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The trouble with flaring: oil companies work to install pipelines as landowner concerns mount

Robin Aquilia began feeling a dull pressure between her eyes this summer, about the time flickering flares from oil rigs, new wells and a nearby gas plant appeared on the horizon near her home northeast of Cheyenne.

Aquilia isn’t sure if the flares and her headaches are related, but she is concerned by the timing.

“I’m not a headache person,” she said. “I never got them before.”

Flaring, the…

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It’s not getting any cheaper to live in the city of Phoenix. Over the past couple years, residents have seen taxes and fees explode at the same time that jobless rates have done the same thing.

What is the city’s grand idea to improve the standard of living? Install more red light cameras!!

Phoenicians truly are at a major deficit in leadership. Have the mostly listless city council and a disinterested two term mayor not paid any attention to what’s been going on in other cities with red light cameras?

Tempe, for example is being sued by greedy Redflex Traffic Systems because they want a bigger piece of the pie, while causing a doubling in fatalities at intersections where their cameras were installed. Peoria saw accidents increase by 100%-400% in several intersections after camera installation. In Los Angeles this month, the LAPD commission unanimously voted to get rid of all the city’s red light cameras, citing absolutely no safety benefit.

Phoenicians, get ready for more red light cameras and more accidents and fatalities, just like we saw in Redflex “serviced” Tempe and Peoria unless your city council wakes up and says no.

A Phoenix-based newspaper reported that there are 21 intersections (table) which Redflex is targeting for installing their dangerous red light cams, due to accident numbers. In fact, the city’s Photo Enforcement Officer, Lt. Pat Hoffman says he wants to see every intersection in the city have cameras installed and he’s not kidding.

Maybe City Council has been too busy raising your taxes to do enough homework to know that increasing yellow light durations and having all-red intervals is the key to cutting down accidents and violations. Georgia, Texas, California and Missouri have all seen dramatic reductions where signal timing was improved in this manner.

Perhaps your city council, who appear to be the ones asleep at the wheel should know how you feel.

Phoenix City Council

Phil Gordon – Mayor

Phone:             (602) 262-7111       Fax: (602) 495-5583 Email: [email protected]

Thelda Williams – District 1

Phone:             602-262-7444       Fax: 602-534-4793 Email: [email protected]

Brian Jeffries – District 2

Phone:             602-262-7445       Fax: 602-495-0527 E-mail: [email protected]

Bill Gates – District 3

Phone:             602-262-7441       Fax: 602-534-4190 E-mail: [email protected]

Tom Simplot – District 4

Phone:             (602) 262-7447       Fax: (602) 534-5438 Email: [email protected]

Claude Mattox – District 5 (Also running for Mayor 2011)

Phone:             602-262-7446       Fax: 602-495-0628 Email: [email protected]

Sal DiCiccio – District 6

Phone:             602-262-7491       Fax: 602-534-3574 Email: [email protected]

Michael Nowakowski – District 7

Phone:             602-262-7492       Fax: 602-534-4816 Email: [email protected]

Michael Johnson – District 8

Phone:             602-262-7493       TTY: 602-495-5810 Fax: 602-495-0587 Email:[email protected]