the Monterrey Shale of California by, ahem, 96% 7th Jan 2016 21st May 2014 Monterrey lauded in 2011 as a 13 bn barrel resource: 66% of US shale oil supply. Rather more media coverage of that story than this one.50. 7th Jan 2016 5th Feb 2018 EIA 2017 shale oil projection highly to extremely optimistic, and are very unlikely to be realized: PCI $ hundreds of billions in debt to do this much $7.7 trillion needed to drill 1.29 million wells in EIAs projected production Source:DavidHughes,PostCarbonInstitute51. As the debts have built up, so have environmental problems52. An increasing flow of worrying environmental reports on water, waste, frack fluids, & emissions 7th Jan 2016 2007 to 201453. City where the shale industry began - Denton, Texas - votes to ban fracking on environmental concerns 7th Jan 2016 5th Nov 201454. Response: Texas Legislature bans fracking bans 7th Jan 2016 16th Jun 201555. Long awaited EPA study concludes that fracking does contaminate US drinking water[/size] 7th Jan 2016 5th June 2016 Both the oil and gas industry and the Environmental Protection Agency had insisted that it did not until this report.56. 7th Jan 2016 1st Aug 2017 As the oil patch demands more water, West Texas fights over a scarce resource Water companies are mining aquifers Farmers and others are preparing to sue57. Exposure to intense shale gas operations correlates with higher risk of asthma attacks, researchers find 7th Jan 2016 18th July 2016 Study began in 2012 on medical records of >400,000 residents. Finds increase in severity of asthma in those exposed to most active wells.58. 7th Jan 2016 27th Jan 2013 So much gas is being flared from US shale fracking for oil that it can easily be seen from space Bakken Shale Minnesota St Paul `Chicago Enough gas wasted to power all the homes in Chicago and Washington DC combined59. 7th Jan 2016 18th July 2018 If the the gas burnt globally in flares were captured and used for power generation, it could supply 90% of Africas electricity consumption. Global gas flaring dropped slightly in 2017, but rose 7% in the US because of fracked shale oil60. The core oil and gas climate argument is that burning gas is less bad for global warming than burning coal61. True
.depending on leakage Agelbert NOTE: Though coal produces more particulate pollution causing respiratory diseases, gas actually increases Global Warming from GHG pollution MORE than coal! 📢 Amory Lovins: Natural Gas is worse than CoalPublished on Jul 6, 2017https://youtu.be/yCdFGRAnp0g62. 7th Jan 2016 28th Jun 2017 The Paris climate emissions budget is tiny, meaning all existing gas reserves cannot be safely burned Decarbonisation by 2040 As set out by Christiana Figueres + long list of climate experts. 3 years to safeguard our climate. And if methane leakage is significant
.63. Future of natural gas hinges on staunching methane leaks 7th Jan 2016 11th July 2016 EPA data collection programme underway on 10s of 1000s of oil and gas operations. Some drillers have committed to <1% emissions.64. Methane leaks from the US oil & gas industry c.60% higher than government estimates: new study 7th Jan 2016 21st Jun 2018 9-basin estimate incorporating aerial data suggests 2.3% leakage well- to-power plant. EPA suggested 1.4%. 2.7% makes gas worse than coal.65. The data confirm that we can and must do more on methane. 2nd Mar 2016 2nd Mar 2016 29th Feb 2016 xEPA Chief: Methane emissions from oil and gas substantially higher than we thought66. 2nd Mar 2016 2nd Mar 2016 11th Mar 2016 xUS and Canada to cut methane emissions from oil and gas industry by 40-45%67. 2nd Mar 2016 2nd Mar 2016 11th Mar 2016 xAPI says it will take legal action because emissions cuts will threaten the shale revolution Jack Gerard CEO68. 7th Jan 2016 28th Apr 2016 The U.S. oil and gas boom is having global atmospheric consequences, NOAA reports Fully 2% of rising global ethane concentrations (which can only come from fossil fuels) are from the Bakken Shale.69. 7th Jan 2016 16th Aug 2016 In US methane hot spot, researchers pinpoint sources of 250 leaks using airborne sensors c. 600,000 metric tons. Major coal bed methane production region. More than 50% emissions from 10% of leaks.70. NASA-led team shows oil & gas industry responsible for largest share of recent rising methane emissions 7th Jan 2016 20th Dec 2017 New measurements reconciling isotopic data suggest fossil fuels contributed 1219 Tg CH4 per year of c. 25 Tg CH4 per year since 2006.71. The oil industry is betting its survival on gas, with US shale as a centerpiece72. The O&G industry is trying to rebrand itself as a clean energy industry based on natural gas vs coal 7th Jan 2016 9th Jun 2015 World gas conference, 201573. Oil and Gas Climate Initiative: 10 CEOs
majoring on oil companies morphing to gas companies 7th Jan 2016 16th Oct 201574. 7th Jan 2016 16th Aug 2017 Shell takes $14bn gas **** with worlds biggest floating structure Floating Liquified Natural Gas vessel Prelude Length 488 metres75. 7th Jan 2016 20th June 2016 Shell puts revamped shale arm at heart of future growth strategy76. 7th Jan 2016 7th Jan 2018 Growth of Shells oil and gas operations in the next decade will depend on shale production: CEO With a little bit of help from the oil price going up, we now see that we can significantly accelerate investment into this opportunity.77. Shell to bet billions on US shale by bidding for retreating loss maker BHP's shale division 7th Jan 2016 8th Mar 2018 The Charge of The Light Brigade A $10 billion offer, jointly with US private equity group Blackstone.78. 7th Jan 2016 1st Aug 2013 Shell writes off $2 billion in shale The idea of a shale revolution spreading from the US across the world is a little bit overhyped, says CEO Peter Voser.79. 7th Jan 2016 3rd Oct 2016 Big oil should exercise capital discipline as prices rise
& appoint a Head of Memory So says Paul Spedding, ex Global Co-Head of Oil And Gas Research at HSBC, now an advisor to Carbon Tracker80. Beating Shell and Chevron to the 4.5 billion barrels of oil-equivalent resources, BP CEO Bob Dudley calls it a transformational acquisition. 7th Jan 2016 26th July 2018 BP heads into US shale oil and gas by buying BHP's assets - up for sale nearly a year - for $10.5bn81. 7th Jan 2016 12th Feb 2017 Oil and gas discoveries dry up to lowest total for 60 years 174 discoveries totaling only 8.2 bb oil and gas equivalent in 2016. This dismal record pressures oil majors to seek quick wins in US shale.82. 7th Jan 2016 31st Oct 2017 Gas firms spend 104m on lobbying in 2016 to keep Europe hooked on fossil fuel 30x more than groups lobbying for a fossil-fuel-free future. 460 meetings with just two relevant EU Commissioners in 2.5 years.83. With one exception, it looks as though the rest of the world fears the downsides of shale enough not try and copy the Americans84. 7th Jan 2016 2nd June 2016 Scottish parliament bans fracking85. 7th Jan 2016 24th June 2016 Germany bans fracking 👍 86. 7th Jan 2016 30th Aug 2016 Victoria becomes first Australian state to permanently ban fracking and coal seam gas 👍 It is clear that the Victorian community has spoken. They simply dont support fracking: State government spokesperson 87. France bans fracking and oil extraction in all of its territories 7th Jan 2016 20th Dec 2017 👍 President Macron says he wants to lead the world in race for renewables Lawmakers hope the ban will be contagious88. New Zealand bans future offshore oil and gas drilling 👍 in support of Paris targets 7th Jan 2016 12th Apr 2018 NZ currently has 5 operating offshore fields, and 22 active offshore exploration licences. Oil lobby expresses surprise and disappointment.89. 7th Jan 2016 9th Nov 2016 Monterey county, a significant drilling target, votes to ban fracking despite oil industry lobbying blitz 👍 90. The exception is England, a country with a government seemingly intent on allowing the fracking of shale at any cost 91. 7th Jan 2016 Dec 2012 US shale drillers hit hurdles going international UK backs gas including domestic shale92. Vast areas of southern England discovered to hold billions of barrels of oil in shale 7th Jan 2016 23rd May 201493. A single pre-frack exploration well drilled by Caudrilla at Balcombe in Sussex faces huge protests 7th Jan 2016 Aug 2014 👍 94. UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate: Our country needs shale gas, so lets go get it 7th Jan 2016 9th Aug 2015 Amber Rudd: A responsible, long-term energy policy demands a willingness to take decisions today for the good of tomorrow. 95. Britain's shale fracking revolution comes with big risks 7th Jan 2016 18th Aug 2015 Andrew Critchlow: Get it wrong and fracking in Britain
will become too politically toxic for any future government to consider. There would be rather a lot of these on English country lanes, carrying water, sand, and toxic frack fluids in to well pads, and waste fluid plus (maybe) oil and gas out96. Fracking gets go-ahead in UK for first time since 2011, despite 4,000 objections to planning enquiry 7th Jan 2016 23rd May 2016 FT Lex: The cult following still believes that fracking in the UK could be profitable. Investors should allow market forces to finally kill it off.97. 7th Jan 2016 8th Aug 2016 UK shale: All households near fracking sites set to get money paid straight into banks98. 7th Jan 2016 27th Oct 2016 Latest UK poll suggests only 17% support fracking (while 79% support renewables) These companies are joined by the Conservative government in running the gauntlet of such huge public opposition, which must be multi-party.99. 7th Jan 2016 13th Feb 2018 UK government accused of dishonesty in regulation of fracking by eminent geophysicist Prof David Smythe: risk in fault leakage covered up, & definitions of conventional & water volume bent to misclassify fracked wells. 100. Ineos shale drilling application rejected: that makes 7 out of 8 shale drilling plans rejected in 2018 7th Jan 2016 8th Mar 2018 It now takes on average 58 weeks to (maybe) get a planning decision on the drilling of a vertical well, up from 13 weeks 5 years ago.101. UK's first horizontal well completed in Lancashire shale, Caudrilla reports 7th Jan 2016 3rd Apr 2018 The driller now waits for government approval to conduct what would be the first frack since 2011. (The one that led to an earthquake).102. 7th Jan 2016 19th July 2018
and no payments for solar electricity exports a huge blow to the homeowner and community solar that competes with shale gas. HMG proposes, on the same day, no need for frackers to seek planning permission henceforth
.103. Cuadrilla given the go-ahead to start fracking in Lancashire by energy minister 7th Jan 2016 24th July 2018 Claire Perry: Our world-class regulations will ensure that shale exploration will maintain robust environmental standards and meet the expectations of local communities. be derided 104. Letter to O&G companies: major hydrocarbon releases remain a concern because of their greater potential to lead to fires, explosions and multiple losses of life. There have been several such releases in recent years that have come perilously close to disaster. Offshore UK OGI perilously close to disasters as a result of neglected gas leakage, HSE warns 7th Jan 2016 26th Apr 2018105. The Air Quality Expert Group (AQEG) report is eventually quietly published 3 days after Caudrilla gets clearance to frack in Yorkshire. 7th Jan 2016 2nd Aug 2018 Report finding that fracking increases air pollution buried for 3 years by UK government 40,000 premature deaths a year linked to air pollution HMG has just decided its OK for that figure to be higher 106. University of London cardiologists find exposure to nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 and PM10 particles linked to an increase in the size of ventricles. 7th Jan 2016 3rd Aug 2018 Air pollution linked to changes in structure of the heart of the sort seen in early stages of heart failure107. And there is no reason to expect the economics of shale drilling in the UK to be any less disastrous than in the US In fact, drilling costs should be higher in the UK, because we have world class regulations and the Americans have virtually none under a Trump EPA Plus
. 108. Subsidy-free renewable energy projects set to soar in UK, analysts say, largely killing off new gas plants 7th Jan 2016 20th Mar 2018 Aurora Energy Research: Onshore wind and solar both viable without subsidies by 2025, unlocking £20bn of investment by 2030. Solarcentury roof for Sainsbury109. Offshore wind will provide most of the growth from 2017 to 2025, WWF suggest, but HMG could & should also use onshore wind and solar. UK on track to phase-out coal by 2025 without the need for any new large gas plants: WWF report 7th Jan 2016 13th May 2018 Masayoshi Son, Softbank founder and CEO110. Some conclusions111. In the USA, the sadly numerous real-life oil-train wrecks are an allegory for the entire shale story: the debt mountain means this train is going to come off the tracks112. Its impossible to foresee when
but unlikely to be more than a few years113. In the UK, the train is most unlikely to make it properly on to the tracks: polls, disruption, and mad economics suggest that too many conservative rural voters will be prepared to fight very hard indeed to stop it happening114. In the UK, the train is most unlikely to make it properly onto the tracks: too many rural Conservative voters will be prepared to die in a ditch to stop it happening The energy-policy, economic, environmental and societal implications of these conclusions will be examined further in forthcoming blog-slideshows on the Future Today website: www.jeremyleggett.net
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