EVENTS

Events might be thought of as cards that periodically occur (e.g. each turn). They should be based/inspired by real events, and the format of one is:

EVENT

  1. NAME: Toxic Claim by Farm Family
  2. TYPE: Environmental
  3. DESC: A family living on a farm in which one of your wells is located claims that they are getting sick… (longer description needed)
  4. RESPONSES: Ignore, Send Investigators, Alert Regulators, Send Lawyers,  (we need to think about how to represent this)
  5. RESULTS:
    • If no direct response: 10%/turn chance of growing into next level
    • if investigators or lawyers: 20% to lawsuit (= X*$ per level to settle, *5 w/gag)
  6. LINKS: to examples online
  7. PICTURE/DIAGRAMS:

EVENTS include:

  1. Environmental:
    1. Toxic Claim
      • Individual/Family Claim
      • Group/Community Claim
      • Scientist Claim
      • Employee Claim
      • EPA investigation
      • You find out something really bad is happening at your company
        • Panabla problem: regulators will take care of it, in time…
  2. Earthquake
  3. Flooding
    1. http://marcelluseffect.blogspot.com/2013/09/colorado-floods-break-pipeline-and.html
    2. http://www.texassharon.com/2013/09/15/is-there-a-media-blackout-on-the-fracking-flood-disaster-in-colorado/
  4. Geologic Discovery
    1. New Shale Opens
    2. Shale retraction of predictions
    3. Leak potential (internal report)
  5. Social
    1. Concerned Community Group forms
    2. Social Movement Attention
      • MoveOn
      • Greenpeace
      • Art performance (Underneath Us)
  6. Media Attention
    1. Local newspaper
    2. National newspaper article
    3. Blog/FB
    4. TV segment (negative / positive)
    5. Documentary (HBO Gasland; BBC)
    6. Major Movie (Matt Damon)
  7. Regulatory
    1. Bill to enable/restrict land rights
    2. Bill to increase/decrease EPA oversight
    3. Bill to increase/decrease Worker rights
    4. Bill to increase/decrease Drinking Water investigation
    5. Bill to
  8. Corporate
    • Shareholder pressure (if not growing lately)
    • Competition discovers X (advantage but licensing fee)
    • New Technology Innovation (can you take advantage of it?)
    • Whistleblower (how good is your legal & PR)
    • Takeover bid – if you are not big enough and leveraged enough…

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