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meegbear

(25,438 posts)
Tue Feb 18, 2014, 10:51 AM Feb 2014

Chevron offers coupons for pizza combo after fracking well explodes

Source: RawStory.com

Buy one explosion, get a pizza free.

Last Tuesday, residents of the small town Bobtown, Pennsylvania woke to an explosion and a massive, high-temperature fire, at the site of a fracking well owned by the Chevron corporation. It wasn’t just any fire, either. Wrote the Pittsburgh Post Gazette Feb. 12:

More than 12 hours after an explosion that “sounded like a jet engine going 5 feet above your house,” as one neighbor put it, the fire, fueled by the well’s gas, continued to shoot flames and smoke into the air, causing a hissing sound that could be heard a quarter-mile away. The heat from the blaze — which caused a tanker truck on site that was full of propane gas to explode — was so intense that first responders from local fire departments had to pull back rather than risk injury. “They essentially retreated to let the fire burn,” said John Poister, spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, which had three people on site investigating.

One person was injured and another presumed dead.

<snip>

On Sunday, Chevron Appalachia Community Outreach sent a gift certificate to those who lived in the vicinity of the blast offering them a two liter bottle of soda and one large pizza.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/18/chevron-offers-coupons-for-pizza-combo-after-fracking-well-explodes/



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Chevron offers coupons for pizza combo after fracking well explodes (Original Post) meegbear Feb 2014 OP
Darn it! Why can't I be lucky enough to live near an exploding fracking well? tanyev Feb 2014 #1
Hopefully they're out of the hospital by May 1, 2014 Capt. Obvious Feb 2014 #2
They know people in Appalachia LOVE pizza and soda more than anything jsr Feb 2014 #3
THIS COUPON IS GOOD FOR ONE FREE ORDER OF DIABETES* Capt. Obvious Feb 2014 #5
“Hey, we’re really fracking sorry we almost blew you guys away. ... Champion Jack Feb 2014 #4
LOL CrispyQ Feb 2014 #9
"only" Javaman Feb 2014 #6
Were toppings extra or at least one topping was incuded? n/t cosmicone Feb 2014 #7
NOTHING says '' We Care™'' like Pizza. Octafish Feb 2014 #8
I wonder if they sent one to the McKee family....... Historic NY Feb 2014 #10
His family probably got TWO coupons durablend Feb 2014 #12
what a fxxking joke nt alp227 Feb 2014 #11
"Let them eat pizza." KamaAina Feb 2014 #13
I wonder how many justhanginon Feb 2014 #14
Juanita Jean had some fun with this story Gothmog Feb 2014 #15
I read that as if Oprah were saying it Capt. Obvious Feb 2014 #16
Three hundred thousand dollars an hour Bandit Feb 2014 #17

Champion Jack

(5,378 posts)
4. “Hey, we’re really fracking sorry we almost blew you guys away. ...
Tue Feb 18, 2014, 11:11 AM
Feb 2014

..... Have a large pizza and a Big Gulp on us !

PS. The fire is nearly out. Yay ! But no smoking in town for the next 5 years or so, OK ?
And remember our motto
we will extinguish that Fracking well fire in 30 minutes or your pizza is free!!

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
8. NOTHING says '' We Care™'' like Pizza.
Tue Feb 18, 2014, 12:19 PM
Feb 2014

Apart from cash-for-damages and restoring the natural environment, that is.

Historic NY

(37,449 posts)
10. I wonder if they sent one to the McKee family.......
Tue Feb 18, 2014, 02:47 PM
Feb 2014

A northwestern Pennsylvania newspaper has identified a worker missing since last week's gas well explosion and fire in Dunkard, Greene County.

The Times Observer of Warren reported that friends held a candlelight vigil Thursday for Ian McKee, 27, originally from Warren but whose latest address is in Morgantown, W.Va

Mr. McKee, an employee of Cameron International, a contractor to Chevron, was onsite when the gas well near Bobtown exploded last Tuesday morning, one of his friends told the Times Observer . Officials at a press conference Monday in Morgantown said they continued to search for the man, who is feared to be dead and has not been identified by the compan

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/local/south/2014/02/18/Missing-worker-identified-in-Greene-County-gas-well-explosion/stories/201402180127#ixzz2thVQH3VE

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2014/02/18/report-green-co-gas-well-missing-worker-identified/

Apparently they have'nt found enough to even identify in the fire thats still burining

durablend

(7,460 posts)
12. His family probably got TWO coupons
Tue Feb 18, 2014, 02:49 PM
Feb 2014

After all, it was the LEAST they could do in their time of sorrow.

justhanginon

(3,290 posts)
14. I wonder how many
Tue Feb 18, 2014, 03:54 PM
Feb 2014

pizzas and sodas BP Petroleum owes the residents of the gulf states. Never that good at math but I would imagine it could be quite a few!

Gothmog

(145,288 posts)
15. Juanita Jean had some fun with this story
Tue Feb 18, 2014, 04:08 PM
Feb 2014
http://www.juanitajean.com/2014/02/18/yeah-because-we-love-pizza-more-than-life-itself/

Let’s take a visit to Bobtown, Pennsylvania, where Chevron Corporation’s fracking operation blew a gasket. Literally.

After an explosion that “sounded like a jet engine going five feet over your house,” flames from the explosion issued a challenge to the sun even 12 hours later.

The heat from the blaze — which caused a tanker truck on site that was full of propane gas to explode — was so intense that first responders from local fire departments had to pull back rather than risk injury.


The fire burned for five days, putting God only knows what into the air all around the area. As of today, one worker is injured and another is missing and presumed dead.

Being a responsible corporation, Chevron wanted to make things right to the community after killing one of them, injuring another, putting something awful in the air, and expecting a small local fire department to clean up their mess.

So, free pizzas! A pizza for you. A pizza for you! A pizza for you! Everybody gets a pizza!

...Notice how they made the coupon expire on May 1st because, let’s face it, you might not live that long. But, hey, they just went all out and even threw in a 2-liter drink!

The pizza place says that Chevron bought 100 of these gift certificates. That’s nice. Maybe it’s all they could afford.

The nation’s second-largest oil company saw another strong year on better performance from its refining business. Chevron’s 2012 earnings of $26.2 billion are the second highest result in company history, behind $26.9 billion in 2011.

Screw it. Elizabeth Warren for President!

Bandit

(21,475 posts)
17. Three hundred thousand dollars an hour
Tue Feb 18, 2014, 04:22 PM
Feb 2014

Exxon makes over a million dollars an hour, so these guys really suck hind tit. Those figures are for NET Profit. After every single expense has been paid. In the pocket money. Three hundred thousand dollars an Hour...and they bought one hundred pizzas for the folks.. BFD..

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