This oil leak proves that everything the Native Americans are worried about will eventually happen to their land.
As Native American tribes continue their marches in various cities to show their support for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, a major pipeline in the Southeast recently broke and major media outlets remained silent.
Though some did report the spill on their websites, the focus of the news was on the impending gas shortages and the rise of gas prices caused by the spill. At the heart of mainstream media is always how news will affect consumers rather than the ecological repercussions.
The Colonial Pipeline, which has main lines running through about ten states, ruptured in Shelby County, Alabama and leaked 250,000 gallons starting on September 9th before it was closed.
Six thousand barrels were spilled and found to be leaking at an inactive mine site, where hundreds of employees and contract workers are now risking their health to clean up the mess. The vapors from the large amounts of gasoline in the confined area are a risk to the workers if inhaled.
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has been monitoring the area so that the crew knows when it’s time to leave the area. Thankfully, the airspace above the leak has been secured by federal authorities.
Though authorities are handling the disaster, gas may still be leaking from the pipeline even though it was closed on Friday. The section of the pipeline that was leaking has yet to be examined due to safety precautions, so the condition and cause of the leak have not been determined.
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As for the ecological impact, the spill was reported as being contained in a mining retention pond and the owner of the pipeline and the EPA have been working together to make sure it doesn’t reach nearby rivers, creeks, and streams. Cahaba Riverkeeper David Butler has been helping to monitor the spill and is impressed with the swift response by Colonial.
Both Alabama and Georgia have declared a state of emergency and warned their citizens of gas shortages and the potential rising prices. Alabama Governor Robert Bentley reminded Alabama residents, “it is unlawful for any person within the State of Alabama to impose unconscionable prices for the sale of any commodity during the period of a declared State of Emergency.”
In the midst of this silent pipeline leak, the protests against the North Dakota Pipeline are continuing across the country. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has been against the construction of the pipeline for the past two years because of the risk it poses to their water and the violation of their ancestral land. They have pointed out that all pipelines leak at some point, and that building it guarantees that their land will be ruined. This most recent leak is proof of the danger that oil pipelines pose, and the silence surrounding it shows that mainstream media is caught up in harboring those dangers.
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They say it’s unlawful to take advantage of citizens during a state of emergency.
Yet here in ‘Bama, they’ve gouged the gas prices and caused statewide hysteria.
And today they tried to put me fear at the train station with the police and put some yellow c’s in the train station to people’s enzimes swallow the energy from my enzymes body and brain… the bitch is trying to find yellow energies in me… beings have colors and energies as they associate to their own habitat… must be fiber fixed thoughts and common sense…
so open source and hardware everything and why the surveilling system doesn’t link everything to the elite… there must be black holes of information… martial law from china common sense from russia… chemistry and biology from united states…
solutions for all that…
food and water is most important for life so you must boil it, osmosis is good to remove unwanted particles…
** computers they are trying to hold the metal mines for them because they fear the intelligence from other uncontrolled disorder sources… so you can use recycling to get raw materials to create ftl computers… tunnels join split light and mirrors… 3d printers cost money so you must make it for free…
food… use strong vitaminic colorful fruits different colors… join and blend food in a blender it should also make the chemistry and modified biology be combated… vary in food because they target specific food that people prefer… focus in strong metabolism… get the things the body needs in other foods nothing processed… taste doesn’t matter much at these times… get a desert for the final touch of flavour it is also good for the emotions and mind and mind states and feelings and to keep emotions and common sense in place… play with pigments families of food…
… common sense…
so russia might be working on the common sense thing… so scientist dont have and can work on everything to defend themselves… so how does work common sense… common sense is directly related with surrounding nature and habitat… it works this way… humans are animals eat animals and plants live with it and drink water from the same sources… relive memories remember old memories important good rememberances living good memories shared with nature… common sense is the way you process nature and beings around you so you must remember food, water, home, nature, habitat, existence, life, gift, right as first common sense thoughts then you need to remember parts of the body interaction with nature and beings (including people)… and then functions that require practice and evolution of the experience of the self in nature and habitat… walk grab pick throw run lay down sleep… and then comes language… language comes from nature in every phrase and word you mention nature is behind and beyond… or else it wouldn’t exist… it would be a nonsensical nature which a being cant coexist…
the internet is forging people remember specific thoughts like buy, consume, expensive, offering things for money, and avertising everywhere…
common sense is shared between all beings, entities, star systems and life sources… dont forget…
russia is offering land so people will think and start to develop from 0 to study their own evolution…. is it lab rats in the outside… in fresh air… is it a test scenario???
… martial law … well you must remember that well the police military and intelligence are executing things by force and by gear availability, so now you can guess that they only offer actions and functions for a purpose that only aids an end… profit and power over all people and resources on earth… not beings… why doesn’t those defense units of governments don’t know that is because they make them focus on what is happening not in what is silent…
i believe no one know really to who in the end product of everything that all governments agencies are working on… the end product is to the elite and highest bidders only i believe but that will not work like that because i exist im here and everyone shares the same ideology with me so they are fucked…
martial law comes from martial arts, well coordinated precise movements but these ones are not energy they are images and blueprints of movements and practice…
so then it probably will work in the way that they are trying to apply the martial law in countries closing everything from the people… still on the stage… i know… dont fucking lie… shut up… lol… and they are trying to get excuses to apply that to other countries… manipulating people through closing, distracting, use of force, enforce or imply failure at all costs… thats why they spy everything… of course the whole internet is distracted and they know on the internet if a person is on the right path or not… it needs to be fought every second… minute, hour, day… if they fail one thing they try other things… like if they fail to control us they will try the ww3 or end of the world or a fabricated disaster… so then they are putting gmos and chemistry and atoms and brainwaves and emf in the air to try to distract us… remember that mother fucker from the nestle company that said that water shouldn’t be a public right, that means health clean pure water and food… like pay for everything… and this also applies to police intelligence and military and scientists… if scientists are so smart why didn’t they get out or subert diverge the entire system at once…
so they infect everything with gmos and atoms and then try to force us to buy their useless things… its like a mouse trap… the scientists probably cant get out because its too much, they are a lot occupied and there is a lot of competition between scientists and its the civilization era field which no one knows or is expert… there are no phds for that… for some reason… so then they use chemistry and common sense to make us weaker make us forget and to force us to believe there is no other way… it is the biggest lie ever… apply shift shift shift for all that be direct go straight forward life is and should be simple… that’s why objective is called objective and that means you can attain succes in life in all aspects… they also use the technology of keeping one leap ahead of everyone because they can’t control unknown ideas… it is unthinkable to cover everything… it is like science is not energy nor metaphysics nor god nor aliens nor natural life…
remember that in russia and china there are second facebooks and youtubes and search engines for some reason also… consciousness energy… they have all firewalls the same tech the same quantum protection computers encryption on the same internet layer that cia created when they joined all the networks arpanet and milnet to control everything and information and energy through the internet… see the gap and security leap, they started to try to comprehend energy and information while joining at that time and tried to be ahead of everyone at that time… shift on information directed everything through that direction… energy… belief… tech and science… that’s why there was a need to join forces of energies and information… hold manipulate monopolies of information…
dont let them close anything from beings pure natural life from beings please… we need to maintain and open free everything because everything is pure and everything is nature… and everything is birth and everything is gift… self identity is very respectful…
do you want better energy in life??? follow the color of the association of life and beings… they are what they eat like us then we are forged by fire and flow like water through the wind over earth in our own companion habitat…
farewell… 😉
I live in north Carolina one on the states being affected, the news here does report on it along with the shooting that happened in Tulsa OK, and the protest in Charlotte NC. the problem right now is that they are not report it like they should.