HUSH!! (money)
Welcome to LNG Theater!!
(curtain rises, lights up slow)
(scene: inside the dark recesses of the headquarters of Northern Star. Scene is flashback to
one year ago today in a noisy boardroom)
CEO: Gentlemen...Gentlemen please, can we get on with business now?(room slowly quiets) Agent Dave, what do you have to report on the Bradwood matter?
Agent Dave: It looks like we are the front runners so far. our competitors are bankrupt and selling off assets left and right. They have held several public meetings up to this point.
CEO: How did that approach work?
Agent Dave: Just as planned. The opposition turned out in force and proceeded in the way we predicted.
CEO: So now the general public thinks of them as crackpots and troublemakers?
Agent Dave: Yes sir. In fact, most of the public officials have ignored them from the start.
CEO: Excellent. Now that they have discredited themselves, no one will believe a thing they say. Lets move on to phase two.
Agent Dave: At first, of course we'll ride into town wearing white hats, shaking hands, buying the media off and meanwhile we'll become part of the town by opening our own storefront.
CEO: phony?
Agent Dave: Of course. Just a few signs in the windows but we won't have anyone there who could actually answer a question or do anything helpful.
CEO: Then what? Agent Bob?
Agent Bob: In the next phase we'll begin to pressure those who haven't sold out yet and push the feds for more control. We will make a special effort to ignore local concerns unofficially, but of course our public relations people will be trained to sound concerned. Our consultant says we should use the word "partner" a lot in our public discussions.
CEO: Very good! Now we know we won't get much grief from the port, or the cities. They can't wait for us to come in and take away attention from them for a while. We'll bypass the little county in Oregon completely with something about National Security...We'll just make that part up as we go along. But what about that little town in Washington that's in the blast zone? what was it?
Agent Bob: Cath, or Cathy something? Yes, well that's a fairly easy matter since legally they have no standing in this matter, but we don't want to tip our hand too soon so I would suggest
a simple cash buy-out just in case their Congressman wakes up about this at some point.
CEO: How much?
Agent Bob: Oh, half million should do it over a few years as long as we give it to a well established and beloved local charity with a strong local board of people who will keep others in line.
CEO: Ah heck, make it a million! As long as we can write it all off? Let's proceed.
Agent Dave: Already underway sir
(Fade to black) (curtain)
6 comments:
And many have been criticized for implying 'Calpine' greased the skids for their 'Boondoggle' in collusion with 'The Port Of Astoria' and other local politicians and leaders who, to the man, have kept absolutely mum on the issue while we sit and wait and wait and wait....for what?....The hammers to fall at the leisure of FERC, Oregon Ports, etc.
And yet we still sit here and do nothing right along with those 'Nabobs'.
This is just a larger version of what takes place at the "Ships Inn" and Union Town Cafe" with players from the community and City of Astoria". If you think the major decisions are made in open forum think again. That process is only a disguise for the real thing.
If I may quote a previous post "The historic rule of thumb around here with Planning Commission, some say is, if it's big and controversial, Planning Commission will table it and send it to City Council for a final decision to suit whomever's agenda.
A thorn in the side of the council is Mr. Webb, maybe the city needs more like him to ask and ask and question situations.
Good job "DON."
Fence at Lynn LNG facility breached
LYNN, Mass. State and local police are investigating a breach in security at a Keyspan liquefied natural gas storage facility in Lynn.
State officials say the incident does NOT appear to be terrorism related.
Officials at Keyspan say they found that a chain link fence surrounding the facility had been cut.
Surveillance tapes from August 16th show two people cutting through the fence and climbing on top of a storage tank containing the potentially explosive L-N-G.
There have been no arrests.
In response, state public safety officials have notified police departments in communities with L-N-G storage facilities to take extra security precautions. All companies with similar storage facilities have also been notified.
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The fence breeched and the intruders standing right on top, the weakest and most vulnerable part of the LNG Storage Tank.
Just 5/8" of steel between them and 7plus million cubic feet of roiling Liquefied Natural Gas at -260 degrees just waiting for the opportunity get loose, vaporize and blow something the hell up!
And they simply cut the fence, undetected and let themselves in and even gained access to the tanks?
It was even caught on video and still no response from any kind of security?
Good Lord in Heaven; what's in store for us should these LNG Speculator/Port Sanctioned Pirates get their way in our community?
We can think who and what should be blown up.
Was this possibly a Clatsop County resident on a mission??
Hope your blood pressure has returned to normal.
LNG attack could ignite firestorm
By Thor Jourgensen
Thursday, August 24, 2006
(From The Daily Item - Boston)
Lynn, Massachusetts -- An explosion followed by a rash of fires spreading out for a mile in all directions is the worst possible scenario that could occur in the event of a terror attack on the waterfront liquid natural gas tank in Lynn.
That possible disaster zone would stretch from the waterfront past Western Avenue, over the General Edwards Bridge, encompassing downtown and much of West Lynn and extending halfway across the Nahant Causeway.
It would dwarf the downtown area centered on Washington and Broad streets destroyed by the 1981 fire.
A local fire chief involved in emergency response to terror attacks on area utilities offered that grim scenario Wednesday as state and Keyspan energy workers sought to locate two people who climbed the LNG tank last Wednesday.
"It would be a catastrophic release if the tank were breached. The liquid would vaporize, expand quickly, seek an ignition point and then, if there was a flashback, you would have a firestorm," Revere Chief Eugene Doherty said.
Doherty and fellow Boston area chiefs, including Lynn's Edward Higgins, have trained their firefighters and planned for multi-department responses to possible terror attacks on a liquid gas tanker in Boston Harbor, the Everett gas facility, and other locations.
State public safety officials said the security breach did not appear to be terrorism-related, but they want to know how the pair, possibly juvenile males, cut their way through two chain link fences and avoided security cameras and motion detectors to climb to the top of the tank.
"The entire incident is being reviewed and dissected internally and externally to determine what went wrong," Keyspan spokesman Carmen Fields said.
State officials also want an explanation from Keyspan about why it took the utility company until Monday to report the intrusion.
"We want to know what communications breakdown occurred and why we were not informed more expeditiously," Public Safety spokesman Andrew Plunkett said.
The tank is located between Blossom Street extension and Marine Boulevard. Built in 1971, it stores liquid natural gas shipped in trucks from Everett. The liquid is converted into gas and pumped by pipes to Keyspan customers.
"Keyspan takes safety very seriously and our facilities meet and, in many cases, exceed current safety standards," Fields said.
Doherty said that if an explosion or large puncture breached the tank, firefighters would rely on a large moat around the tank to contain liquid while they sprayed a "water curtain" of misted water over the moat and the perimeter of the spill to prevent any fumes from igniting.
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