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Postby NTP66 » Wed Jan 27, 2021 10:59 am

:lol: Now that song is stuck in my head you NTP66

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Postby dodint » Wed Jan 27, 2021 11:00 am

Gottem.

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Postby tifosi77 » Wed Jan 27, 2021 11:07 am

Tarrio on Tuesday acknowledged that his fraud sentence was reduced, from 30 months to 16 months, but insisted that leniency was provided only because he and his co-defendants helped investigators “clear up” questions about his own case. He said he never helped investigate others.

That comment contrasts with statements made in court by the prosecutor, his lawyer and the FBI. The judge in the case, Joan A. Lenard, said Tarrio “provided substantial assistance in the investigation and prosecution of other persons involved in criminal conduct.”
The transcript from 2014 shines a new light on Tarrio’s past connections to law enforcement. During the hearing, the prosecutor and Tarrio’s defense attorney asked a judge to reduce the prison sentence of Tarrio and two co-defendants. They had pleaded guilty in a fraud case related to the relabeling and sale of stolen diabetes test kits.

The prosecutor said Tarrio’s information had led to the prosecution of 13 people on federal charges in two separate cases, and had helped local authorities investigate a gambling ring.

Tarrio’s then-lawyer Jeffrey Feiler said in court that his client had worked undercover in numerous investigations, one involving the sale of anabolic steroids, another regarding “wholesale prescription narcotics” and a third targeting human smuggling. He said Tarrio helped police uncover three marijuana grow houses, and was a “prolific” cooperator.

In the smuggling case, Tarrio, “at his own risk, in an undercover role met and negotiated to pay $11,000 to members of that ring to bring in fictitious family members of his from another country,” the lawyer said in court.

In an interview, Feiler said he did not recall details about the case but added, “The information I provided to the court was based on information provided to me by law enforcement and the prosecutor.”
Tarrio, in an interview with Reuters Tuesday, denied working undercover or cooperating in cases against others. “I don’t know any of this,” he said, when asked about the transcript. “I don’t recall any of this.”
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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Wed Jan 27, 2021 12:35 pm

He was long-termer on the Twitters. Crazy.


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Postby faftorial » Wed Jan 27, 2021 1:11 pm

It's nice to see people paying the price for purposely providing false information about voting on the internets.

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Postby PFiDC » Wed Jan 27, 2021 1:11 pm

I look like a banker in this....

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Wed Jan 27, 2021 1:27 pm

Lurch tells oil/gas workers to move to Phoenix.


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Postby shafnutz05 » Wed Jan 27, 2021 1:29 pm

Lurch tells oil/gas workers to move to Phoenix.

Spoken like a true elitist.

I wish they would just be honest. The phrase "green jobs" is one of the biggest scams of the last decade.

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Postby Pavel Bure » Wed Jan 27, 2021 1:30 pm

Lurch tells oil/gas workers to move to Phoenix.

Biden keeps pipeline: thousands of truckers, railroad workers, and shipping logistics jobs lost

Biden stops pipeline: 2 thousand jobs created for 2 years. Then 35 permanent after that. Still putting thousands out of work

Damned if you do or don’t

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Postby dodint » Wed Jan 27, 2021 1:31 pm

Saw a fun Facebook post. "Pray for the Oil Industry."

Yeah, nah, they good. :lol:

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Wed Jan 27, 2021 1:32 pm

Lurch tells oil/gas workers to move to Phoenix.

Biden keeps pipeline: thousands of truckers, railroad workers, and shipping logistics jobs lost

Biden stops pipeline: 2 thousand jobs created for 2 years. Then 35 permanent after that. Still putting thousands out of work

Damned if you do or don’t
There is no evidence the pipeline was putting truckers out of work. Most trucking companies are dying for competent CDL holders. You can basically name your price with some of the bigger firms.

Besides Lurch is not talking about Keystone here.
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Postby NTP66 » Wed Jan 27, 2021 1:32 pm

Saw a fun Facebook post. "Pray for the Oil Industry."

Yeah, nah, they good. :lol:
:lol:

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Postby nocera » Wed Jan 27, 2021 1:34 pm

What was old is new again.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Wed Jan 27, 2021 1:38 pm

This was from last year, but still interesting. I don't remember it being posted here, but it's been a long year: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states ... -gas-wells
Ten thousand acres of Pennsylvania’s only national forest have given way, tree by tree, over the last 70 years to an oil drilling operation unique in its scope in the northeastern United States.

A network of wells, tanks, pipelines, pump houses and roads grew into the shape of an italic L cut into the Allegheny National Forest in Elk County to harvest $350 million worth of oil. The lower leg is nearly 6 miles long; the upper one roughly 9 miles. The imprint is visible by satellite.

What worries state and federal environmental regulators isn’t the project’s growth but its death.

Last year, the company that owns the field — Kane-based ARG Resources — quietly shut it down. The company didn’t have the money to run the operation — let alone plug and decommission its 1,600 wells, dozens of buildings and tanks and roughly 150 miles of roads.

“There was just one guy left working there, and he wasn’t working there anymore,” said Scott Perry, Pennsylvania’s head oil and gas regulator.

Although the ARG Resources’ operation is unusual in many ways, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection officials see it as a harbinger of a troubling trend. Perry calls it “the looming crisis.”

A staggering drop in oil prices is threatening to cause a cascade of abandoned wells across Pennsylvania’s traditional oil and gas industry.

There are already roughly 200,000 orphaned wells dotting the commonwealth — abandoned by their owners over a century of drilling. For most of that time, fully sealing off expired wells wasn’t required.

Each abandoned well is a risk, although the danger depends on age, decay and proximity to people. They can channel gas and oil to the surface, pollute streams and drinking water, create explosion hazards when gas seeps into homes and emit climate-changing gases.

Very little money has been allocated for finding and plugging the old wells. Last year, DEP received about $1 million to fund the work. It is sealing abandoned wells at a rate of fewer than a dozen per year.

At that pace, it will take 17,500 years and about $6.6 billion.

The overwhelming scale of the problem has made DEP officials more determined — and creative — to prevent new abandonments. In the Allegheny National Forest, the state is trying to find a way out by giving one high-minded entrepreneur a chance to clean up where another’s grand plans are crumbling.

The unorthodox agreement with a Canadian businessman would use ARG’s forest footprint to help solve the problem — by making products from other oil and gas operators’ salty wastewater. A portion of sales from the new company, AquaPower Chemicals, will go toward plugging wells that ARG has retired.

The project’s outlook is increasingly uncertain as oil demand collapses amid a global public health crisis. But new solutions may be even more vital now that oil prices are at the lowest level in decades.

Perry, citing psychology’s prospect theory, said when you’re in a losing position, you are more willing to take a chance on a long shot.

“There is no risk to us because we’ve already lost,” he said.
It's a much longer article that's worth a read for Pennsylvanians.

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Postby count2infinity » Wed Jan 27, 2021 1:43 pm

Saw a fun Facebook post. "Pray for the Oil Industry."

Yeah, nah, they good. :lol:
They ain't good... they're dying. They're dinosaurs. It's best to just put them out to pasture.

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Postby dodint » Wed Jan 27, 2021 1:46 pm

That's kind of what I mean, though. They dominated and feasted for over a century. Now I'm supposed to, what, start a GoFundMe for them? Naaaaaaaaaaaaah.

Freddy probably has friends in the oil industry that had to shut down their derrick instead of paying for labor.

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Postby NTP66 » Wed Jan 27, 2021 1:46 pm

You can start a GoFundMe for the hedge funds next week while you're at it.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Wed Jan 27, 2021 1:49 pm

That's kind of what I mean, though. They dominated and feasted for over a century. Now I'm supposed to, what, start a GoFundMe for them? Naaaaaaaaaaaaah.

Freddy probably has friends in the oil industry that had to shut down their derrick instead of paying for labor.
The post was mostly making fun of Captain Botox for telling oil/gas workers to "go make solar panels"...as if that makes any sense, economically or socially.

No one has gone so far, with so little than Heinz-Kerry.

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Postby dodint » Wed Jan 27, 2021 1:51 pm

I was just drawing a parallel between the oil industry and your restaurant friends. Sometimes it's just time to be over.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Wed Jan 27, 2021 1:52 pm

The oil industry exists for a lot more than energy reasons.

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Postby willeyeam » Wed Jan 27, 2021 1:54 pm

defense industry?

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Wed Jan 27, 2021 1:57 pm

Time for the GoFundMes for the defense industry:


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Postby Morkle » Wed Jan 27, 2021 2:46 pm

They need to review all that stuff and what Jared was either promised or gave away.

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Postby Orlando Penguin » Wed Jan 27, 2021 3:19 pm

Lockheed Martin can burn and die.

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