- SoCalGas Co spewing oily gas (and mystery frac chemicals?) poisoning 1.8 Million people across LA’s San Fernando’s valley. Is frac’ing or fluid injection to enhance oil recovery partially to blame for Porter Ranch disaster?
# Households relocated/in process out of California Gas Co’s Toxic Leak Zone:
January 28, 2016: 8,000
December 27: 5,531 +
(2,258 in temporary housing, 111 with family or friends receiving compensation from the company, 3,162 in process with more asking information on relocation)
December 10: 2,522
(1,143 in temporary housing, another 1,379 in process)
December 7: 2,000
December 2: 1400
(600 asking to ...
- Bravo Miguel del Toral! Emergency Declared Now Over Flint’s Lead Contaminated Water but Michigan knew 8 months earlier and had provided state employees safe alternate drinking water, but not to ordinary poisoned people. Much better than what ordinary poisoned Albertans get from their government
Flint sullies EPA’s name, despite efforts of individual feds by Joe Davidson January 26, 2016, Washington Post
Given the federal government’s response to the Flint water scandal, EPA could stand for Ever Procrastinating Administrators, instead of the Environmental Protection Agency.
While most of the blame for poisoning the city water system rests with Michigan officials, EPA’s reputation has ...
- How deep into Hell did Harper put Canada? Environment Canada officers failed to uphold the law, ignored infractions to keep in line with Ottawa’s (Harper’s? Encana’s?) “priorities”
Environment Canada officers failed to uphold the law: report by Mark Hume, January 28, 2016, The Globe and Mail
The federal department that enforces Canada’s environmental laws is ...
- Who are CSEC, CSIS Working for? Oil Companies & the fraudulent, lying, Charter violating, “No Duty of Care,” legally immune, ex-Encana VP led AER? Harper’s Communist China?
Watchdogs report lapses in CSIS, CSE intelligence practices
by Amanda Connolly | Jan 28, 2016, ipolitics
Both of Canada’s spy agencies took serious hits to their credibility Thursday in a pair of reports that slammed the Communications Security Establishment for breaking the law and sharing Canadians’ metadata, and slapped the Canadian Security Intelligence Service with an accusation ...
- Didn’t industry, politicians, regulators promise that fracing creates endless jobs, riches for all? Trican, 10th Largest US Frac Fleet Sold For 38 Cents On The Dollar
10th Largest US Frac Fleet Sold For 38 Cents On The Dollar by Joseph Triepke, January 26, 2016, oilpro.com
Until Tuesday, Canada-based Trican Well Services was the tenth largest pressure pumping company in the US by frac horsepower. On Tuesday, the company announced a deal had been reached to sell their US frac fleet to Keane ...
- Twitchy in Illinois? Letter: Earthquake myth by Seth Whitehead, Illinois Petroleum Resources Board. Do you care if frac quakes or frac waste or waste water quakes shake your home unsafe?
Why write a letter if there’s nothing to worry about in frac-rule-loopholed Illinois?
Letter: Earthquake myth by Seth Whitehead, Illinois Petroleum Resources Board, January 27, 2016, Kendall County Now
To the Editor:
Roger Matile’s recent column headlined “Reflections: There’s a whole lotta shakin’ going on…” endorses the myth that hydraulic fracturing is the cause for Oklahoma’s recent earthquakes.
Experts ...
- One Year Anniversary for Scotland’s Frac Moratorium: Case against fracking ‘stronger now than ever’
Case against fracking ‘stronger now than ever’ by Greg Russell, January 28, 2016, The National
THE case against fracking is even stronger now than it was when the Scottish Government announced a moratorium on it and unconventional gas extraction a year ago, according to an environmental group.
… Speaking on the anniversary of the moratorium, FoES campaigns ...
- Canada: Fracking Litigation Heating Up
Canada: Fracking Litigation Heating Up by Paula Boutis, Siskinds LLP, January 14, 2016, Mondaq
We’ve previously reported on the Ernst case, which yesterday was in the Supreme Court of Canada for argument of Jessica Ernst’s allegation that the Alberta Energy Regulator (Board) breached her Charter right to freedom of expression. Ms. Ernst alleges a breach on ...
- Canada: $750,000 Fine For Killing 7,500 Migratory Birds from Direct or Indirect Contact with Canaport’s LNG Burning Natural Gas Flare Stack in New Brunswick
Canada: $750,000 Fine For Killing Migratory Birds by Paula Lombardi, Siskinds LLP, January 8, 2016, Mondaq
On November 5, 2015 Canaport LNG Limited Partnership plead guilty to charges under the Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994 and the Species at Risk Act and was ordered to pay a total penalty of $750,000 by the New Brunswick Provincial court.
The investigation ...
- As feared, 3 weeks after taking over private prosecution for Lemon Creek diesel fuel spill, Federal gov’t drops them
Feds stay Lemon Creek charges by Bill Metcalfe – Nelson Star, January 25, 2016
The federal government has stayed charges against Executive Flight Centre and the provincial government for polluting Lemon Creek with diesel fuel from an overturned tanker truck in 2013.That means the government has discontinued the charges but has the option to re-open them within a year.
However, if ...
- SLICK WATER: Inteview with Andrew Nikiforuk by Maxine Margo Rubin with The Many Shades of Green
1602: SLICK WATER Inteview with Andrew Nikiforuk 30 Min. by Maxine Margo Rubin with The Many Shades of Green, Brooklyn, January 19, 2016
“How does she endure the lawsuit?”
It is no secret that mainstream media coverage of environmental issues is slow-moving, and many stories go un-reported in the press. Climate change deniers spout their ideology with reckless abandon. ...
- Andrew Nikiforuk’s Slick Water Reviewed in Publishers Weekly
Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider’s Stand Against the World’s Most Powerful Industry Andrew Nikiforuk, Author.
Book review by Publishers Weekly, January 12, 2016
This book will infuriate its readers. In a dynamite example of investigative journalism, muckraker Nikiforuk (The Energy of Slaves) chronicles the environmental devastation wrought by the hydraulic fracking industry in Alberta and beyond. Nikiforuk ...
- The insanity of soon to be “more porous than Swiss cheese” Florida: “It’s a shameful day.” Will fracing swallow the state in endless sink holes and quakes?
Fracking opponent warns Florida will ‘become more porous than Swiss cheese’ by Brendan Farrington, January 27, 2016, jacksonville.com
TALLAHASSEE | The state House approved a bill Wednesday that would create regulations for fracking despite strong opposition from Democrats who said the oil and gas drilling practice could contaminate groundwater, damage the environment, make people sick and hurt ...
- New study on methane leakage from PSE Healthy Energy: Unaddressed Methane Leakage From Natural Gas Sector Could Undercut Emissions Reductions
From: Seth Shonkoff email hidden; JavaScript is required
Date: January 27, 2016 at 12:55:16 PM PST
Subject: New study on methane leakage and Clean Power Plan from PSE Healthy Energy
Colleagues-
PSE Healthy Energy and UC Berkeley have released a new study today which analyzes the impact of methane leakage from natural gas systems on America’s ability to achieve meaningful greenhouse gas emissions ...
- Another Urgent Call to Action for Albertans: Sending out an SOS – Save Our Sister! Is Alberta Health Care as Harmful to Albertans as the “Shut the Frack Up” AER? Is it Health Care or Hell Care? This is your future.
Does somebody have to die before Alberta’s Health Minister helps?
SOS – Save Our Sister – A Call to Action
https://myseniorparents.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/the-right-kind-of-attention/
My sister, Rebecca, was evicted from her long-term care home of five years back in February 2015. This was done after publicly raising serious care concerns (two hospitalizations where she could have died). She was dumped at ...
- “Total Farce” Australia’s national assessment of chemicals used in CSG (CBM) 2.5 years delayed: Is industry afraid of sick families finding out what they’re being poisoned by?
2015 12 27:
The Ultimate Frac Fraud? In US EPA Draft Frac Report: “700 pages (24,000 lines) presenting the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on water resources and human health but only 2 lines concluding that it is not a universal problem”
2015 10 15:
“A terrible terrible day.” George Bender, CSG (CBM) impacted farmer, Darling Downs, Queensland, ...
- Turn down millions, save millions more: In North Dakota’s Booming Oil Patch, One Tribe Beat Back Fracking, Turtle Mountain Band among first tribes to ban frac’ing
In North Dakota’s Booming Oil Patch, One Tribe Beat Back Fracking, The Turtle Mountain Band was among the first tribes to ban the drilling process. Here’s the difference it made by Sarah van Gelder, January 21, 2016, Yes Magazine
Drive the long, straight roads of north-central North Dakota, and you pass lake after lake amid hayfields and forests. Migratory ...
- Listen To The Quakes & The Many, Not The Money. 2013: “These fluids are driving faults to their tipping point.” Is this what frac’d communities have to look forward to? 2016: 7.1M earthquake
“These fluids are driving faults to their tipping point.”
Nicholas van der Elst, lead author on one of three studies published on Thursday in the journal Science (2013)
In an accompanying article in Science, William Ellsworth of the US Geological Survey framed the problem another way:
“Ignorance of the things that we understand we should know but do not ...
- January 28, 2016, Vancouver: Nikiforuk presents the human face of fracing. When will we reach the tipping point with fracking? “Fracking is earthquake-making activity”
Reportedly 300 people attended.
When will we reach the tipping point with fracking? by John Ackermann, January 24, 2016, News1130
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has been linked to a record number of earthquakes in BC, Alberta, and elsewhere.
The controversial extraction method is also the subject of the recent book, “Slick Water: Fracking and ...
- Feb 9, 2016 Vote: Aethon Energy (recently purchased Encana’s holdings in Moneta Divide oil & gas field) wants regulator to deregulate protected Madison aquifer to inject 365 million barrels of toxic drill & frac waste
Madison aquifer too valuable to pollute by Bob LeResche, January 24, 2016, Casper Star Tribune
“Water is Wyoming’s most important natural resource,” wrote Gov. Matt Mead in Leading the Charge: Wyoming Water Strategy. That publication says Wyoming has spent $1.2 billion on water development projects since the Wyoming Water Development Commission was formed in 1975.
The state of ...
- ‘Cream of the Crop’ Speakers, March 5, 2016 at Cochrane Ranch House: Francis Firstcharger, Blood Tribe elder; Robert Bateman, artist; Dr. Thomas Serfass, otter specialist; John Doninhee, counsel; Charlie Russell, naturalist; Andrew Nikiforuk, investigative journalist; Game of Thrones Emmy winner Paula Fairfield, more to speak at Spring Film Festival and Conference
Game of Thrones Emmy winner to speak in Cochrane at Spring Film Festival and Conference by Jenna Dulewich, January 14, 2016, Cochrane Eagle
Game of Thrones Emmy Award winner Paula Fairfield will speak at Film Festival and Wilderness, Wildlife and Human Interaction spring conference in Cochrane.
The conference is being held by Cochrane Ecological Institute and Cochrane ...
- The Canadian Opportunity
“THE CANADIAN OPPORTUNITY” Address by the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, January 20, 2016, Davos, Switzerland
Our natural resources are important, and they always will be. But Canadians know that what it takes to grow and prosper isn’t just what’s under our feet, it’s what between our ears
Les caricatures de Garnotte in Le Devoir January 23, 2016
- Scientists mapping deadly radon in Calgary
Scientists mapping deadly radon in Calgary by Michele Jarvie, January 22, 2016, Calgary Herald
It’s silent and it’s deadly. And it may be lurking in your house.
Radon gas is prevalent across the prairies and a Calgary scientist is trying to determine how widespread the risk is in the city.
The preliminary data is concerning.
“One in five (homes) ...
- Social licence for oil & gas industry slipping? AER to the rescue, lays charges against Apache. How many criminal charges would Encana get if AER & Alberta Environment looked under their cover-up hood?
How much will AER fine Apache this time? $16,500.00?
AER lays charges against Apache for 2014 pipeline spill News Release by AER, January 18, 2016
For immediate release
Charges have been laid against Apache Canada Ltd. for the January 21, 2014, pipeline spill near Whitecourt, Alberta. The company faces a maximum penalty of $2.5 million.
Apache has been charged ...
- Is Frac Focus More Bogus? Harvard Law School EPI Director Publishes FracFocus Findings: “Rates of withheld chemical ingredients are increasing”
Where’s Alberta’s Attorney General?
2015 12 19: 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 Rosebud’s drinking ...
- Watford City, ND: Compressor station explosion raises concerns from homeowners living nearby
COMPRESSOR STATION EXPLOSION RAISES CONCERNS by Amy Robinson, January 5, 2016, watfordcitynd.com
An explosion at an Oasis Midstream Services, LLC compressor station located north of Watford City on Highway 1806 on Wednesday, Dec. 23, not only set off an automatic 911 call, but is raising concerns from McKenzie County officials as to the proximity that many ...
- Ernst vs AER Supreme Court of Canada hearing followed by 4.8M quake in AER’s Immoral Blanket Approval Frac Experiment Gone Wild, felt in St. Albert, 280km away
2014 06 09: St. Albert residents sitting on abandoned oil and gas wells
Below list of 16 quakes at Fox Creek, Alberta from January 8 – 12, 2016, with the 4.8M felt in St. Albert
Fox Creek Water Tower, Mural paid by Chevron. Did Chevron’s frac quakes crack it?
Does big oil propaganda get any better than this?
From ...
- Frac Hell in Oklahoma: Endless quakes. “There’s no lack of conversation. There’s a lack of action.” Plumber blamed for gas leak in elementary school. Company says boiling oilfield waste alternative to injection wells, breathable air be damned
More quakes rattle Oklahoma but state avoids tough measures by Seth Borenstein, Kelly P. Kissel and Sean Murphy, Associated Press, January 18 at 4:32 PM, Washington Post
OKLAHOMA CITY — In Oklahoma, now the country’s earthquake capital, people are talking nervously about the big one as man-made quakes get stronger, more frequent and closer to major population ...
- Canada breaking frac quake records: Geosciences professor thinks earthquakes near Fox Creek are clearly linked to fracking
Geosciences professor thinks earthquakes near Fox Creek are clearly linked to fracking by Travis Dosser, January 15, 2016 10:50 am, CKNW News Talk Vancouver
Geosciences professor thinks earthquakes near Fox Creek are clearly linked to fracking
There have been 367 earthquakes recorded in the Fox Creek area since last January but the Alberta Energy Regulator isn’t ready to blame ...
- Edmonton’s 630CHED Jespersen Show Interviews Jessica Ernst on her Supreme Court of Canada Hearing vs AER & Dr. Jeffrey Gu on the 4.8M Earthquake at Fox Creek, Alberta (day of Ernst’s Supreme Court Hearing)
Jespersen Show Interviews Jessica Ernst on her Supreme Court of Canada Hearing vs AER & Dr. Jeffrey Gu on the 4.8M Earthquake at Fox Creek 40:48 Min., January 13, 2016, 630CHED
- Frac’d Food: Could using toxic oilfield waste to irrigate crops be the end of food as we know it?
On a 2012 speaking tour in Michigan, citizens asked Ernst what was going to happen to all the toxic waste.
Ernst replied, “We’ll be made to eat and drink it.”
Could using oilfield water to irrigate crops be the future of farming? by Ellen Knickmeyer, The Associated Press, January 14, 2016, Global News
RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif. – More farmers ...
- Is “Best in Class, Shut the Frack Up” AER a regulator or abusive enabler of deadly harm? Bad air: Oilpatch toxic air still fuming in Alberta despite regulator huff ‘n puffing
This update on the ongoing poisoning in the Peace is an excellent example of the brilliant oil patch strategy of gag orders and why they are pushed on poisoned and abused families by AER’s vile Appropriate Dispute Resolution, Synergy Alberta, SPOG, politicians and gag lawyers (essentially working in disguise for oil companies and regulators to shut ...
- Oklahoma: Frac fire totals almost $50 million in damages and fire crews’ gear now soaked with hazardous fluids, too flammable to wear for other emergencies
Crews Discover New Problems After Battling Grady County Fracking Operation Fire by Joleen Chaney, January 14, 2016, News9
GRADY COUNTY, Oklahoma – News 9 continues to follow a fracking operation fire that happened east of Chickasha Wednesday. A lot of damage was reported and crews are still working on a crane that could cause another spark.
The fire may ...
- AER still trying to impress Supreme Court of Canada? Fines Pengrowth for a 2013 spill, nothing for Encana illegally frac’ing Rosebud’s drinking water aquifers
Alberta Energy Regulator fines Calgary company for 48-day oil pipeline leak by John Cotter, The Canadian Press, January 14, 2016, Calgary Herald
The Alberta Energy Regulator has fined Pengrowth Energy Corp. $250,000 for a 2013 pipeline spill in northern Alberta.
Pengrowth Energy Corp. has been fined over a pipeline breach that spilled 537,000 litres of oil emulsion ...
- Ian Jessop, CFAX 1070, interviews Jessica Ernst on her Supreme Court of Canada hearing, Ernst vs AER
Ian Jessop interviews Jessica Ernst on her Supreme Court of Canada hearing, Ernst vs AER January 14, 2016, CFAX 1070
Starts at 6:30 Min.
Webcast of the Supreme Court of Canada Ernst vs AER hearing, Ottawa, January 12, 2016. (Some browsers won’t play it, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer do.)
Court Hearing starts at 90:29 Min.
Cory Wanless, counsel for ...
- “Best in Class” AER: Shut the frack up!
Shut the frack up! by Laura Tack, January 11, 2016 , BC Civil Liberties Association
ENSURING CANADA’S ENERGY REGULATORS ARE ACCOUNTABLE FOR RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
Imagine the tap water in your home was so contaminated with toxic chemicals that you could light it on fire.
Imagine the government agency tasked with responding to these kinds of problems wasn’t taking action ...
- Media Advisory: BCCLA to argue Canada’s energy boards must be accountable under the Charter, “supreme law of Canada.”
BCCLA to argue Canada’s energy boards must be accountable under the Charter Media Alert by BC Civil Liberties Association, January 11, 2016
Ottawa – Tomorrow, January 12, 2016, the BCCLA will make oral submissions to the Supreme Court of Canada in Jessica Ernst v. Alberta Energy Regulator. At issue in this case is whether a provincial government can ...
- Lawyers Weekly: Government agent – AER – immunity issue one of challenges for Supreme Court of Canada
Government agent immunity issue one of challenges for SCC, Winter session will also look at penalties, admissibility, infanticide by Cristin Schmitz, January 15 2016, Lawyers Weekly
Raj Anand of Toronto’s WeirFoulds, right, and co-counsel University of Toronto law professor Cheryl Milne, represented the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, one of seven interveners in a Supreme Court constitutional test ...
- EPA scientists suppressed information that fracking contaminates drinking water. Teammates of Dr. John Cherry & his Council of Canadian Academies frac review panel?
EPA scientists suppressed information that fracking contaminates drinking water by Justin Gardner, January 10, 2016, The Free Thought Project in scott.net
The EPA’s draft study—released in June to solicit input from advisers and the public—found that fracking has already contaminated drinking water, stating in the report:
“We found specific instances where one or more mechanisms led to impacts on ...
- One man dies in water treatment frac chemical explosion
One man dies in water-treatment plant explosion by Brandon Mulder, January 4, 2016, mrt
An employee of a water treatment company died Monday when an explosion occurred as he was mixing chemicals, county officials said.
The explosion that occurred about 10:30 a.m. Monday at the business along North County Road 1140 just west of Midland killed Julian Gallardo, ...
- Charter Rights at Issue in Fracking Supreme Court Case, Jessica Ernst’s long battle over rights, well contamination reaches highest court
Charter Rights at Issue in Fracking Supreme Court Case, Jessica Ernst’s long battle over rights, well contamination reaches highest court by Andrew Nikiforuk, January 8, 2016, TheTyee.ca
Les droits selon la Charte sont en jeu dans un dossier sur le fracking à la Cour suprême du Canada Translation by Amie du Richelieu, January 8, 2016
- More Frac Quakes Rumble ‘n Rock Oklahoma: The Big Warning Causes Sleepless Night for Thousands. When will the shaking stop? When will the “regulator” regulate?
2013 10 30: Major earthquake could cause $75B in damage, study by Insurance Bureau of Canada warns; major quake would bring insurance industry to its knees
2014 07 21: Germany EPA Frac Report Released: Risks Associated with Fracing are Too High; “So far, no company has been able to present a sustainable waste management concept”
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OK Wastewater ...
- Shred Fraud? “Better Shred than Read!” Tory Cover-up Saga Continues: Document shredding rules not followed by Alberta Environment, investigation finds. “344 boxes of executive records were destroyed between May 1 and May 13,” including related to litigation, 660 boxes in total were destroyed
Shredding ban in environment department still in place, Notley says by Mariam Ibrahim, January 7, 2016, Edmonton Journal in Calgary Herald
Premier Rachel Notley said Friday a shredding ban in the environment department will remain in place until she’s confident the ministry has enacted stronger records management policies. Notley made the comments one day after a ...
- EPA’s “own science advisers” criticize agency study’s conclusion drinking water is safe from fracking
EPA scientists criticize agency study’s conclusion drinking water is safe from fracking by Bloomberg News, January 7, 2016, Calgary Herald
A landmark study by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that concluded fracking causes no widespread harm to drinking water is coming under fire — this time, from the agency’s own science advisers.
The EPA’s preliminary findings released in June ...
- What took Governor Brown so long? California governor declares state of emergency over huge gas leak suffocating community of Porter Ranch, Los Angeles neighbourhood
California governor declares gas leak a state of emergency by Ellen Knickmeyer and Brian Melley, Associated Press, January 6, 2016, Business Insider
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency Wednesday over a massive natural-gas leak that has been spewing methane and other gases into a Los Angeles neighborhood for months, sickening ...
- And yet another published frac study showing harm: Toxins found in fracking fluids and wastewater
Toxins Found in Fracking Fluids and Wastewater, Study Shows January 6, 2016 by Stone Hearth News
Newswise — In an analysis of more than 1,000 chemicals in fluids used in and created by hydraulic fracturing (fracking), Yale School of Public Health researchers found that many of the substances have been linked to reproductive and developmental health problems, and the ...
- Water wins! Painted Post loses lawsuit over water sales for fracking. Mayor says town can’t finance appeal, leaving it up to Shell’s subsidiary to decide if it wants to bankroll an appeal
Painted Post loses case over water sales for fracking by Jeff Murray, January 5, 2016, Elmira Star-Gazette
A state appellate court has upheld a lower court ruling that voids agreements the Village of Painted Post had with a hydraulic fracturing company in Pennsylvania to sell surplus water.
The case involved a challenge by three environmental organizations and five ...
- Yet another study: Fracking plays active role in generating toxic metal wastewater
Refer also to this new study:
New Study Confirms Fracking Wastewater Is Cancer-Causing. “Barium and Strontium were elevated in frac flowback water exposed cells.” Encana and Alberta government testing showed barium & strontium doubled in Ernst’s water after Encana’s illegal aquifer fracing
Fracking plays active role in generating toxic metal wastewater, study finds by Science Daily, December 15, ...
- NINE STUDIES: US Geological Survey (USGS), University Colorado (UC), Oklahoma Geological Survey (OGS), Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory (LBNL) studied sudden man-made earthquakes in Oklahoma, California, Pennsylvania, Ohio, found fracing is the causation
Refer first to:
The frac quakes go on & on & on: Oklahoma again orders oil & gas drillers to reduce amount of frac waste water injected to try to stop the damaging frac quakes
The directives, however, are not mandatory, and one operator, SandRidge Energy, has chosen not to comply.
The Corporation Commission is preparing a case in ...
- New Study Confirms Fracking Wastewater Is Cancer-Causing. “Barium and Strontium were elevated in frac flowback water exposed cells.” Encana and Alberta government testing showed barium & strontium doubled in Ernst’s water after Encana’s illegal aquifer fracing
Fracking Wastewater Is Cancer-Causing, New Study Confirms by Sayer Ji, Founder, January 4, 2016, greenmediainfo
The natural consequence of the gas industry is the production of billions of gallons of cancer-causing wastewater. A new study published in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology titled, “Malignant human cell transformation of Marcellus Shale gas drilling flow back water,” is the first study ...
- Despite Federal Court of Canada judgment, Essential Energy vows to continue fracking patent fight
Despite judgment, Essential Energy vows to continue fracking patent fight by Dan Healing, January 5, 2016, Calgary Herald
A legal showdown over who owns a well completion technology helping fuel the shale oil and gas boom in North America will rage on despite a first-round court victory by the company that claims to hold the patent, ...
- Updated because the frac quakes go on & on & on: Oklahoma again orders oil & gas drillers to reduce amount of frac waste water injected. Why? The natural gas leak & home explosion in Oklahoma City? Where will the frac waste go?
Oklahoma Oil Firm Resists Call to Shut Down Wells Amid Earthquake Concerns by Erin Ailworth, January 5, 2016, Wall Street Journal
A financially strapped Oklahoma oil company is defying the state regulator’s request that it shut down six wells used to dispose of wastewater, despite fears they may be contributing to earthquakes. Sandridge Energy Inc., which has ...
- “My Kids Aren’t Guinea Pigs,” Says Parent Affected by Massive Porter Ranch Gas Leak. German firm sues Baker Hughes over defective safety valves, steel in massive underground gas storage field under Etzel, Germany. Is Canada next, or already there?
California-style massive gas leak could happen in Canada too, experts say by Charles Mandel, January 4th 2016, National Observer
A view of the Aliso Canyon gas facility. Photo courtesy Earthworks
It is possible that Canada could experience a California-like methane gas plume, according to a number of experts. … “Such a leak could happen in Canada,” warned Mark Brownstein, ...
- Regulatory Failure, Corporate Failure, Inspection Failure, Integrity Failure, Casing Failure, Safety Failure, Greed Trumps All: Regulator & SoCalGas Co. knew casing was corroding, failing with major leakage problems at Porter Ranch gas storage facility more than a year before catastrophic leak
SoCalGas knew of corrosion at Porter Ranch gas facility, doc shows by Mike Reicher, December 30, 2015, Los Angeles Daily News
Southern California Gas Co. knew its pipes were corroding and failing at a worsening pace more than a year before the massive Porter Ranch methane leak, a document shows.
In a November 2014 state regulatory filing, the ...
- Another Court Ruling: France will remain frac free
RULING: FRANCE WILL REMAIN FRACKING FREE by Kevin Bonnaud, December 29, 2015, Natural Gas Europe
This past week, American firm Schuepbach lost its legal action against the French state to be allowed to frack for shale in Southern France.
The Texas-based oil company had sued the French state for years over the abrogation of two permits in Southern ...
- EPA opens probe into Southern California Gas Co. leak above Porter Ranch; San Fernando Valley assemblyman will hold state hearing
EPA opens probe into Porter Ranch gas leak by Gregory J. Wilcox, December 29, 2015, Los Angeles Daily News
The federal Environmental Protection Agency has opened an investigation into the Southern California Gas Co. leak above Porter Ranch, and a San Fernando Valley assemblyman will hold a state hearing on the incident next month.
The federal probe ...
- Died today: Cris McConkey, founder of Shaleshock Media: “recorded many of the key moments, key presentations and major rallies that led to the New York Frack Ban.”
A Meeting In A Part
by Wendell Berry
In a dream I meet
my dead friend. He has,
I know, gone long and far,
and yet he is the same
for the dead are changeless.
They grow no older.
It is I who have changed,
grown strange to what I was.
Yet I, the changed one,
ask: “How you been?”
He grins and looks at me.
“I been ...
- 2,258 families in temporary housing, 111 staying with family or friends, 3,162 in placement process. Growing environmental disaster in LA: Monster industry-created methane leak revealed in new aerial infrared video. What happens if SoCalGas can’t fix their leak? Was the leaking gas frac’d? Is it radioactive?
Is SoCalGas’ massive leak becoming the new normal?
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# Households relocated/in process out of California Gas Co’s Toxic Leak Zone:
December 27: 5,531 +
(2,258 in temporary housing, 111 with family or friends receiving compensation from the company, 3,162 in process with more asking information on relocation)
December 10: 2,522
(1,143 in temporary housing, another 1,379 in process)
December 7: 2,000
December ...
- It’s an epidemic: Encana gets exclusive access to Dawson Creek’s treated sewer water for fracking operations.
Encana gets exclusive access to treated sewer water for fracking operations by Jonny Wakefield, December 23, 2015, Alaska Highway News
Encana Corp. has been given exclusive access to treated sewage water from the city of Dawson Creek for a fracking operation early next year.
On Monday, city council approved a request from the oil and gas company ...
- RCMP pushes for new law to get Canadians’ private information without a warrant. Who’s pushing the RCMP?
RCMP PLANNING MASS ARREST OF INDIGENOUS ACTIVISTS UNDER BILL C-51, SUPPORTERS WARN by Red Power Media staff, August 28, 2015, Red Power Media
CANADIAN SPIES CAN ACCESS INDIAN STATUS RECORDS UNDER BILL C-51 by Jorge Barrera, March 20, 2015, Red Power Media
RCMP investigators and Canadian spies would legally be able to access personal information found in ...
- The Ultimate Frac Fraud? In EPA Draft Frac Report: “700 pages (24,000 lines) presenting the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on water resources and human health but only 2 lines concluding that it is not a universal problem”
Board questions EPA draft report on fracking Water supply issues focus of concern by Don Hopey, November 28, 2015, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A review by an EPA advisory board says that a draft report on hydraulic fracturing did not support the conclusion that shale gas fracking hasn’t caused significant damage to the nation’s water supplies.
… According to the peer-reviewed document by the ...
- National Post’s 2016 Outlook: Five major Canadian legal cases to watch includes Ernst vs AER
five major court cases to watch in 2016 by National Post Press Reader, December 26, 2015
Jessica Ernst v. Alberta Energy Regulator: An Alberta woman goes after Encana and the provincial government over alleged contamination of groundwater [and well water, household water, tap ...
- Books in Brief: Andrew Nikiforuk’s Slick Water reviewed in Nature, International weekly journal of science
Books in Brief by Barbara Kiser, December 17, 2015, Vol 528 Nature, International weekly journal of science
Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week’s best science picks
Click to read Books in Brief
Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider’s Stand against the World’s Most Powerful Industry Andrew Nikiforuk GREYSTONE (2015)
This meticulously researched study by journalist Andrew Nikiforuk lifts ...
- “What is the acceptable risk for increased risk for childhood cancer? It’s zero.” & Open Letter by Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment to NB Premier Gallant: Termination of Dr. Eilish Cleary, Chief Medical Officer of Health, a concern
This post is for Kimberly Mildenstein, Alberta mother of three sons
Termination of New Brunswick’s Chief Medical Officer of Health a concern: open letter to Premier Gallant by Dr. Warren Bell, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) Board Member and Former Founding President, Dec 15th, 2015 11:19 AM
(OPEN LETTER Released December 15, 2015)
The Honourable Brian Gallant
Premier ...
- W. Va: Prenter Camp, Boone County community, out of water with nowhere to turn. How much has Fox Creek paid for hauled water? What happens when Fox Creek runs out of money? Will Encana step up like Bonavista was ordered to?
Boone County community out of water with nowhere to turn by Chris Lawrence, December 17, 2015, wvmetronews.com
PRENTER CAMP, W.Va. — Residents of a small Boone County community were thrust into a dire situation this week they didn’t see coming. Wednesday, residents in the 25 homes of Prenter Camp turned on the faucet and nothing came out.
“A ...
- Merry Christmas! Ian Jessop with CFAX 1070 in Victoria interviews Jessica Ernst
Ian Jessop interviews Jessica Ernst December 18, 2015, CFAX 1070
A listener’s email read by Ian on his show (another listener called in):
From: d m
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 1:24 PM
To: CFAX Talk
Subject: Jessica
Good afternoon Ian, Jessica, you are a fascinating women on so many levels. If the movie industry has not approached you, l believe they soon ...
- Community stops Australia’s NSW Northern Rivers CBM/CSG exploration & extraction; Metgasco shareholders reluctantly accepted $25 million settlement from govt to buy back licence
Please help UK citizens, sign:
Petitioning Prime Minister David Cameron and 1 other
I pledge to take non-violent, direct action against unconventional energy (fracking, csg, cbm etc) #PledgeNVDA
Tina Louise Lancashire, United Kingdom
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Metgasco accepts $25m compensation to end CSG at Bentley in NSW Northern Rivers by Anne Davies, December 16, 2015, www.smh.com.au
Coal seam gas exploration and extraction will cease in NSW’s Northern ...
- Why the Bully Victim Act? What fraud this time? What are AER & Bonavista hiding? Perpetual acid gas injection break outs into drinking water zones? Frac hit(s)? Other toxic chemicals contaminating Edson groundwater? Bonavista whines about AER ordering it to do the right thing. PS Who’s going to fix the aquifers?
Bonavista Energy (T.BNP) whines as regulator deals with contaminated groundwater at local dairy farm by Canadian Press, with file by Stockhouse. com December 16, 2015, stockhouse.com
In a display of what happens to energy executives when they forget they’re living in a polite society, an Alberta energy company is fighting an order to truck water to a ...
- Canadian Geophysicist Dr. Gail Atkinson: Provinces must do more to prevent fracking-induced earthquakes
Provinces must do more to prevent fracking-induced earthquakes: expert by Shawn McCarthy and Mark Hume, December 17, 2015, The Globe and Mail
Provincial regulators are struggling to keep up with a fracking boom that has caused small earthquakes in British Columbia and Alberta and could result in a larger one in the future, one of Canada’s top ...
- Dr. Anthony Ingraffea’s testimony to Parliamentary Inquiry on Fracing in SE of South Australia
Hansard: Dr. Anthony Ingraffea’s testimony to Natural Resources Committee Inquiry on Fracking December 4, 2015, Parliament of South Australia
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Flowback impoundments: I did not see anything at all in your regulations regarding
surface containment or underground containment or tank containment or lake containment of flowback. This is a major issue in the United States. It was when it ...
- ‘Slick Water’ is a page turner
Slick Water in general books (non-textbooks) with a few other bestsellers at University of Victoria Bookstore in December 2015
Best of BC by Vancouver Sun, December 7, 2015
1. Vancouver Vanishes: Narratives of Demolition and Revival – Caroline Adderson (Anvil Press)
2. The Wild in You: Voices from the Forest and the Sea – Lorna Crozier (Greystone Books)
3. ...
- Regulator Order Fraud? Was this AER’s plan all along? Bonavista Energy asking Alberta Court of Appeal to quash AER’s order that the company supply safe water to Sakens and their dairy herd after groundwater contaminated with sulfolane
Energy company fights order over chemically tainted Alberta dairy farm by The Canadian Press, December 16, 2015, Global News
An Alberta energy company is fighting an order to truck water to a family farm the company admits it has contaminated with chemicals from its gas plant.
Bonavista Energy is asking the Alberta Court of Appeal to overturn the ...
- BC Regulator: 4.6 quake in August 2015 triggered by fracking largest on record, OGC finds while Geological Survey of Canada experts get their frack quake harm facts mixed up
4.6 quake in August triggered by fracking largest on record, OGC finds by Jonny Wakefield, December 15, 2015, Alaska Highway News
Fluid injection during hydraulic fracturing caused a 4.6 earthquake north of Fort St. John this summer, the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission (OGC) has found.
The regulator released a report on the Aug. 17 quake Tuesday ...
- Industry’s Massive Natural Gas Leak Into Porter Ranch Community to Be Declared Local State of Emergency, More than 1,000 households moved out, another 1,379 leaving
# Households relocated/in process out of California Gas Co’s Toxic Leak Zone:
December 10: 2,522
(1,143 moved into temporary housing, another 1,379 in process)
December 7: 2,000
December 2: 1400
(600 asking to relocate)
December 1: 800
(300 + 500 more in process)
November 30: 300
November 27: 170
November 23: 30
Gas Leak Into Porter Ranch to Be Declared Local State of Emergency, More than 1,000 ...
- An Environmental Scientist at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University warns that Fracking is “Inconsistent” with Climate Change Mitigation Policies
An Environmental Scientist at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University warns that Fracking is “Inconsistent” with Climate Change Mitigation Policies Press Release by Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, December 10, 2015, Canada News Wire
LONDON, Dec. 10, 2015 /CNW/ — As ministers from around the world gather at COP21 in Paris in a bid to come to an agreement on a new ...
- Companies asking Oklahoma judge to throw out Prague resident Sandra Ladra’s frack waste quake lawsuit
Companies asking Oklahoma judge to toss earthquake lawsuit by Associated Press, December 9, 2015, Fuel Fix
Incredible photos. Click to view
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Two energy companies are asking a judge to throw out a lawsuit by an Oklahoma woman who claims she was injured in an earthquake caused by the injection of wastewater deep into the ground ...
- Pa. Appeals Court rules Landowner Loren Kiskadden Can’t Revive Claim That Fracking by Range Resources Contaminated his Water Well, not even with proving that Range withheld radioactive frac tracer data during the legal proceedings
Court: Range not responsible for contamination in Amwell Twp. drinking water by Karen Mansfield, December 8, 2015, Observer-Reporter
A Commonwealth Court panel Monday affirmed a state agency’s ruling that an Amwell Township man failed to prove Range Resources contaminated his drinking water.
The procedural decision means the Commonwealth Court will hear the appeal of Loren Kiskadden, who claims his well ...
- Frac Fraud on the Run: Pennsylvania attorney general sues Chesapeake Energy over shale gas royalties; When will Alberta’s attorney general sue oil companies deceiving & robbing Albertans?
AG Kane sues gas producer for ‘deceptive practices’ in fracking industry by Candy Woodall, December 9, 2015, Pennlive
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State residents who feel they were victimized by Chesapeake, Williams Partners or other companies are asked to file a complaint with the AG’s Antitrust Section at www.attorneygeneral.gov or by calling 717-787-4530.
State attorney general sues Chesapeake Energy over shale gas royalties by ...
- Four train cars derail at yard NE of Edmonton; one rolled down embankment, spilled all its 99,000 litres of hazardous, flammable, toxic liquid styrene monomer (used in oil & gas drilling & fracing)
Four train cars derail at yard northeast of Edmonton; one leaking hazardous product by Edmonton Journal, December 9, 2015
A cleanup is ongoing at a Canadian Pacific Railway yard northeast of Fort Saskatchewan after four train cars derailed Tuesday afternoon.
One of the derailed cars rolled down an embankment and spilled all of its contents. It was ...
- Former Oklahoma state seismologist Austin Holland confirmed industry pressure and conflicts of interest by state officials handling swarms of frac waste quakes shaking & damaging the state
Former Okla. seismologist confirms pressure, conflicts of interest in TV interview by Mike Soraghan, December 9, 2015, E&E News
In a soon-to-be-televised interview, former Oklahoma state seismologist Austin Holland confirmed industry pressure and conflicts of interest by state officials handling the swarms of quakes that have rattled the state.
Talking with Al-Jazeera last summer on his last day working ...
- L.A. city attorney sues SoCal Gas over gas leak making Porter Ranch homes “unlivable.” Why isn’t Alberta’s Attorney General suing Encana & AER for illegally frac’ing a community’s drinking water supply, then engaging in Charter violations, fraud to cover it up?
# Households Relocated (or asking to be) out of California Gas Co’s Toxic Leak Zone:
December 7: 2,000
December 2: 1400
(600 asking to relocate)
December 1: 800
(300 + 500 more in process)
November 30: 300
November 27: 170
November 23: 30
What about the undisclosed frac chemicals in this leaking stored natural gas? Are any health “authorities” demanding the list of all chemicals ...
- Frack Firing Fraud? New Brunswick’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Eilish Cleary, fired by provincial Liberal government to clear way for lifting frac moratorium
Fracking returning to NB after firing of top doctor, says provincial NDP December 7, 2015 by APTN National News
New Brunswick’s top doctor was fired by the provincial Liberal government to clear the way for the lifting of a moratorium on shale gas exploration this spring, according to the leader of the provincial NDP.
Provincial NDP leader Dominic ...
- Alberta Taxpayers give 84 Million dollars for 79 flood-damaged homes, greedily built in floodplains where they ought to have never been built. Homes & farms not built in flood plains but harmed by fracing, get no help – just fraudulent reports and gopher shit water sampling
NDP set to announce fate of purchased floodway homes by Darcy Henton, December 8, 2015, Calgary Herald
Municipal Affairs Minister Danielle Larivee is set to announce the fate of the Calgary flood zone homes purchased by the government after the 2013 flood, but it appears most of the damaged houses will be demolished.
Larivee will reveal Wednesday ...
- Oil Patch Boom ‘n Bust Harm? Alberta’s suicide rate, always slightly higher than national average, Spikes up 30 per cent in first half of 2015, compared to last year
Alberta’s Suicide Rate Spikes As Unemployment Soars by Sarah Rieger, December 7, 2015, Huffingtonpost.ca
Alberta’s suicide rate has grown almost 30 per cent in the first half of this year, compared to the same period last year.
The data, which comes from the chief medical examiner’s office, shows Alberta could have 654 suicides this year, CBC News ...
- Payback time for oil patch fraud? Risk of Lawsuits Against Fossil Fuel Companies Getting Harder to Ignore
Attn. Fossil Fuel Companies – the Risk of Climate Lawsuits Is Getting Harder to Ignore by Jessica Clogg & Andrew Gage, December 4, 2015, Slaw Canada’s online legal magazine
In a recent speech to the world’s insurance companies, Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England (and formerly of the Bank of Canada), warned of the risks ...
- Terrorism? The Pentagon’s Carbon Boot Print
DECEMBER 4, 2015
The Pentagon’s Carbon Boot Print
by JOYCE NELSON, Counter Punch
With both France and the UK now “at war” with ISIS in Syria and joining the U.S.-led bombing mission, it’s not likely that there are many voices at the COP21 climate change negotiations in Paris who would dare to discuss what a few critics have ...
- After more than a year, Nova Scotia’s Energy Dept can’t figure out what a community is, and still can’t define high volume hydraulic fracturing “because of the implications that certain words in the definitions can have.”
Nova Scotia still pondering rules for fracking by Michael Gorman, December 4, 2015, Chronicle Herald
After more than a year of work the province’s Energy Department still cannot define high-volume hydraulic fracturing.
Energy Minister Michel Samson said the effort, which has been underway since the release of the Wheeler report in August 2014, remains a work in progress, ...
- The Fraud Files: Alberta NDP govt says AER performing well, No plans for any improvements. Energy Minister Marg McCuaig-Boyd: “[AER] is working well. Industry likes it.”
Methane plan will take work, energy regulator says by David Howell, December 4, 2015, Edmonton Journal
Developing a plan to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas industry will be a major task for the Alberta Energy Regulator, president and CEO Jim Ellis said Friday.
As part of its new climate-change goals, the Alberta government wants ...
- First 30 families relocated out of California Gas Co’s catastrophic gas storage leak in community of Porter Ranch, then 170, then 300, then 800, now 600 more asking to leave
# Households Relocated out of California Gas Co’s Toxic Leak Zone:
December 2: 1400
(600 asking to relocate)
December 1: 800
(300 + 500 more in process)
November 30: 300
November 27: 170
November 23: 30
What about the undisclosed frac chemicals in this leaking stored natural gas? Are any health “authorities” demanding the list of all chemicals used to frac the gas stored ...
- CBM Cleanup Fraud? Wyoming Supreme Court rules Pennaco Energy responsible for CBM cleanup and back payments to two landowners, after selling wells to firm that went bankrupt
Wyoming Supreme Court: Pennaco Energy is responsible for CBM cleanup by Benjamin Storrow , December 3, 2015, Casper Star Tribune
Pennaco CBM ruling
The Wyoming Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Pennaco is liable for back payments to two landowners and reclamation of their properties.
There are almost 7,000 abandoned CBM wells in the state.
The Wyoming Supreme Court ruled Wednesday ...
- Invisible Hand, Out of the current struggle for democracy in an unfettered free market, Rights of Nature are born: Public Herald announces new film project
Public Herald is nonprofit, fearless investigative journalism. Our independence is guaranteed. We’re publicly funded, which means we work for and are supported by public donations. You can’t buy us, and we don’t give credence to awards and ratings. …
INVISIBLE HAND, Out of the current struggle for democracy in an unfettered free market, Rights of Nature are ...
- Slick Water by Canadian Journalist Andrew Nikiforuk; Skull Girl by Canadian artist Marianna Gartner
December 2, 2015: Marianna Gartner’s Facebook post on Slick Water
Gartner in her studio
Skull Girl (Light box #4) 2004 by Marianna Gartner
oil on wooden panel with illuminated glass slide 180 x 110cm
Skull Girl was purchased by Jessica Ernst in 2004 – the year Encana illegally fractured Rosebud’s drinking water aquifers, which Ernst didn’t find out until two years later.
Skull ...
- “Abnormally dangerous and ultra hazardous activity.” Did TRC or Chevron’s fracing kill Robert David Taylor? What happened to California regulators’ vows to make steam injections safer? “Safer?” Why not make it “safe?”
What happened to California regulators’ vows to make steam injections safer? by Julie Cart Julie, November 28, 2015, LA Times
On the morning of the day he died, David Taylor and his crew were looking for a “chimney” — a fissure in the earth where steam and oil periodically spurted into the air in an oil field west ...
- Carbon Tax Synergy Frac Dance: Govts, oil industry, environmental groups, universities, First Nations dancing happily together. “One key reason: Those taxes are probably good for their natural-gas businesses” keeping big oil bribes rolling in for a greedy few while frac harm & pollution escalates
Secret deal on Alberta’s oilsands emissions limits divides patch by Claudia Cattaneo, December 1, 2015, Financial Post
A hard cap on oilsands emissions that became part of Alberta Premier Rachel Notley’s climate change plan was the product of secret negotiations between four top oilsands companies and four environmental organizations, the Financial Post has learned.
The companies agreed to the cap ...
- ‘Natural Gas as a Bridge Fuel’ Fraud? Another study: “Considering only physical climate system effects, we find that there is potential for delays in deployment of near-zero-emission technologies to offset all climate benefits from replacing coal energy systems with natural gas energy systems….”
Down load complete study at link: Climate benefits of natural gas as a bridge fuel and potential delay of near-zero energy systems by Xiaochun Zhang, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Zeke Hausfather, Ken Caldeira, Applied Energy (Impact Factor: 5.61). 10/2015; DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.10.016
ABSTRACT
Natural gas has been suggested as a “bridge fuel” in the transition from coal to a near-zero emission energy system. However, the ...
- Why so much frac fraud? Why is Health Canada hiding frac hazards to drinking water? Why publicly release pathogen harms, but not frac hazards and harms?
Why was a 2012 Health Canada Report, admitting significant health hazards and risks to groundwater and air from hydraulic fracturing, kept from the public?
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Estimating the number of cases of acute gastrointestinal illness (AGI) associated with Canadian municipal drinking water systems by Murphy HM1, Thomas MK1, Medeiros DT2, McFADYEN S2, Pintar KD1. Epidemiol Infect. 2015 Nov 13:1-15. [Epub ...
- Public and Corporate Health Fraud? Where’s the regulator? Huge natural gas leak in California has impact of burning 300 million gallons of gasoline, is sickening residents, could take months to fix, class action lawsuit filed
Huge natural gas leak in CA has the impact of burning 300 million gallons of gasoline by Cat DiStasio, November 24, 2015, inhabitat
In California, where the environment is already endangered by severe drought, a natural gas leak has quietly released enough methane to create as much impact on the atmosphere as up to 2.9 million metric ...
- FracFocusFraud? New Study from journal Energy Policy: Industry increasingly using trade secrets to limit disclosure
….FracFocus’ continued success is the result of state and federal government agencies and the oil and natural gas industry to provide public transparency.
fracfocus.org website
What Chemicals Are Used in Fracking? Industry Discloses Less and Less, Companies that report their hydraulic fracturing chemicals to FracFocus have become less forthcoming since 2013, finds a study of 96,000 disclosures by ...
- Slick Water excerpts translated into French. Thank you Amis du Richelieu!
Mes traductions d’extraits du livre “Slick Water” by Les Amis du Richelieu, September – November, 2015
Voici donc la liste d’extraits du livre “Slick Water – Fracking and One Insider’s Stand Against the World’s Most Powerful Industry” écrit par Andrew Nikiforuk que j’ai traduit. Pas nécessairement parce que les bouts choisis étaient mes préférés, mais parce ...
- Promise of Fracking Three Part Series by Tom Wilbur: Was it too good to be true? “It continues to be the driller’s dirty secret: Play nice and you get water. Buck the system and you’re on your own.”
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Malcolm Mayes cartoon, Edmonton Journal November 24, 2015
Fracing pollution is blessed and set to increase by Notley/industry/env NGOs et al in their “plan”
This post is recommended reading for Rachel Notley and the NDP, CAPP et al, Pembina Institute et al, Andrew Leach, Angela Adams, Stephanie Cairns, Linda Coady, and Gordon Lambert, because:
Meeting global climate change ...