Category Archives: Case Related

If the EUB is truly repentant about its cloak-and-dagger spying efforts and really wants to regain the trust of Albertans, this focus on a single development project is a pretty weak effort by David J. Parker, October 10, 2007, The Edmonton … Continue reading →

Fire at gas well near Gleichen injures worker by Jason van Rassel, July 30, 2007, Calgary Herald STARS air ambulance flew a man to hospital in Calgary with critical injuries suffered in a fire at a gas well. … “There were reports … Continue reading →

Gas well a threat to rural water by Paul Cowley, June 25, 2007, Red Deer Advocate Winter said despite the company’s assurances, the risk to the aquifer is too high. “We know things break down and things fail. And things fail when … Continue reading →

Rosebud water is not being affected by coal bed methane by Darren Ridgley, September 26, 2006, Drumheller Valley Times The advisory was issued and the residents were informed after tests at the hamlet’s new water treatment facility showed that the … Continue reading →

Technologies May Ease Frac-Related Water Concerns June 26, 2006, New Technology Magazine Category: Archived News Published on 2006-06-29 [Daily News] With an ever-increasing share of Western Canada’s natural gas supply coming from low-permeability reservoirs, there is a growing need for … Continue reading →

Operating Canadas Biggest CBM Field by Oil and Gas Inquirer, March 15, 2006 Just east of Calgary, EnCana Corporation operates Canada’s largest producing coalbed methane (CBM) field, and also one of the oldest. In stark contrast to the land contamination … Continue reading →

Human Rights and Resource Development Project, Albertans’ Concerns about Health Impacts and Oil and Gas Development: A Summary by Nickie Vlavianos, Research Associate Canadian Institute of Resources Law, February 2006, Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre and Canadian Institute of Resources … Continue reading →

The Real Price of Oil Interviewed by Victor Couwenberg, January 12, 2006, Departure Productions Nadja, a soft spoken, yet confident lady, has recently completed a documentary entitled Between Midnight and the Rooster’s Crow. It is a documentary about Nadja’s experiences … Continue reading →

The hydrogeochemistry of methane: evidence from English groundwaters by W. G. Darling and D. C. Gooddy, 2006, British Geological Survey The presence of methane (CH4) in groundwater is usually only noticed when it rises to high concentrations; to date rather … Continue reading →

Film Review: Midnight and the Rooster’s Crow (2005, Nadja Drost) by Edward Adplanalp, 2006, International Third World Studies Journal and Review, Volume XVII In Between Midnight and The Rooster’s Crow (2005), a determined first-time Canadian filmmaker Nadja Drost gets up … Continue reading →

A home exploded at Bondad Hill, Colorado. The investigation showed that methane gas leaking from petroleum industry wells was to blame by Joe Hanel, Durango Herald, December 8, 2005 That well is leaking gas from the Fruitland Coal formation – the same … Continue reading →

Gas industry sees coal-bed methane as the next frontier, Production could quadruple by 2006 by Dave Ebner, January 10, 2005, Page B4, The Globe and Mail CALGARY — Coal-bed methane will leap to prominence in Canada this year, energy industry … Continue reading →

Landspraying While Drilling (LWD) Review by LWD Review Team (John Begg, Kevin Ball, Barry Cole, Lowell Calder, Barry Adams, Bruce Cairns, Dom Ruggieri, Suzanne Hawkes-Gill) Public Lands and Forests Division, Alberta Sustainable Resource Development December 2003, released three years later … Continue reading →

Groundwater Quality Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment. Winnipeg, Manitoba. Linking Water Science to Policy Workshop Series. Report No.2, 52 pages. Crowe, A.S., K.A. Schaefer, A. Kohut, S.G. Shikaze, C.J. Ptacek. 2003 Given that little is known about the long-term … Continue reading →

Gwyn Morgan, President and past CEO of Encana honoured by University of Alberta March 13, 2003, encana.com [Refer also to: EnCana donates $7.5 Million to the University of Alberta     Cenovus donates $3 Million to the University of Alberta Burning Waters: … Continue reading →

Unconventional Shallow Biogenic Gas Systems by George W. Shurr and Jennie L. Ridgley, 2002, The American Association of Petroleum Geologists, AAPG Bulletin November 2002 v. 86 no. 11 p. 1939-1969 Unconventional shallow biogenic gas falls into two distinct systems that … Continue reading →

Source and Migration Pathways of Natural Gas in Near-Surface Ground Water Beneath the Animas River Valley, Colorado and New Mexico by Chafin, Daniel, T. 1994, USGS Water Resources Investigations Report 94-4006 Man made migration pathways probably introduced most near surface gas to … Continue reading →