Dave Lincoln, He Blew the Whistle on Big Oil

Dave was recruited by Union Oil in 1966. He was fourteen. From that day until the moment he walked away from the job he loved and a six figure income he lived and breathed the oil business.

Union Oil was looking for PR cover, which they would use during the Santa Barbara Oil Spill in 1969.

At the time, Dave was completing his work to become an Eagle Scout, making him a natural recruit to sell the good intentions of Union Oil. Scripts of well-honed lies were provided to Dave and his fellow recruits.

The techniques used by Union Oil could have been taken from indoctrination material for Nazi Youth.

It would be twenty years before Dave realized, to his horror, how he and the other students had been used. By then, Dave was a geologist working in Malaysia for Enron, and dealing directly with foreign countries for the company.

Dave believed it was his duty to protect nature, not destroy it.

Walking away was the only option. Dave returned to the US and went to work for Green Peace. His entire life had been focused on the oil industry. He had both academic and on the ground experience with all aspects of the technologies for oil production, drilling, and had studied intensely the sloppy and cost cutting planning and strategies which were destroying lives and the environment.

His depth of knowledge and clear thinking made it possible for him to identify the most devastating facts and images to be used against the experts assembled by Big Oil.

Carried out for the Gloucester Fishermen's Wives Association

The Association had been losing their battle to stop construction on the proposed off shore gas pipeline in MA 1997, gas pipe from Canada to Boston Harbor. Dave provided hard data on the incidence of gas pipeline leaks presented to make it impossible not to understand a leak could be dangerous because a large of volume methane could change the density of the water and cause the ships to sink. Methane changes the buoyancy. The opposition, a gas company, withdrew their proposal.

Carried out for the Massachusetts Fishermen’s Partnership and Commonwealth Corporation

Enacting a moratorium against exploration and drilling on George's Bank in Canada 1999 opened up the campaign for a moratorium by the US.

Dave provided the in-depth research and the illustration which immediately lead to the adoption of a moratorium for seven years, which was then extended and is active today.

Dave played the sound of an airgun going off while he testified, ignoring requests he turn it off. The sound had a stunning impact on those attending.

The oil company involved was Texaco. Texaco was sold the next year. They had lost their cash cow. First time an oil company was told it could not drill. Tactics used including issued a report on the seismic effect on mammals and fish, also prepared by Dave.

The Moratorium for the US was adopted in 2000. In this case Dave was up against the New England Aquarium, which had taken a large grant from Pew, which is, of course, Sun Oil (Sunoco). The New England Aquarium hired someone from California who was cued to say Texaco's plans might not cause harm.

Dave again used the materials prepared for the Canadian campaign and additionally focused in on damage to marine organisms and toxic drilling muds when they play together. These were illustrated very graphically during the panel. Opposition was Shell, Texaco in the US.

Materials Dave wrote:

February 25, 1998 - Letter from Gloucester Fishermen’s Association

January 1, 1999-   The Truth About George's Bank Exploration and Production Operations
May                   Oil Drilling on Georges Bank?

October  2000       ARTICLE:  Coexistence of the Fishery & Petroleum Industries

News Release for Massachusetts Fishing Partnership

May 24, 2002 - Media Release: The Sierra Club of Canada applauds extension of the 
 moratorium

2002 - STUDY: Submission to Public Review Commission - Sense and Nonsense-The Environmental Impacts of   Exploration on Marine Organisms Offshore   Cape Breton

March 2003-       Media Release: Cape Breton Island Threatened by Coastal Oil and Gas 
Development.

In 2000 the US changed its rules about seismic noise.

Carried out for The Dragon Chinese Restaurant, Pittsfield, MA.

In 2004 a tanker truck carrying 9,000 gallons of heavy fuel oil turned over in the parking lot of the The Dragon Chinese Restaurant in Pittsfield Massachusetts.

Dave was hired by an attorney who had heard of his work to provide the evidence for court. Dave carried out an investigation onsite to show there were contaminants left over after the fire department removed most of the oil. He provided a computer model of the event and presented this to the jury.

Additionally, the owner of the restaurant, who was Vietnamese, thought it was her job to protect the food and stayed on the site. Because no one told her this was unsafe she remained at her place of business for two days.

Two separate law suits were filed. Dave was the forensics expert for both.

Dave examined the fuel company's records for driver safety discovering the driver involved had exceeded his time and the trucking company had an abnormally high number of accidents. They were breaking all the rules, working too long, going through population centers.

In court, Dave also testified on the air dispersion models showing where the gases went and the concentration. These concentrations were high enough to have caused her nausea. Using his own peer-reviewed articles Dave was prepared for any question asked. He always answered clearly and concisely. This was also litigated and she received $100,000. The suit was won hands down.

During the time this was going on her son won a prize on Top Chef.

Carried out for Environmental Rights International

The issue was the decades old oil spill in Ecuador originally caused by Texaco. The drilling had been carried out in the 1970s. Trial was schedule for 2009.

As a byproduct of their drilling the company had built oil pits which they used to dispose of oil and produced water. This sank into the water table causing the 30,000 Indians living in the area to be poisoned. These people and their children now suffer from stomach cancer, or other forms of cancer and chronic diseases. Many have died as a result and many more will die. A generation of children have grown up drinking and bathing in oil polluted water, which Texaco described as 'produced water.'

Forced to provide information during the early stages of the litigation Texaco provided Dave with five boxes of data.

Dave scanned through the stuff, finding their reports. These had been written for Texaco using their own specifications which limited what was provided because of what they said would otherwise be too costly. Therefore, they had only sampled half of the pits, leaving the worst ones for later.

Results provided included only half the 300 pits. There were also five gathering stations, where pipes come together in each field. Oil pits are used to separate oil from water. Three of the five actually sampled just on the surface came back 100% oil.

Texaco had claimed the problem had been solved in 1980. Problem occurred in the 1970s continued until 1980 when Texaco claimed they had cleaned up the toxic waste. This was a lie.

The presentation materials Dave built includes photos of the kids. The opposition was given copies of these as part of the pre-trial disclosure.

Dave went through several full days of depositions. During this time he was subjected to a battering of Good Cop – Bad Cop harassment. In court, as he was waiting alone for the hearing to begin a group of around ten men from the oil company sat around him and began to make threats and remind him he had been “one of their own.” Dave did not budge and did not respond.

The lawyers hired managed, by legal manipulation, to keep Dave from testifying and then suppressed his book, “The Hidden Cost of Oil.” 

Big Oil is afraid of Dave - but not the big environmental organizations.  Ask yourself why. 


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Healing the Hazards - Narrative

Minimize the Impact of Toxic Events

Healing the Hazards 

 Narrative

This narrative explains the legislative proposal provided for consideration and passage into law by both houses of the United States Congress. It is the result of an in-depth and exhaustive analysis of the problem posed by the transport of hazardous materials by the petroleum industry. Guidelines for design were to ensure accountability and security for Americans from operations moving toxic substances through pipes and other forms of transport. Also, to provide a viable avenue to rapidly exact accountability for damage done to people and their property.

Within the last five years multiple Toxic Events caused by corporations moving highly hazardous materials have focused attention on the need to ensure Americans are secure in their health and their property. The petroleum industry cannot be trusted to monitor their own transport system.

The tactics adopted in the wake of these toxic events result in lingering litigation, further losses to those harmed, and lasting damage to private and public property. They have instead adopted a strategy of denial coupled with a build out to protect themselves from liability using our system of law and courts.

Since the petroleum industry lacks the motivation to carry out the needed monitoring themselves it is incumbent on us to ensure monitoring takes place and cannot be manipulated.

This is especially urgent because recent Toxic Events, especially those involving Tar Sands, require knowledge of the exact chemical make-up of the material released immediately to determine the scope and intensity for an effective and immediate response by HazMat units. We can, and must, have this information reach local HazMat units as an instant response alarm because of the material the petroleum industry has chosen to use to make transport by pipes possible for Tar Sands.

The chemicals used to move Tar Sands through corporations which deal routinely in such poisons as Benzene, Toluene, and Hydrogen Sulfide while transporting their raw materials for processing. These toxic chemicals, highly carcinogenic, neurotoxic, or poisonous, exit the pipe in gaseous form. The pressure in the pipe, then released ejects them into the air where they disperse widely, depending on the direction of the wind and other prevailing conditions. We call this the Primary Release Period and it lasts about an hour. 'Monitoring' by the responsible petroleum company never starts until this period has ended.

This intense period of exposure renders impacted victims sensitized to later exposure.

We believe these facts are known to the those in the petroleum industry.

The potential liabilities for the subject corporation are substantial. This is why this critical information is never made available in a timely manner.

In this case, timely means instantly, with projections for the range impacted so people can be evacuated immediately.

Lacking this information, it has proven impossible to provide adequate medical intervention for people who are affected by Toxic Events or to reduce the long term effects on victims and their property.

While the petroleum industry would have us believe this is not possible the fact is the means for ensuring both reliable monitoring and rapid response exist now. No new technology is needed.

To protect the health and property rights of people to be secure we propose the following system to be made available online so each HazMat unit can know immediately, instead of hours later, the actual gravity of any Toxic Event.

ALOHA is a Software Suite of programs designed and provided for public use by the U.S. Office of Response and Restoration which is used in this application. The system provides essential information on hazards to local communities for Toxic Events which are not caused by material stored within the community. Pipelines, transport by rail, and truck are not stored within the community.

If this had been available on March 29^th last year, 2013, in Mayflower, Arkansas the town could be well on its way to recovery instead of bogged down in a struggle against the lies told by Exxon and those who the company has paid to carry out the present PR campaign asserting they are 'moving on' and all is well.

Many individuals are experiencing growing health problems, the land and water remain impacted, and the area impacted is growing as time passes.

The failure to provide immediate monitoring has also allowed the petroleum industry to perpetuate fallacies which must be overcome. One of these is outlined above. But there are others.

These two different forms of damage we identify as First Level (Release of material – 3 Hours) and Second Level ( Three Hours – Finish of Comprehensive Clean-Up) We defined Comprehensive Clean-Up as the return to conditions existing before the Toxic Event occurred.

All people and animals must be evacuated out of the critical radius for damage within scant minutes to avoid First Level damage. Individuals and animals who remain within the Impacted Radius throughout this initial period (First Level), should not return to the area until they have been medically evaluated for toxic overexposure.

This proposal provides a decentralized system using already existing software obtainable, as stated above, from the Office of Response and Restoration which would then be available, with a system to alert local First Responders, informing them of the areas which must be evacuated, what toxic chemicals were released, and other time critical information.

Local residents will be urged to organize to ensure their own safety and that of their community.

Alerts would be available to local residents who sign up to receive them. In this way if a need for evacuations becomes necessary to local First Responders will know who to go to to ensure all residents are notified.

This critical information will also be available for viewing via the Internet by the public so the content of materials being transported is immediately available.

Furthermore, potential preliminary air dispersion models of various scenarios should be made available at critical facilities so that nearby residents can be prepared and know how to respond in an emergency in advance.

Using these already existing technologies and agency models this can be put into place rapidly.

The system, which we are calling Healing the Hazards, would provide a series of models immediately following a release using a specific analysis of the materials involved. For a pipeline, the model would be positioned at the closest point from where the rupture occurred, factoring, if necessary the two closest points between the rupture.

The ALOHA system takes into account the direction of the wind, producing a map to facilitate evacuation which would take place using phone and volunteers who would inform those within the First Level Area. These maps would be distributed to all first responders and anyone remaining in the area so they could make informed decisions.

The chemical analysis of the substance at its point of origin would then be published to make it available for future use in litigation, if necessary.

Instead of litigation we propose the immediate formation of a Trust to be funded by the corporation involved. Establishing a Trust, funded automatically through the Oil Spill

Liability Trust Fund.

The legislative proposal includes oversight and management by a Healing Hazards Oversight Committee made up of three individuals who have the requisite management skills and ethical qualifications to ensure the process is not suborned. Given the past record of the petroleum companies involved we can assume attempts to accomplish this will begin immediately. 

Minimize the Impact of Toxic Events

Healing the Hazards 
 Narrative

This narrative explains the legislative proposal provided for consideration and passage into law by both houses of the United States Congress. It is the result of an in-depth and exhaustive analysis of the problem posed by the transport of hazardous materials by the petroleum industry. Guidelines for design were to ensure accountability and security for Americans from operations moving toxic substances through pipes and other forms of transport. Also, to provide a viable avenue to rapidly exact accountability for damage done to people and their property.

Within the last five years multiple Toxic Events caused by corporations moving highly hazardous materials have focused attention on the need to ensure Americans are secure in their health and their property. The petroleum industry cannot be trusted to monitor their own transport system.

The tactics adopted in the wake of these toxic events result in lingering litigation, further losses to those harmed, and lasting damage to private and public property. They have instead adopted a strategy of denial coupled with a build out to protect themselves from liability using our system of law and courts.

Since the petroleum industry lacks the motivation to carry out the needed monitoring themselves it is incumbent on us to ensure monitoring takes place and cannot be manipulated.

This is especially urgent because recent Toxic Events, especially those involving Tar Sands, require knowledge of the exact chemical make-up of the material released immediately to determine the scope and intensity for an effective and immediate response by HazMat units. We can, and must, have this information reach local HazMat units as an instant response alarm because of the material the petroleum industry has chosen to use to make transport by pipes possible for Tar Sands.

The chemicals used to move Tar Sands through corporations which deal routinely in such poisons as Benzene, Toluene, and Hydrogen Sulfide while transporting their raw materials for processing. These toxic chemicals, highly carcinogenic, neurotoxic, or poisonous, exit the pipe in gaseous form. The pressure in the pipe, then released ejects them into the air where they disperse widely, depending on the direction of the wind and other prevailing conditions. We call this the Primary Release Period and it lasts about an hour. 'Monitoring' by the responsible petroleum company never starts until this period has ended.

This intense period of exposure renders impacted victims sensitized to later exposure.

We believe these facts are known to the those in the petroleum industry.

The potential liabilities for the subject corporation are substantial. This is why this critical information is never made available in a timely manner.

In this case, timely means instantly, with projections for the range impacted so people can be evacuated immediately.

Lacking this information, it has proven impossible to provide adequate medical intervention for people who are affected by Toxic Events or to reduce the long term effects on victims and their property.

While the petroleum industry would have us believe this is not possible the fact is the means for ensuring both reliable monitoring and rapid response exist now. No new technology is needed.

To protect the health and property rights of people to be secure we propose the following system to be made available online so each HazMat unit can know immediately, instead of hours later, the actual gravity of any Toxic Event.

ALOHA is a Software Suite of programs designed and provided for public use by the U.S. Office of Response and Restoration which is used in this application. The system provides essential information on hazards to local communities for Toxic Events which are not caused by material stored within the community. Pipelines, transport by rail, and truck are not stored within the community.

If this had been available on March 29^th last year, 2013, in Mayflower, Arkansas the town could be well on its way to recovery instead of bogged down in a struggle against the lies told by Exxon and those who the company has paid to carry out the present PR campaign asserting they are 'moving on' and all is well.

Many individuals are experiencing growing health problems, the land and water remain impacted, and the area impacted is growing as time passes.

The failure to provide immediate monitoring has also allowed the petroleum industry to perpetuate fallacies which must be overcome. One of these is outlined above. But there are others.

These two different forms of damage we identify as First Level (Release of material – 3 Hours) and Second Level ( Three Hours – Finish of Comprehensive Clean-Up) We defined Comprehensive Clean-Up as the return to conditions existing before the Toxic Event occurred.

All people and animals must be evacuated out of the critical radius for damage within scant minutes to avoid First Level damage. Individuals and animals who remain within the Impacted Radius throughout this initial period (First Level), should not return to the area until they have been medically evaluated for toxic overexposure.

This proposal provides a decentralized system using already existing software obtainable, as stated above, from the Office of Response and Restoration which would then be available, with a system to alert local First Responders, informing them of the areas which must be evacuated, what toxic chemicals were released, and other time critical information.

Local residents will be urged to organize to ensure their own safety and that of their community.

Alerts would be available to local residents who sign up to receive them. In this way if a need for evacuations becomes necessary to local First Responders will know who to go to to ensure all residents are notified.

This critical information will also be available for viewing via the Internet by the public so the content of materials being transported is immediately available.

Furthermore, potential preliminary air dispersion models of various scenarios should be made available at critical facilities so that nearby residents can be prepared and know how to respond in an emergency in advance.

Using these already existing technologies and agency models this can be put into place rapidly.

The system, which we are calling Healing the Hazards, would provide a series of models immediately following a release using a specific analysis of the materials involved. For a pipeline, the model would be positioned at the closest point from where the rupture occurred, factoring, if necessary the two closest points between the rupture.

The ALOHA system takes into account the direction of the wind, producing a map to facilitate evacuation which would take place using phone and volunteers who would inform those within the First Level Area. These maps would be distributed to all first responders and anyone remaining in the area so they could make informed decisions.

The chemical analysis of the substance at its point of origin would then be published to make it available for future use in litigation, if necessary.

Instead of litigation we propose the immediate formation of a Trust to be funded by the corporation involved. Establishing a Trust, funded automatically through the Oil Spill

Liability Trust Fund.

The legislative proposal includes oversight and management by a Healing Hazards Oversight Committee made up of three individuals who have the requisite management skills and ethical qualifications to ensure the process is not suborned. Given the past record of the petroleum companies involved we can assume attempts to accomplish this will begin immediately. 

- See more at: http://kochtruths.blogspot.com/p/action.html#sthash.Rc1hXNk3.dpuf

Minimize the Impact of Toxic Events

Healing the Hazards 
 Narrative

This narrative explains the legislative proposal provided for consideration and passage into law by both houses of the United States Congress. It is the result of an in-depth and exhaustive analysis of the problem posed by the transport of hazardous materials by the petroleum industry. Guidelines for design were to ensure accountability and security for Americans from operations moving toxic substances through pipes and other forms of transport. Also, to provide a viable avenue to rapidly exact accountability for damage done to people and their property.

Within the last five years multiple Toxic Events caused by corporations moving highly hazardous materials have focused attention on the need to ensure Americans are secure in their health and their property. The petroleum industry cannot be trusted to monitor their own transport system.

The tactics adopted in the wake of these toxic events result in lingering litigation, further losses to those harmed, and lasting damage to private and public property. They have instead adopted a strategy of denial coupled with a build out to protect themselves from liability using our system of law and courts.

Since the petroleum industry lacks the motivation to carry out the needed monitoring themselves it is incumbent on us to ensure monitoring takes place and cannot be manipulated.

This is especially urgent because recent Toxic Events, especially those involving Tar Sands, require knowledge of the exact chemical make-up of the material released immediately to determine the scope and intensity for an effective and immediate response by HazMat units. We can, and must, have this information reach local HazMat units as an instant response alarm because of the material the petroleum industry has chosen to use to make transport by pipes possible for Tar Sands.

The chemicals used to move Tar Sands through corporations which deal routinely in such poisons as Benzene, Toluene, and Hydrogen Sulfide while transporting their raw materials for processing. These toxic chemicals, highly carcinogenic, neurotoxic, or poisonous, exit the pipe in gaseous form. The pressure in the pipe, then released ejects them into the air where they disperse widely, depending on the direction of the wind and other prevailing conditions. We call this the Primary Release Period and it lasts about an hour. 'Monitoring' by the responsible petroleum company never starts until this period has ended.

This intense period of exposure renders impacted victims sensitized to later exposure.

We believe these facts are known to the those in the petroleum industry.

The potential liabilities for the subject corporation are substantial. This is why this critical information is never made available in a timely manner.

In this case, timely means instantly, with projections for the range impacted so people can be evacuated immediately.

Lacking this information, it has proven impossible to provide adequate medical intervention for people who are affected by Toxic Events or to reduce the long term effects on victims and their property.

While the petroleum industry would have us believe this is not possible the fact is the means for ensuring both reliable monitoring and rapid response exist now. No new technology is needed.

To protect the health and property rights of people to be secure we propose the following system to be made available online so each HazMat unit can know immediately, instead of hours later, the actual gravity of any Toxic Event.

ALOHA is a Software Suite of programs designed and provided for public use by the U.S. Office of Response and Restoration which is used in this application. The system provides essential information on hazards to local communities for Toxic Events which are not caused by material stored within the community. Pipelines, transport by rail, and truck are not stored within the community.

If this had been available on March 29^th last year, 2013, in Mayflower, Arkansas the town could be well on its way to recovery instead of bogged down in a struggle against the lies told by Exxon and those who the company has paid to carry out the present PR campaign asserting they are 'moving on' and all is well.

Many individuals are experiencing growing health problems, the land and water remain impacted, and the area impacted is growing as time passes.

The failure to provide immediate monitoring has also allowed the petroleum industry to perpetuate fallacies which must be overcome. One of these is outlined above. But there are others.

These two different forms of damage we identify as First Level (Release of material – 3 Hours) and Second Level ( Three Hours – Finish of Comprehensive Clean-Up) We defined Comprehensive Clean-Up as the return to conditions existing before the Toxic Event occurred.

All people and animals must be evacuated out of the critical radius for damage within scant minutes to avoid First Level damage. Individuals and animals who remain within the Impacted Radius throughout this initial period (First Level), should not return to the area until they have been medically evaluated for toxic overexposure.

This proposal provides a decentralized system using already existing software obtainable, as stated above, from the Office of Response and Restoration which would then be available, with a system to alert local First Responders, informing them of the areas which must be evacuated, what toxic chemicals were released, and other time critical information.

Local residents will be urged to organize to ensure their own safety and that of their community.

Alerts would be available to local residents who sign up to receive them. In this way if a need for evacuations becomes necessary to local First Responders will know who to go to to ensure all residents are notified.

This critical information will also be available for viewing via the Internet by the public so the content of materials being transported is immediately available.

Furthermore, potential preliminary air dispersion models of various scenarios should be made available at critical facilities so that nearby residents can be prepared and know how to respond in an emergency in advance.

Using these already existing technologies and agency models this can be put into place rapidly.

The system, which we are calling Healing the Hazards, would provide a series of models immediately following a release using a specific analysis of the materials involved. For a pipeline, the model would be positioned at the closest point from where the rupture occurred, factoring, if necessary the two closest points between the rupture.

The ALOHA system takes into account the direction of the wind, producing a map to facilitate evacuation which would take place using phone and volunteers who would inform those within the First Level Area. These maps would be distributed to all first responders and anyone remaining in the area so they could make informed decisions.

The chemical analysis of the substance at its point of origin would then be published to make it available for future use in litigation, if necessary.

Instead of litigation we propose the immediate formation of a Trust to be funded by the corporation involved. Establishing a Trust, funded automatically through the Oil Spill

Liability Trust Fund.

The legislative proposal includes oversight and management by a Healing Hazards Oversight Committee made up of three individuals who have the requisite management skills and ethical qualifications to ensure the process is not suborned. Given the past record of the petroleum companies involved we can assume attempts to accomplish this will begin immediately. 

- See more at: http://kochtruths.blogspot.com/p/action.html#sthash.Rc1hXNk3.dpuf

Healing the Hazards - A Proposal for Legislation

A Proposal for legislation 

by 

Earth Hub 

Koch Truths & Green Fields Renewal

Written by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster and Dave Lincoln

Title of Bill: Healing the Hazards – Minimizing the Impact of Toxic Events

Be It Enacted By The United States Congress

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Preamble: Whereas, Toxic Events caused by Petroleum Companies which, as a part of their business model move highly hazardous materials across private and public lands by pipe, train, and truck, have been responsible for an increased number of Toxic Events, resulting in damage done to people, property, communities and the land, air and water on which their communities are sited and Whereas, the Petroleum Industry routinely and intentionally has withheld essential information on the contents of the materials they ship, these delays often lasting until any threat of legal action ends, and Whereas, these actions on their parts includes lying about the gravity of the potential for harm, when directly asked; suborning local authorities; manipulating events so as to put themselves in control of purported clean up efforts which instead focus on disguising the actual damage done, and feeding false information to the media and authorities, putting victims at further risk through their failure to handle their business in a responsible fashion, and Whereas, many of these corporations evade even the secondary accountability of having to find an insurance carrier who would objectively assess these incidents for the real potential for liability, and Whereas Congress has the obligation to maintain a legal system which is not subject to manipulation by corporations and ensure commerce which takes place between the states does so in ways which ensure the security of people's health and well being and that our Nation's land, air, and water are clean, SECTION 1: Petroleum Companies engaged in the transport of those materials from which their products are produced or materials, such as Benzene, Toluene, and Hydrogen Sulfide, which are used to make such transport possible will, with the oversight of a designated third party, to be determined by the HHOC, install and maintain a system for monitoring the contents of their pipelines which will produce every minute an analysis of the specific materials then flowing through the pipes. All transport of the 2.6 million miles of pipelines will be monitored using the HHOC system to ensure all Tar Sands are HHOC monitored. estimated quarterly payments to be placed in an account to be overseen by                                 Sub-SECTION A: This system will be paid for by the subject company with                                   the Healing Hazards Oversight Committee. The HHOC will be headed by                                 three individuals with impeccable credentials. For this purpose we                                             propose for appointment Tom Steyer, Jimmy Carter, and Dr. Patrick                                             Soon-Shiong. Further appointments, and all deliberations, made by the                                             HHOC, will be  publicly available via streaming over the Internet. SECTION 2: Direct oversight and maintenance of the system will be carried out by a yet to be designated third party, to be chosen by the committee named above, who will oversee and maintain an internet system which provides alarms in the case of a decrease of pressure, rupture, or other indicative event. Sub-SECTION A: This information, formatted for use with a system like, equivalent to, or better than, the ALOHA system, available through the Office of the U.S. Office of Response and Restoration.                                  Sub-SECTION B: ALOHA is a Software Suite of programs                                  designed and provided for public use by the which is used in                                  this application, will provide essential information on hazards                                   to local communities for Toxic Events which are not caused by                                   material stored within the community, as was the case for the                                   Green Book, produced by Emergency Planning and Community                                   Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA). SECTION 3: Lacking this information, it has proven impossible to provide adequate medical intervention for people who are affected by Toxic Events or to reduce the long term effects on victims and their property, creating a liability which the victims have been forced to pay, causing financial hardship and bankruptcy in many instances.                                   Sub-SECTION A: Petroleum Companies will become responsible for all                                   medical expenses for victims of Toxic Events which they caused from the                                   time the spill begins until each victim has been examined by specialists in                                   remediation therapies and the case has been signed off by the specialists                                   and the victim.                                   Sub-SECTION B: Subject Petroleum Companies will no longer be allowed                                   to self-insure as this perpetuates the strategies itemized above.                                   Sub-SECTION C: Damage to property, including pets and livestock and                                   buildings, will be assessed by a third party to be named by the HHOC                                   and restitution in full made for damage done using the assessments thus                                   provided. SECTION 4: Within 24 hours of a Toxic Event having occurred a Qualified Settlement Trust (468B), will be established to organize and strengthen the negotiating position for victims, allowing for a negotiated settlement which will act in the best interests of all parties.  This provides transparency, with direct court supervision, allowing for costs to be paid before final settlement and, finally, provides individual flexibility within an umbrella trust.                                       Sub-SECTION A: Tar Sands, which have proven to be highly volatile,                                     explosive, and toxic, will categorized as included under the Oil Spill                                      Liability Trust Fund. This allows access to funds specifically                                      made available for clean up after oil spills and should have                                      been available for Tar Sands long before now. SECTION 5: There are between 2.5 and 2.6 million miles of pipelines in the US which are used to transport petroleum products. Many of these lines are aging, increasing the hazard of ruptures either caused by deterioration or human accident or natural disasters. The materials used to build pipelines, subject to deterioration, need to be manufactured from the strongest and longest lasting material available.                                        Sub-Section A: Ultrahigh Performance Concrete has been                                        named by the Department of Homeland Security as the best                                        material for infrastructure construction and repair.                                          Therefore, any pipeline which suffers a rupture on any                                         section will be closed until replacement with UHPC is                                         completed and a third party inspection to be determined by                                        the HHOC has taken place. SECTION 6: Transport of Tar Sands by rail and truck will no longer be allowed within the United States unless a similar system for monitoring is used and linked in to the HH System. Enactment Clause: This bill shall go into effect 61 days after passage.