- “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
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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 ...
- Promised Frac Prosperity for All? Albertans (frac’d more than anywhere else in Canada) face longer wait times for cancer surgery that rank among worst in Canada, report says
Albertans face long waiting times for cancer surgery, report says by Keith Gerein, April 13, 2016, Edmonton Journal
Albertans needing surgery to treat colorectal, breast and other common forms of cancer face lengthening delays that rank among the worst in the country, new statistics show.
The annual Canadian Institute for Health Information comparison of waiting times found ...
- Slick Water author Andrew Nikiforuk in Vancouver, World-altering challenges explored by three authors
Books event: World-altering challenges explored by authors by The Vancouver Sun, April 8, 2016
Resource extraction, shrinking water supplies and the future of democracy — these are world altering challenges that face humanity.
Writers Andrew Nikiforuk (Slick Water), Micah White (The End of Protest) and Carrie Saxifrage (The Big Swim – Coming Ashore in a World at Risk) ...
- Many Oklahomans are sick of all the shaking going on: “Five years from now, they’re probably going to wonder why 2 million Oklahomans got cancer”
Rally at State Capitol protests Oklahoma lawmakers favoring corporate interests over citizens by Marianne Rafferty, April 12, 2016, kfor.com
OKLAHOMA CITY – Many Oklahomans are sick of all the shaking going on.
They are making their voices heard at the State Capitol.
“If they would do what they did 40 years ago and stop the fracking and the ...
- Oil & gas industry angry and impatient to frac New Brunswick; How impatient and angry would industry be if they were the plaintiff in the Ernst vs Encana lawsuit, now in its ninth year?
Energy industry urging government to lift fracking moratorium by Jeremy Keefe, April 13, 2016, Global News
It has been a month and a half since the New Brunswick commission on Hydraulic Fracturing gave its recommendations to the provincial government, and there is still no word on whether a moratorium will be lifted. As Jeremy Keefe reports, ...
- Ontario: Mississippi Mills residents want water answers from Health Canada, Concerns raised after National Research Council’s toxic chemicals contaminated their drinking water wells
Mississippi Mills residents want water answers from Health Canada, Health concerns raised after firefighting foam chemical found in well water by Julie Ireton, April 4, 2016, CBC News
Chemicals found in Mississippi Mills, Ont., drinking water
What are perfluoroalkylated substances, or PFAS?
Mississippi Mills residents want NRC facility shut down after water contamination
Residents living near a National Research Council facility ...
- More Frac Fraud: Stealing from a School District, then Gagging it. Texas Attorney General Orders Chesapeake & School District Confidential Settlement Agreement Opened
AG orders district to release settlement details over Chesapeake
objections. Chesapeake faces hundreds of similar lawsuits over royalty
payments by Max B. Baker with contributions by Yamil Berard, April 13, 2016, Fort Worth Star Telegram
The Fort Worth school district settled its lawsuit with Chesapeake Energy over natural gas royalties for $1 million, according to documents released Monday after the Texas attorney ...
- AER: Pick & Choose Regulator when Positive Image Needed in the Press? Regulate a few infractions to impress the Supreme Court of Canada? CNRL appealing $8,000 penalty for unauthorized temporary pond construction
One of the comments:
Andrew Sparky
$8000? Whats that equal 1 second of profit?
CNRL appealing $8,000 penalty for unauthorized Alberta oilsands construction by Gordon Kent, April 12, 2016, Edmonton Journal
Published on: April 12, 2016 | Last Updated: April 12, 2016 1:19 PM MDT
A major oilsands company is appealing $8,000 in fines imposed by the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) ...
- “I’m actually outraged.” With Alberta Court’s blessings, Energy giant CNRL derails full public inquiry into foreign workers’ deaths
Energy giant CNRL derails full public inquiry into foreign workers’ deaths, Company says no further investigation needed in collapse at oilsands site that killed 2, injured 5 others by Terry Reith, February 09, CBC News
Genboa Ge and Hongliang Liu died in April 2007 when a storage tank roof collapsed, raining steel beams on workers below.
A public fatality inquiry ...
- “No Fracking Anywhere” Bernie Sanders Rejects Hillary Clinton’s Frac Synergy, Wants Nationwide Ban: “Do Washington politicians side with polluters over families? They sure do because Big Oil pumps millions into their campaigns…Bernie Sanders is the only candidate for president who opposes fracking everywhere. … Bernie: He can’t be bought by them because he’s funded by you.”
Sanders ad touts fracking ban, hits Clinton on donations by Jennifer Yachnin, April 12, 2016, E & E News
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders yesterday unveiled a new television spot that touts his support for a nationwide ban on hydraulic fracturing.
The ad also takes aim once again at campaign contributions former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has raised ...
- She is Spitting a Mouthfull of Stars & Writers’ Trust of Canada Shaughnessy Cohen Prize Finalists
She is Spitting a Mouthfull of Stars and Writers’ Trust of Canada Shaughessey Cohen Prize Finalists post by Amis du Richelieu, April 5, 2016
She Is Spitting a Mouthful of Stars (nikâwi’s Song) by Gregory Scofield, April 2016, The Walrus
She is spitting a mouthful of stars
She is laughing more than the men who beat her
She is ten horses ...
- High Levels of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals Found Near Fracking Wastewater Site while FracFocus Fraud Continues: “To adequately investigate such reactions, available information is not sufficient, but instead a full disclosure of HF additives is necessary.”
Quantitative Survey and Structural Classification of Hydraulic Fracturing Chemicals Reported in Unconventional Gas Production by Elsner M and Hoelzer K, Environ Sci Technol. 2016 Apr 5;50(7):3290-314. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.5b02818. Epub 2016 Mar 9.
Abstract
Much interest is directed at the chemical structure of hydraulic fracturing (HF) additives in unconventional gas exploitation. To bridge the gap between existing alphabetical disclosures ...
- “Mr Bender’s death was ‘a snap decision’ after Origin Energy tried to force him to sell.” Family of George Bender Submission to Senate Inquiry into Regulation of CSG (CBM) Industry: 1,000 pigs dead due to gas industry pollution
1000 pigs dead due to gas mining pollution, says submission to Senate inquiry by Tim Barlass, April 9, 2016, The Age Environment
The death of up to 1000 pigs has been blamed on pollution associated with controversial gas mining, in a submission to a Senate inquiry into regulation of the coal seam gas industry.
The claims, backed ...
- Cabot Appeals ‘Grossly Excessive’ Damages in Dimock Contaminated Water Wells Case, Asks Court to Overturn $4.24 Million Jury Verdict, or Reduce it to $85,500.
Cabot appeals water contamination verdict by Terrie Morgan-Besecker, April 8, 2016, The Times-Tribune
An attorney for Cabot Oil & Gas is asking a federal judge to overturn a $4.24 million verdict awarded to two Dimock Twp. couples or, in the alternative, to reduce the award to $85,500.
Jeremy Mercer, attorney for Cabot, contends the March 10 verdict in ...
- AER allows Repsol to resume fracking after causing world record 4.8M frac quake (felt 280 km away near Edmonton) in AER’s Fox Creek Blanket Approval Frac Frenzy Free-for-All Experiment. But, Repsol appears too shaken to resume
Regulators allow Repsol to resume fracking after Alberta quake by Reuters, April 7, 2016, newsdaily
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – Regulators have given Repsol Oil and Gas Canada the green light to resume hydraulic fracking at a remote well in Alberta nearly three months after the region was rocked by an earthquake linked to the fracking, the company ...
- Q & A with Andrew Nikiforuk on his new book Slick Water shortlisted for the 2016 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize
Q&A WITH ANDREW NIKIFORUK by The Samara Blog, March 31, 2016
This year Samara is excited to once again catch up with the authors shortlisted for the 2016 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. The annual literary award is presented by the Writers’ Trust of Canada to the best nonfiction book on Canadian political and social ...
- Lakes in 1,000 sq km surrounding Yellowknife contaminated with arsenic, methyl mercury years after mine closure: “There are real impacts on communities and on the greater landscape as well”
Lakes near Yellowknife contaminated with arsenic, mercury years after mine closure by Ivan Semeniuk, April 6, 2016, The Globe and Mail
Arsenic and mercury are present in surprisingly and sometimes dangerously high levels in numerous small lakes surrounding the city of Yellowknife, NT, scientists have discovered. The contaminants form a toxic footprint around the northern capital that ...
- Spectacular Oil Patch Monitoring Fraud in Alberta? What will Dr. John Cherry say? AEMERA: A needlessly expensive ‘failed experiment,’ Public blamed for its failure, report by economist Paul Boothe (Director, Ivey Business School) says. What else would industry let him say, especially the part about blaming the public!
What and Who is AEMERA?
Partners & Stakeholders
Collaborative – an adjective meaning “produced or conducted by two or more parties working together”. Collaboration is one of our core values at AEMERA. We actively seek out mutually beneficial working relationships with a variety of parties to measure, assess and inform on ...
- After Massive Environmental Debacle, SoCalGas Tries to Dictate Terms for Cleanup, Also questioning whether California has legal authority to force it to do any specific mitigation
After an environmental debacle, a big gas utility tries to dictate terms for a cleanup by Michael Hiltzik, April 4, 2016, LA Times
For most of the period after Oct. 23, when a massive gas leak in at a Southern California Gas Co. storage well in Aliso Canyon was discovered, the gas company made all the right ...
- Like Alberta gov’t, courts making Albertans second class citizens compared to other Canadians, legally immunizing AER’s law violations, gross negligence, acts in Bad Faith, even Charter violations? “Proving that certain behavior is ‘legal’ does not prove that it is ethical or just. That’s because corrupted political systems, by definition, often protect and legalize exactly the behavior that is most unjust.”
A Key Similarity Between Snowden Leak and Panama Papers: Scandal Is What’s Been Legalized by Glenn Greenwald, April 4, 2016, The Intercept
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Proving that certain behavior is “legal” does not prove that it is ethical or just. That’s because corrupted political systems, by definition, often protect and legalize exactly the behavior that is most unjust. Vital journalism ...
- 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
Alberta court denies attempt to block Sanjel sale by bondholders claiming ‘bad faith’ by Geoffrey Morgan, April 29, 2016, Financial Post
CALGARY – Bondholder attempts to stop insolvent Sanjel Corp.’s blockbuster sale of its fracking business in Canada and the U.S. have been denied.
In a motion filed in Alberta’s Court of Queen’s Bench, the bondholders alleged that ...
- Why are frac’d Albertans so easily bribed by law violators and polluters? Why don’t groups in Fox Creek say “No thank you Chevron, We’d Rather Skate in Hell Than Take Your Money”
Chevron Canada’s $30K donation enhances Medical Staff Training
by Brandi, April 4, 2016, Fox in Focus
Chevron Canada donates $30, 000 to the Friends of Fox Creek Hospital Society. L- R: back row: Sheila Petch, Jennifer Wierzbicki, Donna Rector, Lynda Ekdahl, Evelyn Rogers, Lynda Mercer, Danielle Tetrault, Tracy Brown, Gord Mounce, front row: Victoria Schilperoort, Claudia Milanovic, ...
- Oil companies create lakes ‘from scratch’ to try to replace fish habitat the companies destroy in north Alberta. When is Encana going to fix ‘from scratch’ Rosebud’s drinking water aquifers the company illegally frac’d in 2004?
Oil companies create lakes ‘from scratch’ to try to replace destroyed fish habitat in north Alberta by Janet French, Post Media News, April 4, 2016, Calgary Herald
You break it, you fix it.
Compelled by government requirements, several energy companies with operations in Alberta’s oilsands have constructed fake lakes nearby to replace fish habitat their companies have ...
- No Canadian Mainsteam Media Reported on Standford Peer-Reviewed Study Proving Encana Frac’d, Contaminated Aquifers at Pavillion, Wyoming. In Germany, Mainstream Magazine, Der Spiegel, Did! How Corrupt Did Harper Frack Canada?
Study finds that fracking contaminated a water supply by Scott Tong, March 29, 2016, Market Place
LISTEN: EXCELLENT INTERVIEW AT LINK!
… Now, a new study focuses on alleged contamination of drinking water in one of the highest-profile, longstanding cases. The location is the small town of Pavillion, Wyoming, population 231.
In 2004, Pavillion resident Louis Meeks said the company Encana drilled ...
- Another Encana Frac Fraud Bribe? Why is Encana buying “best practices” now, years too late? Buy the company out of Pavillion’s frac’d & contaminated aquifers bad news – again?
Fracking research receives $2 million by Sofia Osborne, April 6, 2016, the gateway online
With natural resources making up a fifth of Canada’s GDP and providing almost 1.8 million jobs, gas production strongly impacts Canadians, Albertans and professors at the University of Alberta.
Assistant professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Daniel Alessi has received $2 million in funding ...
- Why did no Canadian media or blogs, other than The Tyee, report on Digiulio & Jackson’s damning new study confirming Encana frac’d & contaminated drinking water aquifers at Pavillion, Wyoming?
WATCH Excellent short summary of the frac fraud & cover-up by regulators & Encana:
Wyoming drinking water contamination caused by fracking 2:50 Min. by RT, March 31, 2016
Fracking Contaminates Groundwater: Stanford Study, Another scientific report finds evidence of industry’s impact on public resource by Andrew Nikiforuk, March 30, 2016, TheTyee.ca
Another scientific study has confirmed that fracking, the controversial technology ...
- New news or old? Frac’ing, not waste injection, causing earthquakes in Western Canada. Diana Daunheimer calls out U of Calgary’s David Eaton: “So why are you getting the details on this issue so very wrong Mr. Eaton?”
BEATING A DEAD HORSE? SETTING THE STAGE TO BLAME NATURE?
Fracking earthquakes are rare, isolated events, says B.C. Oil and Gas Commission, Less than 1% of fracking wells directly trigger earthquakes, says recent report by Wanyee Li, March 31, 2016, CBC News
Earthquakes from fracking are rare and usually not felt, says the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission, in ...
- The Bie Lie Unravels: Scientists Digiulio & Jackson Slam EPA For “Walking Away” From Pavillion Frac Pollution Study in 2011 (Alberta regulators, gov’t walked from Rosebud frac pollution in 2008, never enforced Encana’s 2004 law violations), Encana’s fracking contaminated underground water reservoirs in Wyoming, finds study by former EPA scientist who led preliminary investigation. EPA never followed up
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Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.
– E.R. BEADLE
No other industry can inject chemicals into drinking water,
– Robert Jackson
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To access the paper and press review:
New peer-reviewed published paper by Digiulio & Jackson: Only one industry is allowed to inject toxic chemicals into underground sources ...
- New peer-reviewed published paper by Digiulio & Jackson, Pavillion Wyoming aquifers contaminated by fracking: Only one industry is allowed to inject toxic chemicals into underground sources of drinking water – hydraulic fracturing
Only one industry is allowed to inject toxic chemicals into underground sources of drinking water – hydraulic fracturing or “fracking.”
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Who fixes aquifers frac’d by Encana?
When?
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Impact to Underground Sources of Drinking Water and Domestic Wells from Production Well Stimulation and Completion Practices in the Pavillion, Wyoming, Field by Dominic C. DiGiulio and Robert B. Jackson, embargoed to March ...
- How creative will frac fraud get? Wyoming regulator hires Canadian frac patent holder Maurice Dusseault (why?), Blames nature, Copy cats Alberta regulators, gov’t, Research Council (now Alberta Innovates), Ignores red flag indicators of petroleum industry contamination, Ignores that Encana frac’d drinking water aquifers like Encana did at Rosebud
Fracking a dangerous policy by James E. Robertson, Lakeland, March 25, 2016, The Ledger
Karen Finney, senior spokesperson, “Hillary for America” responded to Jake Trapper’s question, “Does Hillary support fracking?” with a question … “What can she do about it?” The answer is very clear and very simple.
This practice is against the law. The Clean Water ...
- It appears jurors like clean water. Do judges? Does Ex-Encana CEO Gwyn Morgan? Ex-Encana VP now Chair AER Gerard Protti? NEB Chair Peter Watson (who fraudulently covered-up Encana’s law violations when he was Deputy Minister Alberta Environment)? Dr. John Cherry? Dr. Maurice Dusseault? Dr. Alexander Blythe?
‘Gasland’ verdict, $4.2M, extremely disappointing for defendants, attorney says by Jacob Bielanski, March 23, 2016, The Pennsylvania Record
SCRANTON – A federal jury’s decision to award $4.2 million to two families featured in the Emmy Award-winning documentary “Gasland” was fueled by publicity, a New York City attorney says.
On March 10, jurors in U.S. District Court for the ...
- Industry lobby groups urge New Brunswick to lift frac moratorium. What for? To contaminate drinking water, divide and conquer communities, poison land, families and air while companies frac and go bankrupt and then demand that citizens finance their bad gambling debts?
New Brunswick government won’t lift fracking moratorium until conditions met by The Canadian Press, March 29, 2016
New Brunswick’s energy and mines minister says the province won’t lift a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing until all the government’s conditions are met.
Donald Arseneault says the government is reviewing the report of a shale gas review committee that took almost ...
- Back up your blogs & websites! BC political blogger Laila Yule blog & twitter account hijacked online after posting on Site C Dam
Laila Yule’s new twitter
Laila Yule’s new website
Surrey based political blogger hijacked online by Emily Lazatin, March 24, 2016, News Talk 980 CKNW
A well-known Surrey based political commentator and blogger has been hacked online.
“It’s a violation of my personal space, it feels like I’m being threatened, to be silenced.”
Laila Yuile says her Twitter account and blog have been ...
- Think of Kristin Henry when you eat this Easter. Day 13 of her Site C hunger strike. “We’re living in a world that has almost more polluted land than not, and more polluted water than not, and I seriously get worried looking forward 20 years at what it might look like….” she said.
Site C hunger striker marks 10 days by Bronwyn Scott, March 22, 2016, Alaska Highway News
Kristin Henry has never set sights on the Peace River in person, but the Vancouver resident says her resolve to see the Site C dam shelved isn’t waning as she marks 10 days of a hunger strike in protest of the project.
Henry ...
- Time to Fix Damages Done to Canada by Harper: Put Habitat Back in the Fisheries Act
WATCH: Put Habitat Back in the Fisheries Act 1:24 Min Animation by Incite Media, March 2016, posted by SWCC2
Click snap or link above to play
- Common sense needed in development – Asking for the impossible from an inhumane industry?
Common sense needed in development by Allen Watson, Tomslake, March 25, 2016, Alaska Highway News
This is in response to a letter posted in the Alaska Highway News March 21 authored by Alan Yu (‘Whose interests are LNG opponents serving?’)
No, I am not an anti-LNG protester! I am, however, a firm believer that LNG at all cost ...
- British Columbians’ views on hydraulic fracturing have “hardened,” 61 per cent opposed; Opposition to LNG “up significantly”
More than half of British Columbians oppose fracking: poll, 23 per cent in recent study support practice by Jonny Wakefield, March 24, 2016, Alaska Highway News
British Columbians’ views on hydraulic fracturing have “hardened,” with 61 per cent saying they don’t support the industry.
That’s according to a new poll on liquefied natural gas (LNG) development from Insights ...
- Fracking bill, that would have taken away city & county rights to ban fracking, dies in FL Senate
Fracking bill dies in FL Senate by Aryanna Duhl, March 23, 2016, fsunews
Hydraulic and acidic fracturing “fracking” bill 318 has been highly controversial in Florida, with opponents fierce in their efforts to stop its passing in the Senate.
Rallies have been held, and for six months, activists have been making phone calls to Senators, imploring them to ...
- Wyo Supreme Court awards rancher Brett Sorenson $1.1 million for CBM clean up. Justice Michael Davis: “We view Pennaco’s attempts to relieve itself of the obligations it bargained to perform more as a game of hot potato.”
Wyo Supreme Court awards Arvada rancher $1.1 million for CBM cleanup
by Benjamin Storrow, March 23, 2016, Star- Tribune
Brett Sorenson, 61, looks out across what once was thick cottonwood forest Oct. 21 on his family’s ranch along the Powder River in Arvada. Sorenson has lost more than 1,500 trees from produced water runoff — a byproduct of ...
- LIFE, DEATH AND CHEMICALS: Welcome to your fruits and vegetables farmed atop California’s toxic tar sands, and meet Juan Delgado
LIFE, DEATH AND CHEMICALS by Natalie Cherot, March 23, 2016, Latterly Magazine
Much of America’s strawberry supply is farmed atop a rich deposit of oil. For a family living among the pesticides and drilling, the source of their health problems is a painful mystery. Welcome to the California tar sands.
OXNARD, California
Juan Delgado was growing impatient. He ...
- AER grants Granite Oil Corp. approval for gas (CO2, H2S, N2, Propane, Butane?) injection enhanced oil recovery across 23 contiguous sections of Bakken land in Alberta
Granite Oil Corp. Press Release, February 22, 2016, MarketWired
GRANITE OIL CORP. (“Granite” or the “Company”) (TSX:GXO)(OTCQX:GXOCF) Granite is pleased to announce its budget and guidance for 2016.
Granite also announces that it has received the approval of the Alberta Energy Regulator (“AER”) to operate its gas injection enhanced oil recovery (“EOR”) scheme on its 100%-owned Alberta Bakken ...
- New Study: Toxicity of acidization fluids used in California oil exploration raise water contamination and public-safety concerns
Landmark Acidization Study Finds Oil Companies Using Dozens of
Hazardous Chemicals in California Wells Press Release by Centre for Biological Diversity, March 18, 2016
Oil companies use dozens of extremely hazardous chemicals to acidize wells in California, raising water contamination and public-safety concerns, according to a new study in the Journal of Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry.
The ...
- Pair charged with selling Boulder agricultural water to frackers, Johnstown pair alleged to see profits of about $800,000. When will Encana be charged for illegally fracturing Rosebud’s drinking water aquifers? When will Alberta Innovates, AER, Alberta Environment be charged with fraud covering-up the law violations and dangerous contamination?
Pair charged with selling Boulder agricultural water to frackers, Johnstown pair alleged to see profits of about $800,000 by Mitchell Byars, March 22, 2016, Bolder County News
Two Johnstown men have been arrested on suspicion of theft after prosecutors said they bought water from the city of Boulder designated for agricultural use but then turned around and ...
- AER Investigation Report (yes another one): CNRL’s Primrose fracking flow to surface mess and groundwater contamination “caused by excessive steam volumes, along with open conduits such as well bores, natural fractures and faults, and hydraulically induced fractures.”
Politicians, Pembina Institute and regulators more concerned with their failure to deceive the world about Alberta’s self-made polluting black-eye?
Oilpatch business icon and CEO CNRL Murray Edwards changes residency from Calgary to London by Dan Healing, March 24, 2016, Calgary Herald
Murray Edwards, one of Canada’s wealthiest people, has changed his residency from Calgary to London to avoid rising ...
- Trudeau names Brian Ferguson, CEO of Cenovus (Encana spawn, that along with Encana has been reduced to junk bond status) to Economic Advisory Council, possibly the most influencial people to be around PM and Finance Minister Bill Morneau
Cenovus job cuts to total 440 in 2016, dropping staffing numbers by 31% since 2014 by Amanda Stephenson, April 1, 2016, Calgary Herald
A total of 440 jobs will be cut at Cenovus Energy Inc. this year as a result of continued low oil prices.
The ...
- Fracking Rights Decimation in Australia: Companies need not negotiate land access under WA Government reform, NSW Passed Laws That Can Get You Seven Years Jail For Protesting
Fracking review: Companies not required to negotiate land access under WA Government reform by Sarah Taillier, March 17, 2016, ABC News
Oil and gas companies that want to carry out fracking on West Australian land will not be obliged to negotiate with landowners, despite recommendations to Government to make it mandatory.
The WA Government has announced it ...
- California: Carson introduces ban on fracking, acidizing of oil wells, and similar operations
Carson introduces a ban on fracking, acidizing of oil wells by Sandy Mazza, March 16, 2016, Daily Breeze
Two years after first considering a ban on aggressive oil well-stimulation methods, Carson has introduced a prohibition on fracking, acidizing and similar operations and will add further oil industry restrictions next month.
The City Council heard from the public Tuesday ...
- Alexander First Nation Last-Minute Application in Court of Queen’s Bench after AER Rejects Nation’s Arguments: Court Orders AER Can’t Deliver Written Hearing Decision on Pembina’s Fox Creek Pipeline Expansion
AER Can’t Deliver Written Hearing Decision On Pembina’s Fox Creek Pipeline Expansion by Oil and Gas Investor, March 17, 2016
Pembina Pipeline Corp. received an order that halts the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) from issuing its written hearing decision on the Fox Creek pipeline expansion project, the company said March 16.
The Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench granted ...
- Frac Waste Quakes Make Time Magazine: The U.S.’s New Earthquake Capital: Oklahoma. “Some seismologists say that even if all disposal activity stopped in the state immediately, there could be earthquakes for decades.”
The U.S.’s New Earthquake Capital: Oklahoma by Josh Sanburn, March 14, 2016, Time Magazine
Photographer John Francis Peters captures how the ground is shifting—both seismically and politically—in Oklahoma
Oklahoma used to be a seismic afterthought, a place with so few earthquakes that in the 1990s it was one of three locations where the Soviets were allowed to monitor ...
- Is Encana’s “Responsible Drilling Program” a fraud? ‘Fracking Scorecard’ ranks 30 oil companies by disclosure of environmental risks, As expected, Encana ranks down low
‘Fracking Scorecard’ ranks 30 oil companies by disclosure of environmental risks by Sergio Chapa, March 16, 2016, San Antonio Business Journal
Times are tough in the oil patch but that doesn’t mean that protecting the environment is not a priority for the companies with wells that still remain in production.
The third annual ” Disclosing the Facts” report from ...
- Will Albertans ever learn? Canada’s biggest oil producers, including Cenovus, hoarding near-record pile of cash
Medicine Hat reeling after second fracking company announces pullout by Dan Healing, March 16, 2016, Calgary Herald
The second Calgary-based oilfield services company in two weeks has announced it is suspending operations at Medicine Hat, removing another 100 jobs from the southern Alberta city’s economy.
The news from Trican Well Service Ltd. on Wednesday follows a decision ...
- Dr. John Cherry Shale Gas Recommendation: Frack ‘n Track Us. Cherry needs to sign his family up first. How’d he like his loved ones to be subjects of a polluted-ass-tracking study living with thousands of fracs & refracs, even into his drinking water supply, for a decade and more?
Fracking in a Permafrost Environment: Key Questions Complete conference, with Q & A, 3 hours by Program on Water Issues at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.
Presentation by Dr. Anthony Ingraffea (one of his best)
Starts at 1 hour and 15 min. Worthwhile watching first.
Some screen snaps below. White text at bottom of screen snaps is ...
- Frac ‘n Fraud Down Under: Origin Energy execs kept aquifer contamination secret for more than 1.5 years, knew CSG (CBM) wells leaking into aquifers. Are Origin Energy CSG (CBM) wells contaminating Condamine River with ‘intensifying’ methane bubbling too?
Condamine River’s mysterious bubbling ‘intensifying’ by Mark Willacy, February 14, 2016, ABC News
PHOTO: Scientists are trying to identify the cause of methane gas bubbling in the Condamine River. (ABC News: Scott Kyle)
Landholders in ...
- Where are Canadian Celebrities (outside of Quebec)? Mark Ruffalo, Colin Firth, Livia Firth, Vivienne Westwood, Taron Egerton, Rupert Friend, Aimee Mullins, Bianca Jagger, Felicity Blunt open letter telling David Cameron to stand up against fracking
Mark Ruffalo and Colin Firth lead celebrity open letter telling David Cameron to stand up against fracking by Hamish MacKay, March 15, 2016, Mirror
In a letter handed to the Daily Mirror, celebrities urged the PM not to allow fracking in communities that have already rejected it
Mark Ruffalo, Colin Firth and Vivienne Westwood are among celebrities to ...
- Greedy Sods in Alberta Beg Trudeau for Half a Billion Dollars to Clean Up Oil’s Dirty Underware but Not One Penny to Help Frac’d Families & Fix Frac’d Aquifers
Alberta energy minister keen on industry group’s well cleanup proposal by Lauren Krugel, The Canadian Press, With files from Jennifer Graham in Regina, March 14, 2016, The Calgary Herald
CALGARY – A proposal to use federal infrastructure funds to accelerate the cleanup of inactive oil and gas wells in Alberta — with the aim of spurring ...
- Chesapeake seeks to seal court documents from public, wants court to permanently seal more than 30 documents, saying they contain crucial trade secrets
Chesapeake seeks to seal court documents from public, Chesapeake Energy wants a court to permanently seal more than 30 documents, says they contain crucial trade secrets by Max B. Baker, March 11, 2016, Star Telegram
It’s not exactly a secret that Chesapeake Energy likes its privacy.
Last month, Chesapeake asked the Texas Attorney General’s office to keep the details of ...
- Australian Book Review: Monash University Lecturer Ruth A. Morgan reviews ‘Slick Water’ by Andrew Nikiforuk
Ruth A. Morgan reviews ‘Slick Water’ by Andrew Nikiforuk by Ruth A. Morgan, March 2016, Issue No. 379 Australian Book Review.
SLICK WATER: FRACKING AND ONE INSIDER’S STAND AGAINST THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL INDUSTRY by Andrew Nikiforuk
Greystone Books (NewSouth), $34.99 hb, 359 pp, 9781771640763
Ruth A. Morgan is a Lecturer at the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University.
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- Super Smart! Nunatsiavut says no to Synergy, rebuffs request to talk about deadly methyl mercury in Lake Melville, demands the contamination is cleaned up
No thanks! Nunatsiavut rebuffs request to talk about mercury in Lake Melville by CBC News, March 11, 2016
The Nunatsiavut Government is rejecting calls from the province to sit down and work through issues around methyl mercury in Lake Melville.
Labrador Inuit are concerned that damming Muskrat Falls will lead to increased mercury levels in the lake, making fish there ...
- Berta Cáceres: Murdered for activism in Honduras, Energy Company Under Investigation
We’re dealing with an environmental activist murder ‘epidemic’, U.N. warns by Alexandra Gerea, March 25, 2016, zmescience
The killing of indigenous activists is reaching epidemic levels, the UN warns. The organization urges governments to ensure proper protection for environmentalists, especially in vulnerable areas like Central and South America.
… Ultimately, activism strives to promote, impede, or direct social, ...
- 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
List of the Harmed – an ever-growing list of the individuals and families that have been harmed by fracking (or fracked gas and oil production) in the US – is at 16,974 as of March 10, 2016, list compiled by Jenny Lisak, Co-director of PACWA
March 10, 2016: Ely et al vs Cabot Oil & Gas Verdict sheet [MUST ...
- Hello Encana & Alberta NDP: COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS VEHICLES EMIT AS MUCH AS GASOLINE
COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS VEHICLES EMIT AS MUCH AS GASOLINE by politico, March 9, 2016
Cities with fleets of compressed natural gas vehicles tout their reduced climate emissions, but when viewed throughout the fuel life cycle of natural gas, they emit just as much as gasoline buses, and more than diesel, according to a study from Rice University ...
- Perfectly Safe? Absolutely, Ravaging Your Family and Community 24 Hours a Day: Drilling waste truck accident dumps 5,000 gallons toxic secret brew into creek and community drinking water reservoir in Ohio at 3 AM
Truck overturns, spills drilling wastewater that taints reservoir by Laura Arenschield, March 9, 2016, The Columbus Dispatch
A truck hauling drilling wastewater overturned in eastern Ohio early this morning, sending thousands of gallons of toxic water into a nearby creek and contaminating a reservoir in Barnesville in Belmont County.
The truck crashed along a curve just after 3 a.m. ...
- Greek Tragedy? Following Sudden Death of Indicted Former Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon, Justice Department Investigation into Collusion Continues
Following Sudden Death of Indicted Former Chesapeake Energy CEO, Justice Department Investigation into Collusion Continues by Sharon Kelly, March 8, 2016, desmogblog
Last Tuesday, the Justice Department announced criminal charges against former Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon, stemming from an alleged lease bid-rigging conspiracy between McClendon and another unidentified oil and gas company. The felony count against McClendon ...
- Ian Jessop, CFAX 1070, interviews Jessica Ernst on the Alberta NDP government and her Supreme Court of Canada hearing, water losses in AER’s Fox Creek Frac Frenzy Blanket Approval Project and more
Interview starts at 33 Min. by Ian Jessop, March 7, 2016, CFAX 1070
- Devolution of a Species. Alberta Venture Special Report: Towns in Alberta’s industrial heartland ran out of water last summer. Is fracking to blame? Is “No Duty of Care” legally immune AER’s one-size-fits-all, world-record quaking frac frenzy drying up Fox Creek’s drinking water supply?
IS FRACKING BEHIND THIS TOWN’S DRY WATER WELL? by Elizabeth Hames, March 1, 2016, Alberta Venture Magazine
Alberta Venture’s link: http://albertaventure.com/water/towns-in-albertas-industrial-heartland-ran-out-of-water-last-summer-is-fracking-to-blame/
LAST SUMMER THE water coming from Dana Boyc’s tap turned brown. Assuming he just needed to “shock” his well, he grabbed a jug of bleach and headed outside. But when he opened the lid, there was barely ...
- Civil Class Action lawsuit filed against Chesapeake, SandRidge & former SandRidge CEO Tom Ward: “This case is about cleaning up the oil patch”
Civil Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Chesapeake, SandRidge by News9, March 3, 2016
A Civil Class Action lawsuit has been filed against Chesapeake, SandRidge and former SandRidge CEO Tom Ward.
The lawsuit was filed by a group of oil and gas royalty owners and alleges violations of federal antitrust laws by bid-rigging and limiting the competition for oil ...
- Frac’ing the Gates of Hell? Billionaire Ex-Chesapeake CEO Aubrey McClendon dies in crash day after Federal Grand Jury Indictment. “His goal was to take the fracking revolution worldwide. … He was always looking for worlds to conquer”
Special Report: The final days and deals of Aubrey McClendon by John Shiffman, Luc Cohen and Heide Brandes in Oklahoma City, Brian Grow in Atlanta, Joshua Schneyer in Los Angeles, Ernest Scheyder, Liz Hampton and Terry Wade in Houston and Michael Flaherty, Michael Erman, Jessica Resnick-Ault and Mike Stone in New York, March 14, 2016, ...
- BETWEEN 7,000 & 15,000 ATTEND ANTI FRACKING RALLY IN FRANCE AFTER ADMINISTRATIVE COURT RE-AWARDS COMPANY 4,327 SQ KM PERMIT
THOUSANDS ATTEND ANTI FRACKING RALLY IN FRANCE by Kevin Bonnaud, February 29, 2016, Natural Gas Europe
Source: Stop Gaz de Schiste
Between 7,000 and 15,000 protesters, depending on the sources, attended an anti-fracking protest on February 28 in the small town of Barjac. They turned out in response to the decision made by the administrative court of Cergy Pontoise ...
- Andrew Nikiforuk for Slick Water among finalists for 2016 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize “awarded to a book of literary non-fiction on a political subject of relevance to Canadians”
Andrew Nikiforuk, Sheila Watt-Cloutier among finalists for 2016 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for political writing by Becky Robertson, March 2, 2016, Quill & Quire
The Writers’ Trust of Canada announced the five finalists for the 2016 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing on March 2. The prize, now in its 16th year, is awarded to a book of ...
- Teck Metals fined $3.4-million for polluting B.C.’s Columbia River; Encana fined $0.0 for illegally fracing Rosebud’s drinking water aquifers
Refer also to! 2019: Teck reportedly rakes in $12 Billion in revenue 2017-2018; Teck, Suncor, CNRL take top spots in annual ranking of mining company revenues
Teck Metals fined $3.4-million for polluting B.C.’s Columbia River by Mark Hume, February 29, 2016, The Globe and Mail
Teck Metals Ltd. has been hit with what is being described as the ...
- Ian Jessop Victoria’s CFAX 1070 interview with Andrew Nikiforuk on Christie Clark’s “Three Wacky Accounting Numbers” for LNG & Fracking
https://soundcloud.com/ian-jessop-cfax/march-1-1pm?in=ian-jessop-cfax/sets/ian-jessop
Ian’s interview with Andrew Nikiforuk starts at 7 Min.
Three Wacky Accounting Numbers for LNG and Shale Gas, Close read of BC’s budget shows realities of this subsidized industry boondoggle by Andrew Nikiforuk, February 28, 2016, TheTyee.ca
- Is Alberta next? West Virginia politicians vote in law to take away frac harmed citizens’ right to sue. Judge Derek Swope: “Would I want one of these wells next to my property? I live in the country on a rural road, and the answer is ‘no.’”
Controversial suits provide window on Marcellus drilling debate by Ken Ward Jr., February 27, 2016, West Virginia Gazette
On Friday, a courtroom full of lawyers gathered near downtown Charleston to try to sort a path forward in litigating a series of major lawsuits that allege natural gas drilling in Northern West Virginia has forced residents to live ...
- Port Alberni, BC: Andrew Nikiforuk on LNG & fracking and Kimberly Mildenstein on her family living abused by hydraulic fracturing in Alberta
Shaw TV taped the presentations by Nikiforuk and Mildenstein, check listings for air times.
Nikiforuk speaks on LNG, fracking by Katya Slepian, February 24, 2016, Alberni Valley News
The province of B.C. could do well to look at Alberta before leaping too far into liquefied natural gas, according to journalist and author of Slick Water: Fracking and One ...
- Oil & gas & frac companies poisoning Alberta families, injecting toxic chemicals into community air, on roads & food land & in drinking water aquifers Go Free while Edmonton dry cleaner first person in Canada to get jail sentence for using dangerous chemicals
2015 12 19 HAPPY ANNIVERSARY & MERRY CHRISTMAS! CHEMICALS ILLEGALLY INJECTED BY ENCANA IN 2004 INTO ROSEBUD’S DRINKING WATER AQUIFERS REMAIN SECRET, CONTRARY EVEN TO ALBERTA’S RULES OF COURT:
Encana still has not filed with Ernst cleaned up records for their document exchange (which had a December 19, 2014 deadline ordered by Chief Justice Wittmann); chemicals Encana injected into ...
- Copy CAPP? Methane in Ohio county’s water from coal beds, not fracking. Study finds methane contamination in Ohio groundwater *not* common or caused by nature
Study: Methane in Ohio county’s water from coal beds, not fracking by Kathiann M. Kowalski, February 22, 2016, Midwestern Energy News
A multi-year study has found that coal beds, not fracking, are most likely to blame for methane found in water wells in an Ohio county. [The study doesn’t say frac’ing did not cause biogenic methane contamination in ...
- Nine Energy Servicing Inc. Completes First 50 Stage Divert-A-Frac Open Hole System
[Refer also to:
2010: WATCH FracPoint Openhole Fracture Completion System by Baker Hughes Inc.
FracPoint™ openhole fracture completion system precisely and reliably isolates multiple zones in open and cased holes. The system establishes openhole isolation between zones, zone lobes, or fault lines so fracture fluid is delivered where needed for maximum effect. Pinpoint fracture placements without cementing for improved initial productivity, ...
- Ban Michigan Fracking calls on EPA to halt DEQ’s application for primacy over Michigan’s injection wells, sues DEQ for information on secret “mineral” well, Fracking “has become needy, sucking up a lot of resources and has taken too much control”
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Ban Michigan Fracking calls on EPA to halt DEQ’s application for primacy over Michigan’s injection wells, sues DEQ for information on secret “mineral” well Press Release by Ban Michigan Fracking, February 17, 2016
Charlevoix, Michigan – The non-profit organization Ban Michigan Fracking is calling on ...
- Pennsylvania, 7 year-long Ely v. Cabot Oil & Gas drinking water frac pollution case goes to trial February 22: Fracking Judge Explodes At Late, Disorganized exhibits: “a sad and shocking spectacle, a debacle and dilemma”
Two Pennsylvania families who say fracking fouled water take case to trial
by David Dekok, February 22, 2016, Reuters
Jury selection began on Monday in a federal lawsuit in which two northeastern Pennsylvania families allege that Cabot Oil & Gas Corp contaminated their well water with methane when it began fracking for natural gas near their ...
- 5.1 M: Oklahoma frac waste quakes rumbling bigger & bigger as USGS predicted. Children scurry under school desks, “and it was great,” say administrators. Quake related? Oklahoma City supermarket evacuated because of possible gas leak
5.1 and 3.9 magnitude earthquakes recorded in Oklahoma by News9, February 13, 2016
FAIRVIEW, Okla. (AP) – The U.S. Geological Survey reports a 5.1 magnitude earthquake in northwest Oklahoma that was reportedly felt across Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Nebraska, Texas, Arkansas and Iowa.
Fairview police and the Major County Sheriff’s Office say there are no reports of injury ...
- Set-up extraordinaire to burden Canadians with cleaning up billion-dollar profit-taking oilfield’s dirty underwear? Alberta landowners fight for enforcement by “No Duty of Care,” legally immune (even for Charter violations, gross negligence, acts in bad faith) regulator. Law violations ignored by AER, as usual.
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‘It’s a serious situation that’s coming’: Alberta landowners’ advocate on ‘mushrooming’ problem of abandoned oil wells by Phil Heidenreich with files from Max Hartshorn, Francesca Fionda, Mia Sheldon and Vassy Kapelos, February 14, 2016, Global News
An advocate for Alberta landowners says the glut in oil prices is leading to a growing number of smaller energy ...
- Frac’d & Associated? “Satellite retrievals and surface observations of atmospheric methane” in new study “suggest that US methane emissions have increased by more than 30% over the 2002–2014 period”
A large increase in US methane emissions over the past decade inferred from satellite data and surface observations by A. J. Turner, D. J. Jacob, J. Benmergui, S. C. Wofsy, J. D. Maasakkers, A. Butz, O. Hasekamp, S. C. Biraud, and E. Dlugokencky, Accepted manuscript online: 6 February 2016, Geophysical Research Letters, An AGU Journal DOI: 10.1002/2016GL067987
Abstract
The global burden of atmospheric methane has been increasing over ...
- Canadian energy regulator, the NEB, enforces like a dead fly? Reduces Enbridge fines $122,000.00! Company convinces NEB “it shouldn’t have been punished for failing to help neighbouring landowners with property damage”
Pipeline cops go soft on Enbridge in property damage fiasco by Mike De Souza, February 10th 2016, National Observer
Enbridge Inc. will save $22,000 after convincing Canada’s pipeline enforcement agency that it shouldn’t have been punished for failing to help neighbouring landowners with property damage.
The savings will come after the National Energy Board agreed to water ...
- Anatomy of a Frack Ban: Canada Says Quebec’s No Drilling Law Is Fair In lone Pine’s $250 Million NAFTA Suit
Canada Says Its Drilling Law Is Fair In Gas Co.’s NAFTA Suit by Jack Newsham, February 11, 2016, Law360
A U.S. natural gas driller that argued that Quebec’s 2011 ban on oil and gas drilling beneath the St. Lawrence River amounted to an expropriation of its valuable permits failed to prove the government’s actions violated NAFTA, ...
- Study shows Lac-Mégantic disaster left fish in Chaudière River with major anomalies
Study shows Lac-Mégantic disaster left fish in Chaudière River with major anomalies by Andrew Peplowski, February 10, 2016, CJAD
Government scientists studying the effects of the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster have found the Chaudière River has been left heavily polluted and fish are showing signs of major anomalies.
About 100,000 litres of crude oil spilled into the river when ...
- Alberta & Texas: Drilling records suggest lax enforcement of oil and gas industry
Drilling records suggest lax state enforcement by Brett Shipp, February 10, 2016, WFAA8 ABC
NEWS 8 INVESTIGATES
DALLAS – A WFAA investigation of water contamination in the sprawling Barnett Shale natural gas field has uncovered what appear to be numerous violations by drillers apparently ignoring mandates to seal wells with cement in order to protect groundwater.
[What good is ...
- Oil bust could mean skyrocketing property taxes for ordinary residents & farms, Some Alberta municipalities hit hard as oil companies stop paying. A Devil’s Bargain: Rural environmental injustices and hydraulic fracturing on Pa’s farms
Oil bust could mean skyrocketing property taxes, Some Alberta municipalities are being hit hard as oil companies stop paying by Jennifer Blair, February 8, 2016, albertafarmexpress.ca
With oil prices bottoming out around $30 a barrel, oil companies are scrambling to save money — sometimes at the expense of farmers.
“Some companies are just deciding not to pay the annual ...
- Colorado: Water-monitoring well contaminated with industry’s thermogenic gas northeast of Greeley
Water-monitoring well shows presence of gas northeast of Greeley Sharon Dunn, January 27, 2016, Greeley Tribune
In two years of round-the-clock inspection, water analysts in recent months isolated one case of water contamination in a monitoring well in a heavily drilled area northeast of Greeley.
Analysts with Colorado Water Watch, a water-monitoring partnership between the Center for Energy ...
- Full Video & Four Highlights from Tyee’s Evening with Andrew Nikiforuk in Vancouver
Four Highlights from Tyee’s Evening with Andrew Nikiforuk, Missed our Vancouver event ‘Standing Up to Fracking’? Check out the full video and more by Sarah Berman, February 8, 2016, TheTyee.ca
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2. On déjà vu
“When I was thinking about this — LNG and shale gas and earthquakes and this remarkable woman Jessica Ernst who was causing a political earthquake ...
- Where did Tory-Touted ‘Free Market’ Go? More theft by the oil & gas industry enabled by a politician? Premier Brad Wall begs Ottawa to make Canadians pay to clean up after billion dollar profiting oil & gas companies finish ravaging Saskatchewan
Will all the provinces copy this?
Ottawa must say no.
Alberta says industry responsible for reclaiming oil wells by Darcy Henton, February 10, 2016, Calgary Herald
Alberta hasn’t asked Ottawa to provide funding to put laid-off oilpatch workers to work reclaiming decommissioned oil and gas wells because it believes industry is responsible for those costs.
The NDP government said ...
- NDP Royalty Fraud? 3rd most profitable industry in the world assembles crack team to ‘quietly’ seek more subsidies, loyal media cheers. Alberta’s Big Oil Bias: Billions in subsidies & lies for oil, gas, bitumen, frac’ing; $5 million for municipal solar, $0.5 million for farm solar, $0 for home solar, $0 for the many poisoned by oil & gas, $0 for families with frac health harms, 0$ for contaminated or lost water
2015 05 18: Fossil fuels subsidised by $10m a minute, says IMF, ‘Shocking’ revelation finds $5.3tn subsidy estimate for 2015 is greater than the total health spending of all the world’s governments The Guardian
[Are subsidies, including the scam of carbon taxes that only benefit polluting companies and their corrupt enablers (especially in Alberta and BC), the real ...
- Pennsylvania, Bradford Co: Horse race track owner files appeal with Hearing Board after DEP says water contamination not linked to fracking. High percentage foals born after fracking experiencing health problems
Racetrack Owner Wants New Look At Fracking Effects by Matthew Perlman, February 3, 2016, Law360
Jeffrey Gural, who owns the Tioga Downs and Vernon Downs racinos in New York, filed an appeal Wednesday questioning the results of water supply tests conducted by Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection for an equestrian facility he owns in the state after the ...
- First research links Californian quakes to oil operations. Is that why it took so many decades for such research to be done?
Study by four universities: Oil field operations caused California earthquakes by David R. Baker, February 4, 2016, San Francisco Chronicle
For the first time, scientists have reported that the underground disposal of wastewater from oil drilling has probably triggered earthquakes in California, a problem already rattling nerves in Oklahoma and other states.
Researchers on ...
- Canada Revenue Agency owes taxpayers a general legal “duty of care,” but not AER to citizens harmed by the regulator’s gross negligence, fraud and cover-up of illegal fracking? CRA not allowed to intimidate, threaten us, but AER is, including in bad faith, falsely labeling us as terrorists and violating Charter rights?
Judges affirm that Canada Revenue Agency has ‘duty of care’ to taxpayers by Julius Melnitzer, January 26, 2016, Financial Post
Two appellate court rulings confirm that the Canada Revenue Agency is not at liberty to intimidate and threaten taxpayers and must take appropriate care in how it treats them.
In separate decisions released earlier this month, both the Federal ...
- Sour Gas Workout: ‘It stinks at Gold Bar’ Epcor Waste Water Treatment Plant, Alberta Environment tests find sour gas above guidelines in downtown Edmonton
Hydrogen Sulfide
Increasingly, scientific research is revealing that even low concentrations of hydrogen sulfide (in the low parts per million or even the parts per billion range) can affect human health, especially when exposure occurs over an extended period of time. Some findings include:
A study of hydrogen sulfide in the workplace found that workers complained of ...