Thanks to GTI For List of MAJOR NATURAL GAS PLAYERS

So, wanting to know WHO TO WATCH?  Want to know who to look for in the news when it comes to Natural Gas?  Well, thanks to GTI, found a partial list for everyone to start working off of.  There "Members List" it seems is PUBLIC...have to LOVE THAT.

Participants in the GTI Membership Program

AGL Resources, Inc. Air Liquide America Corporation Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. Alcorn Exploration, Inc. Allegheny Power Alliant Energy Amerada Hess Corporation Ameren American Meter Company AMVEST Oil & Gas, Inc. APGA Research Foundation* Aquila Inc. Arkansas Oklahoma Gas Corporation Arkansas Western Gas Company Atmos Energy Corporation* Austell Gas System Avista Corp. Belden & Blake Corporation Black Hills Corporation BP Amoco Exploration & Production Sector Burlington Resources Inc. California Energy Commission* Cascade Natural Gas Corporation CB&I Center Point Energy Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation Chandler & Associates, Inc. Chesapeake Operating, Inc. Chesapeake Utilities Corporation Chevron Texaco North American Upstream Citizens Utilities Company City Gas Company City of Mesa City Utilities of Springfield Clearwater Gas System Colorado Springs Utilities Conectiv Connecticut Natural Gas Corporation ConocoPhillips Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.* Consumers Energy Corning Natural Gas Corporation CPS Energy* Dallas Production Inc. Dayton Power and Light Company Delta Natural Gas Company, Inc. Devon Energy Corporation Distrigas of Massachusetts Corporation Dominion Dominion Transmission, Inc. DTE Energy Gas* Duke Energy Corporation El Paso Corporation Enbridge Gas Distribution, Inc. Energen Corporation* Energy Corporation of America Energy West Incorporated Entergy Corporation EOG Resources, Inc Equitable Resources, Inc. ExxonMobil Pipeline Company Fina Oil and Chemical Company Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company Florence Utilities Florida Public Utilities Company Forest Oil Corporation Freedom Resources Company Great Lakes Gas Transmission Company Heath Consultants, Inc. HNG Storage L.P. Houston Pipe Line Company Illinois Gas Company Intermountain Gas Company Iroquois Gas Transmission System, L.P. J.M. Huber Corporation KCS Resources Kentucky West Virginia Gas Company Kerr-McGee Corporation KeySpan Corporation* Kinder Morgan, Inc. Laclede Gas Company Louisville Gas and Electric Company Madison Gas and Electric Company Maxus Energy Corporation MDU Resources Group, Inc. Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division* MidAmerican Energy Company*

Middle Tennessee Natural Gas Utility District Midwest Energy, Inc. Mobile Gas Service Corporation Municipal Gas Authority of Georgia Nashville Gas Company National Fuel Gas Company* New England Gas Company New Jersey Natural Gas* New York State Electric & Gas and Rochester Electric & Gas* New York State Energy Research and Development Authority Newfield Exploration Niagara Mohawk, A National Grid Company Nicor Gas* Noble Energy, Inc. Northeast Gas Markets, Inc. Northern Indiana Public Service Company* Northern Natural Gas Company NorthStar Industries, Inc. NorthWestern Energy NStar Gas Company NW Natural Occidental Oil and Gas Corporation Ohio Gas Company Okaloosa Gas District ONEOK Inc.* Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. Paiute Pipeline Company Pacific Gas and Electric Company Panhandle Energy Company PECO Energy Company, An Exelon Company Peerless Mfg. Co. Penn Virginia Oil & Gas Corporation Peoples Energy Corporation* Piedmont Natural Gas Company, Inc.* Pioneer Natural Resources, USA, Inc. Pitts Energy Group PNM Gas Services* Polaris Corporation PPL Utilities PSNC Energy, Gastonia, NC Public Service Electric and Gas Company Puget Sound Energy, Inc. Questar Corporation* RGC Resources, Inc. River Gas Corporation SaskEnergy SCANA Corporation SEMCO Energy Gas Company Sempra Energy Utilities* Shell Oil Company Sierra Pacific Resources South Carolina Electric & Gas Company South Georgia Natural Gas Company South Jersey Gas Company The Southeast Alabama Gas District Southern Cross Corp. Southern Union Company Southwest Gas Corporation Stone & Webster Consultants, Inc. Superior Water, Light & Power Company Swift Energy Company T.D. Williamson, Inc TECO Peoples Gas* The Gas Company TransCanada PipeLines Limited TransCanada Transmission Tuscarora Gas Transmission Company TXU Business Services UGI Utilities, Inc.* Union Oil & Gas, Inc. Union Pacific Resources Company Unocal Corporation Vectren Corporation Vermont Gas Systems, Inc. Viking Gas Transmission Company Ward Petroleum Corporation Washington Gas* We Energies* Williams Gas Pipeline Willmut Gas Company Wisconsin Public Service Corporation Xcel Energy Yankee Gas Services Company

Welcome to FRack-Turds...the sister site to Fracktoids

Greetings Readers:

Was at a Anti Fracking meeting this afternoon, and when telling everyone about myself, and the blog Fracktoid someone asked, "What's next, Frackturds?"  After some discussion, it was decided that such a blog, and its title had/has merit.  A blog that throws out articles, links and examples of those involved in the ugly practice, both directly and indirectly of Hydraulic Fracturing.  So, as the weeks and months go by, if there is breaking news on yet another Natural Gas Well accident (think Chesapeake Energy), or we find examples of FALSE FRONT ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS , that upon closer examination are Straw Men, propaganda fronts for natural gas.  If you see news happening, or have a company or organization you want to see named a FRACKTURD, just email us some information, a link to their site, or even photographs of their drilling sites.  Email our editor at fracktoidnews@yahoo.com

No introductory article would be COMPLETE without naming a Frackturd, and a obvious favorite could be Chesapeake Energy, or any one of its subsidiary companies...a perfect example of their qualifications would be the Leroy Township Well Head FAILURE (NATGAS 2H) on Southside Road for those wanting to visit in Bradford County Pa...but we will save them for now, as we are sure they will be over time a Platinum FRACKTURD, a special honor for those who appear in this blog more than ten times. Instead, we are going to make our first FRACKTURD "Energize WV(West Virginia)."  Now, lets see just what this organization says about itself.

The organization focuses specifically on educational programs that allow students at all grade levels to learn more about the importance and significance of the natural gas industry. Additionally, Energize West Virginia works closely with vocational, technical and higher education institutions to promote programs to train prospective employees within the industry.

Energize West Virginia also disseminates information to the general public about the industry, its products and the economic impact to the state. In conjunction with this public relations effort, Energize WV promotes employment opportunities within the natural gas industry and advocates for the safe and efficient use of industry products.

Just the words quoted here from their About Page are enough to qualify Energize West Virginia as a Frackturd.  Question becomes, where are they getting the money to go into our institutions of learning to spread their PROPAGANDA?  It is suggested here, that a good place to start looking would be two-fold in scope.  1) West Virginia Oil and Gas Association (WVONGA) 2) Independent Oil and Gas Association of West Virginia (IOGAWV)  You can get far more sure that this organization is a PROPAGANDA MACHINE for the industry when you visit their Community Page where they try to assure the world they are, like State Farm, your good neighbor, when in reality the Natural Gas Industry is ANYTHING BUT A GOOD NEIGHBOR, and trust me, they are NOT THERE when trouble arises...IE, it took Chesapeake Energy 13 hours to put a team on the ground in Leroy TWP to deal with the Bradford County Well Head FAILURE.

Drilling for Natural Gas has been a West Virginia tradition for over a century. Exploration companies strive to work with landowners when extracting gas in order to minimally disturb the land as well as to reclaim it after the well is drilled. Many companies operate with a “best practices” policy to ensure the surface owners’ rights have been honored.

.....they go on further in their diatribe to say...

Environmentally, drilling for Natural Gas is the least obtrusive of any natural resource extracted.  and it is the CLEANEST- BURNING Fossil Fuel.

Talk about a serious double dipping lie...that sentence wins the award.  Since when is blowing up the ground using tens of millions of gallons of water and sand mixed with a LETHAL cocktail of Fracking Fluids that poison safe drinking water considered to be Least Obtrusive?  Then their claim of Natural Gas being the cleanest burning fossil fuel...where is Paul Harvey saying, "and now for the rest of the story"? It's a repeat of the Nuclear Energy and their false claims of being a clean green energy...HELLO...the most carbon intensive industrial process in the world is the extraction of uranium and its change over into fuel rods.  Saying Natural Gas is the CLEANEST BURNING fossil fuel ignores the practice of well pad burn off, and ignores the very real fact that over 20 years, Natural Gas (because of the METHANE) is a larger contributor to Green House gases, and thus GLOBAL WARMING than is coal.

So, our FIRST FRACKTURD is none other than ENERGIZE WV(with(unNatural Gas)  You can find out a LOT MORE about their PUBLIC PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN on their Facebook Page or listen to the most BOGUS Pop Quiz filled with PROPAGANDA here.  In a real DISSAPPOINTMENT, it turns out that television and film actor John Corbett, a Wheeling native, will be the voice of a new radio campaign for Energize WV...we need someone to sit down with this sheep led astray and educate him, maybe let him watch Gasland.

CONGRATULATIONS EnergizeWV, you are officially a FRACKTURD.