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OIL SPILL SETTLEMENT
Mike Stoker
Spokesperson for Greka
Posted: 03/20/11
"Greka strongly believed they would have prevailed in the multiple lawsuits involving the County and Greka based on the fact Greka could and would have proven that the rules were arbitrarily applied to just Greka. Had the same rules and process been applied to any other oil company in Santa Barbara County, fines, likewise, would have been assessed.
The bottom line was making a decision to proceed in litigation that would take 2-5 years or to finally close the final chapter regarding the old Greka and move forward. Greka chose to move forward. The facts are, since the Bell and Zaca spill in late '08 and early '09, Greka has become a different company.
After the Bell 07/Zaca Jan '08 spill, the owners brought in a new president and myself, Mike Stoker, to respond and turn the company around…and turn around the company we have. Since that time, we at Greka have invested over 70 million dollars in infrastructure improvement and the results have been staggering:
- No spills in a containment area out of containment,
- 58-facility inspections in 2010 with 0 violations,
- 30-facility inspections to date in 2011 with 0 violation vs. 1700 violations that were generated from the facility inspections after the Bell/Zaca spills. (These are the violations that led to the fines that are the subject matter of the lawsuits being mutually dismissed through the settlement),
- 1700 tons of scrap being removed and recycled through the Greka Green program, and
- the fact that after a year and a half of the County High Risk Offender Ordinance being on the books (of which many believed was passed solely to target Greka and to name them a HRO to fine them more). We, Greka, have not been named because we are operating as good or better than any on-shore operator.
Simply stated, we decided it was time to move on. This company has made an incredible turnaround and its time to quit playing politics and let the company operate like any other oil and gas company in Santa Barbara County. This will mean increasing the number of employees from 165 to over 200 in the very near future as well as contributing back into the community substantial dollars to non-profits in Santa Barbara County that serve our youth. We have recently and will continue to make those contributions if we are allowed to operate under normal circumstance.
"Time to take the politics out of the equation and let the regulators do there job objectively vs. having "politically driven directives and agendas."
NIKKI ALEXANDER DOES
INTENSIVE STUDY & RESEARCH ON
THE GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTIONS ACT
By: Camille Harris
Nikki Alexander has become expert through intensive study and research and has asked that I forward her comments on AB 32 and Prop 23. I deleted the first paragraph to protect a person's privacy. This is not about party politics or left vs. right, so there is no cause for emotional reactions that could interfere with receipt of the information.
By: Nikki Alexander
Yesterday, in preparing to write that article myself I decided to start by reading the bill - AB 32 The Global Warming Solutions Act. For some reason the website I looked at first was IHS with a plan for taking advantage of this Act to make money. Nowhere on the page did it say what IHS stood for so I put aside reading the bill to research IHS. It stands for Information Handling Service. IHS is networked globally with the international carbon casino - being pushed by European interests.
http://www.ihs.com/environmental-health-safety-sustainability/greenhouse-gas.htm
Greenhouse Gas (GHG) & Energy Management
"... software, services and insight provide an enterprise-wide solution for your entire GHG and energy management program. Comply with internal and regulatory requirements and strategically manage your carbon and allowance programs. The software takes you from emissions inventories all the way through to cap and trade management... in an increasingly regulated environment. The software helps you manage everything from mandatory reporting programs, such as those imposed by the US EPA, to cap and trade programs, such as EU ETS and RGGI."
What is happening - globally - is that everything under the sun is being measured for its "carbon footprint" right down to your refrigerator and toothpaste. You are going to be heavily taxed for everything you do, everything you use and everything you buy. This will all be presented as saving the earth from CO2 (which is fundamental to life). All this data (both personal and public) is being put into a global database to create a matrix for calculating these fines. It is happening right now in Ventura through the Bren School (UCSB) and AECOM a transnational corporation. The city is feeding them our data through Joe Yahner, a Bren graduate. (I wrote an article about the Bren-Ventura operation. That was my first awareness that climate change is a masquerade for something else.)
On the IHS website I found this statement:
IHS is a Carbon Disclosure Certified Carbon Calculation Partner, making it one of a select group of companies whose software has been certified by the CDP: About Carbon Disclosure Project (www.cdproject.net):
"The Carbon Disclosure Project, founded in 2000, represents some 475 global institutional investors, with more than US $55 trillion in assets under management. As an independent not-for-profit organization, CDP collects key climate change data from some 2,500 major corporations around the globe and has assembled the largest corporate greenhouse gas emissions database in the world. CDP also works with multinational organizations to facilitate the collection of climate change relevant data for their supply chain."
I spent the rest of the day reading the CDP website and never got back to reading AB 32.
https://www.cdproject.net/en-US/Pages/HomePage.aspx
Carbon Disclosure Project
© 2009 CARBON DISCLOSURE PROJECT, Registered Charity no. 1122330. A company limited by guarantee registered in England no. 05013650. Trustees & Advisors
"We operate the only global climate change reporting system. Climate change is not a problem that exists within national boundaries. That is why we harmonize climate change data from organizations around the world and develop international carbon reporting standards."
"We act on behalf of 534 institutional investors, holding $64 trillion in assets under management and some 60 purchasing organizations such as Cadbury, PepsiCo and Walmart. View our programs to find out more.
Where we began - CDP launched in 2000 at No.10 Downing Street, London. Since we sent out the first request for climate change information in 2003, the number of disclosing companies has grown tenfold."
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I leave it you to read that website thoroughly. It deserves an article in itself. I have spent almost a year tracking the source of this climate change fraud back to the 1970's in Europe. It is not coming from the United States although there are people in charge here who are selling our sovereignty every chance they get, piece by piece.
The operation is being run through the UN as a cover but the people behind it are the owners of capital that we think of as the old European dynasties. That copyright at the bottom of their website - "Registered Charity no. 1122330 - a company limited by guarantee registered in England no. 05013650, combined with their statement that "CDP launched in 2000 at No. 10 Downing Street" is important. No. 10 Downing Street is equivalent to our White House. What kind of "charity" has $64 trillion in assets under management? Remember that the Hadley CRU (hacked emails - climategate) is also located in England. And then this:
- Climate Exchange plc owns CCX, including the CCX-subsidiary Chicago Climate Futures Exchange (CCFE), as well as the European Climate Exchange (ECX). Climate Exchange plc is a publicly traded company listed on the AIM division of the London Stock Exchange (CLE.L).
- At best if people vote "yes" on prop 23 we will stall implementation of AB 32. What we need to do is repeal it completely. I sent you an article by Cassandra Anderson that shows how the states are implementing this EVEN THOUGH the US did NOT sign the Copenhagen Treaty - in violation of the Constitution. Prop 23 will only buy us time.
Sorry to be so longwinded. This thing is a global octopus with tentacles in every country. It's virtually impossible to describe the whole thing in anything less than book.
Nikki Alexander Posted: 10/26/10
GLOBAL TRADE IN CARBON EMISSIONS
By: Nikki Alexander
Global trade in carbon emissions is already in the hundreds of billions. Point Carbon estimates they could grow to more than $1 trillion by 2020. Investors also trade derivatives contracts on the future price of carbon on exchanges.
EPA director, Lisa Jackson, was New Jersey's representative on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a cap-and-trade program for 10 Middle Atlantic and northeastern states.
The Chicago Climate Exchange was founded in 2001 with $1.1 million in seed money by the Joyce Foundation while Obama was on the Board. Richard L. Sandor, CCX chairman and chief executive, who is credited with inventing interest-rate futures, has attracted about 400 entities, including Monsanto, IBM, Intel, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Stuart Eizenstat, a CCX director, was Bill Clinton's lead climate treaty negotiator.
London-based Climate Exchange plc (CLE) owns the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange (CCFX) and the European Climate Exchange (ECX) - Goldman Sachs owns 19% of Climate Exchange Plc (CLE.UK)
Climate Exchange (CLE) was acquired by Atlanta-based IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) in April 2010, giving them a virtual monopoly over Europe's estimated €100 billion carbon market and a significant lead in the US market.
ICE was established in 2000. It specializes in credit default swaps, derivatives, energy and commodity futures and carbon emissions. Its founding shareholders represent the world's largest energy companies and global financial institutions. Its (for-profit) clearing house for credit default swaps, ICE US Trust LLC, was created in 2009 as a member of the Federal Reserve System with an exemption from the SEC and US Treasury. ICE US Trust and ICE Clear Europe have cleared $12 trillion in credit default swaps since their inception in 2009. ICE also operates ICE Futures Europe and ICE Futures US "providing integrated access to derivatives markets." Fred Hatfield, an ICE board director, is a member of Obama's Economic Policy Advisory Committee. Another board director, Sir Callum McCarthy, is a former Barclays Bank senior official and current Non-Executive Director of Her Majesty's Treasury. A third board director, Sir Robert Reid, is Chairman of ICE Futures Europe, ICE Clear Europe and a Deputy Governor of the Bank of Scotland.
ICE has quite an impressive list of acquisitions, including the International Petroleum Exchange (now ICE Futures Europe), the New York Board of Trade (now ICE Futures US), ChemConnect (natural gas), Winnipeg Commodity Exchange (now ICE Futures Canada), Chatham Energy, YellowJacket Software, Creditex (credit derivatives), TCC, a Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and has an exclusive licensing agreement with the Russell Investment Group. ICE is also partnered with TSX Group's Natural Gas Exchange.
So the economy is not dead. This isn't a jobless recovery after all. Business is booming ~ if you're in the right business. It says so right here: The Carbon Disclosure Project They "act on behalf of 534 institutional investors, holding $64 trillion in assets under management."
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