Media and Messaging: How PR attempts to normalize explosions, etc.

Do you know how many pipeline explosions there are?
WOW! LOTS!

I went to Wikipedia looking for recent pipeline explosions:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pipeline_accidents

But the answer wasn't there. Directed me to a separate page just for the United States:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pipeline_accidents_in_the_United_States

Again, not there!

THERE ARE SO MANY PIPELINE ACCIDENTS that Wikipedia has created a page just for those since 2000:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pipeline_accidents_in_the_United_States_in_the_21st_Century

There have been 188 pipeline major, reported, known accidents since 2000, or about 15 per year.

There are at least 2 exploding compressor stations which are not on this list
(Williams/Lathrop, Montrose PA 4/2012,. and Millenium in Windsor 7/2012)

Every time I see a house exploding for no reason (e.g., Corning),
or a pipeline (San Bruno, 2012, et. al.,).
or a compressor station (Windsor),
I often think about these comedy shows,
which epitomize the Public Relations Response:

NORMALIZE the HORROR so that eventually, people barely notice.

• Monty Python, friend explods.
  http://splicd.com/WdO37ahAvrw/55/74
  
  
  
  PR Response:
  "Don't be so sentimental. Things explode everyday!"
  (with John Cleese playing Tom Shepstone)
  
  
• Young Ones. Door explodes:
  http://splicd.com/JBMTK3iLSlY/342/380
  
  
  
  PR Response: "Why do you always blame me?"
  Right out of the Certus Strategies "Managing Community Outrage" manual.
  
  
• Gilliam's Brazil. Restaurant explodes.
  But it's so common, people barely notice.
  
  http://splicd.com/NcKlDMYnmug/45/93
  
  
  
  
  
  

Hoping you don't consider this too off-topic.
Maybe will stimulate some discussion.

I think the point here is to NEVER let them be successful in normalizing the horrors of fracking.

• React with shock and horror, feel the reaction in your body,
  notice what ever comes up, anger? fear? sadness?
  
• with every well flare -- notice it, witness it,
  
• with every compressor station explosion -- be mindful of how your body feels.
  
• with every tree which is cut for a pipeline or well pad or access road -- do you feel the loss?
  
• with every drop of our precious water which is lost, forever. -- can you sense this in your body?
  

PS: if you know of any pipeline accidents not listed here,
please update the wiki entry...

RELATED POST: Could resonant frequencies originating in compressor stations be
building up in pipelines causing them to rupture and fail?
http://williamahuston.blogspot.com/2012/08/could-acoustic-resonance-in-pipelines.html

BH




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