Every time I read leaked reports from major fossil fuel producers I’m struck by the fact that they are probably the most diabolical scumbags in the history of the human race. It’s breathtaking. Pure evil.
To knowingly harm the entire ecosphere, impact literally all life on earth. It’s hard to even wrap your head around. Billions of years of life. I struggle to even process the level of evil
It’s simply a staggering level of evil.
MD of Bonnyville councillor presents anti-climate change notice of motion, MD of Bonnyville Ward 1 Coun. Josh Crick read a notice of motion to proclaim Nov. 2 until Nov. 8 Climate Stability Awareness Week, in opposition of climate change activism by Corrina Dickens, Oct 11, 2024, LakelandToday.ca
Ward 1 MD of Bonnyville councillor, Deputy Reeve Josh Crick.
BONNYVILLE – MD of Bonnyville Ward 1 Coun. Josh Crick has put forward a notice of motion to proclaim Nov. 2 until Nov. 8 Climate Stability Awareness Week, in opposition of climate change activism.
The motion was read into the Oct. 8 council record and will be debated at the Oct. 22 council meeting.
Crick read out the notice of motion, which states, “Whereas we know that the weather may change from day to day, and whereas the climate is relatively consistent from year to year, and whereas there is little to be concerned about as the Earth’s climate is very predictable, and whereas to counter the constant drum beat of climate change activism now therefore be it resolved that Council approves the proclamation of Nov. 2 to 8, 2024 as Climate Stability Awareness Week in the Municipal District of Bonnyville.”
Crick believes there are residents within his ward who do not believe in climate change, and felt there needs to be a response to what he describes as climate change activism.
sb999:
So if your constituents don’t believe in climate change it isn’t real and you’ll just go along for the fun of it. Good grief!!
shelleykrook:
What the??? This man should be embarrassed about this point of view. If I lived in the MD I’d have something more to say about this.
Hugh Latta @bud_latta:
Sadly, Bonnyville area is apparently a TBA “stronghold” (if that’s a thing). Crick is just playing to his little base up there.
Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson Oct 11, 2024:
I am sharing an email that I received this morning with the permission of the author. It shows the near-term danger of [Business as Usual].
“I’ve previously made the comment that last year’s El Nino showed us what +1.5C is like but the next one will show us what +2C will be like. I’ve run the numbers and sadly, the statement checks out.
The graph shows historic ENSO data in blue along with the monthly surface air temperature (SAT) data in grey. The red line is the SAT corrected for ENSO, so with its signal removed to reveal the underlying SAT trend. The red dotted line is then the gently accelerating global warming. This shows the current SAT as a little over +1.4C, a value that matches the centred mean approach and the climate models mean. Note this is different from the 30 year mean approach that will always lag reality in an accelerating system.
Tracking the trend forward assumes current policy in terms of continued emissions coupled with existing and growing reinforcing feedbacks. It is also within James Hansen’s cone of likely accelerated warming. The trend line crosses +1.5C in early 2026 and +2C in 2034 under this business as usual scenario.
The dashed blue and the green line is the key to this discussion. Obviously, there is no way of knowing how the ENSO will play out as although it is cyclical, it is largely random perturbations in the trade winds that trigger different phases. So I have taken as a model the ENSO activity from 2012 to 2024 and re-run it from 2025 (dashed blue line). This provides a very-strong El Nino, a weak period and a strong one towards the end, together with La Nina phases.
The outcome is the green line, which is the global monthly SAT with the sample ENSO influence added. This is the reverse of the method to elicit the red line from the grey in the historic part of the graph.
The outcome shows that:
- A super-strong El Nino (like 2016) hitting before 2030 could raise monthly temperatures over +2C.
- A weak El Nino in the first half of the 2030s could raise temperatures above +2C for a prolonged period.
- Only a La Nina in the last half of the 2030s would prevent sustained temperatures above +2C.
- A strong El Nino in the last half of the 2030s could nudge monthly temperatures well above +2C.
There is only one way to prevent this scenario and that is to replace business as usual with rapid emissions reductions, but even that may not be effective given the planet’s inertia and feedbacks.
Much more focus and investment needs to go into adaptation and resilience efforts, this needs to be elevated to a critical emergency level. There is very little time and a +2C set of impacts are reported to be twice as bad as +1.5C. Worse fires, worse floods, worse droughts and crop failures, worse heatwaves, worse hurricanes and typhoons…“
Dr. Sandra Steingraber @ssteingraber1:
Re-upping the 2024 State of the Climate Report released this week and led by illustrious U.S. climate scientist @WilliamJRipple. Why no US press interest?
Here’s the first sentence:
“We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster.”
Here are the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th sentences:
“This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled. We are stepping into a critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis.”
This is not the usual tone of peer-reviewed papers.
Not Penny in a Pan@tammyischatty:
Why no press interest? Three word answer: fossil fuel industry.
@signingupjustt1:
how happy are any of us supposed to be? We know we are being slowly murdered by these folks.
(some are being murdered more quickly and directly by other things. All of humanity 
and the many other species that we share earth with is in the global greenhouse gas chamber).
Bonnyville homeowners near leaking orphan well worried their homes will be demolished, The methane leak found in Bonnyville due to an orphan well may have some daunting consequences for surrounding homeowners who are facing the potential demolition of their homes to make room for equipment to come in and fix the leak by Corrina Dickens, Oct 1, 2024, Cochrane Eagle
1/2: An orphan well that has been leaking methane in a Bonnyville suburb could lead to several homes being demolished.
2/2: The large machinery involved in fixing the orphan well leaking methane in a Bonnyville suburb would require the demolition of surrounding homes.
The methane leak found in Bonnyville due to an orphan well may have some daunting consequences for surrounding homeowners who are facing the potential demolition of their homes to make room for equipment to come in and try tofix the leak.
Homeowners expressed a deep sorrow at the potential loss of their homes, their fears about not being able to find suitable housing alternatives, and the constant stress of not knowing their fate.It’s called the Alberta Advantage where law-violating corporations have more rights and better judicial service (thank you bankruptcy) than humans.
Earlier this month, information was released about the situation. The orphan well is located within the 4500 block between 45 and 46 Avenue in Bonnyville.
Newly Renovated
A homeowner living in a house near the well told Lakeland this Week that they had been renovating for the past five to six years, and having finally completed their home, they are now faced with the reality that it could be demolished.
“There is not a square inch of the house that hasn’t been touched. We bought it as a repossession… Fair market value could never cover the time and effort we put into making this our home,” said the homeowner, who asked not to be identified. Therein is Alberta’s big problem – secrecy and cowardice in most of her people. By keeping their identity secret, this harmed family cumulatively adds more harms to themselves, and all other ordinary AlbertansThey said they would never have purchased the house and taken the risk had they known that it was on top of an orphan well and feel this issue should be addressed so future home buyers can make informed decisions.Ah, but, if Alberta disclosed openly and honestly all the dangerous leaking wells, there would be no room for housing, schools, churches, hospitals, shops, court houses, massive malls, the legislature, airport runways, etc. AER and Alberta gov’ts, including NDP, don’t give a shit who is harmed by oil and gas, and happily help keep secrets putting you and your loves ones, your home and lifetime’s investment at risk to keep the super rich getting richer, notably those in oil, coal, frac and gas.
The homeowners have been in contact with Bonnyville-Cold-Lake-St. Paul MLA Scott Cyr, in an effort create more transparency about orphan wells for future home buyers.The only way to create any transparency, never mind more, is to let yourself, the harmed, be fully named, which yes, requires courage, sacrifice and integrity; Alberta politicos are a vengeful cruel caveman bunch, serving corporations that harm the people, not the people harmed by corporations.
Homeowners are concerned about the property value of the whole neighborhood, and although they feel these orphan wells should be disclosed, they also worry about the impact the information will now have on property values.
“The next point is, who is liable?”Alberta and federal Govt’s, inclulding NDP, AER and our corrupt judicial industry make sure it’s the people, and only the people, never the deadly oil and gas industry.
The homeowner recalls back in June when the leak was discovered, the fire department was brought it.
“That was scary. When you hear the word methane you think about how flammable it is. I know we’re safe now, but it’s always in the back of your brain… It’s just been a nightmare.”
Many of the homeowners in the area are seniors, or at the point where they are ready to retire.
“We’re at the age where we are ready to retire, and we can’t start rebuilding at this time in our life. Everything we’ve worked for all our lives, a lot of it is in this house.”
Accessibility
For a different homeowner, who also wished to remain anonymoushiding yourself gives your power away – to the polluters and their enablers, their main concern is the fact that they might lose one of the only accessible homes available to them in Bonnyville.
The house, previously owned by someone in a wheelchair, was the perfect place for this homeowner to heal after a surgery left them with chronic pain and mobility limitations.
The homeowner says there are few homes available in Bonnyville with proper accessibility.
“I bought this house last year because I knew I’d be having surgery… I just have nowhere else to go… I can’t even pack or move. I can’t even get my shoes on yet, and I still have to get another surgery.” Do you think UCP, or AER, or the men who got rich via dumping their leaking Trican liabilities on ordinary citizens give a shit? They don’t, they only care about stuffing their own greedy insatiable pockets and lawlessness.
The homeowner expressed their desire to be understanding and not cause problemsthat’ll get you nowhere. Scream your names from the steps of the Legislature and everywhere else, including to the media!, but the reality of their uncertain housing situation is a serious source of stress.
“Even if I move into somewhere else with similar resources, it still won’t have the same level of accessibility, and I will be paying way more in the long run as I will have to increase my home care.”
Due to the proximity of the orphan well, this homeowners house is in jeopardy of being demolished, and some of the area could be turned into greenspace.
With such limited housing options, this homeowner is hoping the Orphan Well Association can find an alternative solution that allows them to remain in their home.In Alberta’s life threatening oil and gas patch, hope is as dangerous as praying.
Background
As previously reported by Lakeland This Week, the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) directed the Orphan Well Association (OWA) to monitor the area to ensure public safety. OWA located and exposed the well, and installed a soil Vapor Recovery Unit (VRU) to reduce the methane gas volumes observed in the area. I doubt that’ll do much other than give false assurance of safety and that AER gives a shit (hint, the don’t).
2013 04 12: Fig 2.1 in USA EPA’s Vapour Intrusion Final Guidance
Lars De Pauw, president of OWA, told Lakeland This Week that OWA is also conducting ongoing gas migration testing in the immediate and neighbouring area, and engaged an engineering team on strategies to repair or decommission the well.It’s in a community FFS. Why the hell didn’t AER make Trican do that before it ran like Encana for the hills? Or right, AER is industry’s self regulator, they only regulate harmed Alberta families, not mega raping companies that are mostly foreign-owned.
“We are finalizing our decommissioning plans but there is a high likelihood that several homes will have to be removed,” to allow decommissioning equipment to access the well, said De Pauw.
Resolving methane leak could result in demolition of some homes in Bonnyville, A small ??? methane leak from an orphan well in a residential district in the Town of Bonnyville may require demolition of some homes to resolve the issue by Mario Cabradilla, Sep 21, 2024, Lakeland Today
No methane leak on an oil or gas well, new or old, abandoned, orphaned or operating is ever “small” – the leaks we can see or test for, do not show the lurking dangers underground or migrating into and through groundwater and the subsurface and into our homes, ready to kill and or mangle in an instant. Did AER, CAPP, Big Oil Dildo Danielle Smith and or thuggery Energy Minister Brian Jean order this creepy minimizing “small” in this headline?
A methane leak from an orphan well in a residential district in the Town of Bonnyville may require demolition of some homes to resolve the issue.
The orphan well is located within the 4500 block between 45 and 46 Avenue.
The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) directed the Orphan Well Association (OWA) to monitor the area to ensure public safety. OWA located and exposed the well, and installed a soil Vapor Recovery Unit (VRU) to reduce the methane gas volumes observed in the area.
Lars De Pauw, president of OWA, told Lakeland Today, that OWA is also conducting ongoing gas migration testing in the immediate and neighbouring area, and engaged an engineering team on strategies to repair or decommission the well.
“We are finalizing our decommissioning plans but there is a high likelihood that several homes will have to be removed,” to allow decommissioning equipment to access the well, said De Pauw.
He said OWA has been reviewing alternatives to try and figure out the safest way to properly decommission the well with the least amount of disruption to residents. Safety he said, is the main priority for OWA.Bullshit, money and “freedom” for the rich is. If OWA and AER gave a shit about safety of ordindary and harmed Albertans, they’d provide free industrial grade methane detectors for every home in towns/cities where leaking wells have been leaking explosive levels of gases for decades that our regulators have known about all along.
De Pauw added they also met with some residents to ensure OWA is taking into consideration their “preferences” to allow for some flexibility.
“Some people might very much like to move,” while some would rather want to stay, and it is a matter of accommodating those preferences when making the final plan to decommission the well, “understanding that we cannot always accommodate every preference,” he explained.
According to De Pauw, timing of when the well is going to be repaired or decommissioned is dependent on when OWA finalizes the purchase and removal of homes. Is Big Oil Chemtrail Dildo Danielle going to blame Trudeau for Trican’s life-threatening law violations years before he was voted PM?
OWA continues to work with the AER, the Bonnyville Fire Authority, and the Town of Bonnyville.
In a Sept. 19 statement, the Town stated that the 1950s sweet gas well was previously decommissioned, albeit to a different standard from today.
“At the time this area of Bonnyville was developed, there were no requirements to identify historic wells as part of development plans,” according to the statement.
Previously, when developers and property owners applied for a subdivision or development permit, they did not need to identify the locations of abandoned wells, according to information from the AER.
This changed in September 2012 when Directive 079 came into effect, requiring developers to locate and address abandoned wells.with hefty loopholes to protect developers and polluters while harming homeowners.
3 comments:
shelleykrook Sep 21, 2024:
What a fiasco! Who owned the well? That’s who should be paying for cleanup and resulting costs. The province has recently revealed that they may use taxpayer dollars to clean up abandoned oil and gas wells. That’s nonsense! These companies who make enormous profits should have to clean up their own messes. It’s part of their license agreements after all; they can be forced to pay.
Cold Lake Sep 22, 2024:
The Premiers plan seems to be get the CPP into Alberta control as the APP, then bleed it with billions if pensioners money to pay oil Companies to close the wells. Seems to be where we are headed as she already has given 100s of millions of taxpayer’s money to Big Oil whose profits were over 20 billion.
Denis Gallant Sep 22, 2024:
Imagine the stress the family’s are under that are effected, imagine being evacuated from your home, imagine not knowing or understanding what is going on, now imagine going to a meeting four months after this started not knowing what to expect and being told your home may be destroyed ? Just imagine the stress these people are under, having to replace their homes that some their children grew up in or they retired to? Some threw up their hands and are out some dig in their heels and not moving, What ever you feel about this there are families wondering what’s next and under extreme stress
Abandoned well leaking methane in Bonnyville could require knocking down homes to decommission by Michael Menzies, Sept 19, 2024, Lakeland Connect
The location, available for view on the AER’s Abandoned Well Viewer, of the orphaned well leaking methane between 45th and 46th Avenue in Bonnyville.
A previously unknown well in a residential area of Bonnyville has been leaking small amounts of methane, and in order to decommission the abandoned well, homes may have to be purchased for the purpose of knocking them down.
In June, methane gas was detected by utility workers while replacing a gas metre at a residence in the 4500 block between 45th and 46th Avenue in Bonnyville.
Followup tests revealed evidence of methane gas in neighbouring properties, totalling the affected areas as two homes and two condos.
The methane is coming from a well licensed and drilled by a long defunct company, Trican Petro-Chemical Corporation, in 1954.
With the company closing shop over 60 years ago, the Alberta Energy Regulator has deemed it an orphan well, and handed the remediation to the Orphan Well Association.
At a meeting in Bonnyville on Wednesday, Sept. 11, affected residents were told that a likely outcome to properly decommissioning the well would be the OWA purchasing their homes for the purpose of knocking them down, creating enough space for the drilling rig and equipment to access the area.
The OWA acts as a backstop when a company is no longer in business and unable to fix the issue themselves.
“We need to re-enter the well and drill out the top plug and also the bottom plug,” Lars DePauw, president of the Orphan Well Association, told Lakeland Connect.
“We know that there’s a way to do that, and we bring in some very big equipment, but that would be your worst case scenario.
“What we’ve been doing is trying to figure out if there’s other equipment that we can bring in that would be less disruptive and would require less homes to be purchased, because we don’t want to have to displace people unnecessarily.”
Methane
Low concentrations of methane are not harmful, but high concentrations could have adverse effects where it replaces the oxygen in the air and leads to asphyxiation.
Methane is flammable though, leading to increased risks of devastating fires.
The OWA has been doing routine tests of the methane levels, and have been detecting low concentrations.
They’ve also installed real-time monitoring in certain homes, and installed a soil Vapor Recovery Unit (VRU) to reduce the volumes of methane gas observed in the surrounding area.
The exact location of the well has been pinpointed.
“It’s in the corner of one of the lots. It’s very close in proximity to two homes and two of the condos, which then has four residents,” said DePauw. “But we have been monitoring farther than that area as well.
“Those would be the ones that, if we need to bring in a drilling rig, for example, as that worst case scenario, we would need to acquire all six of those homes right, right from an access issue just because of the equipment we need.”
The statement on the Town of Bonnyville’s social media on Thursday afternoon.
Rules change 2012
According to correspondence with the Alberta Energy Regulator, prior to November 2012, developers and property owners could apply for a subdivision or development permit without the requirement to identify and locate abandoned wells.
That’s what happened in this case in Bonnyville.
Now, these abandoned wells must be appropriately addressed in the proposed development.
Around this time, the province’s then Department of Energy identified approximately 1,500 abandoned wells located within urban area boundaries across Alberta, including 332 abandoned wells near surface structures.
The AER also outlines minimum distance requirements to allow for access for ongoing maintenance, guides municipalities in identifying and properly managing abandoned wells in new subdivisions and developments, and outlines the AER’s expectations for the oil and gas industry to locate and test abandoned wells if they might conflict with new surface structures or are already near existing structures.
“AER’s focus during this time is to continue to work closely with OWA, the Town of Bonnyville, and local authorities to ensure ongoing public safety,” they said in a public statement.
Next steps
This is a unique situation, but not that uncommon for the OWA.
The plans and next steps could be finalized soon.
If the sales of the properties are required, the services of a professional appraiser to establish the market value of the homes will be used, (not being impacted by the well) and a moving allowance will be granted.
“The factors that we’re going to be dealing with that are going to drive the timing of this really relate to purchasing the homes and then dealing with them to get access. As you can imagine, that can take some time, because those homeowners have to then find somewhere else to go, and they have to move,” said DePauw.
More to follow.
Statement on the Trican 12-08-61-05w4 Well in the Town of Bonnyville by Town of Bonnyville, Sep 19, 2024
Trican 12-08-61-05w4 Well
September 19, 2024
The Orphan Well Association (“OWA”) has been directed by the Alberta Energy Regulator (“AER”) to ensure public safety is maintained surrounding a 1950’s vintage sweet gas well located within the 4500 block between 45th and 46th Avenue in the Town of Bonnyville.
In June of this year, the well, which was previously decommissioned to the standard of the day, was found to be leaking minor volumes of sweet natural gas (methane). The OWA is monitoring the area, has located and exposed the wellbore, and installed a vapour recovery unit to capture gas from the soil. The OWA continues to work closely with the AER, the Bonnyville Regional Fire Authority, and the Town of Bonnyville to ensure the safety of nearby residents.
While the leak is smallthere is no such thing when it comes to leaking oil and gas wells; the leaks that are visible are nothing compared to what leaking and migrating underground and into homes and groundwater, plans to permanently fix and decommission this well are nearing completion. A meeting was held on September 11th, 2024 with nearby residents and a future information session will be held for interested stakeholders.
At the time this area of Bonnyville was developed, there were no requirements to identify historic wells as part of development plans. In 2012, rules were established by Alberta Municipal Affairs that changed this requirement to help prevent these types of situations from occurring. For more information on this requirement, please visit https://www.aer.ca/regulating-development/rules-and-directives/directives/directive-079.
Should you have any questions or concerns, please contact the OWA at email hidden; JavaScript is required. Questions regarding regulatory oversight and historic wells can be directed to the AER at email hidden; JavaScript is required.
Methane reductions bad … better to demolish homes and invest in industry’s gas migration greenspaces …
CAPP to talk methane emissions in Bonnyville by Erica Fisher, Nov. 27th, 2017, My Lakeland Now
CAPP = Pollution enabling lying abusive Fuckers
The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers will be in Bonnyville next week to talk to residents about the state of the oil and gas industry. Manager of exploration and production Chris Montgomery will be talking about proposed methane emissions, which the province has committed to reducing by 45 per cent by 2025.
The changes will affect the Lakeland, and CAPP hopes the local business community attends the December 6th presentation. It will be held at the Bonnyville Centennial Centre over lunch. Registration can be done through the chamber by December 1st.
Hungarian devil, detail in The Hunter by Marianna Gartner
Refer also to:
2023:
Industry/UCP’s pollution-enabling liar and propagandizer W. Brett Wilson.
2020:
2019:
For years, Alberta Health lied to me and others harmed by illegal aquifer frac’er Encana/Ovintiv and other criminal companies, telling us explosive concentrations of methane in our drinking water and blowing up water wells and or homes is perfectly safe and harmless, that methane does not harm health. Pffft. It can kill quickly by asphyxiation, explosion, fire (it’s fucking flammable FFS!) and now we find out it many years later Alberta Health admits methane is toxic and causes neurological effects and acute-life threatening risks. Perhaps industry’s methane leaking everywhere, enabled by AER, Alberta Health and Alberta gov’t, including in water and our homes, is why rural Albertans vote so stupidly and worship rape religions, politicians and companies that harm them and their loved ones.
2017: New University of Guelph study on methane migration in sand aquifer in Ontario: “Potentially explosive methane gas leaking from energy wells may travel extensively through groundwater and pose a safety risk” Industry’s leaking or soured gas will do the same.
2016: Danger Below? New Properties Hide Abandoned Oil And Gas Wells
2015: IMPORTANT, INCREDIBLY DAMNING GALLING POST: Legal matters: Fracking the golf course. Ask Indian Hills Golf Course, Lambton Shores, Ontario: Did nature, waste injection, gas storage or fracking causing massive natural gas geysers and erupting greens in 2015? Two municipalities declared state of emergency, Golf Course had to shut down, pay to investigate and clean up
2015: Calmar families asked to leave homes again in effort to fix Imperial Oil’s methane leak, Ordered fix made the leak worse See also 2011 and 2010 below
2014: Action needed on abandoned energy wells leaking methane in Quebec
2013: Ontario Court of Appeal says innocent parties must pay for pollution clean-up
2012: Abandoned wells ‘time bombs’
2011: Calmar residents know the drill as company works to cap abandoned well
2011: Calmar Homeowners Suing Town of Calmar and Aztec Home Sales Inc over Leaking Wells
2011:
2010: Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach demands answers to why Calmar homes put in danger and built over abandoned gas well See also 2015. Answers never came.
2010: Leaking gas well forces families out in Calmar neighbourhood
2007: Presentation by Alberta’s energy (de)regulator:
2006: My water after Encana/Ovintiv illegally frac’d, repeatedly, Rosebud’s drinking water aquifers, enabled by Alberta Health, Alberta Environment, AER and the Alberta gov’t
Photo by Colin Smith. My methane frac water exploded so violently, I jumped away, thus I am blur. The flame touch the ceiling, charring it. After this photo shoot, I never allowed media or photographers to see my flammable explosive water inside my home.
AER only regulated the harmed, shaming, bullying and blaming us, including violating my Charter rights trying to terrify me silent.
2006: Trican had exclusive contract with illegal aquifer frac’er Encana/Ovintiv in Alberta, including at Rosebud during the super shallow frac boom. Photo below shows Trican frac’ing a new gas well near my home above the base of groundwater protection during the gov’t’s community-wide investigation after Rosebud’s aquifers had already been illegally frac’d and contaminated by Encana in 2004
2006: Bruce Jack Private water well explosion at Spirit River, Alberta
2004: Encana/Ovintiv illegally frac’s Rosebud’s drinking water aquifers, and others in other communities:
Encana, immoral cowards that Gwyn Morgan and his company are, never repaired our frac’d aquifers. Instead, they lied, bullied, lied, bullied, and lied and bullied some more, then, removed the surface evidence of the 5-14-27-22-W4M gas well that broke every law in Alberta in place to protect groundwater, with fraud, more bullying and cover up by our “regulators.”
Encana/Ovintiv’s 5-14-27-22-W4M. My water well and the community of Rosebud is in the first valley south and east of the well, hidden by the steep coulee.
Encana/Ovintiv’s 5-14-27-22-W4M super shallow gas well, illegally frac’d multiple times directly into Rosebud’s drinking water aquifers, contaminating them with dangerous concentrations of methane, some ethane, and other man-made frac, drilling and cementing chemicals.
Note the “Flammable” warnings above and below on Encana’s well site location signs.
Encana frac’d gas wells at Rosebud
“Flammable.”
“Fire Hazard”
2002: Research paper by Trican and Husky:
!!!!!!! “The percentage of leaking energy wells ranged from 12% to 80%. !!!!!!!
2002: Groundwater Quality Workshop: Regulators and Canadian Ministers of the Environment attended, warning of serious harms ahead from 600,000 abandoned oil and gas wells, including in the “highly highly regulated” west. Did any appropriate responsible action take place afterwards? No. Only deregulation to benefit the polluters and legalize the harms, lies to con Canadians into accepting them, and Dr. John Cherry (author of a major chapter in the report) later ignoring his own 2002 warnings in his 2014 frac panel report for the Council of Canadian Academies.
2001: Hutchison, Kansas, Industry’s leaking gas migrated 7 miles, killing two people in their home in the second explosion:
1993:
1985: Gas Explosion Shatters Fairfax Store; 23 Hurt
Gas leaking from an abandoned well exploded in a Los Angeles department store, injuring two dozen people. Task forces blamed everything but industry.
“…the implication being that the methane hazard could exist viturally anywhere, so no human agency was at fault for its workings.”
Slides above from Ernst presentations. (Ghillingar is also spelled Chilingar or Chilingarian)
Cause of the 1985 Ross Store Explosion and Other Gas Ventings, Fairfax District, Los Angeles
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Many more posts on my website on explosions, including fatal, caused by the oil and gas industry’s well and long known leaking gases.
They go on and on and on and on and on and on and on …