From westley at da-parish.com Sat Feb 11 08:12:05 2012 From: westley at da-parish.com (Westley Annis) Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:12:05 -0600 Subject: [StBernard] Meraux man sentenced to home arrest for dumping oil field wastewater Message-ID: <019d01cce8be$c0ab64f0$42022ed0$@da-parish.com> Meraux man sentenced to home arrest for dumping oil field wastewater Published: Friday, February 10, 2012, 11:30 PM By Benjamin Alexander-Bloch, The Times-Picayune A Meraux man who once held a contract with a Covington oil company was sentenced this week in federal court to six months of home detention for not properly off-loading "produced water," the water brought to the surface along with oil or gas. Edward Hannan, 61, on Thursday also was fined $15,000 and placed on probation for three years for releasing the wastewater, likely between July 2006 and 2007, from the Linder Oil Co. platform into Breton Sound about 10 miles north of Plaquemines Parish. Linder Oil had contracted with St. Bernard Well Service to perform the day-to-day production functions, including the on-site handing of the produced water for off-site disposal. Hannan, who was the St. Bernard Well Service on-site manager, admitted on Aug. 25 to violating the federal Clean Water Act by ordering an employee to discharge the pollutant. On July 26, 2007, a Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality inspector observed one of his employees doing so from a tank on the platform that Hannan was responsible for operating. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Roy Nash said the "sentence demonstrates the United States' steadfast commitment to safeguarding public health and the marine environment" and that the government holds "non-compliant companies and operators accountable for violating environmental laws." Hannan's sentence was reduced because he helped the government obtain a plea deal against Linder in 2009. While St. Bernard Well Service was responsible for the decision to discharge the wastewater, and actually discharged it, Linder Oil did not implement sufficient safeguards to detect and prevent that discharge, according to plea agreement. Linder Oil paid a $50,000 fine and a community service payment of $20,000 to the Southern Environmental Enforcement Network and the Louisiana State Police Right to Know Fund, which contributes to hazardous-materials information, preparedness and response activities. Sometime before July 2007, a Linder Oil employee noticed what she believed to be a typographical error in the reports from St. Bernard Well Service and she contacted her supervisor and showed him that the reports from July 2006 reflected no produced water. Her supervisor contacted Hannan but Hannan told the supervisor that the well was producing "clean oil." Hannan had been telling Linder Oil there was no contaminated wastewater, allegedly to help maintain his contract with the company. Under proper procedure, the wastewater should have been loaded onto a barge and taken to a disposal site onshore. Ivan Vikin, in charge of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency criminal enforcement program in Louisiana, said the sentence "should send a clear message to other potential violators that the EPA will work aggressively to seek prosecution for those who intentionally break the law to make money." The federal case was investigated by the EPA and the Coast Guard, and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Dorothy Manning Taylor in New Orleans. Benjamin Alexander-Bloch can be reached at bbloch at timespicayune.com or 504.826.3321. C 2012 NOLA.com. All rights reserved. From westley at da-parish.com Sat Feb 11 21:22:13 2012 From: westley at da-parish.com (Westley Annis) Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:22:13 -0600 Subject: [StBernard] Brass Shell Casings - You Gotta Read this one to believe it!! In-Reply-To: <8CEB6E4BEBF70EE-EDC-5FC7@webmail-m135.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CEB6E4BEBF70EE-EDC-5FC7@webmail-m135.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <028501cce92d$21978500$64c68f00$@da-parish.com> PROOF THAT WE HAVE SOME IDIOTS IN WASHINGTON This is totally crazy and it should make you want to slap the hell out of the idiots we have in Washington DC. Georgia Arms is the 5th largest retailer of .223 Ammo in America . They sell 9mm, .45, .223 ammunition. They normally buy spent brass from the US Department of Defense. Spent brass is "one time used" shell cases used by our Military for training purposes. They buy the brass, recondition it, and then reload the brass for resale to Law Enforcement, Gun Clubs, Gun Shops, and stores like Wal-Mart. They normally buy 30,000 lbs of spent brass at a time. This week the DoD wrote a letter to the owner of Georgia Arms and informed him that from now on the DoD will be destroying the spent brass, shredding it. It will no longer be available to the ammo makers, unless they buy it in a scrap shredded condition (which they have no use for). The shredded brass is now going to be sold by the DoD to China as scrap metal, after the DoD pays for it to be shredded. The DoD is selling the brass to China for less money than the ammo makers have been paying, plus the DoD has to pay to have the brass shredded and do the accounting paperwork. This sure helps the economy now doesn't it? Sell cheaper to China , and do not sell at all to a proven US business. Any hidden agenda working here? Obama going after the Firearms Industry and our ammunition!! The Georgia Arms owner even related a story that one of his competitors had already purchased a load of brass last week. The DoD contacted him this week and said they were sending someone over to make sure it was destroyed. Shell cases he had already bought! The brass has no value to the ammo maker if it is destroyed/ shredded/melted. The ammo manufacturer only uses the empty brass cases to reload different calibers, mainly .223 bullets. The owner of Georgia Arms says that he will have to lay off at least half of his 60 workers, within 2-3 months if the DoD will no longer sell spent brass cases to the industry. Georgia Arms has 2-3 months of inventory to use, by summer they're out. If the Reloading Industry has to purchase new manufacture brass cases, then the cost of ammunition will double or even triple, plus Obama wants to add a 500% tax on each shell. You can read the information and see the DoD letter to Georgia Arms here: The Shootist Site http://www.theshootist.net/2009/03/dod-ends-sale- of-expended-military.html < https://webmail.metrobrokers.com/ exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.theshootist.net/2009/03/dod- ends-sale-of-expended-military.html > If you're not outraged at what this administration is doing you should be! Be Afraid! Be Very Very Afraid! Get involved! It's Your Freedom and Our Country They're Stealing! If You Fail to Act Now, there may not be a Free United States tomorrow! I implore you to get involved and forward this to as many people as you can. Contact your legislators and put them on notice, We're fed up with what's going on in the name of stimulating our economy! From westley at da-parish.com Sat Feb 11 21:24:33 2012 From: westley at da-parish.com (Westley Annis) Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:24:33 -0600 Subject: [StBernard] Some Old Irish Mirth..most old but still cute ... nev In-Reply-To: <8CEB6E7E0F74611-EDC-624D@webmail-m135.sysops.aol.com> References: <1328911290.45247.YahooMailNeo@web162304.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <8CEB6E7E0F74611-EDC-624D@webmail-m135.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <028701cce92d$7534b390$5f9e1ab0$@da-parish.com> Only the Irish have Jokes Like These Into a Belfast pub comes Paddy Murphy, looking like he'd just been run over by a train. His arm is in a sling, his nose is broken, his face is cut and bruised and he's walking with a limp "What happened to you?" asks Sean, the bartender. " Jamie O'Conner and me had a fight," says Paddy. "That little shit, O'Conner," says Sean, "He couldn't do that to you, he must have had something in his hand." "That he did," says Paddy, "a shovel is what he had, and a terrible lickin' he gave me with it." " Well," says Sean, "you should have defended yourself, didn't you have something in your hand?" That I did," said Paddy. "Mrs. O'Conner's breast, and a thing of beauty it was, but useless in a fight." **************************************************************************** **************** An Irishman who had a little too much to drink is driving home from the city one night and, of course, his car is weaving violently all over the road. A cop pulls him over. "So," says the cop to the driver, where have ya been?" " Why, I've been to the pub of course," slurs the drunk. " Well," says the cop, "it looks like you've had quite a few to drink this evening." "I did all right," the drunk says with a smile. "Did you know," says the cop, standing straight and folding his arms across his chest, "that a few intersections back, your wife fell out of your car?" "Oh, thank heavens," sighs the drunk. "For a minute there, I thought I'd gone deaf." **************************************************************************** * Brenda O'Malley is home making dinner, as usual, when Tim Finnegan arrives at her door. "Brenda, may I come in?" he asks. "I've somethin' to tell ya". "Of course you can come in, you're always welcome, Tim. But where's my husband?" "That's what I'm here to be telling ya, Brenda." There was an accident down at the Guinness brewery..." "Oh, God no!" cries Brenda. "Please don't tell me." "I must, Brenda. Your husband Shamus is dead and gone. I'm sorry. Finally, she looked up at Tim. "How did it happen, Tim?" "It was terrible, Brenda. He fell into a vat of Guinness Stout and drowned." "Oh my dear Jesus! But you must tell me truth, Tim. Did he at least go quickly?" "Well, Brenda... no. In fact, he got out three times to pee." **************************************************************************** ** Mary Clancy goes up to Father O'Grady after his Sunday morning service, and she's in tears. He says, "So what's bothering you, Mary my dear?" She says, "Oh, Father, I've got terrible news. My husband passed away last night." The priest says, "Oh, Mary, that's terrible. Tell me, Mary, did he have any last requests?" She says, "That he did, Father." The priest says, "What did he ask, Mary? " She says, He said, 'Please Mary, put down that damn gun...' ********************************************************* ANDTHE BEST FOR LAST A drunk staggers into a Catholic Church, enters a confessional booth, sits down, but says nothing. The Priest coughs a few times to get his attention but the drunk continues to sit there. Finally, the Priest pounds three times on the wall. The drunk mumbles, "ain't no use knockin, there's no paper on this side either!" From westley at da-parish.com Sat Feb 11 21:35:56 2012 From: westley at da-parish.com (Westley Annis) Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:35:56 -0600 Subject: [StBernard] Best and funniest presiential address of 2011 In-Reply-To: <003d01cce909$a00632c0$e0129840$@insightbb.com> References: <003d01cce909$a00632c0$e0129840$@insightbb.com> Message-ID: <028901cce92f$0c4e3b10$24eab130$@da-parish.com> I see this same post on dozens of right wing web sites, but I don't see any evidence that the administration has " tried to put a stop to Bridges' act." Richard >>>This should make your day. You may remember Steve Bridges as the guy who imitated George Bush on the Jay Leno Show. He has now started imitating Obama and REALLY does it well. The Administration has tried to put a stop to Bridges' act, because Obama has made it known that he is deeply offended. Use the link below: http://www.stevebridges.com/obamavideos-promo-Aug-2011.html