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“Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.” Tom Lehrer, musician Lawprofblaw@lawprofblawg: Henry Kissinger is an inspiration. His legacy says that no matter how many war crimes you help commit, you can still win a Nobel Peace Prize.When Kissinger won the “peace”prize in 1973, I thought two things: 1) men in the USA ...

Nurses Against Dick Pics.@ClaudetteGGibs1: If men got pregnant, abortions would be available at a drive thru window Diana Says!@MsDianaMKSCM: If men could get pregnant abortion would not only be legal, but also free, celebrated, available at the Taco Bell drive thru, and followed by a 2 week all expenses paid vacation Hedy Lamarr-I Stand With Ukraine@HedyLamarr0629: Bon Hanson@BonHanson79: Medication Abortion pills ...

Killer Water: The toxic legacy of Canada’s oil sands industry for Indigenous communities 49:29 Min. by Ricochet Media, Nov 24, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3vF66R2F0Q In Northern Alberta, Canada, sit the Athabasca tar sands—the world’s largest known reservoir of crude bitumen, and a major driver of Canada’s economy. The vast majority of Canadian oil production comes from the extraction and ...

While in power from 2015-2019, Alberta’s NDP had their chance to clean up AER and remove ex Encana VP Gerard Protti from his top position there. They did nothing but talk – a lot, and enable AER’s law violations and bullying/abuses against harmed Albertans. Worse, the NDP dramatically reduced royalties, increased deregulation, removed water protections, ...

Crowd gathers outside B.C. NDP convention in Victoria to protest fracking by Michael John Lo, Nov 19, 2023, Times Colonist Protesters chanted “NDP, go frack free.” About 250 people gathered outside the B.C. New Democratic Party’s convention at the Victoria Conference Centre on Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023, to call on the government to end fracking. ADRIAN LAM, ...

Pennsylvania’s fracking boom is hurting its oldest residents, “Up until 10 years ago, I was a pretty healthy bitch. And, unfortunately, I’m dying.” by Scott Cannon and Kate Raphael, Nov 06, 2023, Grist In 1976, Mary Ellen McConnell, a “concrete city kid,” moved from Bethesda, Maryland, to the verdant hills and river valleys of Clearville, Pennsylvania. ...

A measurement-based upstream oil and gas methane inventory for Alberta, Canada reveals higher emissions and different sources than official estimates by Bradley M. Conrad, David R. Tyner, Hugh Z. Li, Donglai Xie & Matthew R. Johnson, Nov 15, 2023, Communications Earth & Environment volume 4, Article number: 416 (2023) Abstract Mitigation actions and regulations to meet critical 2030 methane ...

Dear Mr. Carll, I love this song (and the pop up art). It sums up my frac’d life and that of many others. I had not heard “Nice Things” before. A friend sent it to me tonight: “Hey Jess, I heard this song and thought of you. Hayes Carll is my new favorite country folk ...

Dear Liar Liar Danielle Smith, UCP/TBA, and Liar Liar unelected Premier David Parker, You banned wind and solar, and other alternate energies from Alberta to enable illegal aquifer frac’ers and health-harming oil and gas companies like Encana/Ovintiv (now Lynx in my community). Remove your alternate energy ban; ban frac’ing instead. That makes sense. Encana/Ovintiv (now Lynx) ...

CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? If a single role is as expensive as thousands of workers, it is surely the prime candidate for robot-induced redundancy by Will Dunn, May 2023, The New Statesman On Wednesday 31 May, it was reported that Alex Mahon, CEO of Channel 4, could receive record annual pay of ...

I’ve been horrified by Canada’s racism for decades now; I boycott Canada Day because of it. For many years now, I also boycott Remembrance Day and fake poppies because of Canada’s war mongering while our sleazy politicians propagandize to the world that we are a peace enabling nation. Pfffft. I remember and honour those who died for ...

New study finds overwhelming evidence of harms from fracking by Nicholas Cunningham, Nov 10, 2023, Gas Outlook A review of the scientific literature reveals enormous public health, environmental, and climate damage from fracking. Authors say that “no rules or regulations can make these practices safe. The negative impacts of hydraulic fracturing on public health, the environment, and ...

Shale Billionaire Hamm Tackles ‘Generation 3’ Rock, Continental Resources chairman is seeking ways to pull crude from sites passed over during the boom he helped start by David Wethe with assistance from Kevin Orland and Sarah Chen, November 8, 2023, Bloomberg Welcome to Energy Daily, our guide to the energy and commodities markets powering the global economy. Today, ...

@baridapoi: Deregulation… @TappyTapin: Naturally the republican TX state legislature will use this opportunity to cut even more safety regulations *** Local affiliate Fox 26 was providing live coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STm7ELE46lU&t=5s @briancalliari4421: More extensive list from SRS’s products list: *Aromatics – Ketones – Acetates Xylene – Ethyl Acetate Blend Xylene (Recycle Grade) – PM Acetate (Recycle Grade) Toluene Toluene/MEK Blend Aromatic 100, 150, 200 Acetone – Acetone (Recycle Grade) Methyl Ethyl Ketone – ...

Dr. Sandra Steingraber @ssteingraber1: Friends! TOMORROW 11-1, 2 pm EDT please join Texas activist Ranjana Bhandari @Ranjana_LA of @LivablArlington and me for a webinar on the findings of the fracking science compendium, 9th ed. Register: https://lu.ma/lkwg1y7c Especially for frontline communities; open to all. Hosted by @RyanClover of @halttheharm and @SEHNetwork https://twitter.com/ssteingraber1/status/1719459463483056137 Ninth Edition Compendium is Up and Out: A Tool ...

A growing number of reports indicate Israeli forces responsible for Israeli civilian and military deaths following October 7 attack, Many details of what transpired on October 7 continue to be shrouded in mystery, including how the 1,400 Israelis who died were killed. A growing number of reports indicate the Israeli military was responsible for civilian ...

FIRST, A REALITY CHECK: 2006 May: The Role of the Upper Geosphere in Mitigating CO2 Surface Releases in Wellbore Leakage Scenarios USA Dept Energy removed the paper. Access it here. Think of the many millions high pressure fracs in oil and gas fields across in North America, after this data was presented! Source: USA Dept Energy 2006 June: ...

Eleventh Annual Shale & Public Health ConferenceTuesday, November 14, 2023From 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM – registration/sign-in opens at 8:30 AM University of Pittsburgh University Club 123 University Place, Pittsburgh. PA 15260 The conference is presented by the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania and hosted by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public ...

Road reopens following tanker crash in Trumbull County by Nadine Grimley, Oct 24, 2023, WKBN Youngstown State Route 305 is back open after a commercial tanker overturned Monday. The accident triggered a large response from emergency personnel, hazmat, the EPA, and the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio’s Hazardous Materials and Motor Carrier Enforcement. Troopers with the Ohio State ...

Adam Toy@Adam_Toy: prayer breakfast hears anti-LGBTQ2 rhetoric, residential school denialism @troyliss.bsky.social@Troyliss; Incredibly scary that this audience is cheering on White Christian supremacy. Mark Lehman@Mlehman99: What a great reason to skip breakfast and the disgusting message that was shared. I’m so tired of people who have a message of hate and intolerance being profiled and featured in this city/province. This ...

https://twitter.com/iyad_elbaghdadi/status/1714985262873190512 @iyad_elbaghdadi Oct 18, 2023: Good afternoon (or morning, or evening). I went dark yesterday, really dark. But I managed to sleep and I have some clarity about the Al Ahli hospital massacre that I want to share with you. I’ll only tweet this rambling thread today and then log off. Please read and share. I want to ...

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, 25 Oct 2023, The Guardian In May and June 2020, the death of 350 elephants in ...

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 not just harmed by frac’er Encana/Ovintiv, harmed also by: my ex lawyers Murray Klippenstein and ...

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 at $12 billion including debt, about a potential acquisition, people familiar with the matter said. Were the ...

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 much to me. Thanks for watching. You’ve set a high bar. Jeff Berardelli@WeatherProf: Thank you John. I was very impressed ...

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 – Sharon Wilson and Miguel Escoto are thrilled to launch their new project to aggressively fight oil ...

@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 your democracy. You can’t even imagine what a miracle you have. https://twitter.com/PavelSlunkin/status/1713947244305522929 Pro-Europe, civic rights coalition wins in ...

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 and education measures. Frac’ing is deadly. I’ve walked in some of those pits before they were ...

Exxon exec busted on sex assault charges after woman called cops by Denette Wilford, Oct 10, 2023, Toronto Sun A married businessman faces sexual assault charges after one of two women in his hotel room — neither believed to be his wife — called Texas police. David Scott, 49, who oversees all Exxon’s shale oil and gas ...

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 regulator knew for years about oilsands tailings seepage, documents show, Test wells were finding tailings in groundwater as far ...

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 lets them live long enough to become adults? *** Impacts of climate change threaten children’s mental ...

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 of wildlife—Canada’s boreal forests were devastated by record wildfires this year. In the woodlands of Quebec province, hunter Paul ...

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 frac coal and bitumen companies. The regulator is too cowardly and corrupt to regulate the rich powerful polluters ...

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 involving hydraulic fracturing in Europe A proportion (25% to 100%) of the water used in hydraulic fracturing ...

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 underground and impossible to repair)? (y axis: FRP = fire radiative power; TW = terrawatts) Neil Lareau @nplareau ...

“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 politicians than emissions.” @algore Subject: Bravo Nanaimo City Council!Date: 24 Sep 2023From: jessica ernst To: email hidden; JavaScript is required, ...

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 underground again. Carbon capture and sequestration/storage is an industry con job that doesn’t work, enabled by ...

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 we’re more than oil and our children deserve more than that. #ableg Martin Z. Olszynski@molszyns Sept 17, ...

https://twitter.com/SafetyBeforeLng/status/1702612680958230642?s=20 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 decision was posted to An Bord Pleanála’s website this morning. Shannon LNG had been ...

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 number of hours working on trying to protect drinking water aquifers, environment and families in ...

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 ?! Steve Blume #VoteYES@SteveBlumeSEC: It’s a Zombie project that won’t be built let alone operate long enough to get a ...

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 a case highlighting the consequences of withholding information on a policy application. On May 5, a federal ...

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 Alberta Synergy to me. From Page 3 of CAPE and CANE’s letter: 2. Strengthen regulations and monitoring protocols ...

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 above About Event ​Join FracTracker Alliance and Halt the Harm Network for a special webinar on the impacts of the ...

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 lived with it. I use manually operated rolltop shutters on the outside of my triple glazed ...

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 13, 2023 Leaders in British Columbia are sounding the alarm about looming water scarcity and future ...

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 have lost their ability to critically think. GOAT = “Greatest Of All Time.” CarlSaganDotCom@carlsagandotcom Aug 14, 2023: A lesson ...

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? Not one mention of frac’ing (or enhanced oil recovery wasting water) in the article, not one. “UnAlbertan” CougstaX@cougsta: What ...

@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, which in turn is causing serious health and environmental impacts that will continue to get worse. ...

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 reporter Dave Templeton, who probably knows this overall topic better than anyone else. At the 53:50 mark ...

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 the oil and gas industry, he learned a disturbing and little-considered fact: a lot more comes to ...

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 billions of gallons of drinking water from use by humans and other species? If not ...

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 its grave threats to public health and the climate is a complete and comprehensive ban on fracking.” No ...

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 critical mass bike ride for better bike lanes and less air pollution. Wilderness Committee@wildernews: This Friday – join us outside ...

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 ladder to heaven to care. Even parents of the raped kids were silent, they took money ...

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 head of the British Medical Association was at the UK Covid Inquiry yesterday saying with rock solid certainty that ...

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 to extreme fires. Propagandizers tooting to escalate fossil fuel pollution and harms are pushing “fire ...

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 conquers humans) by rich white powerful misogynistic racist raping religious men (until AI renders them obsolete) ...

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 nearly doubling) the noise invading my home. Had the company heeded the law, they would ...

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, lots and lots and lots of garbage, 27 full burn barrels full here and there. ...

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 events. I rarely drive to town to reduce my pollution, make my 14 year old ...

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 of property rights, our lands, water, air, and sanity. Judy and the kids lost a great husband ...

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 in science, judges on rape cases, the legal industry and elsewhere. They are too greedy ...

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 wife was diagnosed with an aggressive form of acute myeloid leukemia — a condition that ...

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 worse, they know Canadian authorities often bully and punish the harmed instead of the guilty ...

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 fracture plugs may not be holding up as well as they thought. One of the first ...

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 and or fox kits/other young. Life for them is tough enough without Lynx’s irresponsibility. Secure your ...

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 & Policy, U Minnesota Men recently infected with COVID-19 have decreased sperm counts for more than 3 ...

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 in prison for running a multi-million dollar fraudulent scheme, announced Leigha Simonton, the U.S. Attorney for ...

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 warning for the frac harmed (notably those abadoned by companies, regulators and courts): The ruling is a ...

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, oil, gas, tar, frac, history, culture, and more, whole. And greedy lying selfish nasty sods ...

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? “didn’t write a story because it was arguments.” In part of my reply to the reporter, ...

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 to be net zero by 2050, while providing benefits to local First Nations, British Columbians, and ...

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 an assignment to cover the landmark youth climate lawsuit that went to trial in Montana this ...

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. I documented the company’s law violations, noise data and fraud, and sent it to the AER ...

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 giant covered up a toxic chemical pit on land purchased by a man who built a ...

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. https://twitter.com/AnthonyFarnell/status/1668350652248907779 The dull way Americans are being forced to care about climate change risk: Insurance by Trevor Hughes, June 11, 2023, USA TODAY DENVER ‒ Smoke descended on New York City, oceans are ...

ExxonMobil: New Fracking Technology Can Double Oil Output by Alex Kimani, Jun 04, 2023, Oilprice U.S. shale producers have been struggling to ramp up production in 2023. Oil major ExxonMobil bets that through technological advances, shale producers can manage to double crude output from their existing wells. While refracturing has never really gone mainstream, the technique is seeing ...

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 weekly rig count has dropped six straight weeks. One week could be a blip; two ...

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, a company spokesperson said Friday, after a state judge revived a pollution permit for the project ...

Dear Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, Stop with your cruel rage farming lies and conspiracy crap blaming arsonists for the fires, notably after the gov’t you lead, the UCP, cut fire prevention funding and your recent announcement of another massive gift from taxpayers to $billion profit-raping oil and gas companies, this time giving the polluters $20billion ...

RCMP Officers Plead Not Guilty in the Death of Dale Culver, Two officers made their first court appearance six years after the Wet’suwet’en man’s death by Amanda Follett Hosgood, June 7, 2023, The Tyee Two RCMP officers charged in the death of Dale Culver appeared briefly for the first time in a Prince George courtroom Tuesday ...

Environmental groups seek results of Pitt cancer studies by Karen Mansfield, Jun 3, 2023, Observer Reporter Environmental health groups are seeking an update on the status of a pair of studies about fracking and health issues, after those studies were OK’d by the state Department of Health more than three years ago. Five groups – the Center ...

Prof Dan Shugar@WaterSHEDLab Jun 1: Over the past 48 hrs in Alberta, we’ve had the announcement of new 1.4 GW solar installation and the elimination of 1500 jobs from an oil and gas company. The writing is on the wall. We need to do better at transitioning our economy and workforce to the reality of what’s ...

I have a paper copy of the complete study. Time permitting winter 2023, I’ll scan and upload it to my website, and add a link to it below. The impact of oil and natural gas facilities on rural residential property values: a spatial hedonic analysis by Peter C Boxall U of Alberta), Wing H Chang (Wilfrid ...

Father and son drown in pond, younger child runs for help by D.K. Wright, May 30, 2023, WTRF.com BELMONT COUNTY, Ohio (WTRF) — An Amish man and his 10-year-old son died of drowning Saturday, according to Belmont County Sheriff’s Department Chief Investigator Ryan Allar. Allar said it happened at a pond on gas and oil property that ...

sō-lä-stál-jə n.: A pain or discomfort caused by the present state of one’s home environment. Solastalgia ia a kind of distress: a homesickness felt at home. Glenn Albrecht coined the term “solastalgia” — a mash-up of “solace,” “desolation,” and “nostalgia” — to describe the inability to derive comfort from one’s home environment due to negative environmental ...

All I see are ghosts’: fear and fury as the last spotted owl in Canada fights for survival, Only one female remains in the Canadian wilderness, a symbol of the country’s inability to save a species on the verge of destruction as politicians dither and the logging continues by Leyland Cecco in Spô’zêm First Nation, ...

Sodding greedy clusterfucks at Ruby River Capital LLC (U.S.-based owner of GNL Québec Inc.) and Osler in Calgary, you’re way out of line with your $20 Billion in lost profits demand. Frac’ing loses money. It loses lots of money, notably for stupid investors. It’s not Canadians’ fault (or the BAPE or gov’ts) that investors and ...

‘Forever chemicals’ found in Canadians’ blood samples: report, Government departments propose listing the chemicals as toxic under Canadian Environmental Protection Act by David Thurton, May 20, 2023, CBC News Toxic “forever chemicals” are being found in the blood of Canadians — and even higher levels are being found in northern Indigenous communities — says a new ...

What a vicious circuitous cumulative impact if oil, gas and frac companies’ leaking methane and other gases are igniting and fuelling wildfires which then release massive amounts more methane. It’s been known for decades that oil, gas and frac companies lie about their life-threatening pollution, as do their self-regulating cover-up agents AER, CER, others provincially and ...

Earth is running on empty. Water scarcity is becoming ever more dire, with frac’ers invading the most water scarce places. Most humans, notably male, corporate, legal and or political, don’t care and keep over producing babies. Every new human born ensures more fracs. Every new Canadian born ensures I won’t get safe water. And most don’t ...

The study: 19-page PDF Observed Impacts of Anthropogenic Climate Changeon Wildfire in California by A. Park Williams, John T. Abatzoglou, Alexander Gershunov,Janin Guzman‐Morales, Daniel A. Bishop, Jennifer K. Balch and Dennis P. Lettenmaier, 2019, Earth’s Future, 7, 892–910. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EF001210 Abstract Recent fire seasons have fueled intense speculation regarding the effect of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire in western ...

Photo by Kyle Brittain: Wall of Wildfire, Fox Creek Alberta May 14, 2023 Mother’s day: Gaia weeps. https://twitter.com/KyleBrittainWX/status/1658967716211085313 John Vaillant@JohnVaillant: ’cause all the was being inhaled by the fire . . . ? Kyle Brittain@KyleBrittainWX: Yes sir! Brad In YYC @Brad_In_YYC: Sounds like it was suckling so much air from behind you and shooting it up, the smoke smell included. That’s ...

Liar, liar, the world’s on fire. Whatcha gonna do when it all burns down? First Nations chiefs blast Higgs over report he is prepared to frack without their consent, Premier quoted as saying, ‘We gotta get on with it’ by CBC News, May 12, 2023 Mi’kmaw and Wolastoqey communities in New Brunswick are slamming comments reportedly made ...

After too many rapes to count when I was a child – all by white married christian men, I decided not to have kids. One of my dreams was to be a stay home mum but no way would I risk any child of mine being raped by priests, or any other man protected and ...

How electric school buses will keep Canadians warm during emergencies by Jameson Dow, Apr 28 2023, Electrek Prince Edward Island has enlisted the help of Lion Electric‘s electric school buses to provide power in the event of emergencies, to keep community disaster relief locations running when the power goes out. Lion Electric is a Canadian-based electric medium- ...

To Protect Water, Bring Together Indigenous and Western Knowledge: U of G Expert Report, To restore and protect vulnerable freshwater systems in North America, start by interweaving Indigenous and Western values, worldviews and knowledge systems Press Release by Dr. Andrea Bradford and Dr. Sheri Longboat, April 26, 2023, U of Guelph So says a comprehensive report ...

Keith Olbermann@KeithOlbermann Apr 24: I’d just like to congratulate @TuckerCarlson on getting fired from the middle @cnn and from the left @msnbc and from the fascist right @foxnews CoffeyTimeNews@CoffeyTimeNews BREAKING: Tucker Carlson Will Receive NO Severance From Fox News Because He Was Fired From Fox News ‘For Cause’ I absolutely love this for Tucker. If anyone deserves it, it’s him. Fired from ...