- Don’t Frack Newfoundland and Labrador – A Musical Submission to the NL Hydraulic Fracturing Review Panel and Petrocultures 2016
Don’t Frack NL – A Musical Submission to the NLHFRB by James Parsons, June 2, 2015
… The main gravitating body of reference was Corie Hartnett, with the solid gold Satellite Dancers Jenne Nolan and Paula Graham. Essential camerawork was provided by Erika Steeves. I shot some video here and there, and did the editing. One very ...
- BC Government Cumulative Frac Fraud & Abuse? Blueberry River First Nation says province not doing enough to prevent resource development from impacting Treaty 8 rights
Province fires back on Blueberry River FN’s cumulative effects claims, First Nation says province not doing enough to prevent resource development from impacting Treaty 8 rights by Mike Carter, July 4, 2016, Dawson Creek Mirror
Minister of Aboriginal Relations and Reconcilliation John Rustad is firing back after the Blueberry River First Nations’ (BRFN) called out the provincial ...
- Adieu and Thank You Francis Gardner.
Francis, you’ll have to read the Supreme Court of Canada ruling in Ernst vs AER by the light of a star.
Third-generation rancher Francis Gardner had a ‘love of the land’ by Colette Derworiz, June 30, 2016, Calgary Herald
Francis Gardner, a third-generation ‘gentleman’ rancher along the Eastern Slopes of the Rockies in southern Alberta, is being ...
- Sioux County landowners win appeal, Judge rules against Nebraska Oil & Gas Commission in frack wastewater case
Sioux County landowners win appeal, District court judge rules against Nebraska Oil and Gas Commission in fracking wastewater case by Maunette Loeks, June 29, 2016, Star Herald
A Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission’s decision to grant a Colorado company permission to use an abandoned oil well in Sioux County as a wastewater disposal site has been reversed.
In ...
- Ohio: Warren man pleads guilty for role in dumping frac waste into waterway, violating Clean Water Act
Warren man pleads guilty for role in dumping fracking waste into waterway by Eric Heisig, cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Warren man pleaded guilty Friday to violating the Clean Water Act by directing an employee at his former job to dump fracking waste into a stormwater system with a link to the Mahoning River.
David Jenkins, a former ...
- More Frac Fraud and Cover-up: High-Level EPA Adviser Accused of Scientific Fraud in Methane Leak Research
High-Level EPA Adviser Accused of Scientific Fraud in Methane Leak Research by Sharon Kelly, June 28, 2016, desmogblog.com
… Recently, over 100 community and environmental groups sent a letter urging the Environmental Protection Agency’s internal watchdog to investigate claims that a top methane researcher had committed scientific fraud and charging that he had made false and misleading statements ...
- Canada Day: Did you and your loved ones appreciate the water you used today? Did you think of the many frac’d families living without such luxury?
2016 07 01: Ernst loading water in Rosedale Alberta (45 minutes drive – one way – from Rosebud)
Canada Day 2016
Ernst still hauling water – 12 years after Encana illegally fractured repeatedly into multiple drinking water aquifers at Rosebud and contaminated them.
How many days can your family live on 185 gallons of water?
Ten years now, Ernst ...
- Must Read, Robin Mathews’ Best Yet: British Columbia And Imperial Globalization. Happy Rape Canada Day!
British Columbia And Imperial Globalization. Part Four by Robin Mathews, June 30 2016, The Straight Goods
Attention across the world is, at last, focussing more and more on what is called ‘imperial globalization’ – the growing power of unchecked international capital to poison grand attempts at democratic community such as the ones struggling in the European Community ...
- AER calls itself a regulator? A law enforcer? Legally immune, grossly over paid, law-violating scaredy-cat more like it. AER backtracks again, to keep angry oil patch execs and banks happy.
Alberta posts spike in orphan well count by Reid Southwick, July 26, 2016, Calgary Herald
Alberta posted a big spike in the number of oil and gas wells abandoned by industry in recent months, sparking renewed calls to fix what a landowners’ group says is a broken system of cleaning up old wells.
Low commodity prices have resulted ...
- California: Another new study proving oil and gas companies are fracing freshwater formations: “As many as one of every five oil and gas projects occurs in underground sources of fresh water”
In California, Study Finds Drilling and Fracking into Freshwater Formations, The overlap of oil and gas development and water sources underscores the vulnerability of California’s groundwater, and the need for monitoring, the authors said by Neela Banerjee, June 27, 2016, InsideClimate News
In California’s farming heartland, as many as one of every five oil and gas ...
- Court hearing today: CNRL to pay $500,000 for breaking the law ($425,000 to be given to U of C, how’s that for Synergy Alberta control?). Encana gets fined nothing for breaking the law frac’ing Rosebud’s drinking water aquifers; regulators get fined nothing for fraudulently covering up for Encana
Oilsands giant CNRL fined $500K for hydrogen sulphide gas leaks by Emily Mertz with files from John Cotter, June 24, 2016, Global News
Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. will have to pay $500,000 for releasing a potentially deadly gas in two separate incidents at its Horizon facility in 2010 and 2012.
Three environmental charges were laid after a hydrogen ...
- Want “Frack Master” to write free for your Canadian magazine? SEC: Frack Master (CEO Breitling Energy, Chris Faulkner et al) $80 Million Mass Fraud Funded ‘Lifestyle Of Decadence And Debauchery’
SEC: Fracking CEO’s Mass Fraud Funded ‘Lifestyle Of Decadence And Debauchery’ by Allegra Kirkland, June 24, 2016, Talkingpointsmemo
A Texas energy mogul known in the media as the “frack master” allegedly carried out an elaborate $80 million fraud scheme to fund his extravagant lifestyle, including a penchant for strippers, according to a lawsuit filed Friday by the ...
- Sussex wants New Brunswick government to lift fracking ban: “there just have been no issues what so ever”
Sussex hopes New Brunswick government will lift fracking ban for community by Andrew Cromwell, June 24, 2016, Global News
The government of New Brunswick says it’s willing to work with the town of Sussex about potentially lifting the fracking moratorium that’s been indefinitely put in place across the entire province.
Residents and businesses in Sussex want their ...
- Germany voted today to ban commercial fracking of unconventional resources, including CBM and shale gas, “until further notice.” Conventional fracking is allowed to continue.
Germany imposed limits on fracking on Friday, dealing a blow to efforts to develop shale gas by Caroline Copley and Vera Eckert, June 24, 2016, Reuters
Under legislation passed by its lower house of parliament, fracking will be banned in clay formations, which typically lie between 1,000 and 2,500 meters deep.
Scientific test drilling will be allowed but ...
- Just more AER hot air or a slick devious plan? Alberta looks at different ways of making sure companies clean up old wells (Who is to fix the aquifers Encana frac’d?), AER warns it could go after directors & executives to ensure proper reclamation
Alberta Energy Regulator tries to stem tide of orphan wells, It just got harder to buy oil and gas assets in Alberta by Tracy Johnson, June 21, 2016, CBC News
With little fanfare, the Alberta Energy Regulator has tightened up the rules for buying oil and gas assets.
From now on, a company looking to buy oil and gas ...
- Live radio interviews too raw, too honest, too powerful? Bell Media’s CFAX 1070 in Victoria, BC, terminates talk show host Ian Jessop
Un autre journaliste gênant flushé! Translation of Talk Show Host Ian Jessop Out at C-FAX 1070 (Original in English included below) by Amie du Richelieu, June 23, 2016
I listened to Ian Jessop for his interviews with Jessica Ernst: it was one of the only ways left for her to talk publicly about her case against Encana, Alberta ...
- Colorado regulators find leaking methane and VOC violations at 10 companies, Encana included
Colo. regulators find methane violations at 10 companies by Gayathri Vaidyanathan, June 22, 2016, E & E News
Colorado regulators have issued warnings to 10 energy companies that operate in the Denver-Julesburg Basin for emitting methane, a potent greenhouse gas, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that contribute to ground-level ozone or smog.
Methane and VOCs are stringently regulated ...
- The small print – it’s not a ban, it’s a partial moratorium: “German government agrees to ban fracking indefinitely”
Reportedly, the German Government (SPD and CDU) is caving to the oil and gas industry and will vote June 24, 2016 on the legal framework of the partial frac “ban” that is not a ban:
The ban is not a ban, it’s a moratorium on fracking for shale (gas and oil) and CBM that will last ...
- In the Birthplace of U.S. Oil, Methane Gas Is Leaking Everywhere
In the Birthplace of U.S. Oil, Methane Gas Is Leaking Everywhere
by Jennifer Oldham, June 20, 2016, Bloomberg
Some wells sunk since 1859 leak methane into homes and water
“Citizen scientists” join regulators in race to map lost sites
In Pennsylvania, birthplace of the U.S. oil industry, century-old abandoned oil wells have long been part of the landscape. Nobody gave ...
- All part of the decades-long plan to hang big oil’s housekeepping on ordinary families while companies run for the hills? Oil bust [Or greed & corruption?] leaves states with massive well cleanup
Oil bust leaves states with massive well cleanup by Paul J. Weber, June 19, 2016, Associated Press
BIGFOOT, Texas – The worst oil bust since the 1980s is putting Texas and other oil producing states on the hook for thousands of newly abandoned drilling sites at a time when they have little money to ...
- Keep Out! 60 Minutes story on George Bender and Coalseam Gas (CBM) Fracking in Queensland Australia
“It’s not a farm any more, it’s a gas field.”
Keep Out by 60 Minutes, aired June 19, 2016 (available online for Australians June 20, 2016; perhaps it will be youtubed for the many concerned around the world)
What would you do if someone walked into your backyard, dug a big hole and put a fence around ...
- “A New Step Forward!” Quebec introduces draconian oil & gas bill to give companies more rights than property owners, Days later authorizes Petrolia Inc to frack Anticosti: “This resounding success on the regulatory front is essentially due to the work of Petrolia, accompanied by the experts at SNC-Lavalin….”
Petrolia Inc./Issuance of Certificate of Authorization for Anticosti: A New Step Forward! Press Release by Petrolia Inc., June 15, 2016
QUEBEC CITY, QUEBEC–(Marketwired – June 15, 2016) – This document corrects and replaces the press release that was sent on June 15, 2016 at 6:50 PM EDT.
Pétrolia (TSX VENTURE:PEA) is proud to see a new step forward ...
- The Frac Fraud Rages on and on: Voyles Lawsuit in Pennsylvania accuses Range Resources *and* lab, TestAmerica, of doctoring water test results
Range Resources, TestAmerica accused of fraud in suit by David Singer, June 16, 2016, Observer-Reporter
A lab company Range Resources hired to test water in 2011 that federal authorities later found to be contaminated in Amwell Township is being accused in Washington County Court of altering test results.
Attorney Kendra Smith, representing John, Beth and Ashley Voyles, argued ...
- The Most Horrific Frac Deregulation Yet? US EPA preparing for “widespread” radioactive frac waste contamination of drinking water or because it’s already happened? EPA’s proposed “protective regulation” to allow dramatically higher levels of radioactivity in drinking water
Watch Out for a Possible Increase in Radioactivity in Your Drinking Water by Mark Karlin, June 16, 2016, Buzzflash at Truthout
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The advocacy organization Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) has reacted with alarm to the new plan put forth by a government agency that is supposed to be protecting us from toxic substances. The EPA ...
- Air Monitoring & Biomonitoring finds Industry’s Natural Gas is not “Clean” and “Safe.” Toxic Chemicals Linked To Natural Gas Operations Detected In Pavillion, WY Residents
Study Finds Chemicals In Residents Living Near Gas Wells by Sydney Pereira, June 16, 2016, Common Dreams
The Colorado Supreme Court has struck down attempts by two cities to ban or delay fracking. The Monday, May 2, 2016, ruling is a victory for the oil and gas industry and for state officials who say only state government ...
- 2016 Winner Jackman Award for Excellence: Telegraph-Journal for Tracking Daycare Deficiencies. The Tyee was Nominated, Recognizing Andrew Nikiforuk’s reporting on fracking
2016 CJF Jackman Award for Excellence Winner is the Telegraph-Journal for Tracking Daycare Deficiencies
2016 CJF Awards Sold Out!
The Tyee (Vancouver based)
“Did Alberta Just Break a Fracking Earthquake World Record?”
“Fracking Industry Has Changed Earthquake Patterns in Northeast BC”
“Supreme Court Rejects Argument to Dismiss Landmark Fracking Case“
Tyee Nominated for CJF Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism, Winners to ...
- Frac Fraud & Quashing Freedom of Expression Spreads from Alberta Across the Atlantic? UK fracking policy founded on scientific fraud, misrepresentation and prevarication; Pressure mounts over ‘suppression’ of UK frack impacts report, Govt accused of sitting on potentially explosive report from its official advisers. Sound Familiar? Glasgow University slated for ‘silencing’ fracking critic
UK fracking policy founded on scientific fraud, misrepresentation and prevarication by Nick Cowern, June 15, 2016, The Ecologist
The key study that justifies the Government’s claim that fracking is a climate change ‘solution’ is based on serious scientific errors, writes Nick Cowern. Not only has the Government failed to correct them, but it is now delaying the ...
- Huron County Commissioners! Vote 7-0, pass resolution to officially say absolutely no fracking: “Huron County Board of Commissioners opposes fracking in Huron County and the state of Michigan and begs our representatives to recognize the risks of fracking and outlaw this dangerous practice before a catastrophic event occurs.”
Why are these commissioners not concerned with how to define fracing like the Nova Scotia government is?
Fracking continues to scare local leaders by Chris Aldridge, May 19, 2016, Huron Daily Tribune
Fracking isn’t going over well with Huron County officials.
“The more you look into it, the scarier it gets,” said Scott Boshart, Bad Axe’s director of ...
- Nova Scotia government still can’t define fracing! Delays on NS frack regulations could be political, Heavily redacted documents show options being presented to government behind the scenes
Delays on Nova Scotia fracking regulations could be political, Documents show options being presented to government behind the scenes by Michael Gorman, June 15, 2016, CBC News
The provincial Energy Department has been presenting government with potential definitions ...
- UK fracking firm plans to dump likely radioactive frac waste into the sea, Ineos company emails reveal huge amounts of frac waste need to be dumped, Legal update from Tina Louise, Opposition to UK fracking plans swells, Local democracy at stake
2013 07 08: Radium 226 was found in returned fracking fluids at Preese Hall, Lancashire:
Radium 226 was the highest naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) found in the flow back water from the Bowland shale measuring between 14 and 90 Becquerel per litre – according to an analysis by the Environment Agency (EA) in December 2011,
Even at its ...
- Dimock landowners slam Cabot’s attempt to upend $4.2 Million Jury verdict: “Cabot was ‘smarting from a humiliating defeat'”
Cabot Oil Can’t Nix $4M Pollution Verdict, Pa. Families Say by Brian Amaral, June 14, 2016, Law360
Boston — Two Pennsylvania families who say Cabot Oil & Gas Corp.’s natural gas drilling in Susquehanna County contaminated their groundwater blasted the company’s efforts to overturn a $4.2 million federal jury verdict in their favor on Monday, the latest chapter ...
- Will waste water kill fracing? EPA bans disposal of frac waste at public treatment plants. Injecting it causes seismicity, recycling it is costly, using it to irrigate and landspraying it contaminates food, dumping it into waterways kills fish, pits filled with it leak, breathing it in aerosols corrodes lungs. What will companies do with it?
EPA bans disposal of fracking waste water at public treatment plants by Jon Hurdle, June 14, 2016, State Impact
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has banned the disposal of hydraulic fracturing waste water at public sewage plants, formalizing a voluntary practice that removed most fracking waste from Pennsylvania plants starting in 2011.
The EPA on Monday finalized ...
- Elevated Cancer risks surround oil & gas drilling. Fracking is bad for your health says Israel Health Ministry official; Frac flowback stage causes greatest air pollution; WORLD-WIDE STUDY: One in three strokes caused by air pollution
Elevated cancer risks surround oil and gas drilling — report by Umair Irfan, June 15, 2016, E&E News
More than 200 counties across 21 states face elevated cancer risks from toxic emissions stemming from oil and gas production in ...
- ConocoPhillips pipeline spills 380,000 litres condensate into creek 5 km from grizzly bear protection area 65 km NE Grand Cache Alberta; “Visible as a sheen on the surface of the unnamed creek for about 4.5 kilometres below the leak”
2016 01: Ernst vs AER Supreme Court of Canada hearing followed by 4.8M quake in AER’s Immoral Blanket Approval Fox Creek Frac Experiment Gone Wild, felt 280 km away
Pipeline leak fouls creek near grizzly protection area in northwestern Alberta
by The Canadian Press, June 14, 2016, Calgary Herald
The Alberta Energy Regulator says a pipeline leak in northwestern ...
- “Prosperous” Greedy Alberta: Bankrupt energy firms add to abandoned well problems, Nearly 150,000 oil wells are inactive or abandoned
Bankrupt energy firms add to Alberta’s abandoned well problems, Nearly 150,000 oil wells in the province are inactive or abandoned by Tracy Johnson, Business reporter, June 14, 2016, CBC News
Tony Bruder lives in one of the most beautiful parts of Canada, the deep southwestern corner of Alberta where the Prairies bump into the mountains, on a ranch that’s ...
- Alberta Energy Minister Margaret McCuaig-Boyd deflecting the known frac risks and harms? Says “fracking affects regions differently,” wants to “wait until we get the science going” before making any decisions even though the science on fracing is already in.
Christopher Adams is an intern with the National Observer and freelance reporter who covers climate change and environmental issues in Alberta and Western Canada. A recent graduate from the University of Calgary with a degree in political science, his reporting has taken him all over the province to cover budget cuts, violent protests, and provincial ...
- Meet Alberta’s Radioactive Ranchers: Nielle and Howard Hawkwood. Timing is everything. Why did AIMCo (ATB/Heritage Fund connected) announce $200 Million (bailout?) investment in “Quite leveraged” Calfrac on same day NDP Rural Caucus try to get Nielle Hawkwood’s frac ban resolution on floor of NDP’s Annual Convention?
Because of Andrew Nikiforuk’s article (included below) published early morning June 11 on Hawkwoods being poisoned?
Snap from live feed at CBC article
On June 10, 2016, the frac ban resolution was put to the very bottom of the list at the NDP convention, ensuring it would not be heard. The CBC reported a Party official telling them ...
- West Virginia: Judge rules Fayette County’s ordinance banning frac waste is invalid
Judge rules Fayette fracking ban invalid by Sarah Plummer, June 11, 2016, Register-Herald
CHARLESTON — A federal judge ruled Friday that Fayette County’s ordinance banning fracking waste disposal is invalid because such regulations are pre-empted by state and federal law.
Judge John T. Copenhaver issued the order hours before a hearing was scheduled between Pennsylvania-based petroleum company ...
- Massachusetts Senate Passes 10-Year Moratorium on Fracking and Disposal of Frac Wastewater in the Commonwealth. Senate President: “Fracking releases harmful chemicals into our air while contaminating fresh groundwater, causing seismic events, flaring methane and severely harming public health.”
Mass. Senate Passes 10-Year Fracking Moratorium Press Release by Environment America, June 10, 2016
Boston, MA. – The Massachusetts Senate approved a bill yesterday to place a ten-year moratorium on fracking and the disposal of fracking wastewater in the Commonwealth.
“Across the country, fracking is polluting drinking water and making families sick,” said Ben Hellerstein, State Director for Environment ...
- Three legislative proposals now in Republic of Ireland to ban Fracking: Tony McLoughlin tables private members bill: “To protect Ireland’s onshore and internal waters, our climate and, as such, Irish citizens’ public health from the damaging effects of exploration and extraction of onshore petroleum.”
TD Tony McLoughlin’s Bill is the third legislative proposal before the Republic of Ireland to ban fracking, the previous two:
Private Members Bill by Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP): The Prohibition of Hydraulic Fracturing Bill 2015;
A bill to ban the process of fracking in Ireland was brought by Sinn Féin Deputies Martin Kenny and Brian Stanley, The Petroleum ...
- Pinellas County Florida unanimously votes to ban fracking; Cites harm to environment, air pollution, damage to Floridan Aquifer, health problems as main reasons
Fracking to be banned in Pinellas County after unanimous vote by WFTS Webteam, June 8, 2016, ABCactionnews
PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. – The collection of gas and oil resources by means of fracking is set to be officially banned in Pinellas County after commissioners voted unanimously on the measure in a recent board meeting.
The decision cites harm to the ...
- Fouth county in Calfornia bans fracking: Ban passes with overwhelming 71 percent.”When our Governor and local elected officials fail to act, voters are taking the initiative at the ballot box to protect their health and their water from fracking”
Anti-Fracking Momentum Grows with Another People’s Victory in California, Measure E passed with an overwhelming 71 percent, making Butte County the fourth in the state to ban fracking by Lauren McCauley, June 8, 2016, Common Dreams
Notching another victory for the growing national anti-fracking movement, voters in Butte County, California on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a measure that bans ...
- BC Frac Waste Injection Gone Awry? Toxic Landslides Raise Alarms about Fracking, Site C, Almost two years after slides began carrying heavy metals into creeks, few answers
Toxic Landslides Raise Alarms about Fracking, Site C, Almost two years after slides began carrying heavy metals into creeks, few answers by Ben Parfitt, June 8, 2016, TheTyee.ca
Toxic heavy metals including arsenic, barium, cadmium, lithium, and lead are flowing into the Peace River following a series of unusual landslides that may be linked to natural gas industry ...
- Whistleblower: High Ranking EPA Official Covered Up Methane Leakage Problems Across US Natural Gas Industry; Inspector General called to investigate scientific fraud risking safety of workers, communities
Whistleblower: EPA Official Covered Up Methane Leakage Problems Across US Natural Gas Industry News Release by NC WARN, June 8, 2016
Inspector General called to investigate scientific fraud that wasted crucial years in slowing climate crisis while risking safety of workers, communities
Durham, NC – A watchdog group today charged that a high-ranking federal official connected to the ...
- Is Aqua America trying to cover-up frac contamination with chlorine? Chisholm Springs (community in Barnett Shale) drinking water making residents sick, burning skin, pleas for help go unheeded just like in every toxic frac field, including in Alberta. Will oil & gas companies fully disclose all drilling, cementing, perforating, fracing, servicing chemicals, including trade secrets, so that Aqua America can properly test the water?
Video at link: Water complaints pour in from Barnett Shale region WATER SUPPLIER AND STATE OF TEXAS SAY THE WATER MEETS STANDARDS; RESIDENTS INVITE THEM TO COME DRINK IT by Brett Shipp, June 2, 2016, WFAA8
WISE COUNTY, Texas – Dirty, smelly, foul-tasting water.
For many in the Chisholm Springs community north of Fort Worth, the water has been undrinkable.
A ...
- Alberta Literary Award Winner: Andrew Nikiforuk’s Slick Water wins Wilfred Eggleston Award for Nonfiction
Slick Water is a true-life noir filled with corruption, incompetence, and, ultimately, courage. It is a deeply informative, disturbing, and important book.
-Elizabeth Kolbert, 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winning author of The Sixth Extinction
2016 Alberta Literary Award Winners Announced by Ellen Kartz, June 4, 2016, Writer’s Guild of Alberta
The Writers’ Guild of Alberta is pleased to reveal the ...
- Danger Below? New Properties Hide Abandoned Oil And Gas Wells
Danger Below? New Properties Hide Abandoned Oil And Gas Wells by Stephanie Joyce, May 30, 2016, NPR
In 2007, Rick Kinder was working for a contractor, building a house in southern Colorado. The workers had just finished putting in all the doors, windows and sealing the house. Kinder and a colleague were working in the crawlspace, ...
- Federal Public Health Agency Contradicts EPA On Water Contamination In Dimock
2016 03 10: Jury awards two Dimock Twp. families $4.24 million after Cabot offered a few thousand to Gag & Settle; Cabot plans appeal alleging ‘improper conduct’ by the families’ lawyer
2016 04 06: Cabot Appeals ‘Grossly Excessive’ Damages in Dimock Contaminated Water Wells Case, Asks Court to Overturn $4.24 Million Jury Verdict, or Reduce it ...
- B.C. ‘enhances’ earthquake monitoring at oil & gas wells after last year’s fracking shake, 4.6 quake last year largest on record in B.C.; 4.8 on day of Ernst vs AER hearing at Supreme Court of Canada largest in Alberta so far
B.C. ‘enhances’ earthquake monitoring at oil & gas wells after last year’s fracking shake, 4.6 quake last year largest on record in B.C. by Dawson Creek Mirror News, June 2, 2016
B.C.’s oil and gas regulator is stepping up monitoring of seismic activity after hydraulic fracturing triggered a series of small but high-profile earthquakes last year.
Starting June ...
- Synergy Alberta’s brainwashing works wonders: Survey suggests Calgarians rate oil and gas more important than water
The results
BC Canadian Water Attitudes Study by RBC Blue Water Project, May 2016
Most Canadians take water for granted. We think we have lots of it and it will always be there. So in 2008, RBC started polling Canadians about their attitudes towards water—to see if the serious water issues around the world were having an impact ...
- How fast the greedy frac’ers fall, Part Two? Trican sells global well completion tools business for $53.5M to pay debt
Trican sells global well completion tools business for $53.5M to pay debt by The Canadian Press, June 1, 2016 , Calgary Herald
Calgary’s Trican Well Service says it is selling its worldwide oil and gas well completion tools business to a Houston-based rival to pay down debt.
The sale, for $53.5 million to National Oilwell Varcoe, includes its ...
- “Bad science can be dangerous.” What the frack? U of C School of Public Policy icing AER’s lying frac cake? Researcher says public wants scientific proof but researcher presents in closed-door session and ignores hundreds of damning published studies clearly showing frac harms
Is this the best U of C School of Public Policy can come up with to counter Andrew Nikiforuk’s masterfully researched, “rapid read” Slick Water and the ever growing frac bans, pauses and moratoria?
What the frack? U of C researcher says public wants scientific proof by Colette Derworiz, June 1, 2016, Calgary Herald
A University of Calgary researcher says ...
- Scottish Parliament voted today to ban fracking
Scottish Parliament votes to ban fracking Press Release by Friends of the Earth Scotland, June 1, 2016
Friends of the Earth Scotland has welcomed the Scottish Parliament’s vote to ban fracking on the grounds that it is incompatible with Scotland’s climate targets this afternoon.
Head of Campaigns, Mary Church said:
“It’s great that the Scottish Parliament has voted to ...
- Frac fraud for Scotland? Is University of Edinburgh’s new test to check for shallow groundwater contamination from unconventional gas development, ie fracking, a set-up to blame nature when industry’s biogenic gases migrate into Scottish water wells?
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Encana intentionally frac’d drinking water aquifers at Pavillion, Wyoming:
Encana intentionally frac’d drinking water aquifers and hundreds of sands and CBM wells above the Base of Groundwater Protection at Rosebud, Alberta:
Encana’s 5-14 gas well fractured repeatedly directly, intentionally, illegally into Rosebud’s drinking water aquifers. Diagram from January 2005 report for Encana by HCL.
Below, Encana’s ...
- METHANE: A flash fire, third-degree burns and an investigation without end: “The reason we’re not seeing a determination is because there’s really only one determination they can make…And they don’t want to make it.”
METHANE: A flash fire, third-degree burns and an investigation without end by Mike Soraghan, June 1, 2016, EnergyWire
Cody and Ashley Murray and their children in a 2013 photo. Cody Murray suffered burns in a 2014 flash fire that he says was linked to oil and gas wells near his home. Photo courtesy of Cody Murray.
PERRIN, Texas — ...
- The Cost of Justice Project: Legal system problems cost Canadians billions
Cost of Justice
“This research… by the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice will be essential in helping us understand the true extent of the problem of cost and how it impacts on the justice system. I believe that it will prove to be of great assistance to… identify concrete solutions to the problem of access to ...
- Big Thinking Lectures at U of Calgary: Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin on rule of law principal that “no one, no matter how important or powerful they are, is above the law in a diverse society.”
Chief Justice says dealing with diversity most challenging issue facing the world by Alia Dharssi, May 30, 2016, Calgary Herald
The most challenging issue facing the world today is how we deal with diversity in society, said Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin during a public lecture on Monday at Congress 2016, which is being held ...
- The Flint Policy in Ontario? Neighbours angry over NRC silence on drinking water contamination, NRC warned employees to drink bottled water 2 years before warning public not to drink the water NRC contaminated
Neighbours angry over NRC silence on water woes, NRC warned employees to drink bottled water 2 years before going public with PFAS contamination by Stu Mills, May 27, 2016, CBC News
NRC employees told to drink bottled water 2 years before neighbours warned
Mississippi Mills residents want NRC facility shut down after water contamination
Mississippi Mills residents hoping ...
- “Where does the buck stop?” AER to appeal ruling on oil, gas cleanup obligations. Chief Justice Wittmann found Alberta’s oil and gas licencing regime to be unconstitutional relating to money, but not in Ernst’s “valid” constitutional claim against AER relating to drinking water contamination by oil and gas
AER will appeal reclamation court ruling by The Canadian Press, May 27, 2016, Blackburn News
Alberta Energy Regulator to appeal ruling on oil and gas cleanup obligations by The Canadian Press, May 27, 2016, Global News
The Alberta Energy Regulator says it will appeal a court ruling that would allow oil and gas companies to avoid cleanup costs ...
- New Brunswick extends fracking ban indefinitely & The Environmental Advisory Committee, established by PEI govt to create new Water Act, recommends banning fracking
PEI
Spread the word by New Brunswick Anti-Shale Gas Alliance, May 26, 2016
In encouraging local news, The Environmental Advisory Committee, established by the Provincial Government of PEI to create a new Water Act, has recommended banning fracking in PEI. This conforms to the trend of the last few years, as the case against shale gas and fracking ...
- Visitors to Newfoundland & Labrador: “Stay away from fracking … its bad.” Meanwhile, Ray Gosine to Release NL Frac Panel Report to Government and Public on May 31
The NLHFRP Report that Ray Gosine will be presenting to Government is non-binding, meaning that Government may, or may not, follow the recommendations outlined in the Panel’s Report.
Photo of Port au Port/Bay St. George Fracking Awareness Group Board, May 26, 2016. Photo by Aiden Mahoney
Photo by Jerome Hoskins May 24, 2016 (Note concrete plug top of ...
- New Study: Alberta’s tar sands leading source of air pollution in North America, Tens of thousands of people living within reach breathing elevated levels of fine particles linked in previous studies to lung cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes
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Scientists Just Discovered Exactly What Air Pollution Does To Your Arteries by Alejandro Davila Fragoso, May 24, 2016, Think Progress
Air pollution has been linked to heart disease for years, prompting concern as well as some skepticism, as the physiological steps showing a cause-and-effect have gone less understood. But now, a multi-year study has for ...
- Florida Supreme Court blasts Florida Power & Light’s fracking charge, State regulators exceeded their authority allowing the utility, a company, to charge customers for investment in fracing, transferring risk from shareholders to customers
Florida Supreme Court rejects FPL attempt to have customers pay for risky investment by Mary Ellen Klas, Mary Ellen Klas, May 19, 2016, Tampa Bay Times/Herald Tallahassee
In a rebuke to Florida Power & Light, the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that state regulators exceeded their authority when they allowed the company to charge customers ...
- Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench Chief Justice Wittmann rules for creditors instead of clean-up when energy companies go bankrupt, Rules against Albertans, water, land and air
Comment by an Albertan: “The AER are so photogenic and look so good unless you know what they are up to. Wittmann really cooked this one. The AER gets to dump a shitload of orphans off on the public and the ATB gets to recoup their losses on loans they never should have made in ...
- MUST WATCH TRAILER: The Rising, Connecting Human Health and Oil Operations
The Rising, Connecting Human Health and Oil Operations
What happens to people exposed to extreme oil operations?
Press Release
Excerpts:
“Manning, with his Emmy and Academy Award winning team, have been covering the personal stories of Gulf Coast residents and spill workers exposed to oil-chemical toxins following the BP Oil Spill for the making of The Rising film and ...
- 2016 AER Admin Fees, CAPP a Begging: What Fresh Hell is This? Research to Con the Public to give Social Licence While Wiping out Legal Liability for Companies?
2016 AER Administration Fees (Industry Levy)
May 17, 2016
Energy Regulation Program
The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) regulates energy resource development within Alberta and has a mandate to ensure the safe, efficient, orderly, and environmentally responsible development of hydrocarbon resources over their entire life cycle [And has no public health mandate, does not have to operate in the ...
- What’s your child learning in school? Charles Koch’s Disturbing High School Project Promotes Cutthroat Economics: ‘Sacrificing Lives for Profits’
EDUCATION Charles Koch’s Disturbing High School Economics Project Teaches ‘Sacrificing Lives for Profits’ by Alex Kotch, May 9, 2016, AlterNet
Charles Koch is known for being CEO of industrial giant Koch Industries and a chief financier of the massive conservative political operation he runs with his brother David. In recent years, student activists and investigative journalists have exposed ...
- “We don’t allow bakeries in neighborhoods,” U of North Texas philosophy prof Adam Briggle said. “But we allow fracking.”
japanense proverb. image from impossiblehq
Denton activist shared story of fracking fight Tuesday by Michelle Charles, May 19, 2016, Stillwater News
A group of about 25 people gathered at the Stillwater Public Library Tuesday night to hear a tale of two cities: Denton, Texas, and Stillwater.
Stop Fracking Payne County hosted Adam Briggle, a University of North Texas ...
- Jobs Jobs Jobs & Frac Prosperity for All? Buyer to close Sanjel’s Calgary headquarters due to ‘miserable’ demand for its services
2016 04 16: How fast the greedy frac’ers fall: Privately held Sanjel broken up and sold to rivals, will only recover fraction of what it owes lenders
Buyer to close Sanjel’s Calgary headquarters due to ‘miserable’ demand by Dan Healing, The Canadian Press, May 18, 2016, Calgary Herald
The head of the firm buying Sanjel Corp., Canada’s ...
- Concerned Health Professionals Ireland call for frac ban: ‘Extremely strong” evidence fracking harms human health
This post is for Diana Daunheimer and her family
Diana is featured in investigative journalist Andrew Nikiforuk’s new book Slick Water, shortlisted for the 2016 Alberta Literary Awards and Writers’ Trust of Canada Shaughnessy Cohen Prize.
Diana Daunheimer. Photo by David Kattenburg
2014 06 24: Diana Daunheimer: Alberta Energy Regulator should be ashamed, AER Directive 60 Deregulation as the frac poisons ...
- Stephen Harper intentionally denying Albertans justice? How long will his toxic disdain for the courts live on? “Harper government failed, over years, to live up to its constitutional obligations to fill vacancies on the bench, with perverse negligence for a party that claimed to be all about law and order.”
Justice delayed, justice denied, as Alberta begs Ottawa for more judges by Paula Simons, May 16, 2016, Edmonton Journal
Alberta’s court system can’t run without judges. That’s a simple enough statement. It’s just one Ottawa can’t seem to grasp.
There are six vacancies, four in Edmonton, on Alberta’s Court of Queen’s Bench.
There are another four vacancies on ...
- Wildfire out of control 10 km north of Fox Creek in AER’s out of control frac frenzy blanket approval pilot project, Started near Trilogy Energy plant, Traveled quickly. 3.5 hectares at 1 pm, 800 hectares a few hours later
Little Smoky Area Evacuation Order Issued by South Peace News, May 15, 2016
A mandatory evacuation notice and State of Local Emergency have been issued in the M.D. of Greenview south of the Hamlet of Little Smoky effective immediately. Both sides of Highway 43 are being evacuated from Township Roads 650 to 664 and Range Roads 215 ...
- “Your job is to protect Floridians, not to poison us.” Deregulation: All the better to frac ‘n poison you with. Florida DEP trying to ease restrictions on discharged chemicals into rivers, lakes, coastal waters
Florida Proposes Tripling Amount Of Benzene That Can Be Polluted Into State Waters by Natasha Geiling, May 16, 2016, Think Progress
….the revised standards would allow much higher levels of benzene than currently allowed. Benzene is a chemical used in fracking, and a well-known carcinogen. Under the revised standards, allowable amounts of benzene would increase three-fold.
The DEP’s ...
- SoGalGas massive well blowout at Porter Ranch: Barium, vanadium, manganese, lead, strontium and aluminum may be causing health symptoms suffered by residents even after leak plugged
Porter Ranch: Barium and other metals may be the culprit behind gas leak symptoms by Sharon McNary, May 12, 2016, 89.3 KPCC
Los Angeles County Public Health Department officials say its test of dust in Porter Ranch homes turned up the presence of metals, including barium, that could have caused the kinds of health symptoms some residents ...
- The arsonists of Fort McMurray have a name; “Cone of Silence” over Fire Ravaged Fort McMurray: “Anybody allowed access…had to sign non-disclosure agreements not to share what they saw.”
Did Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have to sign a gag order before he was allowed in?
MUST WATCH: Global News Reports on Ft McMurray’s “Cone of Silence” May 9, 2016
Who ordered Fort McMurray’s “Cone of Silence?” Rachel Notely? AER? The Oil and Gas Industry?
At 3:12 Min:
Global News: Despite residents desperate for information, authorities have put a Cone ...
- Another New Peer-Reviewed, Published Frac Health Harm Review: Harmful chemicals used in, produced by unconventional oil & gas pose serious threat to infants & children
Potential hazards of air pollutant emissions from unconventional oil and natural gas operations on the respiratory health of children and infants by Ellen Webb, Jake Hays, Larysca Dyrszka, Brian Rodriguez, Caroline Cox, Katie Huffling and Sheila Bushkin-Bedient, Published Online: May 12, 2016, Received October 12, 2014; accepted February 8, 2016, Reviews on Environmental Health
PDF of Full Paper
Abstract:
Research ...
- Obama administration announces historic new regulations for methane emissions from oil & gas. Meanwhile back in Canada, politicians & environmental NGOs engage in fraud to con the world, enable increases in oilfield emissions & health harms
Study: Bakken oil field leaks 275,000 tons of methane yearly by James MacPherson, Associated Press, May 11, 2016
… The data, collected in two years ago by an airplane over the heart of western North Dakota’s oil patch, was the first field study of methane emissions done in the Bakken shale formation that spans western North ...
- CRIME Child-sex tourism continues to rise in Canada and abroad: two year study. “In Canada, indigenous women and children are especially vulnerable and are often moved around to be exploited near oil rigs”
CRIME Child-sex tourism continues to rise in Canada and abroad: study
by Morgan Lowrie, The Canadian Press, May 12, 2016, The Globe and Mail
More children than ever are being exploited in the travel and tourism sector in Canada and around the world, according to a new report released Thursday.
The two-year study, produced by the non-governmental organization ECPAT ...
- Calgary’s ‘dome’ artwork by internationally renowned artist Marianna Gartner saved! Will be preserved by new tenants, The National Bank
Art treasure will live on by Jessica Ernst, May 14, 2016, Calgary Herald
Re: “Dome mural will be preserved, says new tenant of ATB building,” May 13.
Many thanks to Eric Volmers for his excellent reporting on Marianna Gartner’s dome artwork, and to the Herald for publishing it. A grand, heart-lifting example of how a little media ...
- THREE NEW STUDIES: FRAC WASTE CONTAMINATES WATER AND SOIL, SOME FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS
Evidence of Unconventional Oil and Gas Wastewater Found in Surface Waters near Underground Injection Site by USGS, May 9, 2016
These are the first published studies to demonstrate water-quality impacts to a surface stream due to activities at an unconventional oil and gas wastewater deep well injection disposal site.
Evidence indicating the presence of wastewaters from unconventional ...
- Alberta wildfires will leave toxic legacy, experts warn. What about the radioactive waste storage site near Ft McMurray?
General Labour Clean Up Crew – Fort Mac Rebuild by TPD, date unknown
Due to the wildfires in Fort McMurray and surrounding areas, nearly 100,000 people have been displaced and many jobs have been lost. While our thoughts are with everyone who has been affected by this unthinkable disaster, we know that thoughts are not enough to ...
- Water, trust and truth. L’eau, la confiance et la vérité. Andrew Nikiforuk writes about one woman’s battle to protect her water from fracking and our lives from corporate lies. Slick Water review by Amy Reiswig
L’eau, la confiance et la vérité translation of Amy Reiswig’s review into French by Amie du Richelieu, May 7, 2016
Water, trust and truth (No longer online, except in pdf, see link below) by Amy Reiswig, May/June, 2016, Focus, Victoria’s magazine of people, culture and ideas
Full Focus Magazine May June issue in PDF, 19 MB
Slick Water ...
- Australia: New Intermim Select Committe Report on unconventional gas, including CBM (CSG): Australia must ban fracking across the country.
Australia govt must ban fracking – report by Esmarie Swanepoel, Senior Deputy Editor, May 5, 2016, Mining Weekly
An interim report by a Select Committee on unconventional gas mining in Australia has recommended that the federal government work with state and territory governments to ban the process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, across the country.
In November, ...
- New Texas study: UTA research demonstrates groundwater quality changes alongside increasing unconventional oil & gas development: “They discovered the presence of chlorinated solvents, alcohols and aromatic compounds exclusively after multiple unconventional oil wells had been activated within five kilometers of the sampling sites.”
The Paper: Temporal variation in groundwater quality in the Permian Basin of Texas, a region of increasing unconventional oil and gas development by Zacariah L. Hildenbrand, Doug D. Carlton Jr., Brian E. Fontenota, Jesse M. Meika, Jayme L. Waltona, Jonathan B. Thackerc, Stephanie Korliec, C. Phillip Shelorc, Akinde F. Kadjoc, Adelaide Clarke, Sascha Usenkoe, Jason S. Hamiltonf, ...
- Frac Captured State, Frac Captured Regulator, Frac Captured Courts? Colorado Supreme Court Strips Constitutional Right To Enact Local Fracking Bans: “It is beyond comprehension that the Colorado Supreme Court still fails to recognize the rights of people to live in a safe and healthy environment”
2013 12 13: 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 the people, their ...
- Albertans still don’t know what toxic oilfield chemicals their children are breathing. When will companies be ordered to fully disclose all chemicals, including trade secrets, before racing toxic truck loads through school zones, by hospitals, where children play, and before injected, spilled, dumped, spread on foodlands, flared, vented, spewed from endless facilities?
Red Deer’s poor air quality report sparks government reaction by Darcy Henton, May 1, 2016, Calgary Herald
Last fall’s poor air quality report for Red Deer and other parts of the province was akin to a doctor’s warning that a patient has high blood pressure, says Alberta’s air quality director.
Hamid Namsechi said the problem is serious and cannot ...
- Monday, May 2, 2016: Colorado Supreme Court to rule on industry suing Fort Collins and Longmont over the cities’ voter-approved frac bans. Longmont also sued by Colorado energy regulator and the company that wants to frac residents, TOP Operating Co.
Court to announce ruling on Fort Collins fracking moratorium by Jason Pohl, April 30, 2016, The Coloradoan
The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday will announce its long-awaited decision about the legality of Fort Collins’ fracking moratorium.
The announcement comes almost five months after attorneys made their arguments to Colorado’s high court in December. The decision could have statewide implications. A ruling against Longmont’s voter-supported ban on ...
- Pipeline corroded. Salem Twp, Pennsylvania: “It looked like you were looking down into hell.” Spectra “Natural Gas” Pipeline Explosion, One mile from one of USA’s largest underground gas storage facilities, Critically injures 26 year old James Baker, Destroys home, damages others
Mother of gas line explosion victim says son is ‘strong,’ courageous’
by WPXI, May 16, 2016
In light of a gas explosion that shook Salem Township and left one man severely burned late last month, a protest was held Monday to put an end to pipeline build-out.
“Wherever I have to go. I don’t care if I have ...
- Flooding flushes oil, frac chemicals into Texas rivers. Corporate due diligence requires planning for natural disasters (eg don’t drill, frac in water bodies or flood plains), but, regulators don’t care, don’t regulate, so companies plan only for greed. Poisoned communities/families too controlled by their own greed to work towards change
This post is for the community of Fox Creek, Alberta
What Drilling (and Fracking) Is Doing to Texas Water, Which you’re not supposed to know about because…privacy? by Charles P. Pierce, May 31, 2016, Esquire
Last month, The El Paso Times got itself a regular scoop when it published some photographs taken by the Texas Civil Air Patrol, which ...
- B.C. slow to enforce environmental laws; “Vancouver Public Library collects more each year in fines for overdue books than B.C. collects for environmental crimes.” Does any jurisdiction in Canada, federally or provincially, enforce environmental laws promptly, appropriately and fully?
Snap from 2006 10 Alberta Views article on Rosebud’s contaminated drinking water.
Encana admitted to Alberta Views that the company fractured the aquifer (years later Encana denies it). Company data on file with the regulators prove Encana illegally fractured the community’s drinking water aquifers repeatedly and violated the Water Act.
Encana was not criminally charged or fined, ...
- Do fracking activities cause earthquakes? Seismologists and state of Oklahoma say yes, Earthquakes increasing in volume and intensity around fracking and waste disposal sites
Earthquakes, Fracking, Disposal Wells … and Litigation by Steven M. Sellars, April 29, 2016, Toxics Law Reporter
A rapid rise in earthquakes in Oklahoma and other states, linked by some scientists to wells injected with waste water from fracking and other oil and gas drilling ...
- A Former PR Worker Whose Job Was To Defend Fracking Online Describes How They Mislead The Public
A Former PR Worker Whose Job Was To Defend Fracking Online Describes How They Mislead The Public by Sydney Robinson, April 25, 2016, The Ring of Fire Network
With the news that a pro-Clinton SuperPAC has invested millions in paying for online shills to go around infiltrating anti-Clinton conversations and attempt to misinform and sway opinions anonymously, a ...
- New peer-reviewed published paper on unconventional natural gas development (excluding CBM/CSG) impacts: “At least 685 papers have been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals that are relevant to assessing the impacts of UNGD. 84% of public health studies contain findings that indicate public health hazards, elevated risks, or adverse health outcomes; 69% of water quality studies contain findings that indicate potential, positive association, or actual incidence of water contamination; and 87% of air quality studies contain findings that indicate elevated air pollutant emissions and/or atmospheric concentrations”
84% of public health studies find hazards in fracking: research by Bruce Gorton, April 26, 2016, Times Live
A new meta-study, published by the online journal PloS One, has found that 84% of public health studies between 2009 and 2015 have findings which indicate public health risks.
This is of concern to us in South Africa, because our ...
- “This is the future of Australia, if we do not stop the fackers:” Condamine River in Queensland, Australia Explodes Into Flames From Methane Coming From Nearby Fracking Sites
2016 04 26 as of 3:35 pm Jeremy Buckingham’s clip at 4,233,138 Views
2016 04 25 as of 10:02 pm: Jeremy Buckingham’s clip at 4,000,135 Views
2016 04 25 as of 9:30 pm: Jeremy Buckingham’s clip at 3,992,739 Views
2016 04 25 as of 6:15 pm: Jeremy Buckingham’s clip at 3,937,124 Views
2016 04 25 as of 1:00 pm: Jeremy Buckingham’s clip at 3,797,458 Views
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- Range Resources Fracking Exec Reportedly Admits Targeting the Poor, Because They Don’t Have ‘The Money To Fight’
Range Resources exec apologizes for remark about drilling locations by Anya Litvak, April 23, 2016, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Terry Bossert, a Range Resources Corp. executive whose remarks at an Environmental Law Form earlier this month caused a stir and raised questions about how the company selects its well locations, has written an open letter titled “A Driller’s apology.”
A ...
- AER trying to con the world again and look like a regulator? AER to study risks of aging energy infrastructure. Who’s going to do the study? CAPP?
Alberta regulator to study risks of aging energy infrastructure by The Canadian Press, April 22, 2016, Calgary Herald
Alberta’s energy regulator is studying the risks posed by the province’s aging energy hardware.
“Aging infrastructure is an issue for the province,” said Jim Ellis, head of the agency which released a three-year strategic plan this week.
Ellis said the regulator has ...
- Calgary councillors say it’s time Alberta government enforce polluter pay principle to clean up West Village, Canada Creosote Ltd toxic sites. Costs estimated at $140 Million. How much to unfrac & fix Rosebud’s drinking water aquifers? Are they even unfrac’able? Will the NDP make Encana pay for the company’s law violations & harms?
‘Incumbent’ city, province pursue polluter pay principle in West Village, say councillors by Trevor Howell, April 22, 2016, Calgary Herald
City councillors say it’s time for the provincial government to enforce the polluter pay principle after a new analysis of the CalgaryNEXT proposal shows it would cost as much as $140 million to clean-up contaminated land in the West ...
- April 20, 2016 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize Winner: John Ibbitson’s Stephen Harper. Politics and the Pen Gala, Ottawa.
The Writers’ Trust, Politics and the Pen Gala in Ottawa April 20, 2016
Refer to Slick Water for information on Andrew Nikiforuk’s book shortlisted.
2015 Writers’ Trust of Canada Winner:
John Ibbitson for Stephen Harper, published by Signal/McClelland & Stewart
“With impressive access and meticulous research, John Ibbitson writes a remarkable biography that puts us inside Harper’s head during some of ...
- Conference Board of Canada New Report: Canada ranks 14 out of 16 peer countries, gets D grade on environmental record; Alberta gets “D-minus”
How can Alberta allow good fresh water management with all those WaterSmart oilfield wastewater “revenue streams” and “business opportunities?”]
2007 11 21: PROFESSIONALS: A seasoned entrepreneur gets her feet wet anew
Along with building public awareness about water issues, Alberta WaterSmart also works with industry. “Eighty-four per cent of the water in our province is allocated to some ...
- Q & A with Andrew Nikiforuk by The Hill Times: “Democracies die without uncomfortable truth-seekers like Jessica Ernst. How could you not like a story like this? It is inspiring. Everyone should take notice.”
‘Democracies die without uncomfortable truth-seekers like Jessica Ernst, how could you not like a story like this?’ Nikiforuk by Kate Malloy, March 28, 2016, The Hill Times
Andrew Nikiforuk talks about his book, Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider’s Stand Against the World’s Most Powerful Industry, which has been nominated as one of this year’s top ...