Wednesday, December 27, 2017

XNG Tractor Towed 12/27/2017

Hi Friends,

Due to our team of crack spotters and informants,
we were able to learn that an XNG combo was involved
in a 2-car MVA accident in Little Falls NY (Herkimer County,
near the depot in Manheim) Thursday morning. Dec 21.

We are working on getting the accident report.

By an amazing coincidence and some incredible luck,
we were able to find and photograph an XNG tractor being
towed down the the Freightliner dealership in Tunkhannock, PA.

Could this be the same tractor involved in the MVA in
Little Falls?

BH


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William Huston:  WilliamAHuston@gmail.com
Binghamton NY

Public Service Mapping / Videography / Research

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Saturday, December 23, 2017

Help! Info on XNG MVA in Little Falls, NY Thu AM?

HELP!

I heard there was a 2 car MVA with an XNG truck in Little Falls NY, Herkimer County, Thurs morning, Dec 21. 

Please email me if you have any more details (Time? Location? Injuries? etc), or email StopTheBombtrucks@gmail.com Thanks. 

Also, I'm looking for volunteers who live directly along the route willing to discuss ideas about how we can count the trucks each day. .

Thanks. 
BH 



Thursday, December 21, 2017

#BombTrucks: MASSIVE Document Dump / XNG + Quantum Bankruptcy + other news

Greetings--

I am sending you this because I think you may have some interest in following the #BombTrucks issue, either XNG's Virtual Pipeline or the proposed NG Advantage terminal in Fenton.

Today's release to the #BombTrucks Documents Archive (generously hosted by Damascus Citizens for Sustainability) includes over 500 files, some have several "documents" inside, over 7,000 pages!

Highlights of new documents:
    1. FERC FOIL: XNG never submitted for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity, nor did they pay $25k for a Petition for Declaratory Order to ask the jurisdictional question. They just built built it!! And FERC is giving them a free pass. I don't understand it.

      Law geeks: Be sure to check out the 3x Prior Decisions Relating to FERC jurisdiction of CNG/LNG by truck, especially the Gulf Oil LNG decision, which clearly states that injecting gas on to a FERC regulated transmission line (like the Iroquois) WOULD BE JURISDICTIONAL!

    2. I have just discovered a lawsuit filed by the Susq Co Planning Commission 2017-06-22, a petition for a Restraining Order, which has never been reported in the press. I and others were following this case closely, and NO ONE knew of this lawsuit. 70 Pages

    3. This one is great! 2017-07-19 Mechanics Lien for ~$1.5M. Apparently, the entire Forest Lake facility, and the new compressor at Manheim and plumbing changes are considered by XNG to be a single project, the "Manheim Injection Project". Although most of the work was performed Jan 2017-June 2017, XNG Never paid! Finally, XNG negotiated a secret settlement in October. 48 pages

    4. 2017-05-24 BH Town of Manheim FOIL.
      • This is a massive new release, 19 documents, 392 pages. This FOIL alone cost me over $100 to obtain, not including 2 days of effort in scanning, OCR, organizing, uploading.
      • This is basically all documents the Town of Manheim has on XNG.

    5. Police Report for the 2017-07-12 tip-over crash, Forest Lake, Susq Co PA

    6. 2017-12-02 Huston Right to Know w/Susq Co Emerg Mgnt: All records relating to Emerg. Management response to either XNG facility in Forest Lake, or MVAs. Not much new here, except to find many odor complaints

    7. And the Grand Finale: The largest capacity Type-4 CNG trailer now under 80,000 LB GVW is the Quantum VP-Lite. But Quantum was declared BANKRUPT in March 2017. This was prior to US DOT approving their trailers for over the road use. This didn't come until Sept 2016.

      • YES, IT'S TRUE! The new name of the holding company which owns Quantum Fuel Systems is actually called, "QF Liquidation Inc." Imagine calling for warranty service, and the person who answers the phone says, "QF Liquidations, may I help you?" Doesn't give the customers of their new $700k exotic specialty CNG trailer.

    8. No documents in the archive yet, but another vendor of #BombTrucks is
      defunct, Lightsail Energy: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/lightsail-energy-cheap-compressed-air-storage-hibernation

Here is how to navigate the archive and find the documents:

Access the top level here: http://TinyURL.com/VirtualPipelines
(please always begin here)

Note, due to a Dropbox feature, and a back-end reorganization,
existing direct links to documents or folder hierarchy is probably broken.
  • Enter Archive ->
    • FERC
      • 3x Decisions Relating to FERC jurisdiction of CNG/LNG by truck
      • 2017-08-30 BH FOIL re XNG "No Records"
    • Industry Experts
      • Documents from Chris Christopoulos' presentations
    • Operators
      • NG Advantage
        • Various Fenton legal doc sets
      • Pentagon Energy
        • No action, likely dead
      • XNG
        • FERC
          • (copy) 2017-08-30 BH FOIL re XNG "No Records" 3 pages
        • Forest Lake, PA
          • work in progress
        • General
          • something is coming here soon!
        • Manheim
          • Various FOILs (BH and Keith Schue)
          • O2K letter to AG
          • Avella letter
          • 2014 stuff Protect Manheim
          • 6-30-17 DEC Notice of violation
          • Misc Legal
            • HOT! 2017-06-22 Susq Co Planning Commission LAWSUIT Restraining Order 70 Pages

            • HOT! 2017-07-19 Mechanics Lein: "Manheim Injection Project", Never paid until October
              48 pages


          • 2017-05-24 BH Town of Manheim FOIL
            • This is a massive new release, 19 documents, 392 pages
        • Otsego County Forum slides
          • Schue Slides
          • Huston/Stevens slides
          • Event press
        • safety incidents
          • 2017 Mercaptan Odor Complaints
          • 2017-2-21 rollover Forest Lake, Susq Co PA
          • 2017-5-27 rollover Forest Lake, Susq Co PA
          • 2017-07-12 tip-over steering loss, Forest Lake, Susq Co PA
          • 2017-9-12 rollover Hartwick, Otsego Co NY
          • 2017-12-02 Huston RTK Susq Co Emerg Mgnt
    • Type 4 CNG Manufacturers
      • Hexagon Lincoln
        • various manuals
      • Lightsail
        • Brochures
        • DOT SP
      • Quantum
        • Documentation
          • Manuals, Brochures
          • WOW! 480+ documents relating to Quantum Bankruptcy 6783 total pages.
    • US DOT - PHMSA
      • DOT Special Permits
      • PHMSA - Work in progress


You may also be interested in this....

What the hell happened in Dimock?


The BH/DCS Dimock Archive:
bit.ly/BHDCSDimockArchive

I have been working mostly with Craig Stevens in learning
the history of Dimock, and telling the story in official documents.

I have been working for months collecting documents from many sources.

We used this information to help Ray Kemble with some emergency legal
services. He's being sued by Cabot Oil and Gas for $5M.

Great Video by HopeForPeace:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne4pQJuDh2g

Also: http://williamahuston.blogspot.com/2017/12/2017-fractracker-award-recipent-ray.html

There are already around 1,000 documents online, and I also have a dataset
of over 32,000 documents which I am trying to get uploaded.

MANY THANKS to Barbara Arrindell and Damascus Citizens for Sustainability
for help with hosting.

I will be publishing in index into the document archive shortly.

RAY'S CASE is critically important for several reasons:
  1. Gag orders used for silencing victims of water contamination, in what may be a Public Health and Safety crisis of PANDEMIC proportion
  2. Cabot has never been held accountable under the law for the 2009 contamination
  3. And the big one: In 2012 Cabot fracked 6 wells, and caused NEW CONTAMINATION in at least 3 homes (maybe more). 
Press from Ray's case was published all over the US, Canada, total of 6 countries.
http://tinyurl.com/RayKembleHearingPress20171211

Full Press (unique articles + AP)

http://williamahuston.blogspot.com/2017/12/2017-12-11-ray-kemble-hearing-cabot-oil.html




Closing Words:

I do public service work:
mapping, videography, research, and "Next Friend" emergency legal services.

I work 100% as a volunteer, and never charge money to the people or groups I am helping.

I am working on several key projects.
I have been doing this work nearly full time since 2010.

I cannot do this work without donations by people who appreciate my work.


I need about $5,000 to help me cover my prior expenses, and sustain this work for the
next 2 months. If you are able to help, you please donate here:
http://tinyurl.com/DonateToBillHuston
Please consider a monthly donation.

Thank you! & Happy Holidays :)
BH


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William Huston:  WilliamAHuston@gmail.com
Binghamton NY

Public Service Mapping / Videography / Research

WilliamAHuston.blogspot.com

Friday, December 15, 2017

(Fenton #BombTrucks) Latest Pro-gas propaganda from a VERY unlikely source

Latest pro-gas propaganda singing the praisies of NG Advantage
comes to us from
  • Marcellus Drilling Now? Nope
  • Natural Gas Now? Nope.
  • Energy in Depth? Nope
A: The Broome County Council of Churches!!!

Pardon the mixed metaphor, but -- What the Hell?


http://broomecouncil.net/ng-advantage-partners-nh-vt-ny-community-organizations/

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NG Advantage partners with NH, VT, NY community organizations

Vermont Business Magazine Colchester-based NG Advantage LLC, which is majority-owned by Clean Energy Fuels (NASDAQ:CLNE), continued its longstanding tradition of supporting charitable organizations by delivering nonperishable food items and gifts to local community groups. This week NG Advantage delivered multiple donations of locally-sourced, nonperishable food items to the Community Hunger Outreach Warehouse in Binghamton, Ticonderoga Food Pantry, and the Community Action Program serving Belknap-Merrimack Counties in New Hampshire. Next week NG Advantage will also provide gifts to 19 families they "adopted" through the Milton Family Community Center.

"NG Advantage is proud to partner with these organizations that help so many individuals and families throughout the year," said NG Advantage CEO Rico Biasetti. "Our company—and employees—are committed to investing in and supporting the communities where we operate. We hope other businesses reach out to these and other groups that do so much, especially during the holiday season, for our neighbors in need."

Through its network of food pantries, soup kitchens, and community meal programs in Broome County, the Community Hunger Outreach Warehouse (CHOW) distributes over 160,000 pounds of food each month, and about 2 million pounds of food annually to local communities.

"We thank NG Advantage for helping us provide essential meals and services to those who depend on us most," said Cindy Jenkins-Gerhart, Donors Relations Manager of CHOW. "Our group and those we serve rely on business partnerships particularly during the holidays to ensure we can meet the needs of our community."

"NG Advantage's continued support of our efforts is much appreciated and goes far as we push to meet the demands of our neighbors in need," said Margaret Beurelein, Director of the Ticonderoga Food Pantry, an organization that serves the Ticonderoga and Putnam communities.

The Community Action Program in Belknap-Merrimack Counties covers both counties with Area Centers in the towns of Concord, Franklin, Meredith, Suncook, and Warner. The program's mission works to empower the most vulnerable individuals and families in their area, as well as focuses on organizing food donations and providing financial and social support services in these communities.

"NG Advantage has been a consistent partner in our community outreach initiatives," said Jill Engel, Director of Suncook Area Center. "We are thankful for their donations which will quickly help real people."

The Milton Family Community Center organizes food donations for its emergency food shelf, facilitates full-day/full-year preschool programs for toddlers and infants, and offers after-school childcare. The Community Center serves about 150 families each month, and relies on volunteers, residents, and local businesses for support.

"Our services and programs provide stability and empower our local residents," said Vikki Patterson, Executive Director of Milton Family Community Center. "NG Advantage's charitable contribution directly benefits this center's mission to strengthen the local community, and sends a positive holiday message."

Photos will be available after each delivery:

Wednesday, December 13 – Binghamton, New York (Community Hunger Outreach Warehouse)

Thursday, December 14 – Pembroke, New Hampshire (Community Action Program)

Friday, December 15 – Ticonderoga, New York (Ticonderoga Food Pantry)

Monday, December 18 – Milton, Vermont (Milton Family Community Center)

About NG Advantage LLC

NG Advantage provides the economic and environmental benefits of clean-burning natural gas to boiler and kiln operators located beyond the reach of pipelines via one of the largest virtual pipeline trailer fleets in the US. The company pioneered trucking compressed natural gas to end users in the US and is the leading provider of this "virtual pipeline" service in the country. The company's current customers include large regional hospitals, paper mills, asphalt plants, food processors, industrial dry cleaners, manufacturing facilities, and local distribution companies. The company, which is majority owned by Clean Energy Fuels (NASDAQ:CLNE), is expanding nationwide from its base in the Northeast.

To see the full article, go to:  http://www.vermontbiz.com/news/2017/december/13/ng-advantage-partners-nh-vt-ny-community-organizations

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William Huston:  WilliamAHuston@gmail.com
Binghamton NY

Public Service Mapping / Videography / Research

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