Australian River Bursts Into Flames

A river ablaze in Australia due to methane seeps. Some blame
nearby fracking operations, while others say this
is naturally occuring.  

I thought rivers that caught fire were a legacy of intense 1960s and 1970s pollution. Remember the Cuyahoga River in Ohio burning way back in the late 1960s.

It turns out, a river was just set on fire in Australia.

Last month, an Australian MP named Jeremy Buckingham went up the Condamine River in Queensland, came up to a area where methane was bubbling up, and set the river ablaze.

The video is at the bottom of this post.

Buckingham, a member of the Green Party, blamed the seeping methane and the fact he was able to set the river on fire on fracking nearby.

CBC News reports Buckingham said a nearby coal gas seam, or CGS, operation is to blame. In the video, he says, "This area has been drilled with thousands of CSG wells and fracked. This river for kilimeters is bubblilng with gas and now it's on fire."

Buckingham and the Green Party are trying to ban fracking in Australia.

CBC says there have been reports of methane seeps in the Condamine River since 2012

A scientific analysis firm said there could be a number of reasons for the methane bubbling. It could be the fracking or other similar activities, or it could be caused by drought and the recharging of acqufers after floods.

Coals is near the earth's surface in the area, so it's easy for gases to rise to the surface from the coal seams.

For its part the local coal and fracking companies say that they are not to blame, that naturally occuring gas seeps occur and can be lit on fire, but they pose no threat to the public.

In any event, burning rivers are probably not a good thing.

Here's the video:

This Jerk Is Starting The New Year Jobless Because Of His Racist Rant

This guy decided to get really racial when confronting
a bunch of anti-fracking demonstrators. Now he lost
his job and everybody hates him. 

Recently, several people were peacefully protesting against a Pennsylvania fracking operation.

One of the demonstrators had a camera and encountered a guy who got rained out on his outdoor job and decided to show up and harass the anti-fracking crowd.

That part's OK. Nothing wrong with counter-demonstrating.

But the jerk had to be the stupidest person out there, given what he said, while knowing he was being filmed.

According to Raw Story, the idiot, identified as John Pisone, started off by saying, "Have you actually done something with your life, have you had any kind of job?"

Then he started making chimp noises at an African-American protestor, calling him the "N" word while also making liberal use of the word "fucking."

Pisone said the anti-fracking people were "milking my fucking tax dollars"

Well, Pisone is going to be the one milking tax dollars.

The video of this tirade, which you can see at the bottom of this post, went viral. Pisone's employer, MMC Land Management fired him.

In a Facebook statement, MMC decried Pisone for disrupting a peaceful protest, and that they have no tolerance for such language on or off the job.

So, the taxpayers might now be supporting Pisone, since he's out of a job and will have to live on something. Talk about milking the taxpayers!

Later, television station WPXI caught up with Pisone, who, now that he's jobless and everybody hates him, is apologetic. Don't know if he's sincere or not, because whether you mean it or not, you have to at least pretend to be contrite under these circumstances.

"It was foolish of me, especially to go racial over the whole thing," Pisone told WPXI. "This was stupid of me. I was angry.... I exploded and said what I thought would cut the deepest, and it was very stupid of me."

"I went racial on him, him being black. I thought this was going to cut deep. I don't know what the hell I was thinking.....I won't ever do it again."

Yeah, John, it was stupid of you. Any moron could see that if you just criticized the protestors' opinions on fracking, all would be fine.

Pisone says he's gotten death threats, which proves the point that when somebody like him does something stupid, stupid people respond with their idiocy.

Here's the video that made Pisone famous, if you can stand it. NSFW because of lots of swear words and really bad racial epithets.