Global Frac News

  • AER reacting again to heaps of bad press? Cherry picking data for public display? Do you trust the lying, Charter violating, legally immune, fraudulent pollution enabling AER? Energy deregulator starts tracking company performance to try to reduce pipeline spills. Why now, decades too late?
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  • Northern Ireland: SDLP pledge to introduce permanent ban on fracking
    SDLP pledge to introduce permanent ban on fracking by Derry Now, February 21, 2017 SDLP Foyle Assembly candidate and former Environment Minister Mark H Durkan has said his party fundamentally opposes the introduction of fracking in Northern Ireland – and has pledged to develop legislation to permanently ban all exploration and extraction of shale gas through ...
  • Alberta NDP defeated again (as they did in 2016) resolution calling for moratorium on fracking, even defeated a friendly amendment to do in-depth independent study of adverse effects. “Jobs” & corporate profits trump public health & water yet again. But in the oil patch, jobs are being left behind: “I don’t see a future.” … “Pretty soon every rig will have one worker and a robot.”
    PROPOSED  RESOLUTION – THAT WAS AGAIN DEFEATED (AS IT WAS IN 2016) ON FEBRUARY 11, 2017, NDP Provincial Council, University of Calgary–  NATURAL RESOURCE EXPLORATION AND EXTRACTION INVOLVING HORIZONTAL HYDRAULIC FRACTURING WHEREAS  horizontal hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as “fracking,” has been banned or placed under moratorium in several countries, three U.S. states and three Canadian provinces WHEREAS  recent ...
  • Frack ban coming to PEI?
    Fracking ban coming in act? by Andrew Lush
, Don’t Frack PEI Steering Committee, February 17, 2017, The Guardian.pe.ca Surely there can no longer be any doubt that high-volume hydraulic fracturing (fracking) causes unacceptable damage to human and environmental health, our plans to combat climate change and the social fabric of communities. The draft P.E.I. Water Act will be released ...
  • “Alberta Model” Quebec’s Frac Frenzy Free-for-all Deregulation Bill 106: Vue en coupe d’un règlement qui nous prend pour des idiots
    Cross sectional view of a regulation that takes us for idiots by Pierre Brignaud “Do you think we should have our water tested? It smells weird.” “Don’t worry. They are the required minimum distance from a house and more than a kilometre away.” Questerre Energy Corporation (“Questerre” or the “Company”) (TSX,OSE:QEC) reported today on the resource assessment (the ...
  • Cenovus (split from Encana after Ernst lawsuit papers served on the company) continues hoarding with $3.7B cash
    Cenovus aims to conserve $3.7B cash hoard amid calls for dividend hike by Geoffrey Morgan, The Canadian Press, February 16, 2017, Calgary Herald CALGARY – Oilsands producer Cenovus Energy Inc. learned tough lessons through the oil price collapse and is now resisting investor pressure to spend the cash it worked hard to save during the downturn. Cenovus president and ...
  • Brilliant! MUST LISTEN! BNN Interviews Alberta Oil Patch Consultant Brent Nimeck on Lexin and AER’s Orphan Wells: “This problem is 30 years in the making. … I would call it a Ponzi Scheme…. This is an orchestrated fraud from multiple angles: Industry, CAPP and the Alberta Energy Regulator have enabled this to happen. … Through our independent analysis and we’ve confirmed this at multiple sources within the energy regulator, the liabilities are over $300 billion. That’s what’s on the hook for Alberta taxpayers right now – $300 billion.”
    The Promise: Fracking brings prosperity & jobs. Reality: Tens of thousands of oil patch workers out of work and $300 billion in liabilities. Former oil worker proposes solution to abandoned pipelines 5:52 Min. by BNN Commodities, February 17, 2017 Our next guest is in the early stages of putting together a report called “Reclaiming Alberta’s Future ...
  • New peer-reviewed, published study by Lisa McKenzie et al, U Colorado School of Public Health: Childhood cancer linked to nearby oil and gas activity; People ages 5-24 diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia more likely to live in areas with a high concentration of oil and gas activity
    New CU study looks at impact of nearby oil and gas drilling on childhood cancer rates, State Health Department questions study’s conclusion by John Ingold, February 15, 2017, The Denver Post A new study from University of Colorado researchers finds a possible link between a specific kind of childhood cancer and nearby oil and gas activity, but ...
  • AER shuts Lexin Resources down way too late: AER fails Albertans & oil patch workers, yet again; AER saves the day for oil patch executives, yet again; AER keeps shareholders off the hook, yet again. And AER still hasn’t criminally charged Encana for law violations, frac’ing Rosebud’s drinking water aquifers!
    Read first: Alberta’s Growing $30-Billion Liability: Inactive Wells, Compared to other jurisdictions, province lets oil firms off the hook when it comes to cleaning up by Andrew Nikiforuk, 13 Feb 2017, TheTyee.ca *** AER enforcement action sparks questions over orphan wells by Chris Varcoe, February 16, 2017, Calgary Herald The operator of 16 sour gas wells located south of Calgary sent ...
  • Queensland, Australia: Contamination and irreversible damage caused by Linc Energy at Hopeland more widespread than first thought. With Linc in liquidation and debts of $300 Million, who pays for the “irreversible” damages to the many farms, homes, soils, air and aquifers?
    Contamination near Linc Energy UCG plant at Hopeland more widespread than first thought by Mark Willacy, February 09, 2017, ABC News Flammable levels of hydrogen have been found at a number of locations near the site of a controversial gas project that has been blamed for contaminating huge swathes of prime Queensland farm land. The ABC understands an ...
  • Justice Denied in Texas: Parrs won’t appeal loss of $2.9 million judgment against Aruba after fracking oprations made them sick, driving them from their home
    Wise County family won’t appeal loss of $2.9 million judgment against driller by Max B. Baker, February 9, 2017, The Star Telegram A state appeals court recently tossed out the $2.9 million judgment the Parr family got against Aruba Petroleum. Paul Moseley Star-Telegram archives FORT WORTH A Wise County family driven from their home after they said ...
  • Report by Lucija Muehlenbachs calls for time limits on inactive oil and gas wells in Alberta, “This is an accumulation of liability.” Where’s the AER? Passing the Buck.
    The Report: 80,000 INACTIVE OIL WELLS: A BLESSING OR A CURSE? by Lucija Muehlenbachs, February 2017, Volume 10, Issue 3, University of Calgary, The School of Public Policy Report calls for Alberta to put a time limit on inactive oil and gas wells, Report recommends change to rules allowing old oil or gas wells to sit inactive forever by Tracy ...
  • New Peer-Reviewed Paper: A systematic evaluation of chemicals in hydraulic-fracturing fluids and wastewater for reproductive and developmental toxicity
    A systematic evaluation of chemicals in hydraulic-fracturing fluids and wastewater for reproductive and developmental toxicity by Elise G Elliott, Adrienne S Ettinger, Brian P Leaderer, Michael B Bracken and Nicole C Deziel, January/February 2017, Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology 27, doi:10.1038/jes.2015.81 Abstract Hydraulic-fracturing fluids and wastewater from unconventional oil and natural gas development contain hundreds of substances ...
  • AER gets failing grade for efforts to acquire, report accurate scientific data! Alberta “guessing” when it comes to spill recovery. “AER failure to protect the environment.” AER “off the scale in terms of believability….” Researcher Dr. Kevin Timoney sums up his forensic investigation: “Persistent, pervasive danger to society and ecosystems.”
    Alberta is “guessing” when it comes to spill recovery by Shari Narine, February 4th, 2017, Windspeaker News North Dakota indicated that in 3.4 per cent of oil spills there was perfect recovery compared to Alberta’s 53 per cent. AER was “off the scale in terms of believability with the very low effects on the environment…” ~ Dr. Kevin ...
  • Justice Denied by Supreme Court of Canada for a UNANIMA International Woman of Courage
    Justice Denied for a UI Woman of Courage by UNANIMA, February 1, 2017 The UI family extends a hand of compassion and solidarity this month to our 2011 Woman of Courage, Jessica Ernst. At the time she received the award, Jessica was in the midst of a prolonged legal battle against EnCana, a natural gas producer ...
  • Judicial Review Anyone? As Usual, Court of Appeal of Alberta Denies Impacted Landowners their Application for Permission to Appeal: “We have no rights and no remedies.”
    The Ruling: Bokenfohr v Pembina Pipeline Corporation, 2017 ABCA 40 (CanLII) 2017-02-02, Docket: 1603-0135-AC It took the court only 7 days to rule! Compare to the phenomenally long times all levels of courts have taken to rule in the Ernst lawsuit to date: The Supreme Court of Canada taking one year and a day to dismiss Ernst’s appeal against AER; Alberta Court ...
  • Texas Travesty: Appeals Court Throws out $3 Million Jury Verdict for Bob & Lisa Parr against Aruba Petroleum
    There is no frac’ing aftercare, not from the companies, regulators, politicians or legal systems in North America. As the Supreme Court of Canada made clear in their “OK for government agencies to violate the Charter” ruling in Ernst vs AER ruling and now in this reversal of a jury verdict in Parr vs Aruba, the ...
  • Will China’s “colossus” green energy growth and Russia’s agreement to sell Japan oil & gas kill Canada’s grossly uneconomical Fracking, LNG & Bitumen industries? (Never mind The Trump Tax)
    Russia, Japan deepen ties with agreements on upstream, LNG cooperation by Nastassia Astrasheuskaya, December 18, 2016, Platts Russian and Japanese companies Friday signed a number of memoranda and agreements on cooperation in hydrocarbons development during the first visit to Japan in 11 years by a Russian president. The agreements included joint exploration offshore Sakhalin, technological and financial collaboration ...
  • On Jessica Ernst, and the Vagaries of Justice in Canada
    On Jessica Ernst, and the Vagaries of Justice in Canada, Landowner’s ruling shows our legal system can easily lose sight of its mission by Andrew Nikiforuk, February 2, 2017, TheTyee.ca The recent Supreme Court ruling on Jessica Ernst in her case against the Alberta Energy Regulator demonstrates once again that Canada’s myopic legal system can easily lose sight ...
  • Ireland is set to become the first country to completely stop funding fossil fuels
    Ireland is set to become the first country to completely stop funding fossil fuels, Goodbye, coal and oil by Josh Hrala, February 2, 2017, Science Alert Ireland is close to becoming the first country in the world to completely divest from fossil fuels, thanks to a new bill recently passed by the Irish Parliament. If set into law ...
  • Trump Triumphant
    The trouble with self-made men is that they tend to worship their creator. source unknown This @latimes political cartoon by @davidhorsey is from 2015. Scarily relevant today… #Trump #Fascism #MuslimBan http://www.latimes.com/la-bio-david-horsey-staff.html… tweet by Jody Emery, January 28, 2017 Tweet by Gideon Turk, January 30, 2017
  • Frack by Hitler? Kevin O’Leary says he would force fracking on “all Canadian provinces.”
    Snap from Alberta Surface Rights Group Facebook Page: Kevin O’Leary Would Force Fracking On Canadian Provinces by David Krayden, January 31, 2017, The daily Caller “Shark Tank” star and Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidate Kevin O’Leary says he would force all Canadian provinces to allow fracking. … It is banned or under review in a number of provinces but ...
  • Remember Australia’s George Bender? Origin Energy ignores coal seam gas well leaks & groundwater contamination, whistleblower Sally McDow says. More detailed Statement of Claim filed
    Origin Energy ignores coal seam gas well leaks, whistleblower says by Michael Slezak, January 26, 2017, The Guardian Statement of claim lodged at federal court alleges that a general manager said company calculated it was cheaper to pay fines than comply with regulations [And in Alberta, many polluting oil companies – eg Encana – are fined ...
  • Jessica Ernst Open Letter to Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin Regarding False and Seriously Damaging Statements in Justice Rosalie Abella’s Supreme Court of Canada Ruling, Ernst v AER
    Jessica Ernst Box 753 Rosebud Alberta T0J 4T0 January 25, 2017 Open Letter to Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin C/O Canadian Judicial Council Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0W8 Dear Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, Re: January 13, 2017 Ernst vs AER Supreme Court of Canada Judgement by Justice Rosalie Abella I write to bring to your attention a concerning matter regarding Justice Abella’s reasons in the above ...
  • DEP Urges Pennsylvanians to Test Homes for Radon; PA schools aren’t required to test for lead or radon, so many Pittsburgh-area districts don’t
    DEP Urges Pennsylvanians to Test Homes for Radon Press Release by PA government, January 10, 2017 Harrisburg, PA – The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) urges Pennsylvanians to test their homes for radon in January as part of national Radon Action Month. Colorless, odorless, and radioactive, radon is a known human carcinogen and the second leading cause ...
  • Alberta research shows fracking fluids cause ‘significant’ harm to fish, Can harm fish even at low concentrations. Chemicals caused premature aging in gills, organs
    Alberta research shows fracking fluids cause significant harm to fish by Hamilton Spectator, January 24, 2017 Research has found that liquids used to frack oil and gas wells can harm fish. A newly published paper by University of Alberta scientists concludes the water that flows from such wells causes significant damage. The study says chemicals damage the gills and liver ...
  • French Parliament to discuss Frack Ban, Consider banning all unconventional oil & gas developments by any technique!
    French Parliament to Discuss Fracking Ban by Kevin Bonnaud, January 23, 2017, naturalgasworld.com Just 100 days before the presidential election, the shale gas debate makes the headlines again in France, as parliament this week considers an amendment of the mining code to ban any development of non-conventional hydrocarbons by any technique. The last time shale gas opponents strengthened ...
  • Another Crew Energy Frac Incident. This time in Septimus area, BC. In 2011, Crew contaminated fresh groundwater with gelled propane during frac’ing
    OGC investigating incident at Crew Energy well site in Septimus area by Chris Newton News, January 24, 2017, energeticcity.ca B.C. Oil and Gas Commission inspectors are continuing to investigate an incident at a Crew Energy well site near Fort St. John. Crew Energy’s Sr. Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Rob Morgan explained that the incident happened yesterday ...
  • CAPP blew the whistle. Any courageous whisteblowers at AER & Encana? Origin Energy denies massive cover-up after accusation in explosive lawsuit by company whistleblower, Sally McDow, lawyer and senior compliance manager
    Snap of photo from the print article linked below. Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers: Coal bed methane operations contaminate water resources by The Calgary Herald, August 28, 2014 Yet CAPP’s Alex Ferguson says many worries about water quality are based on past operations involving coal-bed methane — shallow deposits in closer proximity to groundwater. These did occasionally contaminate water resources, ...
  • Alberta Energy Regulator in Legal La La Land: AER’s “Public Statement” lies about Ernst vs AER Supreme Court of Canada ruling
    Supreme Court of Canada Ernst v. Alberta Energy Regulator decision Public Statement by AER, January 13, 2017, AERNR2017-01 Calgary, Alberta (Jan 13, 2017)… Today’s Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) decision is an important one to regulators across the country. This was an important decision affecting the ability of regulators to carry out their responsibilities, which was evident ...
  • Damaging the Charter: Ernst vs Alberta Energy Regulator by Lorne Sossin, Dean Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. Comment: “It causes one to question how much both the plurality and the dissent were driven by the desired end-state of the judgment, rather than consistency in applying principles of public law.”
    The review was also posted to Dean Sossin’s Blog: With this interesting February 6, 2017 comment, emphasis added: Rory Fowler says: February 6, 2017 at 12:41 pm Dean Sossin, Thank you for this case comment. When I read the judgment in Ernst v. Alberta Energy Regulator, I too was flummoxed by both the plurality’s judgment as well as the dissent. ...
  • Redeye Vancouver Radio interviews Jessica Ernst on her loss at Supreme Court of Canada and her continuing lawsuit against Encana & Alberta Environment (Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench Chief Justice Neil Wittmann ruled Ernst can sue the “legally immune” water regulator but not the “legally immune” energy regulator)
    The interview archived. Starts at 32 min in the Saturday Jan 21 10:00 2017 portion One has to push the fast forward repeatedly. It only moves a few minutes each time. Redeye Vancouver Co-op Radio 100.5 FM / Saturdays 604-684-7561 Podcasts available at: rabble.ca/podcasts
  • Oilpatch greed fuels growing disputes with Alberta landowners; Oil company electrical bills and cleanup costs dumped on abused landowners
    Oilpatch woes fuel growing disputes with Alberta landowners, advocate says by Heith Gerein, January 10, 2017, Edmonton Journal Disputes between private landowners and energy companies are on the rise in Alberta, in part due to the financial woes of an oilpatch struggling to pay its bills, the province’s acting property rights advocate said Monday. Karen Johnson told ...
  • Documentary on unconventional oil & gas extraction in Canada: To the Ends of the Earth, narrated by Emma Thompson
    To the Ends of the Earth by TVO Air Date: Jan 18, 2017 Length: 55:29 Narrated by Emma Thompson, this documentary examines the rise of extreme energy extraction in Canada and its impact on the environment, economy and local communities. The fossil fuel industry’s intensive hunt for unconventional non-renewables, including Arctic drilling and shale gas fracking, also gives rise ...
  • EPA Proposes Rule On Toxic Chemical Reporting For Gas Processors
    EPA Floats Rule On Toxic Chemical Reporting For Gas Plants by Juan Carlos Rodriguez, January 6, 2017, Law360 EPA proposes adding gas processors to toxics inventory by Gabriel Dunsmith, January 5, 2017, E & E News Natural gas processing plants would be required to report chemical discharges on U.S. EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory under a U.S. EPA proposal set for ...
  • Happy Alberta-Oil-Patch-Get-Away-with-Murder New Year? After 10 years to investigate and release report, CNRL fined $10,000 – maximum allowed – following regulation violations that killed 2 workers, injured 5 others, 13 in total trapped by devastating tank collapse. All 29 charges against CNRL dropped. Alberta’s “No Duty of Care” energy “regulation” wins & kills, again.
    Canadian Natural Resources fined $10,000 following accident that killed two by Ian Bickis & Elizabeth McSheffrey, January 4th 2017, National Observer Canadian Natural Resources has been fined $10,000 by Alberta’s professional engineering society — the maximum allowed — following an investigation into an accident at an oilsands site that killed two and injured five others in 2007. In ...
  • Federal Judge: Lockers’ Pavillion water contamination case against Encana can go to trial. Jeff and Rhonda Locker: “They’ve dragged us through the mud long enough. I’ve got the fight on now”
    Judge: Fracking contamination case can go to trial by Benjamin Storrow, January 3, 2017, E&E News A Wyoming family who claim a natural gas company contaminated their drinking water will be allowed to take their case to trial, a federal judge in Cheyenne has ruled. Pavillion-area farmers Jeff and Rhonda Locker contend Encana Corp. committed fraud when a ...
  • Big Oil Shouldn’t Celebrate Quebec’s Flawed Energy Bill Just Yet
    Big Oil Shouldn’t Celebrate Quebec’s Flawed Energy Bill Just Yet by Gerard Montpetit, Militant pour les énergies vertes de l’avenir, December 22, 2016, Huffingtonpost.ca In the December 10 edition of the Calgary Herald, an article exuberantly proclaims “Questerre Energy shares soar after Quebec passes bill to open oil and gas reserves.” Mr. Michael Binnion, Questerre’s CEO and ...
  • The only safe fracking regulation is a ban
    The only safe fracking regulation is a ban by Ann Bristow, December 19, 2016, Baltimore Sun The only way to protect public health and safety in Maryland is to ban fracking in the 2017 legislative On Tuesday, the General Assembly‘s Administrative, Executive and Legislative Review committee will hold a hearing on regulations drafted by the Maryland Department ...
  • California Attorney General, Coastal Commission, others sue feds to block offshore fracking
    AG Kamala D. Harris, California Coastal Commission File Lawsuit Challenging Fracking Off California Coastline by Office of the Attorney General, December 19, 2016 LOS ANGELES, December 19, 2016 – Attorney General Kamala D. Harris and the California Coastal Commission today filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of the Interior’s final environmental assessment, which clears the ...
  • Excellent Article by Andrew Nikiforuk on Yet Another Study and the EPA’s Final Frac Report, Both Highlighting Fracking’s Harms to Groundwater. The Big Lie by industry, regulators, politicians unravels
    New Study, EPA Report Highlight Fracking’s Risk to Groundwater, Oil and gas industry claims undercut by growing body of research by Andrew Nikiforuk, 17 Dec 2016, The Tyee.ca Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist who has been writing about the energy industry for two decades and is a contributing editor to The Tyee. His book on the history ...
  • Must read by Andrew Nikiforuk: Why Haig-Brown Matters More than Ever
    Why Haig-Brown Matters More than Ever by Andrew Nikiforuk, November 24, 2016,  Campbell River Community Arts Council “Big pollutions are made up of a lot of little pollutions and each one must be detected and fought individually on its home ground.” “If we keep our fresh waters fit for salmon, then they’re fit for most every other purpose.” – Roderick Haig-Brown
  • “The Alberta Model” Greedy & Gagging in Nova Scotia: Triangle Petroleum leaves taxpayers to clean up frac sites & waste pits, Gags Energy Dept
    Fracking company leaves province with the cleanup by Ken Summers, December 14, 2016, Nova Scotia Advocate (KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) – Ten years after Nova Scotia enticed Triangle Petroleum to experiment with hydraulic fracturing for shale gas in Kennetcook, Hants County, it’s the province that is cleaning up the mess it  left behind. In 2007 Energy Department Petroleum Division staff began ...
  • UK: Councillor wins right to mount High Court challenge over ‘unlawful’ fracking licence in Cheshire; Court placed £5,000 cap on legal costs Mr. Dean will have to pay personally if he loses because he’s trying to protect the environment from frac’ing & drilling harms
    Challenge over ‘unlawful’ fracking licence in Cheshire by BBC News, December  15, 2016 IGas Energy is drilling in search of fossil fuels which could potentially lead to fracking An environmental campaigner has won the right to mount a High Court challenge against a fracking licence which he claims is “unlawful”. IGas Energy is drilling in search of fossil ...
  • Environmental causes of childhood cancers ‘grossly underestimated.’ In Canada, toxic chemicals used by oil and gas industry are exempt under CEPA (1999)
    [Refer first to: 2016 10 25: Yale School of Public Health: Fracking Linked to Cancer-Causing Chemicals 2016 09 28: 75% of Drinking Water in America is Contaminated With Cancer-causing Chromium-6; In Canada too? 2016 04 13: Many Oklahomans are sick of all the shaking going on: “Five years from now, they’re probably going to wonder why 2 million ...
  • Harmful Levels Benzene, CO2 Detected at MidWest School Surrounded by 744 Active & Abandoned Oil Wells Within 1 Mile Radius, Including CO2 Injection Wells for Enhanced Recovery by Anadarko, Now Owned by Fleur de lis
    Report: Wyoming students, teachers fell ill during gas leak by Education Week, November 30, 2016 CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Dozens of students and teachers at a school in a small Wyoming town fell ill while breathing gases from a leaky oil well last spring, according to a recent Wyoming Department of Health survey. The K-12 school in Midwest, ...
  • UK Fracking giant Cuadrilla fails to lock up a grandmother
    Fracking giant fails to lock up a grandmother by Jamie Kelsey, December 12, 2016, New Internationalist Blog Far from frightening off the campaigners by taking one of them to court, Cuadrilla has given them a boost, writes Jamie Kesley-Fry. For anyone wanting to understand how destructive and devious corporations can be, the fracking industry in the UK is ...
  • US EPA Releases Final Frac Report: Rosebud Alberta drinking water aquifers frac’d, water wells contaminated with gas. EPA’s late edits to 2015 draft frac report downplayed the risks, contradicted the evidence, called “bizarre” & “irresponsible.” Like Alberta regulator official, Steve Wallace, secretly editing “independent” drinking water contamination reports to protect illegal aquifer frac’er Encana?
    2016 12 11: MUST WATCH! Public Herald’s Melissa Troutman & Josh Pribanic Presentation on PA DEP & US EPA Cover-up of Drinking Water Contaminated by Frac’ing; Call for criminal investigation at federal & state level From some really bad reporting on the EPA Final Frac Report by Robert Rapier, December 15, 2016, Forbes: Of course if ...
  • MUST WATCH! Public Herald’s Melissa Troutman & Josh Pribanic Presentation on PA DEP & US EPA Cover-up of Drinking Water Contaminated by Frac’ing; Call for criminal investigation at federal & state level
    2016 12 11: MUST WATCH! Public Herald Presentation on Pennsylvania Regulator Cover-up of Drinking Water Contaminated by Frac’ing 1 hour, 45 Min by Cineplex Rex Public Herald’s Melissa Troutman & Josh Pribanic report on their 3 year investigation of Pennsylvania DEP records on thousands of cases of water contamination from fracking. There are now calls for ...
  • Questerre’s partner to frac Quebec is Repsol, creator of 4.8M world record frackquake, day of Ernst vs AER Supreme Court of Canada hearing. “The Alberta Model” Knocks Quebec’s People to their Knees: Gov’t of Quebec Takes Your Land & Rights, Gives Them to the Frackers – For Free
    Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard Reneges on Promise to Stop Fracking in St. Lawrence, Drill, Bébé, Drill by Alberta Oil Magazine, September 26, 2016 Quebec has come under fire from environmentalists for allowing fracking on an island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Liberal Premier Philippe Couillard says he’s sticking to a deal inked by the previous Parti Québécois ...
  • The real reason for Quebec’s Frac Bill 106: Questerre Energy shares soar after Quebec passes Bill 106
    Quebec paves way for oil, gas exploration with new energy plan by Danielle Bochove and Robert Tuttle, Bloomberg News, Dec. 11, 2016, The Globe and Mail Quebec’s legislature passed a bill that will pave the way for more oil and gas exploration, providing a boost to drillers such as Junex Inc. while drawing criticism from environmental, aboriginal ...
  • Oil & Gas Industry’s Abusive “Alberta Model” Deregulation Crashes into Quebec: Liberals to force controversial energy bill (106) into law despite massive widespread protests
    Liberals will force controversial energy bill into law despite protests by Philip Authier, December 7, 2016, Montreal Gazette QUEBEC — The province’s new energy policy designed to guide decision-making until 2030 will be steamrolled into law despite widespread opposition to the section on oil and gas development. Emerging from a meeting with his opposition colleagues Wednesday, Liberal house ...
  • After years of delays & after reporting 1.5 years ago that industry (Encana) frac’d drinking water aquifers in Pavillion Wyoming & Rosebud Alberta & contaminated water wells with natural gas, etc, & reporting numerous other water supplies contaminated by frac’ing, US EPA’s Final Frac Report expected “soon.”
    McCarthy: EPA fracking assessment expected soon, Advisory board recommends further work on chemical toxicity by David Stegon, 29 November 2016, Chemical Watch Global Risk & Regulation News The US EPA will release its final assessment on the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) on drinking water resources soon, according to agency administrator Gina McCarthy Speaking at the National Press Club ...
  • Compendium 4.0 Released, More than 900 Studies Showing Overwhelming Harms Caused by Unconventional Oil & Gas Development. Doctors Call for Halt to Fracking
    From the last page of Compendium 4.0: Conclusion All together, findings to date from scientific, medical, and journalistic investigations combine to demonstrate that fracking poses significant threats to air, water, health, public safety, climate stability, seismic stability, community cohesion, and long-term economic vitality. Emerging data from a rapidly expanding body of evidence continue to reveal a plethora of recurring problems and ...
  • Another new study links groundwater changes to fracking, “Groundwater in valleys appears to be more likely affected than water further upslope”
    Study links groundwater changes to fracking by phys.org, November 15, 2016 A new study has found heightened concentrations of some common substances in drinking water near sites where hydraulic fracturing has taken place. The substances are not at dangerous levels and their sources are unclear, but the researchers say the findings suggest underground disturbances that could be ...
  • New Mexico Supreme Court revives 1999 Shell Oil soil & aquifer contamination case that caused rash of illnesses; Found lower courts erred in preventing harmed residents from introducing scientific evidence and expert testimony at trial
    New Mexico court ruling revives oil contamination case by Susan Montoya Bryan, Associated Press, March 4th, 2016 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — More than 200 current and former residents who claim decades of oil and gas operations led to contamination that spurred a rash of illnesses in their southeastern New Mexico neighborhood will be able to pursue their case ...
  • Justice Delayed? Ernst Fracking Case Still Awaits Supreme Court Ruling, Alberta landowner’s complex lawsuit has now lasted 9 years (and 3 years before that, with Alberta lawyer)
    Justice Delayed? Ernst Fracking Case Still Awaits Supreme Court Ruling, Alberta landowner’s complex lawsuit has now lasted nine years in total by Andrew Nikiforuk, 25 Oct 2016, TheTyee.ca Everyone from William Gladstone to Martin Luther King Jr. has recognized that justice delayed is just another form of justice denied in a democracy. Jessica Ernst is now feeling that ...
  • Crop-dusting company fined for spraying pesticide without registration, but not Encana for violating Alberta’s Water Act, diverting drinking water without a permit, and for violating Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act, illegally injecting secret chemicals into a community’s drinking water supply, contaminating it?
    Alberta crop-dusting company fined for environmental breach by Edmonton Journal, November 14, 2016 A Westlock-based company has been fined $12,500 after admitting it sprayed pesticide from a plane without valid registration. Western Air Spray acknowledged it illegally crop-dusted farmland in northwestern Alberta near Falher in June 2013, says a news release from Alberta Environment and Parks. In June ...
  • Really? “Tougher Alberta rules convince oil & gas producers to accelerate well cleanups.” What good does “accelerating” zero do? Why not just clean up now and quit the pathetic whining? Why then did the oilpatch dump their unpaid bills on farmers? The worst is yet to come.
    In 2014, the Alberta government demanded to Court of Queen’s Bench Chief Justice Neil Wittmann that Ernst’s lawsuit against them be thrown out because they have legal immunmity like the AER and to prevent future claims by other harmed Albertans: Slide from Ernst presentations Farmers on the hook for oilpatch’s unpaid bills, Relationship fraying between Alberta farmers and ...
  • Another Alberta farm family poisoned by the oil and gas industry, and their Alberta lawyer Kieth Wilson, settle & gag & betray the public interest: The Sakens settle with Bonavista Energy after area aquifer and farm at Edson contaminated with toxic chemicals. Where’s the AER? Where’s the punitive fine? Where’s Alberta’s Energy Minister? On another cushy trip to China with Encana?
    Keep in mind that Lonnie Saken works for Bonavista: *** “This is a government of the people, by the people and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations.” RUTHERFORD B. HAYES *** *** *** *** Above image source: Texas Sharon Alberta lawyer Kieth Wilson also settled & gagged the Peace River area families poisoned by Baytex *** Slide above ...
  • Hypocritical New Brunswick Paving the Way for Fracking to Resume? Will prohibit dumping frack waste in municipal systems and prohibit importing frack waste. Will it be legal to inject it putting communities at risk of being destroyed by earthquakes? And will it be legal to export frack waste?
    New Brunswick government says no to fracking wastewater at municipal sites by Andrew Cromwell, November 14, 2016, Global News The Gallant government has addressed one of the more high profile issues in its ongoing moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the province. The government says it will not allow fracking wastewater to be disposed at any municipal ...
  • AER issues another order against Bonavista Energy Corporation for contaminating drinking water aquifers and soil near Edson with sulfolane. Where did the Sakens go? Did they settle & gag?
     AER Order against Bonavista for contaminating drinking water supply near Edson with sulfolane by Don Weleschuk, Acting Director, Closure and Liability, November 8, 2016, Alberta Energy Regulator Under section 113 of the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act Colin Hennel, Manager, Environment Bonavista Energy Corporation (A5RX) 1500, 525 – 8th Avenue SW Calgary, AB, T2P 1G1 (“Bonavista”) WHEREAS Bonavista is the holder of gas ...
  • “Devastating Domino Effect?” 5.0M Earthquake Causes “Substantial Damages” to 40-50 Buildings in Downtown Cushing, Rattles Residents Across State; Felt as far away as Johnson City, TN, 1297 km away
    Officials Update Cushing Earthquake Situation While Clean-Up Begins by News9, November 7, 2016 CUSHING, Oklahoma – An official says 40 to 50 buildings in Cushing, Oklahoma, sustained “substantial damage” in an earthquake Sunday night. Cushing City Manager Steve Spears said Monday that the damage from the magnitude 5.0 earthquake includes cracks in buildings and fallen bricks ...
  • Dr. Anthony Ingraffea: Fracking and Florida don’t mix, “As usual, a few folks will get rich, everybody else will get negatively impacted, and the state will get left holding the environmental bag, and, finally, we will have killed the Everglades”
    Expert: Fracking and Florida don’t mix by Chad Gillis, November 2, 2016, The News Press All the easy oil’s gone, and modern extraction practices aren’t good for Florida anyway. Those were two arguments made by an Ivy League engineer Wednesday in front of a group of about 200 people at the Florida Fracking Summit at Florida Gulf Coast ...
  • 35 year-old man killed in tanker trailer explosion in Burnt Lake Industrial Park NW of Red Deer, Alberta Occupational Health and Safety launched investigation
    WATCH: Man killed in tanker explosion near Red Deer, Alberta 1 dead after tanker trailer explodes near Red Deer, Alberta Occupational Health and Safety has launched an investigation by CBC News, November 3, 2016 A 35-year-old man is dead after a tanker trailer exploded Thursday in the Burnt Lake Industrial Park, northwest of Red Deer’s city limits. (Rob Kellough/Twitter) A ...
  • USGS Study: Oil drilling may have caused 1933 California 6.4M Long Beach earthquake that killed about 120 people and caused massive damages. “There may be no upper limit” to the size of earthquakes caused by the oil industry
    Southern California’s deadliest quake may have been caused by oil drilling, study says by Rong-Gong Lin II, October 31, 2016, LA Times Damage from 1933 Long Beach earthquake On a March evening in 1933, the Newport-Inglewood fault ruptured violently along the Huntington Beach coast. The quake brought down scores of buildings from Santa Ana to Compton, with Long Beach ...
  • New Study: Air pollutants make a case for walking ver-r-ry slowly. What if you live, go to school or work near or at unconventional oil and gas sites and associated facilities? No working, running, walking, skipping, playing, biking, gardening, lifting, tending livestock? No breathing allowed?
    Refer first to: 2016 10 25: Yale School of Public Health: Fracking Linked to Cancer-Causing Chemicals 2016 07 18: 8-year frac health study shows fracking associated with increased asthma attacks: “Those who lived closer to a large number or bigger active natural gas wells were significantly more likely…to suffer asthma attacks” … “The highest risk for asthma ...
  • Kiskadden will appeal to Pa. Supreme Court: Appeals Court Won’t Revive Claims Drilling by Range Resources Damaged Kiskadden’s Water Well, Even with damning evidence of frac tracers in Kiskadden’s water. Case to be appealed to Pa Supreme Court, Lawyers providing their services ‘pro bono’ throughout the lengthy process
    Gas drilling contamination case could go to State Supreme Court by Don Hopey, November 3, 2016, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Loren “Buzz” Kiskadden will appeal a Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruling that takes to task the “reckless” drilling operations of Range Resources, but finds the Washington County landowner failed to prove the company’s leaky Yeager gas drilling site contaminated his water ...
  • Andrew Nikiforuk honoured with USA National Science in Society Award for Slick Water. “NASW’s Science in Society Journalism Awards honor and encourage outstanding investigative and interpretive reporting about the sciences and their impact for good and ill.”
    2016 10 29: USA National Science in Society Journalism Awards reception at the Witte Museum in San Antonio Texas: Andrew Nikiforuk’s acceptance speech: To San Antonio/National Association of Science Writers Thank you for this great honor and for inviting me to San Antonio. In Canada it would be difficult to fill a bus full of science writers—it is reassuring ...
  • Alberta Venture Verbatim interview with Jessica Ernst before the 2015 federal election (that Harper lost): Ernst vs AER at Supreme Court of Canada
    Verbatim: Jessica Ernst’s case against Encana and the Alberta Energy Regulator by Alberta Venture Staff, Published December 3, 2015; interview by Email before the 2015 federal election, Alberta Venture Magazine She’s become one of Alberta’s most polarizing figures. In 2007, Jessica Ernst, who spent decades as an environmental consultant in the oil patch, sued Encana, Alberta Environment ...
  • Dáil Éireann: Bill to ban fracking unanimously passed first stage of approval in Irish Parliament
    Ireland Takes Major Step Towards Nationwide Fracking Ban by Lorraine Chow, October 27, 2016, Ecowatch A bill banning hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the Republic of Ireland was voted through the Dáil Éireann (the country’s House of Representatives, so to speak) on Thursday. According to the Irish Examiner, the bill’s passage is “the first step in enforcing a ...
  • Shell Canada, Fox Creek Alberta: 47 year old worker killed by water hose in AER’s Blanket Approval, “Brute Force & Ignorant” Frac Frenzy Pilot Project
    Energy worker, 47, killed on Fox Creek jobsite by Amanda Stephenson, October 25, 2016, Calgary Herald A 47-year-old man was killed in a workplace accident near Fox Creek, Alberta on Sunday. The man, an employee of contractor Secure Energy Services, was working at a Shell Canada site approximately 260 km northeast of Edmonton when the accident occurred. Occupational Health ...
  • Yale School of Public Health: Fracking Linked to Cancer-Causing Chemicals; Pennsylvanians Against Fracking Call on Governor Wolf to Implement Statewide Moratorium on Fracking
    Pennsylvanians Against Fracking Responds to New Yale Study Linking Fracking to Cancer-Causing Chemicals, Call on Governor Wolf to Implement a Statewide Moratorium on Fracking Press Release by Pennsylvanians Against Fracking, October 26, 2016 Pennsylvania – The following is a statement from Pennsylvanians Against Fracking in response to a new analysis by Yale School of Public Health researchers establishing a ...
  • USGS links Oklahoma’s 5.1M (third largest) earthquake to oil-field disposal wells more than 7 miles away
    USGS links 5.1 quake to distant oil-field disposal wells by Mike Soraghan, October 25, 2016, E&E News Scientists have linked one of Oklahoma’s largest recorded earthquakes to oil-field disposal wells more than 7 miles away. Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey studied a magnitude 5.1 quake in February in western Oklahoma and linked it to the relatively distant ...
  • Husky Energy report does not identify cause of July 20 pipeline spill, extension granted
    Husky Energy report does not identify cause of July 20 pipeline spill, extension granted by Alex MacPherson, Saskatoon StarPhoenix, October 21, 2016, Calgary Herald The provincial government has given Husky Energy Inc. an additional 30 days to explain what caused one of its pipelines to fail east of Maidstone on July 20, spilling approximately 225,000 litres of heavy ...
  • Government withdraws motion to delay frac ban! Ireland: “This is our time to make history,” says Love Leitrim’s Eddie Mitchell. Bill to ban fracking to be debated in the Dáil October 27, 2016
    Fracking ban gains ground after Fianna Fáil opposes delay to legislation by Irish Examiner, October 27, 2016 Attempts to get the Government to ban fracking look set to pass their first hurdle, it has emerged. Legislation put forward by Fine Gael backbench TD Tony McLoughlin was due to be put on hold for at least eight months to ...
  • Two more activists murdered; Escalating murders turn Honduras into no-go zone for protection of human rights and environment
    Activists’ murders turn Honduras into no-go zone for environmental by Amnesty International, October 19, 2016 The brutal murders of two land rights activists in Honduras last night are the latest tragedies in a seemingly unstoppable wave of deadly attacks turning Honduras into a no-go zone for human rights defenders, said Amnesty International. José Angel Flores, 64, President ...
  • Democracy Now Interviews Standing Rock Sioux Pediatrician: Threat from Fracking Chemicals is “Environmental Genocide”
    Watch: Standing Rock Sioux Pediatrician: Threat from Fracking Chemicals is “Environmental Genocide” by Democracy Now, October 18, 2016 Watch: The complete show (well worth it!) by Democracy Now, October 18, 2016
  • Trilogy Adds to AER’s Fox Creek Frac’ing Free-for-all Pilot Project Failure: Trilogy’s Pipeline may have leaked ‘for a while’ before spill discovered
    Trilogy says pipeline may have leaked ‘for a while’ before spill was discovered by Reid Southwick, October 17, 2016, Calgary Herald More than a week after Trilogy Energy Corp. learned a pipeline was leaking oil northwest of Edmonton, the junior company has not determined the cause or the volume of crude that has spilled into marshland. [Intentionally ...
  • AER still trying to impress the Supreme Court of Canada, re Ernst vs AER ruling ahead? Issues order to Trilogy to stop using leaking oil-water emulsion pipeline at Fox Creek, which company had already done. Spill grown to five football fields in size
    Where’s the AER’s formal order to Encana, to update the public, and especially Rosebud, about the company illegally frac’ing the community’s drinking water aquifers in 2004 and covering-up, to this day, the subsequent contamination of the drinking water supply with dangerous methane, ethane, and other chemicals?  Where’s the AER’s order to Encana to disclose all the ...
  • Corridor Resources pushing fracking on New Brunswick; Says will address some (not all?) conditions that must be met before gov’t lifts frac ban
    Corridor Resources taking lead on reinstating fracking in N.B. by Jeremy Keefe, October 14, 2016, Global News WATCH ABOVE: Earlier this year the New Brunswick government announced they would uphold the moratorium on hydraulic fracturing instituted in 2014. Now a major oil and gas player is taking the reins on addressing some of the government’s conditions for reinstating ...
  • It’s Official: Kansas’ Biggest Earthquake, 4.9M in 2014, Caused by Frac Wastewater Injection
    It’s Official: Injection of Fracking Wastewater Caused Kansas’ Biggest Earthquake by Lorraine Chow. October 14, 2016, ecowatch  The largest earthquake ever recorded in Kansas—a 4.9 magnitude temblor that struck northeast of Milan on Nov. 12, 2014—has been officially linked to wastewater injection into deep underground wells, according to new research from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The epicenter ...
  • Didsbury Hell: Do ordinary Albertans pay to repair oil & gas industry damages to public roads caused by hauling hundreds of thousands of tonnes of contaminated oilfield waste? Radioactive? Toxic with secret chemicals, carcinogens, heavy metals, BTEX? Hold your breath if you live nearby.
    Councillor raises road concerns over heavy truck usage by Craig Lindsay, September 21, 2016, Didsbury Review As hundreds of thousands of tonnes of contaminated soil is being trucked into the Didsbury landfill, at least one Town of Didsbury councillor is questioning whether it will damage a town road and who should pay for it. ...
  • How stupid can humanity get, or was this greed driven? Steve Harper committed North America to Radioactive Hell? Deadly shipments to start by road of 23,000 litres of highly radioactive liquid waste from Ontario to South Carolina, 100 to 150 armed convoys hauling the waste for years 1,700 km through some of NA’s most populous areas
    Activists fight trucking of highly radioactive waste to U.S. as Canada ends medical isotope production by Ian MacLeod, October 13, 2016, Ottawa Citizen OTTAWA — Medical isotope production using weapons-grade uranium is about to cease in Canada, ending decades of world dominance supplying life-saving nuclear medicine, but leaving a toxic legacy and heated environmental controversy. In recent ...
  • AER Redwater Appeal: Will the courts protect the rich, make ordinary Canadians pay for industry’s abandoned oilfield messes? Alberta Court of Appeal to decide who will pay for Redwater’s abandoned wells after bankruptcy (using the law to intentionally avoid responsibility after years of profit-taking?)
    A bit of background: 2016 09 22: Is AER vs Redwater worsening cleanup of abandoned oil and gas wells in Alberta, BC and Sasktchewan? Did AER file the lawsuit intentionally to set legal precedent and dump clean up costs on taxpayers to enhance profits for oil and gas companies? 2016 08 18: More and more energy companies ...
  • Chinchilla, Queensland: DEHP expands contamination testing of poisonous gases in Hopeland
    DEHP expands contamination testing in Hopeland by Chinchilla News, 13th Oct 2016 THE Department of Environment and Heritage Protection has begun a second phase of testing in and around Hopeland to better understand the extent of contamination from Linc Energy’s Underground Coal Gasification test site. DEHP’s independent consultants, Gilbert and Sutherland, began drilling works and gas sampling ...
  • Trilogy oil emulsion pipeline spill in Alberta flowing wetland reaches size of four football fields
    Trilogy oil emulsion spill in Alberta reaches size of four football fields by Elizabeth McSheffrey & The Canadian Press, October 12th 2016, National Observer Trilogy Energy says the pipeline leak it discovered late last week in north central Alberta has covered an area about three hectares in size with oil emulsion — a damage zone equivalent to ...
  • Thirsty yet? Aquatera wants more profits, is expanding business operations notably for frac operations in BC and Alberta. Water Use Per Frac’d Well Doubles Even as Production Declines
    New Data: Water Use in Hydraulic Fracturing a Key Risk in Water-Stressed Regions in Texas and Colorado, , Increasing Wastewater Disposal Risks Press Release by Ceres, October 6, 2016 Meg Wilcox — Ceres | email hidden; JavaScript is required | phone: 617-319-6457 Tessa Castellani — Ceres | email hidden; JavaScript is required | phone: 617-247-0700 x 145 BOSTON, MA Oct 06, 2016 New Ceres research, released today via ...
  • Sink Hole Florida: Miami-Dade County Votes Unanimously to Ban Fracking, Citing Multiple Environmental Concerns; More than 80 Florida cities and counties have banned or expressed opposition to fracking
    Miami-Dade County Bans Fracking, Citing Multiple Environmental Concerns by Kate Stein, October 10, 2016, wlrn.org Miami/South Florida Fracking is now banned in Miami-Dade County, thanks to an ordinance passed unanimously last Wednesday by county commissioners. … The Miami-Dade ordinance says fracking could contaminate county water supplies, including the Biscayne Aquifier, where many South Florida residents get their water. “The ...
  • Emergency preparedness is goal of Quebec earthquake road show, Or because Quebec gov’t broke its promise, created Bill 106 to enable fracing in Quebec? First Nations communities in Gaspé unite against fracking, First Nations leaders threaten legal action over Petrolia drilling
    First Nations communities in the Gaspé unite against fracking, Group of First Nations leaders threaten legal action over Petrolia drilling projects by CBC News, Oct 08, 2016 Related: Gaspé citizens concerned fracking could be on the table for Petrolia oil project Groups fight to stop bill allowing oil, gas exploration Anticosti fracking could cause earthquakes, expert says Anticosti mayor wants ...
  • AER & Trilogy not prepared for the emergency! “Another” Canadian pipeline spills oil and pollutes fresh flowing water; Trilogy Energy Corp leaks oil into flowing wetland in AER’s Blanket Approval Frac Frenzy Pilot Project at Fox Creek
    Crews cutting through bush to reach site of northwest Alberta pipeline leak by Gordon Kent, Edmonton Journal, October 10, 2016, Calgary Herald Dense bush and poor weather are hampering the efforts of workers trying to reach the site of a crude oil pipeline leak, a spokeswoman for the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) says. … Investigators still don’t know ...
  • Simone Marsh, former gov’t senior environmental officer renews her complaint to Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission, alleging unlawful approval of two gas plants worth $50 Billion
    Whistleblower refers email to watchdog, alleging unlawful approval of gas plants, Crime and Corruption Commission should look at a government email about the approval of the liquefied natural gas process, says Simone Marsh by Joshua Robertson, 6 October 2016, The Guardian A former Queensland government whistleblower has renewed her complaint to the state corruption watchdog about the approval of two ...
  • New frac low? Official Oppression: Pennsylvania oil & gas lobby group ponders criminal prosecution against officials that vote against fracing or waste injection. Illustrates “the sense of privilege and entitlement” (and contempt?) companies have for communities they try to “bully into submission.”
    [Refer first to: 2013 12 20: VICTORY! Pennsylvania Supreme Court Says It’s Unconstitutional For Gas Companies To Frack Wherever They Want; Act 13, Gas Industry Takeover Law thrown out by State’s Highest Court “By any responsible account,” Chief Justice Castille wrote, “the exploitation of the Marcellus Shale Formation will produce a detrimental effect on the environment, on ...
  • Double Frac Fraud! North Hollow Pennsylvania One Year Later, Compare to Rosebud Alberta Twelve Years Later: Officials Found Drilling Chemicals in Public Water, But Told No One
    One Year Later: Officials Found Drilling Chemicals in Public Water, But Told No One by Joshua B. Pribanic, Melissa Troutman and Sierra Shamer, September 24, 2016, Public Herald Updated  September 29, 2016: PA DEP responds to Public Herald’s report. One year ago, on September 24, 2015, a new company owned by ...
  • Drilling through danger Chapters 2 & 3: Oil & gas industry’s practice of farming out work can have deadly consequences, client legal immunity prevents many injured from suing, even when fault is clearly the client’s
    Colorado’s workers’ comp rules complicate accountability, “Exclusive remedy” provision gives companies immunity from lawsuits by John Ingold, September 26, 2016, The Denver Post On the first day of Von Phathong’s trial against drilling company Tesco, his attorney left little doubt about who she believed was to blame for her client’s injuries. “Tesco was just waiting for someone to get ...
  • Frac Happy Nature Conservancy accepts $14 million donation from BHP Billiton, Australian oil and mining giant
    Nature Conservancy gets $14 million donation, makes big land buy by Kim McGuire, September 29, 2016, Houston Chronicle The Nature Conservancy announced Thursday it has received a $14 million donation to acquire more than 3,700 acres of land in Texas and Arkansas. The donation is believed to be the group’s largest for land acquisition in Texas. In ...
  • Speaking tour in Nova Scotia: Award-winning Canadian journalist and author Andrew Nikiforuk says Alton natural gas storage project, like hydraulic fracturing, is a dangerous technology that gov’t has given a pass in an effort to assuage the powerful oil industry
    Andrew Nikiforuk on tour in Nova Scotia this week speaking on earthquakes caused by frac’ing and his new book Slick Water. Tour details At Acadia to explore the Legacy of Fracking by Wendy Elliott, September 29, 2016, Nova News Now WOLFVILLE – On Saturday, Oct. 1, join author Andrew Nikiforuk for a stunning examination of Big Oil and government ...
  • Dr. Anthony Ingraffea presentation to Yukon. 922 peer-reviewed scientific papers published so far on shale and tight gas dev impacts, “most show clear and present danger.” Morning interview. CBC: “Why not stay with industry and find a better way?” Dr. Anthony Ingraffea: “There is no better way. … There is no other way. There is no less intrusive way. There is no safer way of getting oil and gas out of shale….”
    Interview with Dr. Anthony Ingraffea 5 Min. by CBC News, September 29, 2016, event sponsored by concerned citizens A critical look at the full impacts of unconventional oil and gas development presentation by Dr. Anthony Ingraffea, September 29, 2016, Beringia Centre at 6:30PMa A few key comments by Dr. Anthony Ingraffea to the Yukon: “You have to make a ...
  • Big Legal Victory in Pennsylvania: Supreme Court rules 2012 law unfairly gave frackers illegal “special” treatment; Declares Act 13 an unconstitutional “special law” benefiting specific groups or industries, including its “physician gag order” restricting health-care professionals from getting information about chemicals that could harm their patients
    A few of the comments Bob Donnan7 hours ago The citizens of Pennsylvania owe a huge debt of gratitude to those who fought long and hard for the rights of all Pennsylvanians in the bold face of industry and political favoritism. Sincere thanks are due to attorneys John M. Smith, Jon Kamin and Jordan Yeager; Past and ...
  • 75% of Drinking Water in America is Contaminated With Cancer-causing Chromium-6; In Canada too?
    75% of Drinking Water in America is Contaminated With Cancer-causing Chromium-6 by Mike Adams, September 28, 2-16, Global Research, originally in Natural News An Environmental Working Group review of government water analysis data reveals that 75% of drinking water in America is contaminated with cancer-causing hexavalent chromium (also known as chromium-6). In a widely publicized report, EWG ...