- Podcast now available: Jefferson Public Radio Interviews Andrew Nikiforuk on “Slick Water” And The Effects Of Fracking
“Slick Water” And The Effects Of Fracking 40:39 Min. by Geoffrey Riley and Emily Cureto, November 23, 2015, Jefferson Public Radio
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- Bravo! Prevent Cancer Now calls out AER’s Health Fraud! “The AER has no jurisdiction for human health, and Alberta is famed for a chill against the medical community linking ill health to petrochemicals.”
Alberta Energy Regulator Aspires to Excellence – Admirable Goal is Difficult and Distant Media Release by Prevent Cancer Now, November 23, 2015
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In the lead-up to Paris climate talks and amid accusations of Canada exporting “dirty oil,” the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) is ...
- Phil Johnson, AM 1150 Kelowna, interviews Jessica Ernst on Slick Water, book by Andrew Nikiforuk about her fracking case
Jessica Ernst – Book about her fracking case by Phil Johnson, November 17, 2015, www.am1150.ca
- Sound Familiar? “Intimidation” by Mapping
2004 10 21: Encana map handed out by the company at its open house in Rosebud. There are more than a hundred residents living in the map area.
An industry executive gave Ernst a copy, laughing about the angry invasions soon to come to her home.
(The eventual noise monitoring by Encana was fraudulent, but still showed non-compliant noise ...
- Netherlands court orders more cuts in gas production after stronger and more frequent earthquakes continue
Dutch court orders more cuts in gas production by JURIST, November 18, 2015
The Dutch Council of State more cuts in gas production. The court came to this decision after stronger and more frequent earthquakes occurred in the Netherlands as a result of extraction. ...
- New Study: “Groundwater is a super-important resource.” Is that why so much frac fraud by NGOs, AER, CAPP, Synergy Alberta & its offspring, companies, Alberta Innovates (previously Alberta Research Council), etc?
The global volume and distribution of modern groundwater by Tom Gleeson, Kevin M. Befus, Scott Jasechko, Elco Luijendijk & M. Bayani Cardenas, Received 18 May 2015 Accepted 14 October 2015 Published online 16 November 2015,
Nature Geoscience (2015) doi:10.1038/ngeo2590
Abstract
Groundwater is important for energy and food security, human health and ecosystems. The time since groundwater was recharged—or groundwater age—can ...
- Andrew Nikiforuk Slick Water Book Launch Islands Tour: November 18 – 26, 2015
Victoria’s Munro’s Books third on list of globe’s most interesting bookstores by The Canadian Press, March 24, 2016, The Globe and Mail
When it comes to world-class bookstores, a top 10 list from National Geographic speaks volumes, and that list now includes a literary treasure in Victoria.
Munro’s Books, in Victoria’s Old Town, ranks third on National Geographic’s ...
- MUST WATCH! CAPP’s Frac Fraud & The Synergy Con 2015
CAPP – – The Synergy Con 2015 3:22 Min. by Catalyze This, November 16, 2015
- Paris.
Paris 1966. Photographs by John Spencer
Arc de Triomphe and the Champs-Élysées on Bastille Day.
- Texas: Hydraulic Fracturing Stimulation contaminating drinking water, 25 per cent of water wells tested by Dr. Zack Hildenbrand show contamination with man-made chemicals used in fracking the Eagle Ford: “This practice is having an affect”
Must watch video news report
“This practice is having an affect”
Trouble Shooters get exclusive access to water test results in Eagle Ford Shale by April Molina, November 12, 2015, News 4 San Antonio
Jimmy Stevens has lived in Wilson County for more than fifty years.
He is one of 80 private well owners who agreed to allow research ...
- Book Review by Robin Mathews: Justice In Chains. Jessica Ernst And Slick Water
Justice In Chains. Jessica Ernst And Slick Water by Robin Mathews, November 14, 2015, blogborgcollective
“Slick Water”, of course, is the feel of good water when changed by Fracking poisons. It is good water invaded by (Corporation-imposed secret) human-and-plant-destroying poisons pumped underground during “Fracking” (hydraulic fracturing of natural underground strata) to “retrieve” oil and/or natural gas. ...
- The Sakens need to prepare themselves for when AER’s “Best in Class” cruelty kicks in and takes the water deliveries away
Time for Conservatives to make the environment their issue too by David Krayden, November 12th 2015, National Observer
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The Sakens would like to sit down with these titans of the energy industry and discuss some form of compensation. They have so far received nothing but bottled water: 9.5 million litres a year, to be sure, but ...
- “THAT’S B*PEEEP*T!” Alex Smith reporting for Radio Ecoshock interviews “Canadian investigative journalist Andrew Nikiforuk on the shadows of fracking”
Radio Ecoshock interviews Canadian investigative journalist Andrew Nikiforuk on the shadows of fracking by Alex Smith reporting for Radio Ecoshack, November 12, 2015.
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- More lies & frac fraud? Why did AER’s Darin Barter (now NEB) suggest trucks to blame for citizens feeling frac quakes at Cardson? Why not tell the truth? Why are regulators and “experts” so loath to publicly disclose fracing’s many public safety risks?
The Cardston Earthquake Swarm and Hydraulic Fracturing of the Exshaw Formation (Alberta Bakken Play) by Ryan Schultz,Shilong Mei, Dinu Pană, Virginia Stern, Yu Jeffrey Gu, Ahyi Kim, and David Eaton, November 5, 2015, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
Abstract
More than 60 small earthquakes (ML 0.7–3.0) were detected from December 2011 to March 2012 north of Cardston, Alberta, an area with ...
- Parr vs Aruba $3 Million frac harm verdict: “The Dallas Court of Appeals hasn’t yet issued a decision to either affirm or overturn the jury verdict.”
Success of nuisance suits against Texas oil and gas companies in limbo by Maryann B. Zaki, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, November 9, 2015, FuelFix.com
Marathon Oil EF, LLC, and Plains Exploration & Production Co. recently prevailed against landowners who claimed harm to their health and property from surrounding oil and gas operations in the Eagle Ford ...
- Specific Claims Tribunal found Canadian government breached its obligations to First Nations when it botched a 1948 land swap. Blueberry & Doig First Nations win “75-year-old legal battle” over access to oil & gas beneath their reserves
First Nations tribunal win corrects 75-year-old mistake by Jonny Wakefield, November 9, 2014, Alaska Highway News
The Blueberry River and Doig River First Nations have won a 75-year-old legal battle over access to oil and gas beneath their reserves.
On Nov. 5, the Specific Claims Tribunal found the Canadian government breached its obligations to the First Nations ...
- AER’s ADR: Enforcer or Fraud? Sakens want AER to force talks on their Edson dairy farm’s water contaminated by Suncor, Bonavista (that AER knew about since 2009 but covered-up)
AER’s ADR = Appropriate Dispute Resolution
Alberta family wants talks on farm contaminated by oil and gas industry by Bob Weber, The Canadian Press, November 8, 2015, Calgary Herald
WATCH THE VIDEO AT LINK! Alberta family wants regulator to force talks on contaminated farm by Bob Weber, The Canadian Press, November 9, 2015 12:38 pm Updated: November 9, 2015 ...
- A+++ Voice America host Jill Buck interviews Andrew Nikiforuk on Slick Water: “It’s a page turner.”
Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider’s Stand Against the World’s Most Powerful Industry 56 Min. by Jill Buck, November 6, 2015, Voice America
- HOLY FRACK! Endeavours Radio host Dan McPeake interviews Andrew Nikiforuk on Slick Water
HOLY FRACK! FEAT. SCARLETT JANE, EVA BUTTERFLY, & ANDREW NIKIFORUK interview, published On October 17, 2015, 137 views (as of November 8) by Leaminn Ma, Endeavours Radio, podswithbenefits
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This episode features folk Duo Scarlett Jane. Consisting of Cindy Doire and Andrea Ramolo, ...
- MUST READ: A Medal for Brent Rathgeber, past MP for Edmonton St. Albert, only Conservative in Canada who publicly resigned from Harper’s Party for reasons of conscience
The Enemies of Democracy in Canada by Robin Mathews, November 08, 2015
Many, many Canadians weren’t wrong – on October 19, 2015 – to feel they were part of an important historical event happening before their eyes. They knew, too, that they, themselves, were actively making the historical event happen. That experience doesn’t happen frequently in most ...
- Dr. Mackenzie Brooks interview conversation with Jessica Ernst, dedicated to George Bender and his loved ones
The Jessica Ernst Interview Conversation with Dr. Mackenzie Brooks, Interview on October 9, 2015, posted November 2, 2015, Dr. Mackenzie Brooks Your source for continuous development and life-long learning.
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Jessica Ernst is a 58 year-old Canadian scientist with over 25 years experience working in the petroleum industry and lives rurally near ...
- Frac Fraud Academia? How University of Calgary’s Enbridge relationship became controversial, “Most damningly it smacks of us being apologists for the fossil fuel industry.” Is that why Alberta government switched labs to U of C after U of A isotopic fingerprinting analysis of gases in Rosebud drinking water matched those from Encana gas wells?
Premier monitoring allegations at U of C and examining change in conflict of interest legislation by Annalise Klingbeil, November 3, 2015, Calgary Herald
In the wake of allegations of undue corporate influence at the University of Calgary, the premier suggested Tuesday her government will examine if Alberta’s post-secondary institutions should be forced to comply with provincial ...
- Northern Alberta landfill opens after decade of controversy; “We’ve lost all the water”
Northern Alberta landfill opens after decade of controversy by Bill Mah, November 1, 2015, Edmonton Journal
After nearly a decade of controversy, Waste Management of Canada opened its Thorhild landfill facility on Thursday.
Ten days earlier the site, located about 85 kilometres northeast of Edmonton, had begun accepting its first truckloads of garbage.
“We received our final operating approval ...
- LISTEN: EXCELLENT 7 MIN INTERVIEW with Andrew Nikiforuk in Colorado on his new book Slick Water: “Albertans haven’t reached the same political conclusions that Coloradans have in terms of fighting the spread of this very disruptive technology.”
Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider’s Stand Against the World’s Most Powerful Industry by news.KGNU.org, October 27, 2015, in Breaking News, Featured, Morning Magazine
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“Local government, local legislators are not listening to local people and are in a very ...
- What’s in the milk? AER orders Bonavista to deliver safe water to cows at Edson, but not to Albertans living with dangerous levels of Encana’s frac’d gases in their water & homes
THE SIGNED ORDER on AER website
THE SIGNED ORDER uploaded to ernstvsencana website (because AER too often removes from public view, important documents).
MADE at the City of Edmonton, in the Province of Alberta, on
October 29, 2015 ALBERTA ENERGY REGULATOR
Under section 104 of the Oil and Gas Conservation Act
Bonavista Energy Corporation (A5RX)
1500, 525 – 8
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Calgary, AB, T2P ...
- What frac fraud now? Fraser Institute joining Dr. Maurice Dusseault; Dr. David Wheeler; Dr. John Cherry & Council of Canadian Academies Frac Panel; charter-violating, no-duty-of-care, lying, bullying, worst-in-class, legally immune AER; Alberta government; U Penn law/political science prof Cary Goglianese & Synergy Alberta; Encana; Bellatrix; Angle Energy; Frac contaminating water confessing CAPP; other enablers in cycle of frac abuse? Why so many enablers? Scared of the Supreme Court without Harper slaying justice?
Ex CEO Encana Gwyn Morgan on the Board of Directors of the Fraser Institute. Gwyn was CEO when the company illegally fractured Rosebud’s drinking water aquifers. Snap below taken October 28, 2015:
The Fraser Institute Board of Directors is a distinguished group of individuals who provide governance of the business and affairs of the Institute.
Managing the ...
- Albertans battered by oil and gas industry ask for help too, never get it unless they sign freedom of speech violating gag orders. “It never hurts to ask” says CAPP. OK. When’s CAPP gonna fix Rosebud’s dangerously contaminated aquifers illegally frac’d 11 years ago by Encana and fraudulently covered up by “World Class, Best in the World” AER? Why are residents paying for Encana’s intentional frac fiasco?
Battered oil industry asks for help … from bruised Alberta government by Stephen Ewart, October 26, 2015, Calgary Herald
The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers has some 60 asks of the province’s royalty review panel.
They say ...
- BC regulator copying AER’s frac fraud? BC OGC blames nature for heavy metals surfacing into Brenot Creek and contaminating Lynx Creek in frac quake zone in NE BC
Fracking, landslide blamed for contamination of Northern B.C. creek, B.C.’s Oil and Gas Commission says ‘no evidence’ that fracking to blame, heavy metals naturally in soil by Betsy Trumpener, October 25, 2015, CBC News
A relentless landslide that’s contaminated a source of drinking water near a community in northeastern B.C. has residents blaming oil and gas exploration’s effects ...
- 2015: Andrew Nikiforuk tours his new book Slick Water in Colorado and Wyoming & The Case for Public Accountability: Slick Water book review by Angela K. Evans
The case for public accountability by Angela K. Evans, October 22, 2015, Boulder Weekly
Jessica Ernst won’t back down and she won’t settle. And for that, the Canadian has drawn international attention for her ongoing multimillion dollar lawsuit against oil and gas company Encana for its alleged gross negligence while fracking natural gas reserves near her ...
- MUST READ! Will Canadian cops become next victims of industry’s water contamination and fraud? A dangerous new police “best practice?” RCMP members “drink the water” while “trying to understand the shale gas industry” and “educate” themselves. No word on if RCMP plan to try to understand, or investigate, the dangerous and rampant fraud associated with oil and gas industry’s widespread frac contamination, or the number to call if families need RCMP “water taster” to come taste their water after it’s been frac’d, as companies, regulators, and research councils try to cover it up, while lying to the public (including the police) that now toxic and explosive water is “common, normal, and safe”
Exclusive: New Brunswick RCMP, Pennsylvania police, FBI, share ‘best practices’ on policing shale gas by Miles Howe, October 21, 2015, Halifax Media Coop
Travel itinerary, budget approval, obtained for June 2014 meetings
Four Days in June – New Brunswick RCMP, Pennsylvania state police and the FBI had a 2014 meeting on how to ‘properly’ police shale gas.
KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) ...
- If frac’ing is safe & wonderful, why so many gag orders, why is fracking killing hope, people, fish, animals, vegetation, water, air, soil, and busting caprock? Why so much fraud by regulators, politicians, companies, NGOs, experts, academics etc covering up murderous corporate crimes: threats, bullying, abuse; dropping rodent shit into water wells of the harmed; trespassing, home invasions, interrogations of harmed families by police; intimidation; “terrorist” labeling to violate rights of citizens filing lawsuits? George Bender “died of a broken heart” says family.
George Bender’s family shares their grief with the world 1:49 Min by msn.com
Chinchilla community mourns loss of local farmer by Alana Calvert, October 23, 2015, The Chronicle
THE Western Downs community is grief-stricken with the tragic passing last week of local farmer George Bender.
Mr Bender died on Wednesday night, October 14, leaving behind his wife Pam, their five adult ...
- “After four years, you lose hope,” he says. “There’s no hope.” Four years without water in frac’d Pennsylvania community; Eleven years without safe water in Rosebud after frauds by Alberta’s “Best in the world” regulators enable Encana’s frac crimes
Four years without water: How shale drilling impacted one rural community by Wallace McKelvey, Candy Woodall contributed, October 20, 2015, PennLive.com
Uncle Denny knew that long before the Rex Energy convoy pulled up four years ago: a yellow school bus full of pumps instead of pupils and two flatbed trucks hauling water buffaloes — the freestanding tanks ...
- What happens when communities firmly and loudly say “NO!” to fracing and the endless fraud that goes with it? Canadian company Rathlin Energy pulls out of Northern Ireland!
Rathlin Energy blames Ballinlea borehole planning delay for withdrawal by BBC Northern Ireland, October 21, 2015
Rathlin Energy found a small amount of crude oil in its first exploration well at Ballinlea.
A Canadian-owned company that holds the licence for oil and gas exploration on the north coast of Northern Ireland is to withdraw from the area.
Rathlin ...
- More fraud in the frac patch? Trying to cover-up a major frac hit by blaming vandalism? 6.4 km long North Dakota oil well spews more than 67,000 gallons of crude & 84,000 gallons of brine for days
Workers cap out-of-control North Dakota oil well by James MacPherson, Associated Press, October 20, 2015, WRAL
Crews successfully plugged an oil well blowout Tuesday in western North Dakota that had been spewing a mixture of oil and saltwater since the weekend, state and company officials said.
The well near White Earth, owned by Houston-based Oasis Petroleum North America ...
- AER trying to buy Harper votes? When’s AER going to criminally charge Encana for violating AEPEA and the Water Act by illegally fracturing and diverting fresh water from Rosebud’s drinking water aquifers, and releasing gases that contaminated citizen water wells and blew up the community’s water tower?
Companies charged over 2013 coal tailings pond spill: Alberta Energy Regulator by Bob Weber and John Cotter, The Canadian Press, October 15, 2015, The Calgary Herald
Two companies have been charged over a huge 2013 spill from a coal tailings pond that fouled tributaries feeding the Athabasca River.
Coal Valley Resources Inc. and Sherritt International Corp. (TSX:S) ...
- HOW MUCH FRAUD ARE COURTS, REGULATORS, COMPANIES ENGAGING IN TO HIDE THE FRAC POISONING? Tracers to blame? Range Resources unwillingly confirms fracking directly pollutes drinking water? Damning new information surfaces in Washington County water well contamination case
New information raised in Amwell well water contamination case by Francesca Sacco October 16, 2015, Observer Reporter
Newly discovered evidence in a case filed by an Amwell Township man who claims Range Resources contaminated his drinking water could result in a new trial before the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board.
According to a motion filed Wednesday in Commonwealth ...
- AER gets a frac “expert,” a liar no less?
A citizen who witnessed the March 15, 2012 AER (then ERCB) frac propaganda at Eagle Hill, reported that Bob Willard admitted he is not a frac expert and said (lied?) local fracs are no bigger than 10 to 20 thousand liters per well!
Edmonton-area fracking boom brings new life, new issues to old oilfields
http://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/controversial-devon-fracking-operation-uses-municipal-drinking-water
by Sheila Pratt, October 15, ...
- “A terrible terrible day.” George Bender, CSG (CBM) impacted farmer, Darling Downs, Queensland, killed himself. “Not only does this community have to live with this scourge of CSG coal seam gas mining on a daily and nightly basis, now they have to deal with one of their most-respected and most-loved community members taking his life.”
February 2, 1968
Poem by Wendell Berry during the darkest days of the Vietnam War.
In the darkness of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter,
war spreading, families dying, the world in danger,
I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.
George Bender by one of his two dried up water bores after CSG (CBM). George ...
- Why not practice with a sour gas “mock” emergency and show first responders and the community how deadly sour gas is?
Mock emergency hits Taylor, From rail car fires to car accidents to ruptured pipelines, emergency responders from district, industry get exercise in staying prepared and keeping co-ordinated when catastrophe strikes by Bronwyn Scott, October 15, 2015, Alaska Highway News
Fire, sirens, traffic control and emergency personnel were all on scene in Taylor for a mock emergency exercise ...
- New Research: Fracking chemicals lower sperm count in mice when they reach adulthood, Could have fertility implications for people living in shale gas zones
Fracking chemicals lower sperm count in mice when they reach adulthood, says new research, The research could have fertility implications for people living in shale gas zones in the United States by Paul Gallagher October 14, 2015, The Independent
Chemicals used in fracking lowered the sperm count in mice when they reached adulthood, according to new research which ...
- COMPENDIUM 3: SCIENTIFIC, MEDICAL, AND MEDIA FINDINGS DEMONSTRATING RISKS AND HARMS OF FRACKING (unconventional oil and gas), Updated with more than 100 new studies
COMPENDIUM OF SCIENTIFIC, MEDICAL, AND MEDIA FINDINGS DEMONSTRATING RISKS AND HARMS OF FRACKING (unconventional oil and gas exxtraction) Third Edition by Concerned Health Professionals of New York & Physicians for Social Responsibility. October 14, 2015.
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Emerging Trends
1) Growing evidence shows that regulations are simply not capable of preventing harm. Studies reveal inherent problems in the natural gas extraction ...
- Fracing the Bow River: “The most important resource in the province, and the rarest, is water” Then why let “No duty of care,” legally immune, led by Ex-Encana VP, Charter violating AER permit multinationals to frac it?
Protecting the health of Alberta’s Bow River by Roy MacGregor, October 11, 2015, The Globe and Mail
[Reality avoidance?
In such a comprehensive article about impacts to the Bow River, why leave out frac impacts, when it’s known that companies are sucking massive amounts of water out of the Bow River – without oversight – for drilling and ...
- Frac Trickery & Loopholes in Scotland: Thousands joined hands in stand against test drilling announced by govt one day after govt announced moratorium
Thousands line bridge in protest after gas drilling test go-ahead by Stefan Schmid, October 12, 2015, The National
Though the Scottish Government announced a moratorium on UCG but it was announced a day later that test drilling would be allowed to take place
Thousands of people joined hands along the Forth Road Bridge yesterday to take a ...
- When will oil and frac company executives be sentenced to life in prison for violating laws in place to protect families and their homes, water, air and land?
China sentences former executive of state oil company to 20 years in prison for corruption by The Associated Press, October 12, 2015, Calgary Herald
A Chinese court sentenced a former senior executive of a state oil company on Tuesday to 20 years in prison after finding him guilty of corruption.
The sentencing of Wang Yongchun, former deputy general ...
- Gas Fracs: Gas in, gas out; the highly dangerous waterless fracking alternative
Gas in, gas out: the waterless fracking alternative by Nelson Bennett, October 13, 2015, midnight, Mining & Energy, Business Vancouver
Millennium hauls liquefied natural gas to well sites, then re-gasifies it before injecting it underground at high pressure to fracture shale gas deposits | Millennium Stimulation Services
As concerns mount about the vast amounts of water used in hydraulic fracturing, ...
- Last Chance? Is Harper stealing from Canadians to give Encana & frac industry two billion dollars from pensioners before Harper’s law-violating Gang get punted?
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to invest $1 billion for energy infrastructure in Western Canada by the Canadian Press, September 30, 2015, The Province
TORONTO – Canada’s largest pension fund manager is committing $1 billion for energy infrastructure acquisitions in Western Canada, in partnership with a private Calgary-based firm with expertise in the sector.
Canada Pension Plan Investment ...
- Cushing, Oklahoma: 4.5M earthquake ignores newly imposed frac quake prevention rules
Earthquake hits near Oklahoma oil hub amid fracking regulations by Al Jazeera and Reuters, October 11, 2015
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 struck near the U.S. crude oil hub of Cushing, Oklahoma on Saturday, just days after regulators imposed new rules meant to prevent temblors in the area and said more changes were possible.
The ...
- Let’s Heave King Steve: “This law-and-order man routinely abuses the legal system, wasting more than $100 million a year in courts denying justice to the Aboriginal Peoples; keeping Omar Khadr tangled in specious cases despite losing at every turn, including thrice at the Supreme Court; not accepting three court rulings against his ban on the niqab; and fighting scores of Freedom of Information requests. When the judges don’t do his bidding, he insults them, including the chief justice of the Supreme Court.”
King Stephen has changed Canada for the worse, Stephen Harper’s biggest problem is not that he is a right-wing ideologue. It is how he has governed.
by Haroon Siddiqui, October 8, 2015, Toronto Star
One can agree or disagree with the political orientation of a government, even on such seminal issues as where to draw the line between ...
- Another study showing serious frac harm: Women near frac sites 40 per cent more likely to give birth prematurely, and 30 per cent increase in chance that an obstetrician had labeled their pregnancy high-risk
Study: Fracking Industry Wells Associated With Premature Birth NEW RESEARCH SUGGESTS INCREASED RISK OF ADVERSE PREGNANCY OUTCOMES CLOSER TO ACTIVE UNCONVENTIONAL NATURAL GAS WELLS Press Release by John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, October 8, 2015
Expectant mothers who live near active natural gas wells operated by the fracking industry in Pennsylvania are at an increased ...
- Oil and gas industry pollution travels hundreds of kilometres, No wonder Harper is muzzling Canadian scientists
Computer-generated video shows pollution spread across the Prairies, Emissions from oilsands, oil and gas plants travel hundreds of kilometres by Terry Reith, October 8, 2015, CBC News
“The bright yellow plumes represent sulphur dioxide. … On the prairies, the only source is industrial activity. … Pollution is traveling at greater distances and over greater areas than previously ...
- Scotland widens fracking moratorium
Scotland widens fracking moratorium by Mure Dickie in Edinburgh, October 8, 2015, www.ft.com
Scotland has announced a moratorium on underground coal gasification and has also widened a review on the effects of fracking….
… Scotland was taking a “precautionary, robust and evidence-based approach” to unconventional gas, Mr Ewing said.
Critics of the SNP have accused the government of ignoring scientific evidence ...
- Encana joining Alberta Energy Minister McCuaig-Boyd on her trip to China to talk money
Alberta Energy Minister off to China by Matt Dykstra, October 7, 2015 Calgary Sun
Alberta Energy Minister Marg McCuaig-Boyd is embarking on a $33,000-trade mission to China. The NDP government says the mission aims to encourage energy investment in Alberta and share environmental best practices with China’s largest oil and gas companies, ...
- Who believes what Cenovus or Encana say? And, just how cruel are those companies to their workers? Encana offspring Cenovus apologizes: a lot too little, too late
Cenovus says workers not barred or suspended before layoff notices issued by The Canadian Press, October 8, 2015, Calgary Herald
Officials at Calgary-based Cenovus say their workers were never barred from their workplace, nor were their cellphones suspended, before they were told they were being laid off.
Cenovus began laying off 540 employees last week.
Spokesman Brett Harris ...
- Does it get any more terrifying than this? Encana dumping frac water wars on Canadian pensioners? Encana sells troubled Colorado assets for nearly $1 Billion US to entity 95% owned by Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
Encana sells Colorado assets to Broe Group partnership for $900M, Private equity firm partners with Canada Pension Plan Investment by Alicia Wallace, October 8, 2015, The Denver Post
The Broe Group, a Denver-based conglomerate, in partnership with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board plans to acquire the entirety of Encana’s oil and gas assets in the Denver-Julesburg Basin ...
- !!! Regulators launch inquiry after WFAA questions EOG gas well records related to Cody Murray’s water well explosion. Will the AER ever investigate Encana illegally fracing Rosebud’s drinking water aquifers?
Regulators launch inquiry after WFAA questions gas records by Brett Shipp, October 2, 2015, WFAA
Some of Cody Murray’s injuries
News 8 Investigates
PERRIN, Texas – Questions raised by News 8 about whether gas wells were properly constructed near a family home whose water well exploded last year have prompted an official review by the Texas Railroad Commission.
The investigation ...
- Since frac’ing, earthquakes now frequent near Fort St. John; Why is OGC lying about drinking water contamination caused by hydraulic fracturing?
Earthquakes occurring frequently near Fort St. John by Energetic City, September 30, 2015
Did you feel that? Maybe not, but there have been small across the Peace recently, noticed by some, or quietly occurring.
In the last week, 15 small earthquakes were recorded northwest of Fort St. John, and 10 have been recorded outside of Dawson Creek, ...
- Why are Spectra Energy and the NEB lying about flaring deadly sour gas at Taylor, BC, claiming it poses no risk to the public?
Spectra Energy and NEB say there’s ‘no reason for concern’ in McMahon gas plant flares September 30, 2015, Energetic City
The National Energy Board and Spectra Energy have both released more information about the flares that went off at the McMahon gas plant in Taylor, saying they do not pose any risk to the public.
Jesse Semko with ...
- Fracking banned in Northern Ireland!
No fracking in Northern Ireland, no fracking anywhere Press Release by Friends of the Earth, September 29, 2015
Friends of the Earth today (28 September 2015) strongly welcomed a major blow
by Environment Minister Mark H Durkan to prospects for unconventional
drilling for oil and gas in Northern Ireland.
The Minister has just released a new Strategic Planning Policy ...
- Hold your breath! Unplanned power outage at Spectra Sour Gas Plant in Taylor, BC causes massive flare and small grass fire
2011: Don’t flare up – Spectra’s new turnaround process
During turnaround at Spectra Energy’s McMahon natural gas processing plant in Taylor, British Columbia this June, the company introduced a new process designed to eliminate flaring of sour gas at the facility.
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The main motivation for developing the process was to reduce flaring of sour gas.
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“We’re always trying ...
- Water on Mars. Will frac’ers destroy it too?
Do you mind?!!! Editorial Cartoon by Brian Gable, September 29, 2015, The Globe and Mail
But no safe water for Albertans Schwiegers, Campbells, Zimmermans, Jacks, Ernst, … or in Fox Creek, Rosebud and Redland, and how many in the Lochend, … ?
“Wish we all had safe water in Alberta,” said Ernst.
- Encana says sour gas and condensate blowout at Fox Creek has been capped; AER compliance dashboard does not
Encana says blowout at northern Alberta natural gas well has been capped by The Canadian Press, September 27, 2015, BOE Report
Encana says in an update on its website that the damaged wellhead 18 kilometres from Fox Creek has been brought under control and that the flow of natural gas and condensate has been stopped.
[Why will Encana ...
- Andrew Nikiforuk launches his new book Slick Water in Rosebud
Slick Water: Andrew Nikiforuk launches book in Rosebud by Laureen F. Guenther, September 25, 2015, Strathmore Times
Canadian journalist and author Andrew Nikiforuk presented a book talk and launch of his newest book, Slick Water, at Rosebud’s Community Hall, Sept. 12.
The event was attended by over 75 people from numerous Alberta communities including Rosebud, Drumheller, Kathyrn, Didsbury, ...
- Defamation and SLAPP lawsuits: Ultimate bullies? Is the Good Samaritan banishing & suing Julie Ali to punish & silence her for caring for her sister? Judge dismisses “SLAPP” lawsuit seeking to end opposition to fracking near Mars Area schools
People banned from visiting family in hospital demand provincial help by Paige Parsons, September 9, 2015, Edmonton Journal
Julie Ali, left, and her sister Sue said they are experiencing ‘retribution’ after complaining about the quality of their sister’s care in a Good Samaritan Society longterm care facility.
Photograph by: Paige Parsons, Edmonton Journal
An Edmonton woman says she is ...
- WITH PHOTOS, AER’s EMERGENCY COMMAND CENTRE SET UP 2.5 HRS AWAY! DON’T AER COMMAND STAFF WANT TO DAMAGE THEIR BRAINS? Encana’s Fox Creek blow out spewing 20,000,000,000 litres/day sour gas & condensate: Where’s the regulator? Ex-Encana VP Gerard Protti = AER Chair; Ex-Encana Manager Mark Taylor = AER VP Industry Operations
Subject: FW: ACTION ITEM: FW: Update on Encana Sour Gas/Condensate Blow Out
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 08:50:21 -0600
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Hello Diana,
The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) is responding to the Encana natural gas well blowout located approximately 18 kilometres west of Fox Creek, Alberta.
The company is taking the lead with this incident and has set up ...
- Alberta premier Rachel Notley tells business leaders energy industry must clean up its act. Do energy industry business leader terrorists give a damn about Alberta or Albertans?
Alberta premier tells business leaders energy industry must clean up its act by The Canadian Press, September 22, 2015, Global News
The energy industry will be critical to Alberta’s economy for many years to come, but ...
- CBC’s Donna McElligott interview with Andrew Nikiforuk on his new book “Slick Water”
CBC’s Donna McElligott interview with Andrew Nikiforuk September 21, 2015
Interview starts at 9 Min. to 17:47
Investigative journalist Andrew Nikiforuk’s new book is called “Slick Water”
- Ian Jessop interviews Andrew Nikiforuk on his new book, Slick Water
Ian Jessop interviews Andrew Nikiforuk on his new book, Slick Water September 18, 2015, CFAX 1070
Interview starts at 7:11 Min.
- AER & Encana Lying Update: Encana’s Deadly Sour Gas Blow Out at Fox Creek: Did Alberta’s Energy Minister lie for Encana & “No Duty of Care,” cover-up agent extraordinaire, the AER?
Encana and AER (lying) Update : Sour gas detected in air after well blowout in northwest Alberta by Jodie Sinnema, September 22, 2015, Edmonton Journal
Small amounts of sour gas detected in the air around a blowout at a northern Alberta natural gas well are so minimal ...
- Review of Alberta Energy Regulator complete by end 2015, says energy minister Marg McCuaig. Did Encana create the conclusions?
End of year deadline for review of Alberta Energy Regulator, says minister by Darcy Henton, September 21, 2015, Calgary Herald
Alberta’s Energy minister says she will deliver a recommendation on the future of Alberta’s oilpatch regulator to the premier by the end of the year.
Marg McCuaig-Boyd said she is examining whether the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) ...
- AER Responding to Encana Sour Gas Well Blowout in AER’s blanket approval, fracing free-for-all near Fox Creek. Was it caused by what Mayor Ahn fears? Fracquakes?
Energy regulator reports natural gas well blowout in northern Alberta by Edmonton Journal, September 21, 2015
The Alberta Energy Regulator was investigating a blowout Monday that happened at an Encana natural gas well in northern Alberta.
Spokesman Peter Murchland said the blowout was reported at about 2 p.m. at a well site about 18 kilometres west of Fox Creek.
“There ...
- VW’s Deepwater Horizon? “There will likely be criminal charges filed against VW executives.” Will Gwyn Morgan be criminally charged for Encana illegally fracing a community’s drinking water aquifers under his profit-taking?
VW’s Deepwater Horizon? by Maximilian Auffhammer, September 21, 2015, Energy Institute at Haas
Last week one of the biggest environmental scandals since the Deepwater Horizon disaster made its way to somewhere near the bottom of page 11 of most major newspapers. VW admitted to systematically cheating on emissions tests of its Diesel vehicles. This might sound snoozy, ...
- Bishop of Boston and Canada’s water: Do you like living with water?
It’s time Canada reassessed its stance on selling water by Barrie McKenna, September 20, 2015, The Globe and Mail
Canada is a nation of resources.
We dig them, pump them, cut them, crush them, grow them and export them. They are a huge part of the economy and a massive wealth generator.
And yet the country’s most valuable ...
- Battle against fracking never ends, SACPA told; Nikiforuk presents his new book Slick Water in Lethbridge
Battle against fracking never ends, SACPA told by Dave Mabell, September 18, 2015, Lethbridge Herald
Poll (as of September 20, 2015)
Do you think there’s good reason to be concerned about the amount of fracking in Alberta?
Yes (64%, 250 Votes)
No (36%, 140 Votes)
Total Voters:
390
After years of fracking to produce more oil, Alberta’s air and water is full of ...
- Alberta frack operation near Devon shattered home window; No wonder Edmonton-area residents are protesting fracing near their homes
Edmonton-area residents protest drilling near their homes by Sheila Pratt, September 17, 2015, Edmonton Journal
Henry Neumann, who says a nearby fracking operation shattered his patio window, is upset by the enterprise on his acreage near Devon on Thursday Sept. 17, 2015. JOHN LUCAS / EDMONTON JOURNAL
Henry Neumann sat down to supper one evening at his Devon-area ...
- Alberta Energy Regulator Theatrics? “No Duty of Care” AER Allows Resumption of 10 Production Pipelines at Nexen Long Lake; 45 Lines Remain Shut in
AER Allows Resumption of 10 Production Pipelines at Nexen Long Lake; 45 Lines Remain Shut in Press Release by AER, September 16, 2015, Marketwired
The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) has approved the resumption of operations for 10 production pipelines at Nexen Energy ULC’s Long Lake oil sands operations.
The production pipelines transport miscellaneous gases, including produced steam and ...
- Friday September 18, 2015 2 pm Alberta time: Ian Jessop will interview Andrew Nikiforuk on the history of fracing and his new book, Slick Water
CFAX 1070
- Ian Jessop interviews Jessica Ernst on the launch of Andrew Nikiforuk’s new book, Slick Water, at Ground Zero, Rosebud, Alberta
Ian Jessop interviews Jessica Ernst on the launch of Andrew Nikiforuk’s new book, Slick Water September 14, 2015, CFAX 1070
- Netherlands court orders Shell & Exxon Mobil to pay 100,000 homeowners billions of dollars in quake damages
Netherlands court orders gas companies to pay for quake damage by Matt Belenky, September 2015, Jurist
A Netherlands court ruled on Wednesday that a Royal Dutch Shell and Exxon Mobil joint venture must pay homeowners for property damage caused by gas drilling related earthquakes. The Dutch Safety Board has warned several times in the past few years that ...
- Fort Nelson First Nation wins legal challenge; Environmental Appeal Board cancels Nexen water license granted by BC government for fracking in Horn River Basin
Water licence for northeast B.C. fracking operation cancelled by Gordon Hoekstra, September 6, 2015, Vancouver Sun in Calgary Herald
The Fort Nelson First Nation has won a potentially precedent-setting decision from the B.C. Environmental Appeal Board that cancels the water licence of a natural gas fracking operation in northeast B.C.
The appeal board — in a decision ...
- Alberta No Duty of Care “regulator” says Nexen can reopen utility pipelines at Long Lake
Alberta regulator says Nexen can reopen utility pipelines at Long Lake by The Canadian Press, September 7, 2015, Calgary Herald
Nexen Energy is being allowed to reopen some pipelines at an Alberta oilsands operation after provincial regulators suspended the licences for them last month.
The Alberta Energy Regulator says that after inspecting Nexen’s Long Lake facility and ...
- Is Encana pulling out of Drumheller?
Encana makes more cutbacks by Bob Brown, September 4, 2015, Drumheller Online
It’s been a tough last few years for the oil patch and one of the major players in the area continues to cut back to meet the new economic reality.
Encana recently laid off about 200 employees, including an unspecified ...
- Why so many time extensions in Aruba’s appeal of Parr’s $3 Million Jury win on frac poisoning? How long will the legal system allow delays?
Fracking Litigation: Floodgates Still Not Opened by Poole & Shaffery, LLP, September 1, 2015
Since a jury awarded $2.9 million to a Texas family in the first successful “fracking case” in the United States back in April 2014, there was concern that the floodgates for fracking litigations across the country had finally been opened. In preparation for the ...
- Canada’s energy regulators put on a stage play: Pretend to get tougher? Is it because, for the first time, the “No Duty of Care” AER is before the Supreme Court of Canada?
Canada’s energy regulators get tougher, but it’s for all the wrong reasons by Claudia Cattaneo, September 3, 2015, Financial Post
The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) forced Nexen this week to wind down operations of the $6-billion Long Lake oilsands project.
By ordering the shutdown of almost 100 Nexen Energy ULC Alberta pipelines last week, the Alberta Energy Regulator ...
- Kingston Whig-Standard Book Review: Andrew Nikiforuk takes on oil industry in new book
Author takes on oil industry in new book by Wayne Grady, September 2, 2015, Kingston Whig-Standard
KINGSTON — When Andrew Nikiforuk was an editor at Equinox magazine, in Camden East, he specialized in stories about people whose plight crystalized what was happening in the bigger picture.
He wrote features about First Nations groups trying to stop the ...
- Slick Water: The Devil is in the Details
Slick Water: The Devil is in the Details by FrackingCanada, September 2, 2015
Andrew Nikiforuk interview on his new book, oil patch workers calling in afterwards September 1, 2015, 630CHED Edmonton
Slick Water Event page
Fracking Alberta – Taking a Stand at Ground Zero Facebook community on Slick Water‘s journey by Barb Ryan, August 29, 2015
Click for book excerpt
- Excellent letter! Fighting fracking under Swan Lake, British Columbia
Fighting fracking under Swan Lake by Allen Watson, SLES director, September 2, 2015, Alaska Highway News
Dear Editor.
Yes, fracturing of bed rock for natural gas recovery has been going on for years. The difference in modern day hydraulic fracturing is the massive pressure used by hydraulically pumping water and chemicals into the bed rock to release ...
- September 14, 2015, Kingston, Ontario: Miles Howe and Annie Clair, cross country speaking tour, on struggle to protect New Brunswick land, water and rights from fracing
Visiting speakers to recount dramatic N.B. fracking struggle by Aric McBay, September 3, 2015, Kingston Region
Events – Kingston will be visited by a cross-country speaking tour about the struggle to protect land in New Brunswick from fracking. Annie Clair and Miles Howe will speak in Kingston on Monday, Sept. 14 about protests which have seen ...
- All the better to frac Canada with: “Enforcement fell off a cliff.” Attempts to protect Canada’s lakes, rivers ‘all but abandoned’ says U of Calgary law professor Martin Olszynski: “It was never really about reducing red tape.”
Attempts to protect Canada’s lakes, rivers ‘all but abandoned’: analysis by Bob Weber, The Canadian Press, September 1, 2015, CTV News
A statistical analysis of the Conservative government’s changes to environmental laws and procedures suggests Ottawa has “all but abandoned” attempts to protect Canada’s lakes and rivers.
“Over the last decade, what we’ve seen is a not-so-gradual abandonment ...
- Toxic taint: Tests in Alberta industrial heartland reveal air-quality concerns
Toxic taint: Tests in Alberta industrial heartland reveal air-quality concerns by Bob Weber, The Canadian Press, August 29, 2015, Calgary Herald
New air-quality tests in one of Canada’s largest petrochemical processing regions have revealed more evidence of short-lived but concentrated plumes of toxic chemicals.
The tests by a Nobel-prize-winning lab at University of California Irvine echo previous ...
- What’s the AER really up to shutting down Nexen’s 95 pipeline licenses? Protti trying to save his job? Make Albertans forget the courts ruled that the regulator owes no duty of care to anyone no matter how badly harmed, and can violate our constitutional rights with complete legal immunity?
Nexen responds to suspension of 95 pipeline licences by Sheila Pratt, August 28, 2015, Edmonton Journal
On July 15, a pipeline at Nexen’s Long Lake project was found to be leaking, spilling about five million litres of a mixture of bitumen, water and sand.
Nexen Energy says it is putting together records to comply with orders of ...
- September 12, 2015 Talk & Book Launch at Ground Zero; Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider’s Stand Against the World’s Most Powerful Industry
PDF of poster for printing and distribution in your community.
- Tara Australia Residents Want Out: Brutal betrayals, Greed & Gag Orders, Losing Health & Home. Synergy Strikes, Again.
Coalseam gas mining (CSG) = Coalbed methane (CBM) = Natural Gas from Coal (NGC)
Tara residents want out as coal seam gas mining takes hold by John McCarthy, August 22, 2015, The Courier-Mail
“ONE out, all out!” is the chant coming out of the poor community and coal seam gas hub of Tara, population 3000.
Several families want ...
- Texas: Cody Murray and family sues fracking companies after giant fireball rips through drinking water well, injures members
Texas family sues fracking companies after giant fireball rips through well, injures members by Alexey Yaroshevsky , August 24, 2015, RT America
[Refer also to:
Another frac lawsuit: Cody Murray from Texas left permanently disabled from burns after fracking causes water well to explode ]
- Legal precedents in Alberta could mean Flames’ arena site gets cleaned up by a third party; What about Encana’s frac damages? Why does Encana get special lenience?
Legal precedents in Alberta could mean Flames’ arena site gets cleaned up by a third party by Geoffrey Morgan, August 24, 2015, Financial Post
The empty streets of Lynnview Ridge, a community in this city’s southeastern quadrant, offer a precedent for forcing polluters to pay to clean up contaminated sites decades after the companies have moved on, ...
- The cheap cost of oil and gas industry polluting drinking water aquifers: Companies & Pennsylvania DEP agree on fines for industry’s illegal methane migration into drinking water wells in 3 counties
Natural gas companies pay fines for methane contamination by WBNG (Binghamton) News, August 25, 2015
The Department of Environmental Protection has reached penalty agreements with three natural gas exploration companies in the Northern Tier of Pennsylvania.
The DEP on Tuesday announced it has finalized agreements with the companies for methane gas migration violations that impacted private drinking water wells ...
- Has fracing made you rich? Alberta declares province-wide agricultural disaster, expects to pay $1 Billion to 80% of farmers struggling with drought. Meanwhile fracing contaminating drinking water continues, unabated
Alberta declares province-wide agricultural disaster by Rachel Ward, August 22, 2015, Edmonton Journal
The Alberta government on Friday declared a province wide agricultural disaster as a result of extreme weather conditions.
The declaration allows the government-run Agricultural Financial Services Corporation to access reserve funds and pay out above average insurance claims more quickly, Agriculture and Forestry Minister ...
- Exclusive: Pennsylvania Family Dealing with Water Contamination Linked to Fracking Industry
Exclusive: Pennsylvania Family Dealing with Water Contamination Linked to Fracking Industry by Julie Dermansky, August 21, 2015, desmogblog
The Chichura family has flammable well water, most likely due to a fracking job gone wrong in Pennsylvania’s Susquehanna County. Their water well, along with those of four of their neighbors, was allegedly contaminated with methane in the ...
- Foot rot is highly contagious, so is violating information rights in Canada: From Alberta to Harper government
Information access needs campaigners’ attention by Guelph Mercury Editorial, August 17, 2015
When the doorbell rings and local federal election candidates appear at your door, it would be worth asking them about Canada’s access to information system.
That’s because the recent record on being able to obtain and review public information held federally has been quite awful.
The ...
- NE BC: Monday’s 4.5 Magnitude frac quake, felt from Pink Mountain to Fort St. John (180 km), ‘likely’ caused by Progress Energy, OGC confirms
Monday’s quake ‘likely’ caused by fracking, OGC confirms by Jonny Wakefield, August 18, 2015, Alaska Highway News
B.C.’s oil and gas regulator says it’s “likely” Monday’s 4.5 magnitude earthquake north of Fort St. John was caused by hydraulic fracturing in the area.
The shake, which was felt from Pink Mountain to Fort St. John, had its epicentre ...
- Secret hearings stab at the heart of democracy. What democracy? Under Steve Harper, Alberta’s foot rot has spread across the country
Monday’s Letters: Secret hearings stab at the heart of democracy by Anne Hamre, Edmonton, August 17, 2015
Re: “Secret spy hearings have chilling effect on our rights,” Aug. 13
Much-needed attention has been drawn to an increasingly troubling fact in our society: Our federal government is showing a growing willingness to treat any kind of law-abiding protest as dangerous ...