Oh, the Water

Alaska, YES surreal a state that can build “Bridges to Nowhere” using Uncle Sam $loot$ spent faster then 11-million gallons of “benzene” toxicity gushing from the cracked hull of the EXXON Valdez. That “looting habit” on steroids means courtesy “I am he as you are he as you are me” U.S. Treasury on lock-down, but the back door left wide open. I am not rich, but would have no qualms accepting the same tax rate as Donald Trump, and I would also amend past returns so Uncle Sam could return to me some semblance of due “me” process...Alaska has always been “mean spirited” when it comes to pilferage, total disregard for another’s hard earned income taken away only to be given away in waste. Why in hell should the U.S. Taxpayers pay lucrative multi-million-dollar salaries to defense contractor CEOs when these outfits have but one customer - US! I mean, it is like an automatic “forever” contract wherein a bunch of executives that failed in the private sector rape us over the coals - what Patriotism? No different with Alaska and how it takes advantage of nobody looking or listening. Remember, Alaska once belonged to Russia, so there exists still a hangover with some of those colligarchusions! And when someone in Congress finally “biggie rats” this Alaskan style theft, in realization building bridges with no apparent usefulness and all of a sudden-death Alaska is caught in the “ACT” hand in the “Welfare” cookie jar such “pork appropriations” camouflaged as legitimate, no worry. See Alaska is well equipped with a posse of experts in Congress that can steal away even more “Treasury” money to now enjoy building a road to nowhere so the “Bridge” is now a safe haven retreat - as it a has meaning - not a target of ridicule and a “red carpet” for the “Rabid Skunk”. Who? Nancy Pelosi, Congressmen Don Young’s “Prom Queen”! Look, Young has been in love with Nancy for years, must be the Californian roots both enjoy. The only thing that divides them is Democrat blood verses Republican blood, so maybe a Keith Richard’s transfusion is necessary as life is short just ask Mick Jaeger. Truly amazing, that Mick would be first to have a heart to heart and Keith is still kicking up a “Sympathy for the Devil” hell’n storm. But I am a little confused. See, the Trans-Alaska-Pipeline was delayed for years due the “permitting” stage everyone needing a job, all during the “oil embargo” when oil was needed because “gasoline rationing” in the lower-48 was not in line with that life, liberty and pursuit of happiness “Dream”. So it required a whole lot of effort to ram-rod this project that would free the “stranded oil” and upon completion would supply 25% of “this land is your land, this land is my land” with oil! Now after 30-years wherein the Trans-Alaska-Pipeline delivered on average 2-million barrels of “crude oil” each and every day and possibly the “bits & pieces” remains of Jimmy Hoffer because the Teamsters like to always have a presence - there came an over-night change of heart with the “pipeline” owners - called the “Strategic Reconfiguration” wherein the entire operational needs of the “pipeline” went naked and thus targeted for “change”. By this time, the humongous “Prudhoe Bay” formation that held a recoverable reserve estimated at 50-billion barrels, it had been drained down only half of that “black gold”. And by this time, the $8-billion buck “pipeline” was paid-in-full and the “owners” made money through charging themselves a tax-deductible “Transport Tariff”, that which covered the costs of everything - including the Pump Station #7 piping for injecting human sewer waste into the pipeline. Just kidding, they got caught! But besides the pipeline infrastructure no longer garnishing excessive interest for loan pay off and Mafia bride bribes, the pipeline owners were sitting pretty sweet as were most of the “Big Players” that paid the state of Alaska a pittance 14% on average, so the EXXON guzzler could walk away with - do the math! One of the reasons, even after all these years profiting from oil bucks, the State of Alaska could never wean itself away from government “pork” as it gave away the farm! So why like overnight did this “pipeline” project come to an almost screeching halt with changes that signify something ain’t right? Let’s face the facts, this venture exceeded expectations beyond any “gold mining” and the EXXON Valdez was merely a “litmus test” of how non-intentional pollution pays off! Of course “Big Oil” learned that song and dance routine from Bill Sheffield’s Alaska Railroad, this Casey Jones character at one time the governor of the 49er - until he was impeached in the court of public opinion. For real, the Alaska Railroad made a huge profit from a train derailment oil spill, because it convinced its insurance carrier that beavers were to blame, so that allowed FEMA - more government “pork” - to clean up the mess and so did the insurer pay up in a double-dipping frenzy. Of record, it was the only year that the “Clown Train” made a profit and Bill retired because his executive severance was based on…drum roll please, PROFITS! Monkey see, monkey do back to Alaskan oil. Cha, cha, cha-ching changes…no doubt it was in the wind, as the fumes of that Bligh Reef oil gusher would open the door and would leave no stone unturned and this was a sign of bad days ahead for the “Big Oil” brokers. That spill would invite unwanted “oversight” and that is when the dead bodies - “Hoffer and associates - get uncovered. And before the Captain Joe Hazelwood affair with booze that was never found, “Big Oil” in Alaska had become so damn comfortable while minding its own business, along with the state itself “clueless” as 85% of the required state expenditures for roads and schools and high paid salaries all came about courtesy the “oil man”! It meant “Don’t make waves, remember the hand that feeds”. So it doesn’t make sense, to go through such pains to “decommission” an infrastructure when this stuff remotely located is not an eye soar and not an environmental hazard - just put the “lion” to sleep and if and when it is needed to transport oil in the future, it is ready to GO! What makes this “reconfiguration” even more suspect, how about the likelihood more and more oil being discovered on the North Slope, along with “heavy oil” pools that dwarf the mighty “Prudhoe Bay”? It is recoverable, but interest is today based on the going rate of oil - so as time goes on and oil prices increase, open the spigot! And did someone forget, as un-tapped “known” reserves containing recoverable oil already exists - like with the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge along with the “seeping giant” National Petroleum Reserve - it is only a matter of time “We the People” will have a sensation with a Viagra erection and elect a Fucking Moron for the Oval Office and a war will break out - and we will face another “oil embargo”. Sure we are much better off today then when “shortages” occurred back in 1973, but it still can cause disruptions in the “supply chain”. So what gives, why such a drastic reduction and moth-balling of infrastructure that has decreased Alaska’s oil potential production to ¼ what it once sent to oil refineries in the lower-48? Well praytell the truth it goes back to the 80s and right before the “wreck, when the ratio of oil to water switched hands and each year saw “produced water” that came “top-side” to the surface increased by on average 200%. And unable to get it under control by the early 90s when the ratio was…that water was contaminated and today super-contaminated with radionuclides that scares the hell out of the “Bean Counters”. In the beginning, as valuable oil came top-side, so did comingled formation water that finds an affinity to Thorium and other nasty earthly stuff and a majority of that “produced water” was separated and sent back down into the formation as a “sweeper”, to un-strand that oil. Then it arrived top-side again, carrying over more radionuclides, then back down for some more radioactive decaying annihilation fun. And soon, some of that “produced water” was glowing as it had become saturated, as it had packed away as much of that Thorium stuff possible under natural collusion - so what you say, as it all stayed in the ground. And nobody lives up there, so no harm. What Eskimo? Not so easy an out, as even though a majority of that “produced water” went separated from the crude oil to make it “sales grade” so it could be introduced into the one-and-only pipeline going south, well no simple separation process is 100% confident and guess what, that stuff in the form of “lingering produced radioactive water” ended up in Valdez where separation came about again, in a relaxed setting so the water that was carried over and sent down the pipeline, it could now be separated and then thrown overboard into Prince William Sound. I guess some still have it out for the Bloke, as this was murder she wrote as many marine species have not yet advanced to a stage of awareness wherein it rejects tainted food, especially the kind that glows in the dark. Oh the water, as radionuclides became an ingredient in the feeding grounds during the bottom scavenger feeding frenzy - well known fact it decimated the herring population what’s next - best get rid of the evidence! How best to do that, keep the state bureaucrats happy by keeping the beast going, keep the people of the state happy by allowing oil revenue to keep on coming so the residents can enjoy that “yearly $money$ bonus”, that which totals $131000 a family of five that have been gambling for the past 30-years - and eating the tainted fish from the “Sound”. Sound awful? Almost like a “cancer” procedure, diagnose and “gut”. Then again maybe this “strategic” means an honorable way to hide the evidence from the “crime scene”. What Crime? No crime, as one cannot be indicted for a crime if an action or inaction is not against the law. Something may be disgusting, like picking one’s nose in public or blowing a fart on a crowded socialist subway, yet more like an outrageousness in the “shame” lane. No different herein, as the radionuclides that are side effects of oil and gas development, it is well known about but not under any jurisdiction of “discharge” control - it’s a free-for-all! And that is my take on what the “Strategic Reconfiguration” of the Trans-Alaskan-Pipeline was all about, down-size so that any action or inaction minimizes “risk” yet still makes $money$. And it’s paid for, so enjoy the freebie! Yes, a re-design to lower the flow of oil as that also lowers the amount of “produced water” that comes top-side and thus lowers how much “tainted water” is eventually thrown overboard in Valdez. Hope that “crap” isn’t habit forming! That “risk” is paramount this writing. In 1989 the American Petroleum Institute, which is super-pro-active “blood out of a turnip seed Drill Baby Drill”, it commissioned a study that observed this radionuclide stuff in all major oil fields as is found in “produced water” - but Prudhoe Bay was left out of that study! Wonder why? But low and behold, a field that was producing 25% of this nation’s energy needs in the form of oil for gasoline, forgotten about during such a critical study? And that is the key, “Big Alaskan Oil” wants it all forgotten about, and how convenient that Captain Joe spilled enough oil to tarnish and disallow any previous background health checks to be used as a comparison, worthless - the Sound before and after doesn't exist! And what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas rings so true what went on in the Alaskan oil patch - said again, like getting a one-night-stand whore isn’t a crime neither was sending this glowing crap overboard. OK, very unethical that’s about it nothing more to discuss, no crime intended. So start over, and in the meantime cut-back on what is coming down the “pipe” as there are just too many obligations in observations today that would allow a return to the good old days and a “glowing” performance. Yes indeed, when all else fails reasoning we find a method to the madness, cut-backs so that the oil men’s infiltration does never again affect the well-being of the Sound’s marine population and to honor that ethical call to order get rid of the infrastructure because there is no way the oil men will get away with such foolishness again, not with a new watch tower on guard. And there may be some areas of “produced water” in the formations that are just too “hot” to mine, leave well enough alone as dormancy is the best policy. Appears maybe that entity has learned its lesson - $money$ isn’t everything, take your time as baby steps make for a better future. The sad thing, since radionuclides are not under any state or Federal jurisdiction, with this thing called NORM - Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials - if “Big Oil” wanted to continue making the “Sound” glow, it could as nothing is stopping them from being foolish except if it knows about things that have been or could be detrimental to the food-chain we also enjoy, that which may be made unhealthy with what is thrown overrboard, to not act is a sin liable in the courts of law and this would be an easy victory for “victims”!