Government steals from the poor.

Our State and Borough government will bend over for big corporations because they get a lot of money. We locals get shafted. Its the American Way. We call it the Reverse Robin Hood Policy--that's where you steal from the poor to give to the rich.  
We got several companies drilling gas wells around us right now. Do you think I can get a job? Not a chance!

Henry Kroll                              DIVERSIFIED CONSULTANTS

513 Peninsula

Kenai, Alaska 99611

12/17/2011

Kenai Peninsula Borough

Dear Sirs/Madam:

            I don’t want to alarm anybody but I think that we may be courting a disaster of Biblical proportions. I am beginning to question the sanity of some of the things that are going on around here. Maybe you don’t remember some of the disasters we had in the past.

Enclosed are pictured of the Grayling platform and the Steelhead. The Steelhead caught fire. The Grayling Platform blew gas and tide water up over 1000 feet in the air for one entire week. After a week the gas pressure slowly subsided to where it was blowing water up only “500 feet” above the rig. This went on for a month before the pressure subsided enough to shut it off.

How much gas was released into the atmosphere  during these blowouts is anybody's guess--maybe enough to heat New York City for a year?   

 Back in the 1970’s when they drilled that gas well on Cannery Road on the South side of Kenai River it blew out and caught fire. There was a large roman candle burning over there for a couple months until the gas pressure subsided enough to put the fire out. Now there is a gas drying plant putting gas into the high pressure gas line. They don’t have to pump it because of the high pressure. When you drive by there are no pumps running—only hissing gas.

We have gas bubbling up all along the Kenai River bank from Pacific Star Seafoods all the way to the mouth of the river. I don’t know if its CO2 or natural gas--it doesn’t matter.  Obviously there is a lot of high pressure gas down there.

Now you have the proposed gas storage facility rig drilling near the Bridge Access Road near the Kenai River. After talking to John Lamb (817) 304-5071 he started extoling the wonderful benefit to the community of storing gas underground for future use. This raised some red flags in my mind,

If they do pump gas underground at that site which is very close to the Kenai River it could very well increase the amount of gas that is bubbling up along the Kenai River causing houses to fall in and the salmon not to return. Do you really want to see the salmon go by by?

We know oil companies don’t make money pumping gas underground so in order to do so they must have some kind of federal grant. Do they have federal money to do this? If so, why? If they don’t have federal money to pump gas underground then the well they are drilling near the Bridge Access on the Kenai River is not a gas-storage well at all. It is a gas well which I think is a good thing because it will lower the gas pressure.  

Then you have the LNG plant up in operation exporting gas out of Alaska. What is going on here? Can somebody explain this?

Sincerely,