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Life’s future under humanity’s inhumanity, greed, selfishness (over population), and pollution-induced climate chaos: Starvation for us and other species. “The future increasingly features catastrophes that have never been recorded before”
Scientists discover why dozens of endangered elephants dropped dead, In 2020, 350 elephants mysteriously died in Botswana, with a further 35 dying in similar circumstances in Zimbabwe. Now scientists think they may have found the reason why by Phoebe Weston, … Continue reading
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Frac Harm Compendium 9 released by Physicians for Social Responsibility, Concerned Health Professionals of NY, Science and Environmental Health Network: “The risks and harms of fracking for public health, the climate, and environmental justice are real and growing. Many early warnings in our previous editions have been borne out. … The rapidly expanding body of evidence compiled here is massive, troubling, and cries out for decisive action.”
The summary accompanying the 9th Compendium is rather alarming when over 80% of U.S.A.’s and more than 60% of Canada’s energy consumption is from fossil fuels. How many families live with frac’d water and harms like I do? I live … Continue reading
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Confidential: Chesapeake with $13Billion in debt looks to buy Southwestern Energy (SWN, valued at $12Billion) which tried to frac New Brunswick but wise Maritimers said “NO!” Is Chesapeake prepping to unload billions more in debt and snag more free billions from frac-friendly judges via bankruptcy?
Exclusive: Natgas producer Chesapeake explores buying Southwestern Energy -sources by David French, October 17, 2023, Reuters Oct 17 (Reuters) – U.S. natural gas producer Chesapeake Energy Corp (CHK.O) has approached Southwestern Energy (SWN.N), a peer valued by the stock market … Continue reading
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In Ottawa, John Vaillant testifies against big oil before Canada’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Natural Resources: “Who’s stopping us?”
Jeff Berardelli@WeatherProf: Hats off to John. Some of the most superb climate communication I’ve seen. This is how it’s done. (Just a few mins long). Great work! John Vaillant@JohnVaillant: I’m a big fan of yours, Jeff, so, this means so … Continue reading
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Sharon Wilson (aka TXSharon) and Miguel Excoto launch Oilfield Witness revealing the invisible pollution that oil and gas denies
Sharon Wilson and Miguel Escoto launch “Oilfield Witness,” continue conducting fieldwork in Texas oilfields, We reveal the invisible pollution that oil and gas denies, keeping the industry accountable and strengthening climate movements by Oilfield Witness, Oct 16, 2023 TEXAS – … Continue reading
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Bravo Poland! Win for women’s rights; Women and youth vote in record numbers; A quickening abandonment of the raping catholic church.
@PavelSlunkin; I am 34 y.o. Belarusian living in exile in Poland. FIRST time in my life I will see a peaceful transition of power. To opposition. After democratic elections. With 73% turnout. My message to you – value and protect … Continue reading
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Another frac water hoarding death, this time a Birchcliff Energy Ltd. worker in Alberta. Did he drown or did toxic chemical additives kill him? How many wild beings die in frac pits? Who’s checking? AER’s too busy schmoozing Australian mining “dominatrix” billionaire Gina Rinehart
My condolences to the worker’s loved ones and coworkers, and to area families and communities. Drowning in a pit of frac waste or water hoarded for frac’ing would be a terrible way to die, and is preventable with adequate safety … Continue reading
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What do frac’ers do best? Rape (and go bankrupt). Exxon’s “married head of shale” senior frac boss and XTO President, David Scott, arrested for sexual assault
2024 02 14: Typical: A grand jury agreed there was not enough evidence for the case to move forward. Exxon exec busted on sex assault charges after woman called cops by Denette Wilford, Oct 10, 2023, Toronto Sun A married … Continue reading
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Killer Water: Toxic spills, cover-ups, Indigenous betrayal in Alberta’s tar sands. New documentary by Brandi Morin and Georgie Day. Coming soon.
Brandi Morin@Songstress28 Oct 11, 2023: Our documentary ‘Killer Water’ coming soon…Toxic spills, cover ups, & Indigenous betrayal in the oil sands. By myself & @geordieday with support from @therealnewsnetwork @indiginews @ricochet_en Refer also to: 2023 10 02: Imperial and Alberta … Continue reading
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American Psychological Association and ecoAmerica: Kids mental health threatened by climate change impacts, “starting before birth and potentially derailing the normal development of physiological systems, cognitive abilities and emotional skills in ways that are sometimes irreversible.” Sharon Wilson: “Hey MAGA, climate change is mass abortion. Care now?”
Best thing I’ve done in my life was choose not to have kids. The suffering ahead for all humans is unimaginable; kids will bear the brunt. Who is preparing kids for the hell their lives will be, if human pollution … Continue reading
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Wildfires 2023 Canada: More than 44 million acres burned (so far), hundreds of thousands of animals and migratory birds estimated dead. How many fish, insects and other small species roasted? What will survivors eat or shelter in?
Sept 2023, ERA5 Global surface air temperature Canada’s wildfires, 2023 in pink, Y axis in terrawatts Canada’s wildfires take devastating toll on wildlife by Mathiew Leiser and Genevieve Normand, Oct 4, 2023, Phys.org No droppings, tracks, nests or other traces … Continue reading
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A+++! Markham Hislop interviews law prof Martin Olszynski on Deloitte’s report about AER’s failed response to Imperial’s massive toxic tarsands waste spill/leak (intentional dump?) at Kearl: “The AER is indeed hiding something.” Never forget: In Ernst vs AER, Alberta courts ruled the regulator owes us and our groundwater “No Duty of Care” and is above Canada’s highest law, our Charter.
Is AER a best in the world regulator? It’s “tatters upon tatters.” “The AER is indeed hiding something.” “Of course you can comply with nothing.” Too funny but horrifying. AER/ERCB/EUB is a bully, but not towards law-violating polluting oil gas … Continue reading
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Monster Fracs, getting bigger and thirstier, threatening America’s drinking water aquifers
In my view, this is the most important concern about water injected for frac’ing that is rarely reported in main media: 2012: AEA: Support to the identification of potential risks for the environment and human health arising from hydrocarbons operations … Continue reading
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End of September 2023, Canada’s wildfires still raging (please don’t call it “season” which is propaganda normalizing it)
What will Canada’s wildfires look like when frac’ers inject the last billion gallons of water in dry jurisdictions? What will they look like after hundreds of thousands of fracs permanently leak methane and other flammable hydrocarbons to surface (that are … Continue reading
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Bravo! Dear wise and courageous Nanaimo city councillors: Thank you for voting out life-threatening, health-harming, water-decimating frac’d gas hookups!
“Fossil fuel companies have used their wealth and influence and political connections to slow things down. And they fight tooth and nail against anything that would reduce the burning of oil and gas and coal. They’re much better at capturing … Continue reading
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Homo sapiens mutilates the tree of life, destroying conditions on earth that make human life possible.
In my view, Homo sapiens proved its evil nature when it began frac’ing the earth. It’s impossible to repair industry’s trillions of fracs and impossible to put that leaking frac’d methane back. Satan has been unleashed, never to be locked … Continue reading
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Calgarians say “No!” to oil, protest World Petroleum Congress 2023 (a decade ago, they also said “No”)
Amanda Hu@amandalhu Sept 17, 2023: Calgarians facing down the World Petroleum Congress is not a small thing. The idea of Alberta identity being intrinsically linked to the oil and gas industry is something we’re steeped in our whole lives. But … Continue reading
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Wise! Republic of Ireland Planning Board says no to unclean unnatural frac’d LNG
Permission refused for Shannon Estuary LNG terminal by RTE, 15 Sep 2023 An Bord Pleanála has refused permission for the proposed development of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal and power station on the Shannon estuary in Co Kerry. The … Continue reading
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Participant Dennis LeNeveu Perspective on Manitoba Clean Environment Commission (CEC)’s Recommendations for Vivian Sand Extraction Project by Sio Silica Corporation of Calgary (prev. CanWhite Sands)
I commend Mr. LeNeveu for his diligence exposing what I see is ample fraud (and many unaddressed valid concerns) regarding the Vivian Sand mining scheme that smells like just another a frac job (con). Mr. LeNeveu has donated an incredible … Continue reading
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Hey Tamboran, what’s going down down down? Your share price! Even after NT gov’t approved frac’ing and gave you $1.5 billion subsidy. Just another frac scam to steal from investors and the citizenry?
Snaps taken Sept 6, 2023 Mark Ogge@MarkOgge Sept 6, 2023: So weird. NT fracking company Tamboran’s share price has completely tanked SINCE the NT government approved fracking, and despite $1.5 billion subsidy from the Australian Government. What is going on … Continue reading
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Dual Trucking, suspected radioactive Bakken frac waste dumper, does the hanky panky; Montana court sides with Admiral Insurance
Trucking company withheld information, taking insurer off the hook for hazmat violation by Tyson Fisher, May 26, 2021, Landline Now An insurance company for Dual Trucking is off the hook for covering an environmental violation on the company’s property, in … Continue reading
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Synergy Strikes Again! CAPE (BC doctors) & CANE (nurses) blame LNG and frac’ing for rampant wildfires and disease but do not call for a ban, instead they ask for a pause on new fracs to study harms that have already been studied (for years)!
CAPE and CANE need to get with the frac ban program. They even link to PSE’s eighth (2022) Frac Harm Compendium on their LNG harms website, https://www.lngharms.ca/. They have known better for years, but do not do better. Smells like … Continue reading
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Webinar Aug 30, 2023: Wasted Water: The Impacts of Fracking’s Water Use from Pennsylvania to Colorado; Frac’s in PA consume 19 million gallons of freshwater per well, most of which is lost permanently to the hydrogeological cycle (in Canada too) as we roast ourselves and other species out of life and home. What when there is no water left to drink or fight fires with?
Wasted Water: The Impacts of Fracking’s Water Use from Pennsylvania to Colorado by Halt The Harm Network, Kevin Richardson, HHN & Erica Wednesday, August 3012:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. MDT Registration Hello! To join the event, please register at link … Continue reading
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6 Bad and Dangerous Geoengineering Ideas Meant to Cool Down Earth that we should never try includes “A little potato flying a kite” to block the sun. Why not simply stop human over-breeding and over-polluting? Much less harmful. Oh right, rich raping churches, corporations and billionaires need more and more babies to keep making too much money destroying life on earth.
I thoroughly enjoyed this clip and agree wholeheartedly. I do think though the extreme white paint has uses for people living in poverty without fans or AC. AC is a polluting energy wasting privilege in areas without hydro; I’ve never … Continue reading
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Frac Canada Dry!
Drought conditions at highest level in parts of B.C. as province warns of tightening water restrictions, Two-thirds of the province’s water basins are now at Level 4 or 5 drought by CBC News with files from The Canadian Press, Jul … Continue reading
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Dear Danielle Smith, Take Back Alberta, UCP, Fucker Truckers (prev Yellow Vesters) and rural Albertans (too greedy and brainwashed by oil and gas to think for themselves): This post is for you.
Jeff Berardelli@WeatherProf: The GOAT: He was so well respected and deservedly so. He would have been so angry at the nonsense going on right now. Not surprised, as he did predict this exact evolution, but still beside himself that people … Continue reading
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Severe Drought, water restrictions for citizens but not frac’ers: Calgarians and Airdronians not allowed to wash windows but oil and gas frac’ers permanently lose billions of gallons of water to the hydrogeological cycle while Alberta Premier Danielle Smith bans clean safe non-water harming solar and wind energy projects. How stupid can Albertans get?
2023: Frac Canada Dry! 2015: Fracing the Bow River: “The most important resource in the province, and the rarest, is water” Then why let “No duty of care,” legally immune, Ex-Encana led, Charter violating AER permit multinationals to frac it? … Continue reading
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Held v Montana Victory! Judge Kathy Seeley rules kids’ constitutional right to “clean and healthful environment” violated by state agencies permitting fossil fuel development without considering greenhouse gas emissions effect on climate (like Steve Harper made agencies do in Canada when he was PM). Michael Gerrard, founder of Columbia’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law: “I think this is the strongest decision on climate change ever issued by any court.”
@MichaelGerrard: … After a trial where climate scientists testified under oath and were subject to cross examination (very rare in itself), the court issued a 103-page decision that found that fossil fuel use is the principal cause of climate change, … Continue reading
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Aug 15, 2023 U Pittsburgh and PA Dept Health Frac Harm Studies released. Was the truth told? I doubt it (industry controls much of gov’t studies and academia, notably in Republican states – in Canada too).
Comments by a PA resident who attended and recorded the event: … Audience comments were the highlight of the evening in my opinion, and the link below takes you to their beginning at the 39:43 mark, starting with retired Post-Gazette … Continue reading
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Petroleum-238 by Justin Nobel. “Their strategy was to keep this quiet and not let anyone know what was going on. They’ve known for 110 years, but they haven’t done anything about it. It’s the secret of the century.” (Secrets are a judge’s best friend too.)
About The Book An acclaimed science journalist’s years-long investigation into how the US oil and gas industry has averted environmental regulations and created a dangerous public health crisis. Over the past decade, as Justin Nobel traveled the country reporting on … Continue reading
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Flash Back to 2011: Wise and Courageous Alberta County Reeve Paddy Munro says Tax Fracks, “We need to whack these guys $25,000 a hole.”
In today’s dollars, and adding the financial harm from drinking water contamination and frac’ing causing permanent loss of water from the hydrogeological cycle, I think a complete frac ban is most appropriate. What idiot species intentionally contaminates and permanently removes … Continue reading
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Aug 9, 2023 Halt the Harm webinar: Fracking Through the Cracks: The Halliburton Loophole & Unregulated Chemicals in Fracking
Will regulating frac chemicals improve anything? Or make frac’ing safe? 2023 10 13: Anticipated launch date of Compendium 9 in New York City. 2022 05 01: Compendium 8 on Harms of Frac’ing & Associated Infrastructure: “The only method of mitigating … Continue reading
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Rally Against Fracking, July 28, 2023, Noon at Premier David Eby’s office, Vancouver
To Stop Fracking in BC! peter vranjkovic@petervranj: Two great rallies on Friday in #vancouver. Both underline the need to stop #globalwarming. 12 noon at David Eby’s office to stop fracking in BC. 6:30pm at the Vancouver Art Gallery for a … Continue reading
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Love. Courage. Truth. Integrity. Kindness. They called you crazy to deny it. Rest well Sinéad. “It’s asking for trouble, to stick out your neck.” You did it anyways and served raped kids justice when no authority would (too cowardly to take on the popes).
Sinéad O’Connor sacrificed her career and risked herself, and was treated abysmally by the world because she stood up for kids raped by the catholic church, enabled by pope after pope after pope, with parishioners too greedy for their promised … Continue reading
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Ten people who were wrong about SARSCoV2
AJ Leonardi, MBBS, PhD@fitterhappierAJ July 16, 2023: It is not the true nature of a scientist to command trust The true nature of a scientist is to educate others so that their science can be examined tern@1goodtern Jul 19: The … Continue reading
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‘The Petroleum Industry is a Fire Industry.’ Interview with John Vaillant on his new book Fire Weather, The Making of a Beast
In my view it’s propaganda to call it fire season. There’s no such thing. Earth has, or used to have, four seasons: spring, summer, fall and winter. It’s human greed, selfishness and pollution-induced climate change/global warming causing extreme conditions leading … Continue reading
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Why I hate AI
This ruined my Friday. Mr. Baird is a white man, I expect he’ll never understand. He writes “everyone” while not noticing or not caring that AI left many of “everyone” out. I expect AI will be controlled initially (until AI … Continue reading
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Frac noise hurts; frac noise harms health
Encana was required by law to complete a noise assessment before installing its endless compressors in the county where I live; the company installed 13 around Rosebud, including two directly sending their noise into the steep coulee that amplifies (by … Continue reading
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Magnificent Documentary: Living in the Time of Dying, meeting the truth of the climate crisis
I bought my home and 50 acres of worn out, raped and pillaged (by agriculture) land at Rosebud in 1998. The pasture and coulee were weed infested, over grazed, covered with a hundred years of abandoned cars, trucks, farm equipment, … Continue reading
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“Oh Canada, Our Home on Stolen Land.” Thank you Ben & Jerry’s for calling out racist Canada (and our lying abusive RCMP). Next trip to town, I’ll buy some Cherry Garcia ice cream (my fav) to celebrate your courage and integrity.
I love Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia ice cream, but because I tried to protect the public interest and sacrificed my savings trying to access justice in Canada’s outlandishly expensive self-regulated legal-judicial industry, such treats are for only for special … Continue reading
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Rest well Rob Schwartz. We’ll miss you dearly.
Rob Schwartz’s passing by Barb Ryan, July 1, 2023, Alberta Surface Rights Group FB Page This Canada Day morning, Rob Schwartz, one of the founding members of this group, passed away peacefully in Red Deer. Alberta lost a strong defender … Continue reading
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Sexism in science: Poor pathetic old white man Nobel laureate Kurt Wüthrich claims diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) discriminates against men. Science: “60 women have been awarded Nobel Prizes, compared with 892 men. Just five of this year’s 39 invited Lindau speakers were women.”
As a woman with a career in science working for decades in the even more sexist oil and gas industry in misogynistic Alberta, this Lindau Nobel news is hideous, but typical. It’s standard abusive behaviour by many old white men … Continue reading
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Frac’ing harms health. Ron Gulla: “The truth has to come out and the law firms are the ones that really need to be held accountable because the law firms are making a lot of money representing the industry and covering all the lies up. … This is organized crime, that’s what this is.”
Exclusive: For Decades He Railed Against Fracking — Now His Wife Has a Type of Cancer Linked to Fracking Chemicals, For two decades, Ron Gulla has been speaking out about how fracking is harmful to human health. Last year, Gulla’s … Continue reading
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Canada needs to start jailing law-violating polluting frac’ers too. Ohio: Benjamin Altier and his company ordered to pay more than $20,000.00 in fines and sentenced to 30 days in jail, 50 hours community service, three years of community control for theft (fabricating wastewater disposal tickets and taking money for them), dumping waste on land, improperly storing the rest.
In my view, the reason corporations like Teck, tarsands miners, and Encana/Ovintiv et al intentionally break the law and pollute, is because they know Canadian “regulators” and courts will let them get away with it more often than not. And … Continue reading
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Plugs failing at uncomfortably high rate during hydraulic fracturing, allowing high-pressure fluids to escape causing casing erosion. Encana/Ovintiv claims it found a solution.
Schlumberger Chair and CEO Andrew Gould on frac’ing: “We’re doing it by brute force and ignorance.” Ovintiv: Reliable Data, Better Plug Choices Solve Casing Erosion and Improve Stimulations in Shale Wells, Shale producers have learned in recent years that their … Continue reading
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Part 2: Private land; Frac’ers Garbage Can. Another Encana/Ovintiv (now Lynx) Sentron LD 3000 oil barrel on Rosebud River coulee, Ernst property.
Dear Encana/Ovintiv now Lynx, My requests are the same as I sent Lynx in June 2021, copied below (I added the bold today). This is not fun for me. Lynx’s unsecured barrels rolling down my coulee could kill nesting birds … Continue reading
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Hey anti-health-protections, anti-rights-for-the-rest-of-us Fucker Truckers: How’s your sperm? New study suggests COVID does long-term damage to male reproductive tract (even in mild cases).
T. Ryan Gregory@TRyanGregory on the new study and Alberta unvaxxed sperm seller, June 27, 2023: Dude just lost a fortune. Study: Sperm counts decline even after mild COVID infections by Stephanie Soucheray, June 26, 2023, Center for Infectious Disease Research … Continue reading
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Billy Marcum, Jr., owner of oil & gas companies, sentenced to 17 years in prison for $30 million fraud, ordered to pay $16 million in restitution. Why did “Frack Master” Breitling Energy CEO Chris Faulkner get less time (15 years for $80 million fraud, fined over $90 million)?
Fort Worth oil, gas owner sentenced to 17 years in prison in $30 million fraud case by Nicole Lopez, June 23, 2023, Yahoo News A Fort Worth owner of oil and gas companies was sentenced to more than 17 years … Continue reading
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US Federal Appellate Court rules for American Home Insurance Co. in case where Superior Well Services Inc.’s “improper use of certain chemical mixtures” damaged 53 U.S. Energy Development Corporation gas wells. But, frac’ers promise us their process is perfectly safe!
Accidental frac’ing? Frac’ers intentionally experiment with different chemical brews intentionally using “brute force and ignorance” intentionally contaminating millions of gallons of water to intentionally cause damage underground (often contaminating aquifers and water wells in their violent stupid intentional process). Trigger … Continue reading
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Terry Mosher: “Introducing the Montreal Gazette, a once proud newspaper, now being sunk by the assholes in Toronto at Postmedia”
I grew up reading the Montreal Gazette, kept reading it when I was at University in Ontario, and the last 41 years living in Alberta. I loved it. American Republicans won’t stop until they’ve swallowed Canada, Canadians, our timber, water, … Continue reading
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PA Frac Lawsuit Hearing: Bryan & Ryan Latkanich v Chevron & EQT Corporation health harm, and well water and home contamination
An update by Bob Donnan, June 22, 2023: I learned yesterday the local Washington, Pa newspaper for our same county WILL NOT be publishing a story about the case, even though they had a reporter in court on Tuesday. Reason? … Continue reading
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Frac’d Up Madness: FortisBC to drill 9km long, 14 ft wide tunnel under Squamish Estuary and through a mountain to deliver frac’d gas to Woodfibre Liquid unNatural Gas. Tunnel equipment built in Germany, transported to B.C. by ship. Net Zero? Impossible.
Woodfibre LNG accelerates Canada’s pathway to net zero: Mar 23, 2023 — West coast project announces plan to be the first LNG export facility in the world to achieve net zero emissions. … This fast-tracked timeline exceeds the federal requirement … Continue reading
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Held v Montana: “Unexpectedly wild” climate trial. Trump copycats, Rep. Ryan Zinke and Cowboy State Daily, denigrate the kids as radicals “weaponizing” the legal system. Canada’s disgraced supreme court Justice Russell Brown’s Stockwoods LLP lawyers copied Trump too, calling Judicial Council’s review of complaint about J Brown “weaponization.”
Held v Montana; Kids Climate Lawsuit Inside the unexpectedly wild landmark Montana youth climate trial, Young people are attempting to hold their state accountable for fossil fuel expansion by Karin Kirk, June 15, 2023, Yale Climate Connections When I got … Continue reading
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Massachusetts: Quiet Communities files lawsuit seeking mandatory injunction ordering EPA to resume its Noise Control Act responsibilities. After Encana violated Alberta’s noise regulations and I requested regulation, AER judged *me* the criminal – in writing (without evidence, due process, trial, hearing, arrests, or fingerprinting).
Frac’ing is noisy. In my community, and others, Encana/Ovintiv installed compressors without noise assessments or mitigation, in violation of the noise control directive. Encana’s noise roared 24/7, disrupted my sleep and that of my loved ones, and drove out songbirds. … Continue reading
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Chevon subsidiary Union Oil’s “blatant example of environmental pollution and corporate malfeasance” gets hit with $63Million jury verdict for covering up chemical pit with carcinogen (benzene) on private land. Don’t fret Chevron, I’m sure you can buy pollution-friendly judges to overturn the ruling.
Jury returns $63M verdict after finding Chevron covered up toxic pit on California land by AP News, June 8, 2023 SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — A California jury has returned a $63 million verdict against Chevron after finding the oil … Continue reading
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Think it’s tough to buy a house now? Extremes caused by human pollution and greed induced climate change is devouring insurance: You can’t get insurance, you don’t get a mortgage. And what about frac quakes and all those other harms to our homes and businesses?
Anthony Farnell@AnthonyFarnell June 12, 2023: Canada just surpassed 5 million hectares burned this season. That’s more than the entire 2016, 2019, 2020 and 2022 seasons combined. The dull way Americans are being forced to care about climate change risk: Insurance … Continue reading
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Hello gamblers: Another frac scam to lure in wary investors? ExxonMobile “bets” it can ramp up shitty results by refrac’ing. Not: Encana/Ovintiv refac’d, refrac’d and refrac’d Rosebud and other communities to hell and back, still lost masses of money and ran away to USA
ExxonMobil: New Fracking Technology Can Double Oil Output by Alex Kimani, Jun 04, 2023, Oilprice The U.S. shale revolution dramatically reshaped the world energy markets. The shale boom was one of the most impressive growth stories, from take off in … Continue reading
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U.S. Shale bites dust as Art Berman warned over a decade ago? Investors finally smartening up to the fraud that is frac’ing?
U.S. Shale Is Slowing Down Due To Factors Beyond Its Control by David Blackmon, Forbes, June 10, 2023 From its’ January 14 peak, the Enverus Daily Count of active North American drilling rigs has now fallen by 20%. Baker Hughes said Friday its own … Continue reading
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Montana: Fair ruling killed by “law” makers serving polluters. Judge Michael Moses flips his unnatural gas plant ruling, cites “changing legal landscape”
Montana gas power plant can resume construction, judge rules by Matthew Brown, June 9, 2023, Yahoo News BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — NorthWestern Energy will resume construction of a natural gas power plant along Montana’s Yellowstone River following a two-month delay, … Continue reading
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