Chester Burch Obituary – Albany, NY | Albany Times Union
You have to admit, he was pretty amazing man who I got to know over the years at the Save the Pine Bush Dinners.
Every time I hear the song, Classical Gas I have to think he has a lifter that is ticking a bit
Every time I hear the song, Classical Gas I have to think he has a lifter that is ticking a bit.
Oil-and-Gas Industry’s Toxic Waste Is Radioactive – Rolling Stone
In a squat rig fitted with a 5,000-gallon tank, Peter crisscrosses the expanse of farms and woods near the Ohio/West Virginia/Pennsylvania border, the heart of a region that produces close to one-third of America’s natural gas. He hauls a salty substance called “brine,” a naturally occurring waste product that gushes out of America’s oil-and-gas wells to the tune of nearly 1 trillion gallons a year, enough to flood Manhattan, almost shin-high, every single day. At most wells, far more brine is produced than oil or gas, as much as 10 times more. It collects in tanks, and like an oil-and-gas garbage man, Peter picks it up and hauls it off to treatment plants or injection wells, where it’s disposed of by being shot back into the earth.
One day in 2017, Peter pulled up to an injection well in Cambridge, Ohio. A worker walked around his truck with a hand-held radiation detector, he says, and told him he was carrying one of the “hottest loads” he’d ever seen. It was the first time Peter had heard any mention of the brine being radioactive.
The Earth’s crust is in fact peppered with radioactive elements that concentrate deep underground in oil-and-gas-bearing layers. This radioactivity is often pulled to the surface when oil and gas is extracted — carried largely in the brine.
In the popular imagination, radioactivity conjures images of nuclear meltdowns, but radiation is emitted from many common natural substances, usually presenting a fairly minor risk. Many industry representatives like to say the radioactivity in brine is so insignificant as to be on par with what would be found in a banana or a granite countertop, so when Peter demanded his supervisor tell him what he was being exposed to, his concerns were brushed off; the liquid in his truck was no more radioactive than “any room of your home,” he was told. But Peter wasn’t so sure.
Today’s Almanac for Thursday January 23
Today’s Almanac
Night before dawn is 6 hours and 47 minutes,
Dawn starts at 6:47 am and runs for 30 minutes,
Sunrise is at 7:17 am which is 4 hours and 42 minutes before noon,
High noon, the transit of the sun, is at 12:07 pm,
From twelve noon to the sunset at 4:56 pm is 4 hours and 56 minutes,
Dusk lasts for 29 minutes concluding at 5:26 pm,
Leaving 6 hours and 33 minutes until midnight.
Bloomberg lures 2020 staff with fat paychecks, meals, iPhones
Billionaire presidential long shot Michael Bloomberg is trying to poach staff from other campaigns with outsized salaries and fancy perks like three catered meals a day, an iPhone 11 and a MacBook Pro, according to sources.
Bloomberg is paying state press secretaries $10,000 a month, compared to the average going rate of $4,500 for other candidates and state political directors are making $12,000 a month, more than some senior campaign advisers earn, sources said.
National political director Carlos Sanchez pulls in $360,000 a year. Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s political director, made $240,000 in 2016.
January 23, 2020 Morning
Good morning! Happy Thursday. 🙂 Sunny and not too cold without any wind. A pleasant morning for January. Two weeks to Save the Pine Bush Turns 42 🦋. Partly sunny and 18 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind.There are 2 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out around 10 am. 🌡️
Woke up this morning and I was surprisingly groggy. 😴 Not sure why but the coffee certainly helped. ☕ It was a bit of a run to the bus stop 🚏but I made it in time and double checked to make sure the waffle iron, stove and refrigerator were closed or off as they should be. The heat was turned down and porch light is switched on so it will come on at dusk. 💡
Today will have increasing clouds ☁, with a high of 40 degrees at 1pm. Nine degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 4th. Calm wind. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning, which became light rain by afternoon. The high last year was 40 degrees. The record high of 64 was set in 1906. 10.6 inches of snow fell back in 1963.❄
So a nice start to the morning but it’s not expected to last. ⛅ But at least it will be relatively mild and give the heat a little bit of a break. Sun is certainly nice pouring through the bus window. Gives me hope that maybe the Ground Hog 🐻won’t see his shadow and maybe spring is just around the corner. Maybe that’s wishful thinking 💭 but all things must past and you must embrace things before they’re forever gone.
I can complain about the January weather and all things Albany but when the time comes to move on you know I’ll probably miss it a lot 🌉. Chet’s from Save the Pine Bush death is sad 😐 and Resin Adam’s is so elderly now. It’s 2020 and so much of the old world I once knew it’s fading in the distance, although it would be a mistake to say that the olden days were golden. 🌇 Looking forward to my 37th birthday next week 🎂 although I’m looking more forward to a few more years out when I can own my own land. 🏡
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:08 pm with sun having an altitude of 27.9° from the due south horizon (-43° vs. 6/21). The golden hour 🏅 starts at 4:14 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (237°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-southwest (244°) starting at 4:53 pm and lasts for 3 minutes and 14 seconds with dusk around 5:26 pm, which is one minute and 16 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:02 pm. At sunset, look for mostly cloudy skies ☁ and temperatures around 38 degrees. There will be a calm wind. Today will have 9 hours and 38 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes over yesterday.
Tonight will be cloudy, then gradual clearing toward daybreak 🌃, with a low of 17 degrees at 6am. Three degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around February 11th. Calm wind. In 2019, we had light rain. It got down to 32 degrees. The record low of -17 occurred back in 1948.
Sloppy weekend in tap for the Pine Bush hike. 🌲🌲👪 Saturday, snow likely before 10am, then rain and snow likely between 10am and noon, then rain after noon. High near 39. East wind 3 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. Sunday, rain and snow showers likely, becoming all rain after 10am. Cloudy, with a high near 39. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Typical average high for the weekend is 31 degrees.
🌹🌻🌼Only 56 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼
As previously noted, there are 2 weeks until Save the Pine Bush Turns 42 🦋 when the sun will be setting at 5:14 pm with dusk at 5:44 pm. On that day in 2019, we had rain and temperatures between 37 and 25 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 33 degrees. We hit a record high of 55 back in 1991.
