An action thriller by Jock Miller


Fossil fuel has an ageless affinity with dinosaurs. To create oil, dinosaurs died.


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The perfect energy storm is sweeping over the United States: Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown has paralyzed nuclear expansion globally, BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill has stalled deep water drilling, Arab oil countries are in turmoil causing doubt about access to future oil, the intensity of hurricanes hitting the Gulf’s oil rigs and refineries has intensified due to global warming, and the nation’s Strategic Oil Supply is riding on empty.

As the energy storm intensifies, the nation’s access to Arab oil, once supplying over sixty percent of our fossil fuel, is being threatened causing people to panic for lack of gas at the pumps, stranding cars across the country and inciting riots.

The U.S. Military is forced to cut back air, land, and sea operations sucking up 58% of every barrel of oil to protect the nation; U.S. commercial airlines are forced to limit flights for lack of jet fuel; and businesses are challenged to power up their factories, and offices as the U.S. Department of Energy desperately tries to provide a balance of electric power from the network of aged power plants and transmission lines that power up the nation.

The United States must find new sources of domestic fossil fuel urgently or face an energy crisis that will plunge the nation into a deep depression worse than 1929.

The energy storm is very real and happening this very moment. But, at the last moment of desperation, the United States discovers the world’s largest fossil fuel deposit found in a remote inaccessible mountain range within Alaska’s Noatak National Preserve surrounding six and a half million acres.

Preventing access to the oil is a colony of living fossil dinosaurs that will protect its territory to the death.

Nobody gets out alive; nobody can identify the predator--until Dr. Kimberly Fulton, Curator of Paleontology at New York’s Museum of Natural History, is flown into the inaccessible area by Scott Chandler, the Marine veteran helicopter pilot who’s the Park’s Manager of Wildlife. All hell breaks loose when Fulton’s teenage son and his girlfriend vanish into the Park.

Will the nation’s military be paralyzed for lack of mobility fuel, and will people across America run out of gas and be stranded, or will the U.S. Military succeed in penetrating this remote mountain range in northwestern Alaska to restore fossil fuel supplies in time to save the nation from the worst energy driven catastrophe in recorded history?

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Residents say oil spill effects still felt

http://www.upi.com/

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Some Gulf Coast residents and business still suffer economic and emotional effects of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, tourism and fishing advocates say.

Representatives for several organizations in Gulf Coast states say residents are experiencing extreme stress -- including physical and mental health issues -- from losing their livelihood because of the months-long spill that spewed hundreds of millions of gallons of oil into the gulf before the well was sealed, The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune reported Wednesday.

"Families continue to need assistance and businesses are grappling with uncertainties about the future," said Dan Favre, a Gulf Restoration Network spokesman, said during a telephone news conference Tuesday. "After eight months, oil is still here and so are we. The BP disaster continues to have real impacts on real people."

Maryal Mewherter, spokeswoman for Bayou Interfaith Shared Community Organizing, said indigenous people "were left with an uncertainty about being able to return to work, sell their catch or being able to eat any of the seafood from the Gulf of Mexico."

Tourism-dependent Florida has been hit as well, Keith Overton, chairman of the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association, told The Times-Picayune.

"We don't know how long it's going to take to restore confidence in people that the Gulf of Mexico is safe," Overton said.

The types of problems facing Gulf Coast residents aren't resonating in Washington, Farve said, explaining that Congress failed to approve legislation that would have directed spending of money from fines against BP and other parties for environmental restoration and failed to create an advisory panel that would have given Gulf Coast residents a voice in oil spill response decision-making.
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