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Heres what you should know about me

• Veteran - US Army
• Farm owner
• Business owner
• 2007 Max Dalton award winner
• Ex. Dir. of ICARE and Co-Founder of IRAGE
• Payette County resident
• Concerned Wife, Mother and Grandmother

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Oil and gas development in Idaho

• Loss of prime farm ground to industrialized uses
  Its not only the wells, but the entire process
• Gas/Oil wells
• Injection wells
• Wastewater structures
• Tank farms
• Pipelines/Gathering/Lateral lines
• Dehydration/Compression stations
• Liquefied Natural Gas facilities

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Oil and gas development in Idaho

• What are some of the issues associated with oil
  and gas extraction and processing?
• Potentially negative impacts to human health,
  domestic pets, livestock and wildlife
• Impacts to both surface and ground (drinking)
  water
• Precious drinking/irrigation water used for
  drilling and fracking (water that will never be
  reusable)
• Spills of hazardous drilling muds, produced and
  flowback waters
• Intentional dumping of wastewater (possibly
  radioactive)
• Loss of farm ground, infertile or unproductive
  farmland

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19 head of cattle dead from chemical exposure in
field next to Chesapeake / Schlumberger
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Oil and gas development in Idaho

• What are some of the issues associated with oil
  and gas production and processing? (cont)
• Increased crime, drug/alcohol abuse, truck
  traffic and accidents
• Damage to infrastructure (roads and bridges)
• Financial burdens passed to county/state
  taxpayers
• Degradation of your rural quality of life
• Hazardous/polluted air
• Earthquakes
• Loss of recreational areas from development
• Loss of property values

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Ruggieros view from the kitchen window of their
former home (Texas)
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Hidden costs associated with OGproduction
activities

• Lowered property values
• In Pavilion, Wyo., where the EPA has linked
  groundwater contamination with fracking, Louis
  Meeks saw the value of his 40-acre alfalfa farm
  all but disappear completely. In 2006, his land
  and home were appraised at 239,000. Two years
  later, as ProPublica reported, a local realtor
  sent Meeks a letter saying his place was
  essentially worthless and she could not list his
  property. Since the problem was well documented
  and since no generally-accepted reason for the
  blowout has been agreed upon, she wrote, buyers
  may feel reluctant to purchase a property with
  this stigma.

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Hidden costs associated with OG production
activities

• Lowered property values (cont)
• A study conducted by researchers at Duke
  University found that the risks and potential
  liabilities of drilling outweigh economic
  benefits like lease payments and potential
  economic development in Washington County, PA.
  Even though lease payments can add overall value
  to homes with wells drilled on them, the
  possibility of contaminated water decreases
  property value by an average of 24 percent. The
  boost that comes from signing a lease offsets the
  increases, leaving a net decrease in value of 13
  percent. But keep in mind that the lease payments
  assume that the estate is unified something
  much more common in the East than in Idaho.

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Hidden costs associated with OGproduction
activities

• Lowered property values (cont)
• In North Texas, the Wise County Central Appraisal
  District Appraisal Review Board knocked down the
  appraised value of one familys home and 10-acre
  ranchette from 257,000 to 75,000a decrease of
  more than 70 percent. The board agreed to the
  extraordinary reduction as a result of numerous
  environmental problems related to frackingjust
  one year after the first drilling rig went up on
  the property.

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Hidden costs associated with OGproduction
activities

• This facility processes natural gas from Exxons
  XTO gas wells in the Argyle/Bartonville area. The
  home in the photo above was devalued after this
  facility went in from 361,000 on the 2009 tax
  rolls to 95,000 on the 2010 tax rolls.

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Would you buy these properties?
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Hidden costs associated with OG production
activities

• Negative impacts affecting quality of life
• Formerly quiet rural areas become 24/7
  industrialized zones
• Now comes the second phase. The dreadful noise
  generated by a nearby large compressor station.
  Noise that was so loud that our dog was too
  frightened to go outside to do his business
  without a lot of coaxing. Noise that sounds like
  a jet plane circling over your house for 24 hours
  a day. Noise that is constant. Noise that drives
  people to the breaking point. My neighbor called
  the sheriff, state officials and even the
  governor and was told nothing could be done about
  the noise. Like I said, the noise drives people
  to the breaking point, and my neighbor fired 17
  rifle shots toward the station. Excerpted from
  CBM Destroys Retirement Dream

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Compressor station fire in Ft. Lupton, CO
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Lets talk aboutcompressor stations Tina Fisher

• Ive been a resident of Idaho for 21 years
• I am a business owner and homeowner
• Before I became educated on the impacts of OG
  development I leased my mineral rights
• I am the Co-Founder of IRAGE
• In 2010, Bridge Resources filed an application
  with Payette County to put a Dehydration/Compressi
  on station 20 from my home.
• This led me to contact Charles Morgan, P.E.
  (retired-- USAF Major) in Freestone County,
  Texas.

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Per Charles Morgan

• In an email dated 09/10/2011, Charles stated,
  You are correct in having concerns about the
  natural gas compressor stations. He went on to
  tell me, After 15 years of raising cattle here,
  this is the first bull to be sterile. This
  prized bull was raised on the same side of the
  property as the compressor station (which was
  9/10 of a mile away). Bulls raised on the other
  side of the hill (away from the compressor
  station) did not become sterile

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Compressor station
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Air quality/public health impacts

• Fracking-related air pollutants include
  carcinogenic silica dust (Moore, Zielinska,
  Pétron, Jackson, 2014), carcinogenic benzene
  (McKenzie, Witter, Newman, Adgate, 2012), and
  volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that create
  ozone (Gilman, Lerner, Kuster, de Gouw, 2013).
  Exposure to ozonesmogcontributes to costly,
  disabling health problems, including premature
  death, asthma, stroke, heart attack, and low
  birth weight (Jerrett et al., 2009).
• Unplanned toxic air releases from fracking sites
  in Texas increased by 100 percent since 2009,
  according to an extensive investigation by the
  Center for Public Integrity, InsideClimate News
  and the Weather Channel (Morris, Song,
  Hasemyer, 2014).

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Air quality/public health impacts

• The Wasatch Front and Cache County in Utah (Unita
  Basin) are known to have some of the worst
  short-term fine particulate matter pollution in
  the country.
• Poor air quality may also affect the states
  highly-valued economic development and tourism.
  These concerns led to a flurry of
  pollution-related legislation that was proposed
  during Utahs 2013 General Session, and even more
  is proposed for 2014.
• For a very good overview of the potential public
  health impacts, visit http//concernedhealthny.org
  /letters-to-governor-cuomo/ and view the letters
  signed by hundreds of public health professionals
  in New York State

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Impacts to surface water

• Illegal water withdrawal (from irrgation canals,
  streams, rivers)
• Illegal dumping of toxin-laden wastewater
  (possibly radioactive)
• Fish kills
• From the AP (03/13/2011) The state attorney
  general's office filed 98 criminal counts against
  Robert Allan Shipman and 77 counts against his
  company, Allan's Waste Water Service Inc.
• Prosecutors said Holbrook told his drivers to
  open valves at natural gas drilling wells, often
  at night or during rainstorms, so the wastewater
  would run into nearby waterways. He also is
  accused of telling drivers to dump the contents
  of their trucks into a floor drain that led
  directly to a nearby stream.

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Impacts to ground (drinking) water

• From researchers at Cornell About 40 percent of
  the oil and gas wells in parts of the Marcellus
  shale region will probably be leaking methane
  into the groundwater or into the atmosphere.
  This study shows up to a 2.7-fold higher risk for
  unconventional wells relative to conventional
  wells drilled since 2009.
• Other industry documents show that well failure
  is a widespread problem around the world, that
  abandoned wells are a major migration pathway to
  aquifers, and that there are multiple scenarios
  by which gas and other contaminants can escape a
  well to contaminate water supplies.

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Impacts to ground (drinking) water

• AP article Four states confirm water pollution
  from drilling (01/05/14)
• Ohio
• Pennsylvania
• Texas
• West Virginia
• Not mentioned in the AP article Pavillion,
  WYWant a clearer picture of what happens when
  drilling comes to a community? The List of the
  Harmed is a good place to start
  http//pennsylvaniaallianceforcleanwaterandair.wor
  dpress.com/the-list/

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From the List of the Harmed

• Pam Judy and familyLocation Carmichaels, PAGas
  Facility Compressor station 780 feet
  awayExposure AirSymptoms Headaches, fatigue,
  dizziness, nausea, nosebleeds, blood test show
  exposure to benzene and other chemicals
• Darrell SmitskyLocation Hickory, PAGas
  Facility Range Resources Well, less than 1,000
  ftExposure Water toluene, acrylonitrile,
  strontium, barium, manganeseSymptoms Rashes on
  legs from showering.Symptoms (animal) Five
  healthy goats dead fish in pond showing abnormal
  scales another neighbor comments anonymously
• These are No. 1 and No. 2 on the LOTH, there are
  currently 6,085 names/families on this list

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Earthquakes?!

• FACT Oil and gas production/disposal activities
  cause/induce earthquakes
• Did you know Idaho is the fifth most seismically
  active state in the country?
• Richard Grimm, a 75-year-old farmer from Mahoning
  County, Ohio, says he reluctantly agreed to lease
  his land to an energy company for fracking. Now,
  he's feeling the quakes. "A little bit of
  trembling in the house, pictures shaking in the
  house," he described to CBS News. He said he
  would gladly give back the money he received, "in
  a heartbeat... It's not worth it, it's absolutely
  not worth it. Excepted from a CBS News article
  (5/14/14)
• Fracking responsible for 22,900 percent increase
  in Oklahoma earthquakes since 2008 (including a
  5.7 magnitude earthquake in Prague, OK on Nov. 6,
  2011)

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Earthquakes?!

• JUST IN TODAY http//www.eenews.net/stories/106
  0002402
• The quakes in the Jones swarm (OK) have been
  persistent but small. They've rarely gotten as
  strong as magnitude 4. But the study warns that
  the longer the smaller quakes keep spreading, the
  greater the likelihood that they could rupture a
  fault capable of a magnitude-6 or -7 quake, which
  would cause serious damage and possibly
  casualties.

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Degradation of rural areas
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Damages to infrastructure
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Hidden costs associated with OGproduction
activities

• Increased truck traffic
• West Virginia was unprepared for the scale of
  drilling- truck damage, according to John
  Gruzinskas, sheriff of Marshall County, north of
  Wetzel County. Drivers hired by drilling
  companies were disrespectful of local
  residents, Gruzinskas, said at the April 11
  hearing. His office lacks the authority or
  manpower to police the industry, Our roads are
  destroyed from these overloaded vehicles, and our
  state is a willing participant in this
  destruction, Gruzinskas said in remarks prepared
  for the hearing. The drivers are not familiar
  with our winding narrow roads. Many of our
  residents are run off the road by the large
  trucks. Excerpted from Bloomberg article
  Taxpayers pay as fracking trucks overwhelms rural
  cow paths.

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Hidden costs associated with OG production
activities

• Added burden to local taxpayers to pay for
  impacts on rural roads
• While New York state has yet to allow fracking
  for gas, it is weighing the potential impacts on
  roads. A draft study last year from the states
  Department of Transportation found that hundreds
  of miles of roads and scores of bridges would
  need to be reconstructed to handle gas industry
  trucks at a cost of 211 million to 378 million.
  
• The potential transportation impacts are
  ominous, the study found.

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Hidden costs associated with OGproduction
activities

• From the Texas County Progress online site Sept.
  26, 2012
• Last year DeWitt County adopted the highest tax
  rate it could set without triggering a rollback
  election and devoted the additional revenue to
  road and bridge funds. This added some 524,000
  to the countys road repair funds.
• DeWitt Countys effective tax rate has fallen
  from .65192 to .32617 in just two years, Fowler
  reported, and the rollback rate will only yield a
  572,308 tax levy increase. Therefore, we are
  contemplating a bold move to hold our maintenance
  and operating tax rate at this years level
  (.44919/100) and risk a rollback election, so
  that we can raise an additional 4.5 million for
  our road and bridge needs, he continued. The
  newspaper headlines and the notices required by
  Truth-In-Taxation will be awful County Proposes
  62 Percent Tax Increase.

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Negative impacts from drillingFirsthand
accounts from Idaho

• CPC Minerals well in Wayan, ID (Caribou County)
• Started drilling in 2007
• Multiple problems, including a crooked hole and
  drill rig equipment failure (per Pittman memo
  dated 10/10/07)
• Promises from CPC to make sure site was cleaned
  up (Phillip M. Clegg letter dated 11/18/08 to
  IDL)
• As of 4/12/12 the site was still not cleaned up,
  and was discharging contaminated water via
  Clarks Creek into Grays Lake (Billman memo
  dated 4/12/12)

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Negative impacts from drillingFirsthand accounts
from Idaho
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Is Idaho going to be fracked? Yes!