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
   • Did it generate a toxic release?
   • Did fracking cause it?
     1. http://www.moneynews.com/Markets/Texas-shale-earthquake-fracking/2013/09/02/id/523398
   • Did your fracking cause it?
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…