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That is horrendous! What are those vapors going into the air?
The drone the machinery makes is impossible to drown out — not classical music, not IZ’s music, not even the white noise grinding of my decrepit, old ceiling fan. I sleep like a rock (ask my kids), but this kept me up until 2 a.m.
I woke with a bloody nose, foggy and lethargic. It’s sad that nothing is being done about this.
According to the TCEQ they were doing a nitrogen injection. When that has happened at other sites, some of the highest levels of toxic compounds were measured.
I was outside last night (Tuesday) around 10:30 and kept hearing rumblings or sounds similar to explosions. I woke my husband to tell him something was wrong. I’ve lived through multiple close wells and never heard anything like this, with the exception of 1 well which is rumored to have dynamite used, my house and windows shook with that one. the sounds last night were similar to earthquake sounds. If this was on the Blessing well, that is much further than the Wright well. I am just around the corner from Wright (Gibbons) than i am from Blessing, FM 407.
When I was working in my garden at twilight last night, I smelled this sickeningly sweet smell and my eyes began to burn. It hurt a lot for several hours last night and they are still stinging today. It’s as if the tears, as soon as they are formed, turn into something else in my eyes.
Please help, please help me. I have been getting headaches, nausea, burning my throat and eyes beginning in the end of May beginning of June. I felt great for 36 hours and this morning, withing 4 minutes of my walk: 6:20 AM, it all started. Funny, I got to Keller and all of my symptoms were gone. They’re getting worse around Bartonville. I would like the abc alliance to compile a list of symptoms caused by the oil and gas industry. I would like to see these symptoms with a place, forum, so we can collect data on how many people have adverse reactions to the drilling. Besides, me(I’m glad I”m not alone). Days and times, if possible. I have actually even gotten these sores, I have had them twice on my skin, they’ve been there for a couple of weeks, and they don’t heal and sometimes they’re bloody scabs. My husband went for a run this morning and the first time in 41 years, complained of ‘shin splints’. My youngest daughter has had sore legs for 3 days. Wanted to use a cane today. And did around the house. Felt great in Keller, Southlake, and Flower Mound, drove into Bartonville, at the corner of Gibbons (S) and Jeter, the headache was back. Now I”m inside it seems to be better.
I’ve got some letters to write.
Sunday: World looks at CEO compensation
Steven Malcolm, the chairman, president and CEO of Williams Cos. Inc., remained the highest paid local executive of the 18 reviewed by the World.
Steven Malcolm, the chairman, president and CEO of Williams Cos. Inc., remained the highest paid local executive of the 18 reviewed by the World.
By LAURIE WINSLOW World Staff Writer
Published: 6/12/2010 3:09 PM
Last Modified: 6/13/2010 9:05 AM
Despite a national recession, many CEOs of local publicly traded companies enjoyed higher compensation in 2009.
While 13 saw their overall compensation increase, five saw reductions. The three top-paid executives at Williams Cos. Inc., ONEOK Inc. and BOK Financial Corp., remained unchanged from 2008.
For the second year in a row, the Tulsa World examined the pay, compensation and bonuses awarded to company executives based in eastern Oklahoma.
In determining CEO pay, the World followed the same formula as it did for 2008, reviewing company reports and financial records, including proxy statements and regulatory filings required by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Nationwide, energy company executives tended to see pay increases last year, while the overall broader market saw more of a downward trend in compensation, said Chris Crawford, executive director of Houston-based Longnecker & Associates, which has Tulsa clients.
The labor market for good executive and technical talent in the energy market is still tight.
“You would be very hard pressed to find any other industry that has the same dynamics that energy does right now even within the Oklahoma City and Tulsa markets…. People are doing what they can to retain their executive and their technical-level employees,” said Crawford.
Out of the energy-weighted list of company executives included in the World’s review, seven saw overall compensation increases for 2009, while three had declines.
Even with a nearly
10 percent drop in his total compensation, Steven Malcolm, the chairman, president and CEO of Williams Cos. Inc., remained the highest paid local executive of the 18 reviewed by the World.
In 2009, Malcolm’s total compensation was $8,080,038. His salary rose to $1,142,308 from $1,094,231 the year before.
Read the complete story in Sunday’s World.
Read more from this Tulsa World article at http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20100612_296_0_Despit334942
Some one used the term “Night Dumping”. This a perfect name for this issue! It is something that all gas drilling companies like to do.
A few months ago, some Flower Mound residents complained about awful odors and breathing and eyes burning etc. over near a Williams compressor site in our town. Most of the complaints were in the early morning and were for a few days in a row. By the time the Fire Marshall and TCEQ got there, the odors were gone. Sounds like “night dumping” was going on.
Whatever happened to the Argyle ordinance that limited fracking to the hours of 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.? Why must it be done late at night?
Well, it’s 9 p.m., just circled the Blessing well, same noise as last night. As I was coming up the southern portion of Gibbons Road of FM 407, I noticed a noxious, rotten egg smell. An oncoming car appeared to be coming out of a fog as it approached. This was just due east of the Blessing well. Windows were closed, AC was on. Filing a complaint now,
1-888-777-3186, TCEQ hotline.
It seems that Williams is slowly committing a mass murder of an entire town. Wake up Double Oak. Take a drive over to Argyle and Bartonville and see what a good neighbor Williams is!
Rex W. Tillerson
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
ExxonMobil Corporation
Irving , TX
Sector: BASIC MATERIALS / Major Integrated Oil & Gas
Officer since November 1999
58 Years Old
Rex W. Tillerson, Principal Occupation: Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Exxon Mobil Corporation. Business Experience: Mr. Tillerson was elected Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ExxonMobil in 2006; President and Director in 2004; and Senior Vice President in 2001. Mr. Tillerson has held a variety of management positions in domestic and foreign operations since joining the Exxon organization in 1975, including President, Exxon Yemen Inc. and Esso Exploration and Production Khorat Inc.; Vice President, Exxon Ventures (CIS) Inc.; President, Exxon Neftegas Limited; and Executive Vice President, ExxonMobil Development Company.
Compensation for 2009
Salary $2,057,000.00
Bonus $2,400,000.00
Restricted stock awards $16,963,875.00
All other compensation $280,925.00
Option awards $ $0.00
Non-equity incentive plan compensation $0.00
Change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings $5,466,517.00
Total Compensation $27,168,317.00
Options Granted
Grant
Date All other stock awards (# of shares of stocks or units) Number of securities underlying options Exercise
or base
price Percent of total options granted in fiscal year Grant date fair value of stock and option awards See More
11/24/2009 225,000 - $ – 0% $16,963,875.00
11/25/2008 225,000 - $ – 0% $17,604,000.00
11/28/2007 185,000 - $ – 0% $16,120,900.00
11/28/2006 185,000 - $ – 0% $13,591,025.00
Options Exercised
Number of securities underlying options exercisable 464,545
Number of securities underlying options unexercisable 0
Value of unexercised options, currently exercisable $7,477,219.00
Value of unexercised options, currently unexercisable $0.00
Shares acquired on exercise 72,199
Value Realized $2,355,728.00
Number of securities underlying options exercisable 464,545
Number of securities underlying options unexercisable 0
Value of unexercised options, currently exercisable $7,477,219.00
Value of unexercised options, currently unexercisable $0.00
Shares acquired on exercise 72,199
Value Realized $2,355,728.00
John Richels has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Devon Energy Corp. since January 8, 2004 and June 2010 respectively. Mr. Richels serves as President of Devon Canada Corporation a subsidiary of Devon Energy Corp. He served as Senior Vice President, Canadian Division of Devon Energy Corp. from 2001 to 2004 and President and Chief Executive Officer of the Oklahoma City-based independent producer’s Canadian subsidiary. Mr. Richels joined Devon through its …
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ANNUAL COMPENSATION*
Salary $1,150,000
Bonus $1,400,600
Total Annual Compensation $2,550,600
STOCK OPTIONS*
Restricted Stock Awards $2,743,400
All Other Compensation $195,647
Exercisable Options 538,920
Exercisable Values $16,453,504
Unexercisable Options 215,080
Unexercisable Values $1,581,122
Total Value of Options $18,034,626
Total Number of Options 754,000
TOTAL COMPENSATION*
Total Annual Cash Compensation $2,550,600
Total Short Term Compensation $2,550,600
Other Long Term Compensation $2,939,047
Total Calculated Compensation $10,587,770
Beware! Williams will tell the Double Oak council that it’s just steam and the Double Oak council will be inclined to believe them. Steam happens in my kitchen every morning and it has never once caused my nose to bleed or my eyes to burn. If anything, steam helps not causes headaches.
My eyes finally started feeling better last night, until I got home from work. Then the burning started all over again.
Why not invite the gas company CEO’s, other corporate lackey’s, and maybe even Governor Perry in for a sleepover? They need to get a taste of their so called “clean burning” natural gas.
Noisy? Yes. Health hazard? No. They are boiling liquid nitrogen in to Nitrogen gas for injection. Boiling Cryogenic Nitrogen
Oh, dear, it’s Farmer Bob. To him, we’re all turnips that just fell off the truck.
Well-blow out report from Sept. 23, 2008: Fairways Offshore Exploration reported a bell nipple failed during nitrogen fracture stimulation in Brazoria County. No one was killed or injured.
About 30 blow-outs, five in the Barnett Shale, have killed one and injured two since the time of that report. The fatality came at an EnCana blow-out at a wildcat well in Robertson County on April 23, 2009. Crews were pulling coiled tubing after a clean-out job, it got stuck and the well started flowing. The one man who was hurt later died from his injuries.
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