I am making public my correspondence with Steve Riley, in Mears, MI, (near Silver Lake). For the complete thread, please see: omlive.org/site_omlive/post/Correspondence-with-Steve-Riley …………………………………………… Steve Riley, Thanks for your email, However, it’s not easy to respond because every statement you made is either patently false or insanely illogical. Let’s start from the top. "I don’t know what the Trooper told you…" [snip] The video that you mentioned clearly shows Trooper Thomas saying that you, “… would be ok with meeting in order to answer any kind of questions”. How can you not know? youtu.be/oZnZIeI7pe4?t=3m11s "… but I am not interested in meeting with you." Should I conclude that Trooper Thomas lied to me about you? "…Here is why: You have proven to be untrustworthy by trespassing…" [snip] Now let’s see: 1) you sold your community’s water rights, 2) you subjected your neighbors to fear and to chemical induced discomfort, 3) you risked poisoning these innocent families with Hydrogen Sulfide, 4) you actively hide the fact that the well operators did not follow regulations when they omitted the backflow containment walls, 4) you continue to produce and sell food grown on your land after blowback water with unspecified contaminants flooded the area, 5) you filed formal charges against a journalist because he visited that property, (property that you sold your rights to) in order that he report the matter objectively with a video record. Given all this, which of us is actually untrustworthy? "…and showing a blatent disregard for my privacy." This is not a private affair. Water is a public resource. Air is publically owned. None of us is interested in you. The extent that your personal greed stands above concern for your neighbor’s is obvious, but that is incidental. (So is your weakness with spelling and grammar.) You should know that I will continue to post your emails, and respond to them publically. As I said, this is not a private affair between you and me. This is a public matter. "You are an activist and have a closed mind…" [snip] You know less about me than you do about the business you sold us out to. But that is irrelevant. "The oil company… conduct themselves with professionalism, and follow all necessary guidelines." In fact, Ocean County Emergency Management Coordinator Tom Osborne detailed his difficulty with repeatedly allocating limited resources as a result of the complaints associated with the Riley Orchards fracking well. There was no information communicated in advance of the drilling and fracking operations, and there were no contact people at the Riley Well site during the calamities. In spite of the Federal “Right To Know Act”, County emergency response officials still do not know which chemicals were released into the air, the water, and onto your fields. Thus, they have not been able to ascertain the associated hazard level. "I… have not had any ill effects due to the fracking or any of the other processes." Not yet, anyway. It sounds like you’ve been lucky so far. Thanks again, Dan ………………………….. Mr. Mills, I don’t know what the Trooper told you, but I am not interested in meeting with you. Here is why: You have proven to be untrustworthy by trespassing and showing a blatent disregard for my privacy. I feel that anything I say to you will not be accurately portrayed in your web postings, and I will be made out to be something you make of me. You are an activist and have a closed mind on the matter despite what you say. The oil company leasing our land has been a pleasure to work with and conduct themselves with professionalism, and follow all necessary guidelines. I am very much in favor of what is going on, and have not had any ill effects due to the fracking or any of the other processes. This is all I have to say to you on the matter. Please do not contact me anymore and do not come on my property. Steve …………………………..
Posted on: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 16:42:17 +0000
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