Travelogue for the Universe: October 2015

Saturday, October 31, 2015

Happy Hallowe'en!

The Veil is thinnest today...

Shadows,

Dark,

Raining,

Cold,

Illusions,

Apparitions,

and

Treats.

Friday, October 30, 2015

Jerry Garcia Band + Clarence Clemons 9/10/89 "And It Stoned Me"

Friday Night Musik...

This week a youtube that appeared in my suggested column.

Two of my favorite people here...
tgiff!

Thursday, October 29, 2015

A Fragile Place

a fragile place,

seems so serene,

never forgetting to change with the seasons,

a beautiful place,

was my appreciation learned,

or simply inherent in my dNA?

the fall colors from another year,

just as spectacular,

for a moment.

my sister likes the milkweed,

as did Mom,

who said Sacajewea used it for baby diaper lining.

Who doesn't like to pluck a milkweed pod

and blow the sailing seeds,

as if they are designed to entice us

to spread the seed far and wide.

This place is threatened,

oh, it looks so safe and stable,

as if it will always be this way,

So I picked the photo to show you

what a natural meadow looks like,

(even if meadows in VT came from clear cutting

old growth forests over a century ago),

The milkweed supports monarch butterflies,

Where are they this year?

Bulldozer bulldozes,

plants that look like weeds,

manicure that dirt pile,

plant grass,

goodbye milkweed.

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Jupiter,

Sure, a few moons, like we learned in school.

Nope!

67 and counting?

Enjoy this little video...

Thx to fellow twitterer Massimo...

Jupiter's moons: 67 and counting https://t.co/fa9uvCBcDh cc: @JPMajor @rocketman528 @cosmos4u @DavidBflower pic.twitter.com/62wSA8uYCx
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 27, 2015

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Sunday's News

State street in @vtmontpelier still blocked off to traffic. Protestors still there. https://t.co/l3DZUB5iDL pic.twitter.com/gx2dLDLLnw
— Channel 3 News (@wcax) October 25, 2015

Sunday this week,

Protesters against #fracking and the proposed

transmission line through our rural, scenic town.

They blocked off State St. in Vermont's Capitol.

Yesterday 3 people were arrested,

Overall a peaceful action.

What Remains?

People still need to understand that Expanding our fossil fuel menu is wrong.

This is no place for a fracked gas transmission line...

Monday, October 26, 2015

Three-day pipeline protest ends in 3 arrests - WCAX.COM Local Vermont News, Weather and Sports-

Crazy (Gnarls Barkley Cover) - Ray Lamontagne

For Monday...a little Ray LaMontagne...Crazy.

Sunday, October 25, 2015

#fracking and Anti Pipeline Protest in Vermont....Will you join?

Will you join?

Friends

This is a message from folks on the ground in Montpelier:
We, the coalition to stop the vt fracked gas pipeline, have been occupying the middle of State Street in front of the vt state Capitol for 26 hours and we're staying! We need at least 50 people to join us and seek to make a national spectacle of our demonstration and assertion of our first amendment rights. Call your friends! We can do this! Our govt is signing back room deals with multinational corporations to commit our economy and future to climate crisis and we're demanding democracy and a cease to all fossil fuel infrastructure projects. Please come join us! This is a historical moment! Bring food, gear, well wishes, and indomitable spirits! KEEP IT IN THE GROUND!

a few articles to whet your whistle...

Lawmakers need to protect citizens not natural gas pipeline companies

The Delaware County Daily Times

Last week's guest column from David J. Brooman, counsel at High Swartz, titled “Building a gas pipeline takes compromise from company and ...

Bullies!

http://digital.vpr.net/post/vermont-gas-pays-big-clear-way-addison-county-pipeline-project

Bill McKibben weighs in in the Digger

Vermont Public Radio

McKibben: Vermont Gas protest on Saturday part of new wave of opposition to fossil fuels

vtdigger.org

Viewed through this lens, a pipeline like the one proposed by Vermont Gas has two principal problems. First, though gas is sometimes sold as a ...

WPTZ The Champlain Valley

Vt. Gas files eminent domain petitions as last resort

WPTZ The Champlain Valley

This week, Vermont Gas said 94 percent of landowners along the route have agreed to let the utility bury part of the pipeline on their land. The utility is ...

Proposed Pipeline Wouldn't Run Through Vermont, But Could Bring A Plant To Vernon

Vermont Public Radio

Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, a subsidiary of national energy giant Kinder Morgan, will file an application for a 420-mile natural gas pipeline ...

And 2 more before I turn in...

Vermont Biz

AARP accuses Vermont Gas of end run in MOU with state

Vermont Biz

by Anne Galloway vtdigger.org Opponents of a natural gas pipeline say Vermont Gas is using a legal maneuver to subvert the regulatory process in ...

Gas leak spurs evacuation

Williston Observer

“Vermont Gas arrived shortly after dispatch and was able to shut the main transmission line down,” the press release states. “Gas was reportedly ...

Amy Helm :: GRAMMY Museum :: Interview

Link to a great interview of Amy Helm

and several tunes from her new album.

Didn't it Rain...

appropriate for anyone in the path of Patricia.

The first version of Didn't it Rain that I heard,

by Rosetta Tharpe

Saturday, October 24, 2015

Arrows the Thin Veil & Hoops

it was not until I looked again, that I saw the similarities
arrows, a blindfold, the bystanders
my vision, and the random stabbing reminders
of that MonSter

this week, radio my entertainment,
the announcer and guest were talking disability and the financial burden on social security
they said it was easy to grant, some young ones didn't need it.
correction: not easy, not a get rich quick, jumping thru hoops,
there seems to always be one more.

no message, really,
i called the radio and spoke my side.
then hung up
and never said all of it.
maybe that's a start
meg

Friday, October 23, 2015

Friday Night Musik... Ray Wylie Hubbard "Screw You, We're From Texas"

For Friday...from You tube...

Great musik!

TGIFF!

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Please send Energy to Fight the #Fracking Frackers

So Simple,
Really,
We don't want
the fracking
pipeline
they want to use
to feed their
fossil fuel,
disguised as
gaz naturale.

We need the
Energy
of Willing
People,
and Pets,
if they are
Willing.
Just send a thought.
Can't hurt.

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Mark Knopfler & Chet Atkins And a little Mass Action on #fracking

Wonderful yt link...

Now for a little request for the environment:

Everyone who is concerned about climate justice and turning away from the use of dangerous fossil fuels ought to be interested in the ACTION that will take place in Montpelier on Saturday, October 24, beginning at 11:00 a.m. The goal is to get such a crowd of people there that it will be very clear that very many Vermont citizens don’t buy the promises of Vermont Gas Systems, believe that officers of VGS have consistently lied about the cost and the expected savings from piping fracked gas to Addison County, and that therefore the VT Public Service Board should terminate the permit to build a pipeline from Burlington to Middlebury.

Here is a promo video that will explain what this is about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEZybRf_b_0&feature=youtu.be

Now it is only days until we are rising up for climate justice and shutting down the Vermont Gas Pipeline. If you haven't already rallied your friends, parents, grandkids, and neighbors to join you at the statehouse this Saturday, October 24th, show them this invitational video. It's good for the soul to remember all of the incredible times when people came together in this campaign to stop the fracked gas pipeline. And it's going to be even more fun to publicly call out the backroom dealings that lead to climate disaster, and stomp out this project together!

For more information on the mass action, visit climateorganizers.org,

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Research: NY battle more important than previously thought - WCAX.COM Local Vermont News, Weather and Sports-

Research: NY battle more important than previously thought - WCAX.COM Local Vermont News, Weather and Sports-

It has been a spectacular stretched out foliage season in the north country.
The local station, Channel 3 did a great story about Early American battles.
New York shares Lake Champlain shores with Vermont.

Great historical sites all around this lake,
Well worth seeing.

Monday, October 19, 2015

No Energy

For Isis,

Or Isil,

nasty commenters,

counter commenters,

Hiding, Making up, Using alias power.

Now if this makes no sense,

Perhaps you feel so safe,

or you don't comment,

because they'll snipe you,

Just like the playground.

The energy,
Some seems easier to come by,
all rising in price,
at least since I can remember.

I look around me,
lights,
fans,
cooling,
heating,
washing,
cleaning.

Energy.

So even if you still don't lock your doors,
Take your shoes off to walk on floors,
Wear a hat when going outdoors,
Avoid commenting back to boors,

If you Feel safe in your iphone crib,
Better keep your eyes open,
That's no fib.
meg

ICYMI: Officials: ISIS is attacking the US energy grid http://t.co/KmMfEzlgca pic.twitter.com/JiY7ciaXYH

— WPTZ (@WPTZ) October 18, 2015

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Carolyn Wonderland "Judgement Day Blues"

Sunday seems a good day for

Judgement Day Blues...

Carolyn Wonderland, Cole El-Saleh, Rob Hooper

Special music...

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Gaz Recap or #frackers never sleep

Gaz Recap

Updates on the proposed trans Addison County, VT gaz pipeline.

since 10/07/15

I have to filter some out...

meg

WPTZ The Champlain Valley

State, utility company suggest pipeline cost cap

WPTZ The Champlain Valley

MONTPELIER, Vt. —The state of Vermont and Vermont Gas Systems has reached an agreement to cap costs of the Vermont natural gas pipeline.

Vermont Biz

Vermont Gas, DPS reach MOU on capping pipeline cost at $134 million

Vermont Biz

by Timothy McQuiston Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Public Service Department reached agreement today with Vermont Gas Systems to ...

State, utility company suggest pipeline cost cap - WPTZ The Champlain Valley

Gas pipeline project to cost $20M less than estimate - Washington Times

Department Negotiates Agreement to Limit Cost to Ratepayers for Natural Gas Pipeline - My Champlain Valley FOX44 & ABC22

Full Coverage

Vt Gas, state, agree to cap pipeline cost

BurlingtonFreePress.com

The cost of the Addison pipeline was originally estimated at $86 million. ... “I continue to believe that expanding natural gas beyond Chittenden and ...

From AARP:

Press Statement

October 7, 2015

Our response to today’s announcement on the VGS – DPS MOU

“This is a bad deal for ratepayers. The notion that capping costs at $134 million is somehow a benefit to ratepayers is simply ridiculous. Current VGS ratepayers would still be on the hook for a $134 million project that will provide them no benefit.

“This appears to be a blatant attempt to influence the Public Service Board as they consider the larger issue of VGS’s Certificate of Public Good and the overall economic impact on Vermonters.”

Greg Marchildon

AARP Vermont|State Director

802-951-1306|Land

802-651-9805|Fax

Dave Reville | AARP Vermont | Associate State Director - Communications

199 Main St. | Suite 225 | Burlington, VT 05401

Office: 802-951-1303 | Cell: 802-279-6748

Deal could keep Vt. Gas pipeline project alive

WCAX

The natural gas pipeline proposed to run from Chittenden County to Addison County is one step closer to completion. Officials from Vermont Gas ...

Vermont Biz

Shumlin administration, Vermont Gas agree to cap on ratepayer subsidy for gas pipeline

vtdigger.org

Ratepayers will pick up most of the tab for a natural gas pipeline under a ... Don Rendall, the CEO of Vermont Gas, says the company agreed to the ...

Vermont Gas reports that pipeline cost and schedule unchanged

Vermont Biz

Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Gas today submitted its regular quarterly report regarding the Addison natural gas expansion project with the ...

Now wasn't IP the reason for the Addison county proposed pipeline?

International Paper Extends Natural Gas “Virtual Pipeline” Contract with NG Advantage for ...

MarketWatch

This is the largest mobile pipeline project in the U.S. and showcases the scalability of NG Advantage's service to deliver natural gas as an alternative ...

http://www.wptz.com/news/opponents-say-deal-vt-gas-struck-isnt-fair/35866048

Trucked CNG Extends Its Journey With New York Paper Plant

Natural Gas Intelligence

Lacking natural gas pipeline service in its area, which is common in parts of the Northeast, International Paper was seeking to help underwrite a gas ...

Last but not least:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/16/canada-election-stephen-harper-fossil-fuel-backfires

Hoping for the fracking to stop...meg

Friday, October 16, 2015

Black Country Communion- Faithless- LIVE OVER EUROPE

for friday night,
a favorite
yt link
from bcc

enjoy.

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Sean Costello Band video by Anthony Pepitone

A great video link posted on youtube by Anthony Pepitone, the filmamker.
Sean Costello is one of my favorites, discovered by me long after he passed on.
He has a foundation...please give if you can. meg

http://www.seancostellofund.org/

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Icy Moon

Our @CassiniSaturn begins a series of flybys Wednesday of Saturn's large, icy moon Enceladus: http://t.co/qLxhhbXqpA pic.twitter.com/ndlCQGjhnM
— NASA (@NASA) October 13, 2015