Global Frac News

  • The Road to Hell Continues. Does Nova Scotia have a frac ban? No, of course not. Synergized environmental groups, including Council of Canadians, made sure of that
    Note Council of Canadians is not the same as Council of Canadian Academies. A few eye openers: 2017 11 07: Synergy Alberta Strikes BC! 17 groups, including Council of Canadians and BC Tap Water Alliance, join call for frac regulations! Calling for regulations gives industry social licence to frac. Has Synergy finally conquered Will Koop? It conquered Council of ...
  • Outrageous frac company Cabot Oil & Gas Suing Victim of Its Own Pollution for Speaking Out, Pennsylvania resident Ray Kemble sued by the company that polluted his water
    A Fracking Company Is Suing a Victim of Its Own Pollution for Speaking Out (Video), A Pennsylvania resident is being sued by the company that polluted his water by Hope Forpeace, AlterNet, January 10, 2018 Cabot Oil & Gas, a petroleum, natural gas and natural gas liquids exploration and production company based in Houston, Texas, has filed a $5 ...
  • Just another Synergy Alberta Propaganda Group? Maritimes Energy Association urges Nova Scotia to undo frac ban. By how many billions is Energy Dept exaggerating their new “analysis?”
    Wheeler says he wouldn’t ‘change a single word’ of 2014 fracking report by Francis Campbell, January 12, 2018, The Chronicle Herald No wonder: 2014 08 02: Whycocomagh MUST WATCH “Trust Us” Patronizing Propaganda; Nova Scotia Frac Panel Chair Dr. David Wheeler and member Dr. Maurice Dusseault: “Ordained” Conflicts of Interest? Who’s Next? Nothing much has changed since David ...
  • Typical: Energy group Ineos files for judicial review of Scotland’s frac ban. But Scotland hasn’t legislated a ban yet, they only said they will ban it
    Ineos launching legal challenge against SNP fracking ban, CHEMICALS giant Ineos is launching a legal challenge against the SNP’s fracking ban amid claims the move is “unlawful” and a “misuse of ministerial power” by Tom Martin, January 9, 2018, express.co.uk … Mr Wheelhouse said: “We have taken a careful and considered approach to arriving at our preferred policy ...
  • Listen to George Bender’s Story by O’Shea featuring Bob Hirst (Midnight Oil): The truth walks slowly (in the countryside). “His heart’s as empty as his water tank.”
    The truth walks slowly in the countryside by O’Shea featuring Bob Hirst, April 25, 2016 His heart’s as empty as his water tank. You may have heard about some of the issues that coal seam gas mining is causing in the Condamine River and surrounding areas where I grew up in Australia. You may not have heard about ...
  • Doug Hendren: Fracking is Everywhere; We’ve got gag orders, no tape recorders, … ‘Cause the judge says that it ain’t legal, Walking ‘round, talking to people.
    Listen to the song at link: Fracking Is Everywhere by Doug Hendren M.D. & Musical Scalpel, 2016 Something is going on, Pennsylvania, Down on the farm. Governor’s telling me not to be alarmed. Animals upside down From drinking the water, Families falling down From breathing the air. Our throats are sore, Johnny’s stopped reading, And our noses won’t stop bleeding. Fracking is everywhere. Benzene and ...
  • Netherlands: 50 years after catastrophic blowout, natural gas reservoir still leaking methane into local drinking water aquifer. No evidence of leak above ground, but water wells are contaminated with enough methane to merit immediate action to prevent explosions. Meanwhile, nothing but bullying and lying by “regulators” is done in Alberta where water wells are contaminated with dangerous levels of methane from fracking, even illegal frac’ing of community aquifers by Encana
    FIFTY YEARS AFTER A BLOWOUT, THIS NATURAL-GAS RESERVOIR IS STILL CONTAMINATING THE LOCAL GROUNDWATER, A study of a blowout site in the Netherlands offers safety lessons for natural gas fields around the world by Francie Diep, January 2, 2018, Pacific Standard Magazine Fifty years after a catastrophic blowout, an underground natural-gas reservoir in the Netherlands is still ...
  • Super Smart! France’s parliament passes law banning producing oil & gas by 2040, Bans extracting shale gas by any means, Unlike New York State’s frac ban where many fracs (eg gas fracs) remain legal
    France bans fracking and oil extraction in all of its territories, French parliamentarians have passed a law banning fossil fuel extraction. President Macron says he wants France to lead the world with switch to renewables by Agence France-Presse, December 20, 2017, The Guardian France’s parliament has passed into law a ban on producing oil and gas by 2040, a ...
  • Fabulous Christmas gift for Prince Edward Island’s fresh water, farms, families and communities! PEI Water Act passes with amendment to prohibit fracking
    P.E.I. Water Act passes with amendment to prohibit fracking by Mitch MacDonald, December 20, 2017,  Journal Pioneer Fracking for oil and natural gas is now effectively banned in P.E.I. A ban on hydraulic fracturing was included during the passing of the Water Act during Wednesday’s sitting of legislature, with the province removing two clauses Opposition members described as ...
  • Chris Bowers Letter to BC NDP MLAs: On Drowning the Peace
    From: Chris Bowers Sent: December-19-17 2:30 PM To: John Horgam Premier (email hidden; JavaScript is required); ‘email hidden; JavaScript is required‘; Anne Kang; Bob Deith; Bowinn Ma; ‘email hidden; JavaScript is required‘; ‘email hidden; JavaScript is required‘; ‘email hidden; JavaScript is required‘; David Eby; Doug Donaldson; ‘email hidden; JavaScript is required‘; Gary Begg; George Chow; George Heyman; ‘email hidden; JavaScript is required‘; Jagrup Brar; Janet Routledge; Jennifer Rice; Jinny Sims; ‘email hidden; JavaScript is required‘; Judy Darcy; Katrina Chen; ‘email hidden; JavaScript is required‘; ‘Lana Popham’; ‘Leonard Krog 2 (email hidden; JavaScript is required)’; Lisa Beare; ‘Mable ...
  • Texas, New Study: Fracking directly linked to increase in earthquakes
    Fracking Activity Linked to Increase in Texas Quakes, According to New Study by Yale Environment 360 Digest, November 27, 2017 Using recent seismic data and studies of ancient fault lines, scientists have concluded that an increase in earthquake activity in parts of the United States is directly tied to hydraulic fracturing, which results in the disposal of pressurized ...
  • Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! Will Encana Spawn’s Greed Kill Your Frac Job? Cutting Workers to Fatten Investors, Making Workers Wonder over the Holidays. Nasty, in True Encana/Cenovus Form
    A comment to the Calgary Herald article by Tom Aaron What lousy reporting. The impact? This announcement has more impact on the Calgary and Alberta economy (real lives) than anything in the last 90 days. The artsy trained press ‘just doesn’t get it’. Clueless as to what this means for individual contractors, drillers, small towns, etc. A few ...
  • New Study Says Fracking Negatively Impacts Infant Health. New Low for Marcellus Shale Coalition: “….it’s dangerously misleading and inflammatory to suggest that natural gas development has done anything but improve public health.”
    Hydraulic fracturing negatively impacts infant health by B. Rose Kelly, Woodrow Wilson School of Public Health and International Affairs, December 13, 2017, Princeton University … Health risks increase for infants born to mothers living within 2 miles of a hydraulic fracturing site, according to a study published Dec. 13 in Science Advances. The research team found that infants born ...
  • UPDATED WITH MORE QUAKES, Fox Creek, Alberta Frac Quakes start up again; New Study by Standford Scientists: Small earthquakes at frac sites may be early indicators of bigger quakes to come; Surprising Finding: Arkansas earthquakes mostly caused by hydraulic fracturing, only some by wastewater injection, None caused by trucks
    Chevron boasted recently of moving from exploration to development in the Fox Creek  area. Earthquakes quickly followed. Data collection and quake location mapping by Barb Ryan (will be updated, time permitting, as the quakes shake on):   Most recent earthquakes at Fox Creek: AER – the “regulator” – has not updated their quake list since November 15, 2017. (None ...
  • BC NDP, Just like Alberta NPD: Feeding the Uneconomic Frac Frenzy & Folly, Horgan’s NDP Breaking Bad with Christie Clark’s (aka Gwyn Morgan’s) Site C Dam
    Breaking Bad: The Pathology of Site C, John Horgan’s NDP government ignored basic truths and now commits B.C. to greater environmental disaster by Andrew Nikiforuk , December 12, 2107, TheTyee.ca
  • Western Australia permanently criminalizes fracking in South-West, Pell and Perth regions; Legislation also supports State-wide frac moratorium
    WA passes anti-fracking law by The Australian Pipeliner, 12 December, 2017 The Western Australian Government has passed laws to permanently ban hydraulic fracture stimulation in the South-West, Pell and Perth regions. This delegated legislation also supports the State-wide fracking moratorium, which has already been implemented. “The McGowan Government recognises the need to protect the State’s environment from risks associated ...
  • Alberta Greed Marches Stupidly On: Trican to reactivate full fracking fleet by end of 2018
    Trican to reactivate full fracking fleet by end of 2018 by Deborah Jaremko, Dec. 11, 2017, JWNEnergy Trican Well Service is setting up its spending in 2018 for a return to full operations of its hydraulic fracturing fleet. The company parked equipment in the first quarter of 2015 following the collapse in crude oil prices. Trican began reactivating crews ...
  • Pffffffffffffffffffffffffffft, AER Hopes on a Rope & Farts out Puff Piece Propaganda Directive 67. With brilliant comments by Diana Daunheimer, censored by our media
    Alberta to crack down on oil executives that dumped orphan wells on taxpayers, More changes are expected in the coming months as the province is conducting a review of how orphaned oil and gas wells, for which there is no financially solvent owner, are regulated in the province by Geoffrey Morgan, December 6, 2017, Financial Post CALGARY — Alberta ...
  • In harm’s way in USA: About half of hydraulically fractured wells exist within 2 to 3 kilometers of domestic groundwater systems. In Alberta, companies frac within 100 metres of water wells, and regulators let them frac more wells above Base of Groundwater Protection nearby even after causing community-wide drinking water contamination
    In harm’s way: About half of hydraulically fractured wells exist within 2 to 3 kilometers of domestic groundwater systems by Julie Cohen, University of California, November 27, 2017, Science Daily Summary: About half of hydraulically fractured wells exist within 2 to 3 kilometers of domestic groundwater systems, warn researchers.  How safe is the water you drink? For the ...
  • BOE Report Gloating, Whining Damning Redwater Review: With low commodity prices and billions worth of outstanding environmental obligations, Alberta is between a soft rock and a hard wellsite. Think of the families with frac’d health, and or frac’d explosive drinking water too dangerous to flush toilets with
    Steve Harper moved Justice Niel C Wittmann down from Alberta Court of Appeal to Court of Queen’s Bench in time to cement the set-up of Redwater ripping off Albertans and the environment, and to volunteer to take over and get rid of Ernst. J Wittmann announced his retirement right after Ernst vs AER lost at the ...
  • Another frac harm lawsuit gags: Settlement reached between two Oklahoma oil and gas companies and Prague resident Sandra Ladra injured in 2011 earthquake
    Settlement reached between two Oklahoma oil and gas companies and Prague resident injured in 2011 earthquake by Lili Zheng, October 20, 2017, Oklahoma’s News4 PRAGUE, Okla. — A settlement has been reached between two Oklahoma oil and gas companies and a Prague resident injured during a strong earthquake in November 2011. Scott Poynter, an Arkansas-based attorney for ...
  • Wishing Steve Harper & MP Kevin Sorenson Merry Christmas: O Little Town Of Bethlehem
    Listen to Keith & Royal flat picking in Rosebud, Alberta as you read O Little Town Of Bethlehem by Francis A. Boyle, 03 December, 2010, Countercurrents.org It was December of 1991 and I was serving as Legal Advisor to the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Negotiations in Washington DC. The Israelis were stalling, not even negotiating in bad ...
  • Supreme Court of Canada shows its bias against non First Nations Canadians, yet again. Court rules not OK for Yukon govt to violate a local planning agreement with First Nations, while ruling OK for AER to violate Canada’s top law in the country, The Charter of Rights and Freedoms (which protects all Canadians, not just First Nations)
    Compare to the non ruling by the same court in Ernst vs AER, where the court knowingly defamed Ernst and allowed Alberta’s energy regulator (AER) to get away with violating Ernst’s Charter rights (her “valid” Charter claim was not quashed by the court, but it disallowed Ernst her guaranteed right to seek remedy for the violations). The ...
  • Perfectly Safe, “Brute Force & Ignorant” Fracking Experiment Kills Again: 1 dead, another injured during fracking at Devon Energy oil field in Blaine County
    1 dead, another injured after incident at Devon Energy oil field in Blaine County by KOCO Staff, November Nov 28, 2017 BLAINE COUNTY, Okla. — A person died and another was injured after an explosion Monday afternoon at an oil field in Blaine County. The accident was reported around 2:50 p.m. at a Devon Energy oil field west ...
  • BC Tap Water Alliance No Longer a Signatory with CCPA Calling for Frac Regulations Under Guise of Calling for Public Inquiry of Frac’ing in BC. Thank you Will Koop, for withdrawing from and saying “NO!” to Synergy Alberta!
    BC Tap Water Alliance No Longer a Signatory for Public Inquiry of Fracking in BC Press Release by Will Koop, November 29, 2017, BC Tap Water Alliance When the B.C. Tap Water Alliance (BCTWA) signed on alongside others in early November 2017 for a Public Inquiry into fracking in British Columbia we were keen to be included. After all, ...
  • Pennsylvania Supreme Court: Frac company EQT argues DEP’s ongoing penalties for frac waste water pit leaks are unreasonably excessive, go beyond what law allows
    Fracking Company, DEP Spar Over Ongoing Civil Penalties for Pollution, Allowing the state Department of Environmental Protection to issue ongoing penalties against companies for the continued presence of pollutants in state waters would essentially give the agency an unlimited ability to fine companies for pollution beyond their control, an attorney representing a prominent natural gas company ...
  • Yukon, Oklahoma: Fracking again directly causing earthquakes; Citizen Energy had to shut down, then cut back frac volumes by 50%
    Yukon Company Cuts Back Fracking Operations by Dana Hertneky, November 28, 2017, News9 News clip at link YUKON, Oklahoma – Experts say a recent surge in earthquakes in the Yukon area have been clustered around a fracking site. Now the oil company, Citizen Energy, has cut back its operations. The Oklahoma Corporation Commission has had guidelines in place ...
  • England: Mayor Sadiq Khan to ban fracking in London, Warns extracting shale gas represents toxic health risk: There is “absolutely no place for fracking in London.”
    Sadiq Khan to tell London councils they should ban fracking, Health dangers and high water use of shale gas extraction make it unacceptable, says mayor’s draft plan for the capital by Michael Savage, 26 November 2017, The Guardian Sadiq Khan will in effect ban fracking in London – and warns that extracting shale gas represents a toxic health risk. In a ...
  • Prince Edward Island Bans Frac’ing (First Reading Today)!
    Long-awaited Water Act tabled in P.E.I. legislature remains silent on deep-water wells by Teresa Wright Teresa, Nov. 23, 2017, The Guardian.pe.ca The province’s long-awaited Water Act has been tabled in the P.E.I. legislature. While it will impose bans on fracking and export of bottled water, it remains silent on the controversial issue of deep-water wells, The bill has been over ...
  • Are Oil Patch Promises Believable? Neighbors want oil & gas wells removed from Firestone explosion site, Anadarko *promised* it would happen in July. Company likely waiting for the community to forget over Christmas, Resume production without fixing a thing?
    Neighbors want oil and gas wells removed from Firestone explosion site, Anadarko *promised* it would happen in July by Jennifer Kovaleski, Oct 6, 2017, The Denver Channel FIRESTONE, Colo. — Six months since the deadly home explosion in Firestone, two oil and gas wells and a battery tank Anadarko promised to permanently remove following the tragedy are still there. “ ...
  • BC’s new NDP Energy Minister Michelle Mungall lies like Alberta’s! Agrees to Review by “Industry Likes It!” Synergy Frac Panel Called for by Ben Parfitt, Council of Canadians, Caleb Behn et al, Complete with Predetermined Outcome – No Moratorium, No Matter What the Frac Panel Concludes!
    Mungall’s all in on fracking review, but not moratorium by Vaughn Palmer, November 22, 2017, Vancouver Sun VICTORIA — During a break from answering questions in the legislature about Site C this week, Energy Minister Michelle Mungall faced down a call for a full blown public inquiry and possible moratorium on fracking in the natural gas sector. The call ...
  • This Saturday Morning, November 25, 2017 11:05 AM Pacific Time – 12:05 PM: Bob Hansen with CHLY 101.7 FM out of Nanaimo, BC, interviews Jessica Ernst
    Bob Hansen interviews Jessica Ernst November 25, 2017 11:05 AM – 12:05 PM Pacific Time, on CHLY 101.7 FM out of Nanaimo, a campus community FM station, powered by volunteers. All shows on this station can be heard live at www.chly.ca, click on ‘Listen’ OUR OFFICE Located in downtown Nanaimo, under the Queens Hotel. Accessible via Lois Lane, ...
  • New Study by Hildenbrand et al: Harmful bacteria thrive in water contaminated near drilling. And New Book: Advances in Chemical Pollution, Environmental Management and Protection: Environmental Issues Concerning Hydraulic Fracturing
    Study: Harmful bacteria thrive in water contaminated near drilling by Mike Soraghan, November 22, 2017, E&E News Texas researchers say they’ve found harmful bacteria in contaminated groundwater near Texas shale drilling sites, saying the discovery could explain some of the more unusual maladies claimed by neighbors of oil and gas production. “It’s an ideal breeding ground for ...
  • How did this get past Trump, Encana, CAPP, Energy in Depth etc? The Journal of the American Medical Association Publishes Concerns about Fracking Contaminating Air and Drinking Water, and Harming Human Health!
    Potential Health Impacts Related to Fracking  by Russell A. Wilke, MD, PhD (Department of Internal Medicine, University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, Sioux Falls) and Jerome W. Freeman, MD (Department of Neurosciences, University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, Sioux Falls) November 7, 2017, Journal American Medical Association Vol 318, No 17, doi:10.1001/jama.2017.14239 Complete piece uploaded to ernst versus encana Cross-contamination between fracking flowback and drinking ...
  • NE BC Fracking May Be Exposing Pregnant Women to Carcinogen, Study Says; Researchers found markers suggested benzene levels 3.5 times normal levels
    Interesting comments by readers and their slap downs of a few lying shills to Nikiforuk’s article, click on link to read them: ‘Red Flag’ Raised: Study Finds Possible Fracking Risk to Pregnant BC, Women,  Researchers found markers suggested benzene levels 3.5 times normal levels for women in northeast by Andrew Nikiforuk, November 16, 2017, The Tyee A ...
  • Study: Water use in ND Oil Patch increased almost 20-fold in seven years, Most dramatic increases for Frackin’ the Bakken where average groundwater levels in three shallow aquifers decreased
    Study: Water use in ND Oil Patch increased almost 20-fold in seven years by Forum staff, Nov 15, 2017, The Dickinson Press FARGO—Water use for oil production in the Bakken oilfields increased almost 20-fold from 2008 to 2014, with water consumption climbing from 550 million gallons to 10,200 million gallons per year, according to North Dakota ...
  • Study by Cornell University to be released early 2018, Did Fracking sicken Tioga Downs’ foals?
    Fracking study: Answers soon on sick foals of Tioga Downs owner by Tom Wilber, November 16, 2017, Press Connects Jeff Gural talks about his foals, which mysteriously fell ill but have since made a full recovery. Staff video When foals on Jeff Gural’s farm were born with a potentially fatal illness, the well-known casino magnate and horse breeder ...
  • “The public has a right to know”: Fracking companies don’t have to disclose chemicals linked to health concerns
    Part One Part Two: Click to listen to the audio: “The public has a right to know”: Fracking companies don’t have to disclose chemicals linked to health concerns by Scott Tong, November 15, 2017, Market Place … Secrecy lies at the heart of invention and capitalism to reward innovators with exclusive rights to their creations. But that secrecy can also ...
  • Industrial Strength: How U.S. Govt Hid Fracking’s Risks to Drinking Water, A pivotal EPA study provided rationale for exemptions that helped unleash the fracking boom. Science suppressed to protect industry interests
    Industrial Strength: How the U.S. Government Hid Fracking’s Risks to Drinking Water, A pivotal EPA study provided the rationale for exemptions that helped unleash the fracking boom. The science was suppressed to protect industry interests by Neela Banerjee, November 16, 2017, Inside Climate News … For Latkanich and all those who believe their water has been tainted by fracking, there ...
  • “Unconscionable!” Diana Daunheimer on Rachel Notley’s NDP giving $50 Million from education taxes paid by Albertans to municipalities to cover oil & gas companies not paying their taxes (after years of massive profit taking)
    Diana Daunheimer, frac’d mother of two living by Didsbury, FB comment: The NDP are taking money collected from taxpayers for education in the province, to pay municipalities, for defaulting oil and gas companies. This is unconscionable. Not only have our taxes increased in our county because of oil and gas defaults, but in the years to ...
  • Documents show EPA health concerns on frac chemicals kept secret, approved for use by companies near families & communities anyways: Intentional Environmental Racism by Regulators? Against everyone living frac’d?
    Quote of the Day sent by Pennsylvania’s Bob Donnan: It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community. THORSTEIN VEBLEN Part 2 tomorrow: Including on “Federal rules allow a high degree of secrecy.” Part 1: Documents show undisclosed EPA health concerns on fracking chemicals ...
  • U of C researchers sound alarm over radon levels in Calgary homes, expanding study across Alberta. Radon in frac fields needs study first, but started decades ago, before the frac hell began
    U of C researchers sound alarm over radon levels in Calgary homes by James Wood, November 14, 2017, Calgary Herald After discovering a significant health threat in many Calgary homes, University of Calgary researchers are turning their attention to the rest of the province as they urge Albertans to test their homes for radon gas. The “Evict Radon” campaign ...
  • New Study on Pregnant Women Living Near Frac’d Natural Gas Sites in Peace River Valley, NE BC Raises Concerns: Benzene biomarker (muconic acid) in urine 3.5 times higher than in women in general Canadian population
    Exposure to benzene during pregnancy: a pilot study raises concerns in British Columbia by University of Montreal, November 13, 2017, ScienceDaily Summary: New research reveals that 29 pregnant women living near natural-gas hydraulic fracturing sites had a median concentration of a benzene biomarker in their urine that was 3.5 times higher than that found in women from ...
  • Diana Daunheimer sums up AER’s “industry likes it” Lexin & OWA mega million dollar fraud, intentionally set up decades ago
    Two comments to the article Joe L Howse Is this why klien and his cronies moved govt offices down to cowtown ? …to the …put the fox in with the hens ? …..smh…. Diana Daunheimer Put the blame where it ...
  • To Honour the Fallen on Remembrance Day: Make public AER’s secret “D79 Abandoned Well Methane Toxicity Preliminary Assessment” & Appendix 2 by Alberta Health, Admitting “Acute-Life threatening” risks & “Neurological effects”
    To honour women and men fallen, and to protest Canada enabling Israel’s human rights abuses and torturing of Palestinians, Ernst stopped – years ago, buying or wearing poppies. Instead, in Remembrance, Ernst exposes harms to citizens and environment enabled by abusers of power in Canada, most insidious of them all, the AER: Click on snap of the ...
  • Supreme Court of Canada grants AER an appeal and shows its big oil bias again.
    In AER vs Redwater, CAPP (Canada’s large oil and gas lobby group, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers) sent correspondence to the Court supporting AER. The Court included it in the docket for AER‘s appeal. In Ernst vs AER, citizens and citizen groups sent correspondence to the Court supporting Ernst and water. The Supreme Court did ...
  • Edmonton & St Albert going to get frac’ed? Oilpatch spending to ramp up in Canada’s ‘hottest new play.’ Chevron could spend US$1 billion on Duvernay shale basin
    Oilpatch spending to ramp up in Canada’s ‘hottest new play,’ led by Chevron Chevron could spend US$1 billion on the Duvernay shale basin, according to Wood Mackenzie by Geoffrey Morgan, November 7, 2017, Financial Post CALGARY – Chevron Corp. is ramping up spending in the Duvernay shale basin, Canada’s “hottest new play,” after spending three years exploring its ...
  • Synergy Alberta Strikes BC! 17 groups, including BC Tap Water Alliance, join call for frac regulations! Calling for regulations gives industry social licence to frac. Has Synergy finally conquered Will Koop?
    Synergy Alberta’s evil seems complicated. If you say no to the money and think about it with your greed & blinders off, you’ll get it. *** Let’s start with some Canadian frac harm study and public input history: 2002: 15 years ago, Ministers of the Environment in Canada, regulators and more, and groundwater expert Dr. John Cherry, studied the impacts ...
  • Yukon, Peel Watershed: Upcoming (Lying) Supreme Court of Canada Ruling, First Nation Nacho Nyak Dun et al v. Govt of Yukon, May ‘Destroy the Faith’ in First Nations Treaties. “Canada’s legal system is flawed, because it ends up favoring resource extraction.”
    Supreme Court of Canada Case Docket # 36779 Canada Legal Fight May ‘Destroy the Faith’ in First Nations Treaties by Dan Levinnov, November 5, 2017, New York Times OVER THE HART RIVER, Yukon Territory — The indigenous groups thought they had reached a deal: A vast landscape in the north of Yukon Territory would be mostly set ...
  • November 9, 2017: Lying Supreme Court of Canada to release decision whether they will hear AER’s (Orphan Well) appeal against Redwater’s money snatcher
    Supreme Court of Canada’s November 6, 2017 Press Release announcing they will release on November 9 their decision on whether to grant the AER a hearing or not. Docket The Supreme Court of Canada judges took only one month to decide whether to hear the appeal or not.  In Ernst vs AER, they took three months even ...
  • Ponca Nation of Oklahoma to Recognize the Rights of Nature to Stop Fracking
    PONCA NATION OF OKLAHOMA TO RECOGNIZE THE RIGHTS OF NATURE TO STOP FRACKING by Movement Rights, October 31, 2017, intercontinentalcry San Francisco, CA – After suffering for years with poisoned water and serious health issues due to fracking and injection wells on and near their reservation the governing body of the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma voted to pass a statute ...
  • Oklahoma: Pawnee Nation’s $400,000 Earthquake Damages Case Moves Forward
    Pawnee Nation’s Earthquake Case Moves Forward by Scott Poynter, October 27, 2017, Poynter Law Group Earlier this year, the Pawnee Nation brought suit in tribal court against Cummings Oil and Eagle Road Oil for about $400,000 in earthquake damages caused by Defendants’ wastewater disposal wells. According to the tribe’s petition, both Cummings Oil’s and Eagle Road Oil’s ...
  • Robin Mathews: From Harper to Trudeau, The Saga of Corruption in Canada Continues. False News. False Newsmakers. Untroubled Power. The Supreme Court of Canada publishes lies too
    The Israelization of governments, militaries and security forces means the Palestinianization of most of the rest of us.  Jeff Halper, Israeli anthropologist From Harper to Trudeau, The Saga of Corruption in Canada Continues False News. False Newsmakers. Untroubled Power by Robin Mathews, November 2017, American Herald Tribune In a colonial country as wealthy in raw materials as Canada ...
  • Frac’d Canadiana: Ernst and friend chat about snow & cold & water tank frozen in truck
    2017 11 02: Ernst’s water tank in truck at Rosebud, Alberta Conversation posted with permission: On Thu, 2 Nov 2017 09:35:54 -0600, Jessica Ernst email hidden; JavaScript is required wrote: Ernst’s Jack Russell, Gem herself is tightly curled up , blissfully ,, by my feet!  snowing like mad outside.  cold. and i haven’t taken the water tank out of truck ...
  • Now it’s oilmen who say fracking could harm groundwater. How many oilmen settle & gag when their water is contaminated or vertical wells are destroyed by frac’ing?
    Now it’s oilmen who say fracking could harm groundwater by Mike Soraghan, November 1, 2017, E&E News HOLDENVILLE, Okla. — It’s no longer just environmentalists [What about the thousands of water well owners and residents in communities living with water contaminated by fracking or earthquakes caused by fracking and or waste injection contaminating their potable water? They’re ...
  • “Frack Well Bashing” is going to get expensive! Frack Hit Demolition Derby Down Below: Drill, inject, bump ‘n crack, hit ‘n smash, bash ‘n dash, while Encana lies ‘n says, “We don’t frac. We stimulate.” 2 wells, 1 patch of dirt. Who gets the oil? The biggest bully. “Fracks hitting wells several miles away.”
    Whole lotta bashing going on … Jury Delivers Verdict In Oklahoma ‘Well-Bashing’ Case by Alex Cameron, September 01, 2017, News9 PIEDMONT, Oklahoma – A U.S. District Court jury delivered a verdict last month that is rippling through the state’s oil and gas industry. The verdict was in favor of the owner of an old vertical well who had sued ...
  • Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan Sues Chicago Gas Company, Peoples Gas, for underground natural-gas leak that contaminated water wells
    Illinois Attorney General Sues Gas Company Over Leak, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan sues Chicago gas company over underground natural-gas leak that has affected water wells in central part of the state by US News, Oct. 25, 2017 MAHOMET, Ill. (AP) — Illinois’ attorney general is suing a Chicago gas company over an underground natural-gas leak that has ...
  • Berthoud Colorado: Old well bubbles mostly drilling mud, some oil by home driveway, down Highway. Who’s frac’ing nearby? And on how many hundreds of wells?
    Oil crews stay on scene of drilling mud spill near Berthoud, Colorado officials say small amounts little oil included by Pamela Johnson, October 30, 2017, Reporter-Herald Crews remained on scene Monday at an abandoned oil well that spilled about 300 barrels of drilling mud and small amounts of oil along a private driveway on Colo. 60 southeast of ...
  • A snake oil salesman
    To whom it may concern, In his letter to the editor, Gérard Montpetit, from La Présentation, denounces Jason Kenny’s lack of rigour and ethical analysis. For the last few weeks, Mr Kenny has been trying to boost his leadership campaign for the United Conservative party of Alberta by using some questionable tactics, such as Quebec bashing. [It’s ...
  • Oklahoma seismologist, Austin Holland, scolded by fracked academia (the dean!) for linking earthquake swarms to powerful oil and gas industry
    Okla. scientist says he was scolded for linking shaking to industry by Mike Soraghan, E&E News, October 20, 2017 Oklahoma’s former state seismologist said in a deposition that he quit because he was reprimanded by a superior at the University of Oklahoma for linking the state’s earthquake swarms to its powerful oil industry. Austin Holland had previously explained ...
  • Canada, the world’s stupidest “petro” (fascist) state: Oil giants pay billions less tax in Canada than abroad
    Revealed: oil giants pay billions less tax in Canada than abroad  by Martin Lukas, October 26, 2017, The Guardian Canada taxes its oil and gas companies at a fraction of the rate they are taxed abroad, including by countries ranked among the world’s most corrupt, according to an analysis of public data by the Guardian. The low ...
  • Heaven Help Our Drinking Water: How many frac hit damages when Encana fracs multi-stacked, 60 wells per section?
    This illustration shows how fast Encana’s drilling tech is changing by Deborah Jaremko, October 23, 2017, jwnenergy The advances in drilling technology that were cutting edge seven years ago and unlocked a massive production surge in the United States are virtually unrecognizable compared to what these systems look like today. Pushing the limits of technology has been ...
  • Kansas: Industry’s “natural” gas from abandoned energy wells leaking into massive underground storage field, creating public safety hazard
    Gas leaking from Kansas wells amid dispute over who must fix by Associated Press, October 14, 2017, Observer Reporter WICHITA, Kan. – Natural gas is leaking through unplugged abandoned wells that have penetrated a massive underground storage field in Kansas, creating a public safety hazard amid a dispute over who is responsible for fixing the problem, ...
  • Pennsylvania: Cabot Oil & Gas settles fracking lawsuit with Ely and Hulbert families as ordered by Judge Martin Carlson
    Cabot Oil & Gas settles fracking lawsuit with Pennsylvania families by David DeKok, September 26, 2017, Reuters Cabot Oil & Gas Co. has settled a lawsuit filed by two families in Dimock, Pennsylvania, who alleged their homes’ drinking water became contaminated with methane not long after the company began drilling for natural gas in 2007. The Ely ...
  • As expected, Alberta Oil & Gas Industry Corruption & Synergy Enacts its Evil into Quebec: Couillard Govt quietly releases 4 bills, Enables drilling & fracking in water ways and lakes, within 150 m of homes, 60 m of parks
    Did the oil and gas industry (CAPP et al) write or influence these bills, as it does in Alberta and BC? Les plans d’eau du Québec ouverts aux pétrolières by Alexandre Shields, September 21, 2017, Le Devoir Le gouvernement Couillard a décidé d’ouvrir les lacs et les rivières du Québec aux projets d’exploration et d’exploitation de pétrole et ...
  • Whimps Extraordinaire! Ex-Encana VP (Gerard Protti) led AER taps Encana with $7,500 administrative penalty for major sour gas blowout at Fox Creek Alberta, Nothing for injecting 18 million litres of frac fluid into Rosebud’s drinking water aquifers.
    Why did no media report on this puny penalty? Snap from AER Compliance Dashboard September 19, 2017 Encana pays $7500 for it: Administrative Penalty Director’s Decision by Alberta Energy Regulator Named Party: Encana Corporation BA Code: 0026 File No. 2015 – 022 Legislative Authority Sections 59.3 of the Public Lands Act Section 70(a) of the Responsible Energy Development Act Counts PUBLIC LANDS ACT COUNT 1 ...
  • Oklahoma Kingfisher County: At Least 450 Vertical Oil Wells Damaged By Horizontal Fracking. “Hundreds if not thousands of wells are being destroyed by horizontal frac jobs.” How many oil & gas & drinking water wells damaged by fracking (vertical and horizontal) in Alberta?
    Hundreds Of Vertical Oil Wells Damaged By Horizontal Fracking by Tsvetana Paraskova, Sep 21, 2017, Oilprice At least 450 conventional vertical wells in Oklahoma’s Kingfisher County have been damaged by horizontal fracturing, the Oklahoma Energy Producers Alliance (OEPA) said in a study, The Oklahoman reports. OEPA, a group of Oklahoma oil and gas companies concerned with protecting ...
  • Republic of Ireland, Love Leitrim to Celebrate their Frack Ban on Global Frackdown Day, Sat October 14, Rainbow Ballroom of Romance, Glenfarne
    Big fracking ban hooley in Leitrim by Leitrim Observer, 21 Sept 2017 Celebrations to mark the passing into law by the Houses of the Oireachtas of the Republic of Ireland’s legal prohibition on fracking . Love Leitrim is organising a big celebration hooley in the Rainbow Ballroom, Glenfarne on Saturday night, October 14 to mark the passing into ...
  • Are oil and gas companies such pathetic cowards they need to silence medical doctors reporting health harms from industry’s toxic pollution? “He was about to [release] his results…and then they fire him.”
    Porter Ranch gas leak health study hits roadblock after doctor is forced out by Brenda Gazzar, September 7, 2017, Los Angeles Daily News A physician who has been tracking patients potentially affected by the massive Porter Ranch gas leak has been let go from an urgent care clinic he led for eight years, which could disrupt his clinical ...
  • They didn’t call it fracking when a young man died
    They didn’t call it fracking when a young man died by Virginia A. Gebhart, September 7, 2017, Daily Camera Re: “Correct terminology matters” (Daily Camera Open Forum, Sept. 4): They didn’t call it fracking back in November 1992, when a drilling rig exploded about a half-mile from my back door where I lived on Flagg Drive, just ...
  • Fascist Canada: Tiny Quebec village faces $1.5M lawsuit by “terrorist” oil company Gastem for trying to protect its water, Ristigouche Sud-Est, Gaspé region, sued for passing bylaw protecting water sources from drilling
    To write letters of support to the community (and the many other communities and municipalities in Quebec that have written similar by laws to protect their drinking water, for example, Richelieu’s by law prohibits any drilling within 2 km of its drinking water source) and/or send a donation (this case affects us all): Mailing address to ...
  • PA DEP copying Alberta’s AER! Pennsyvlania regulator settles $9 Million (US) environmental violations fine against Range Resources for $0.
    No fine for Range Resources in major drilling case, DEP quietly settles by Susan Phillips, August 30, 3017, State Impact  After announcing an $8.9 million dollar fine against the driller two years ago, DEP quietly settled the case with no financial penalty. More than two years after the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection issued a record-breaking $8.9 million ...
  • Brilliant! Confounds the Science – (Parody of) Sound of Silence
    by Parody Project, Aug 16, 2017 http://parodyproject.com/subscribe – (visit the website to subscribe) Confounds the Science Video – Art Garfunkel played by Don Caron; Paul Simon played by Linda Gower. LYRICS to CONFOUNDS THE SCIENCE (Written by Don Caron) Hello darkness my old friend. It’s time for him to tweet again, but first he’ll have to check in with fox news ‘cause that’s ...
  • Trump Tower Drinking Water Contaminated! New Study reports plastic (made from natural gas) is contaminating tap water in countries around the world, 83% of samples found to be polluted. Is natural gas clean and safe?
    Plastic fibres found in tap water around the world, study reveals, Exclusive: Tests show billions of people globally are drinking water contaminated by plastic particles, with 83% of samples found to be polluted by Damian Carrington, September 6, 2017, The Guardian We are living on a plastic planet. What does it mean for our health? Microplastic contamination has ...
  • RocketFrac Services: Getting ready for takeoff: Calgary start-up testing rocket fuel fracking technology
    Getting ready for takeoff: Calgary start-up testing rocket fuel fracking technology by Joseph Caouette, Sept. 5, 2017, JWN Energy Over a year ago, someone approached Annelise Freeman with a seemingly radical notion. What did she think about using rocket fuel to frack wells? With more than 25 years experience as a geologist working in the oil and gas ...
  • Cheapskate Aquifer-Fracker Encana, sitting on $Billions, kills $50,000.00 annual “corporate partnership” funding to Rosebud Theatre, blames economy. Greed & nastiness more likely reasons.
    Yet another Encana lie? In public community meetings, Encana promises that it “shares” its profits with communities disrupted to get those profits. Rosebud’s aquifers were illegally fractured by Encana 13 years ago. They remain explosively contaminated. No repair or clean-up in sight. Summer 2017 and on the Labour Day weekend, Encana’s compressors near the hamlet of Rosebud ...
  • Dimock Pennsylvania: In ‘Gasland’ community, Cabot Oil & Gas continues to refuse to fix the aquifer the company contaminated with dangerous levels of methane but buys out contaminated homes, demolishing them, while blaming nature.
    In ‘Gasland’ community, new tests revive old drilling debate by The Associated Press, September 2, 2017, National Post The well water at Ken Morcom and Kim Grosso’s house is laced with so much explosive methane that a Pennsylvania environmental regulator who went there to collect samples this summer decided it would be safer to coast her SUV down the ...
  • Saskatchewan Geological Survey Geologist to Ernst in 2006: Methane detectors will not protect you; If they warn of industry’s natural gas leaking into your home or venting from water taps, it’s usually too late to get out safely. Weld County Colorado offering explosive gas detectors to residents for free
    Weld County offering explosive gas detectors to residents for free byDrew Englebart, August 24, 2017, KDVR VIDEO AT LINK We’re not home all the time, so it is a concern that something could happen when we’re not here. WELD COUNTY, Colo. — Weld County is handing out explosive gas detectors to residents for free. A deadly home explosion in ...
  • A Room Full of Liars & Fascism in Action in Canada: Ever get frac’d? Listen to Steve Harper? Rebel Media? Read Supreme Court of Canada rulings? Minister Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness Ralph Goodale affirms “The Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s (RCMP) use of the major crime technique.”
    Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them. – JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The courts protect freedom of expression for all, even Nazis, but not for Ernst presenting AER with documented evidence of Encana breaking the law. Original definition of fascism in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, copyright ...
  • Legal Wonder of Wonders & Miracle of Miracles: Plaintiffs Suing Oil, Gas Companies Gained Access To Critical Evidence
    Plaintiffs Suing Oil, Gas Companies Gained Access To Critical Evidence by Alex Cameron, Aug 15, 2017, News9 NORMAN, Oklahoma – Plaintiffs suing local oil and gas companies for damages caused by the 2011 Prague earthquake gained access on Tuesday to what could prove to be critical — and possibly incriminating — evidence. District Judge Lori Walkley ruled on ...
  • Really? Massive Porter Ranch California gas leak unlikely to be repeated in Ontario, ministry says
    Methane emissions from the 2015 Aliso Canyon blowout in Los Angeles, CA by S. Conley, G. Franco, I. Faloona, D. R. Blake, J. Peischl, and T. B. Ryerson, February 25, 2016, Science DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf2348 Abstract Single-point failures of the natural gas infrastructure can hamper deliberate methane emission control strategies designed to mitigate climate change. The 23 October 2015 blowout of ...
  • Letter to Alberta Views Editor by Rena Woss on Kevin van Tighem’s Column: Ernst vs AER at Supreme Court of Canada
    Letter to the Editor by Rena Woss, September 2017, Alberta Views [Why so many published lies about Ernst and her valid Charter claim against AER? 2017 05 15: Corrections to Kevin Van Tighem’s “Betrayed – The Jessica Ernst Decision” 2017 01 25: Jessica Ernst Open Letter to Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin Regarding False and Seriously Damaging Statements (lies) ...
  • Legal matters: Fracking the golf course. Ask Indian Hills Golf Course, Lambton Shores, Ontario: Did nature, waste injection, gas storage or fracking causing massive natural gas geysers and erupting greens in 2015? Two municipalities declared state of emergency, Golf Course had to shut down, pay to investigate and clean up
    Legal matters: Fracking on the golf course by Jenny Yu, Aug ust 15, 2017, The Golf Business Co Uk This guidance from the National Golf Clubs’ Advisory Association looks at the financial and legal ramifications of allowing a fracking company to mine for energy on land the golf club owns.  … Why is it controversial? Critics argue that drilling ...
  • New Report: World governments make citizens pay billions to destroy their own health
    World governments make citizens pay billions to destroy their own health by Health and Environment Alliance, July 27, 2017 ● New HEAL report shows how fossil fuel subsidies support an industry that causes premature deaths, ill-health and huge health costs worldwide, in stark contrast to Paris Agreement ● Health costs associated with fossil fuels are over six ...
  • Alberta issues 40 water shortage advisories while continuing to let frackers inject hundreds of millions of gallons fresh water losing much of it from hydrogeological cycle forever. Worse, Notley Govt is subsidizing frac industry’s water abuses while making frac contaminated families live without safe water
    This post is dedicated to the Ali sisters. 1981: Bestiaire 24e by Quebec painter Alfred Pellan 2009 Report by Canada’s National energy regulator (NEB) in 2009, ignored by main media: However, as a technology driven play, the rate of development of shale gas may become limited by the availability of required resources, such as fresh water…. … Drilling and ...
  • Another Quebec Gov’t Fail: Protects Anticosti from Frack harms, But not already methane contaminated Gaspé *and* Gives $8.4 Million taxpayer money to Junex Inc, private junior oil company under guise of “investment”
    QUEBEC INJECTED $ 8.4 MILLION IN AN OIL EXPLORATION PROJECT IN THE GASPÉ by magictr, August 4, 2017, Sherbrook Times QUEBEC – Ressources Québec, a subsidiary of Investissement Québec, will invest $ 8.4 million in the project of oil and gas exploration of Galt, in the Gaspé region, has announced the company Junex, on Friday. Ressources Québec will ...
  • Fracking by Karve Energy Inc. at Consort Alberta killed Charles Oba, Calgary father of two; Family demands answers. Police not releasing name of the victim. Will Karve Energy blame Charles?
    Condolences from Jessica to Charles Oba’s loved ones “Jessica’s Farm” Water colour of Jessica’s fracked home (and the old Rosebud River meandering through her land) by Erin Shilliday, 2006 Family of Calgary man killed in fracking accident demands answers bv Bryan Passifiume with files from Reid Southwick, August 4, 2017 | Last Updated: August 4, 2017 3:32 PM MDT, ...
  • Birds more important than workers & fracked families: What game is AER playing at this time? Trying to impress the SCC that AER is not a worker & wildlife killing, pollution enabler? Because ruling in AER’s Leave to Appeal Redwater awaits? Syncrude charged in deaths of 31 great blue herons at tarsands mine; *If* convicted, faces maximum penalty of $500,000
    Why more press on wildlife killing by the oil and gas industry, greedily set up and enabled by the law violating AER, than worker killing, family poisoning, water contamination and farm polluting? 2017 08 04: Fracking by Karve Energy Inc. at Consort Alberta killed Charles Oba, Calgary father of two; Family demands answers. Police not releasing name ...
  • July 30, 2017 Canadian Independent Media: Canada’s Infrastructure bank; Community Gardens in Germany; Cafe made from used pallets wins award; Pesticide potpourri served for dinner – The Poison Papers
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulQ2etNvULY&feature=youtu.be Published on Aug 1, 2017 Three topics covered in this segment: Canada’s new Infrastructure bank – what is it, and why should we be worried? The Green Revolution will be here sooner than you think. Pesticide potpourri served for dinner – The Poison Papers. (https://www.poisonpapers.org/the-pois…) music courtesy bensound.com
  • “Justice” Alberta Style: Suncor ignored safety problems before operator plunged to death in tailings pond, Fined a measly $300,000 for causing death of Jerry Cooper, who worked 13 years for the company
    Suncor ignored safety problems before operator plunged to death in tailings pond: court documents, ‘That fine doesn’t fit the crime,’ says Alberta labour leader in response to company’s $300K fine by David Thurton, CBC News, Jul 07, 2017 Former St. John’s resident found dead in oilsands site 4 workplace deaths at Suncor site in 2014 upsets union  Suncor Energy ...
  • Bravo! Canada-Newfoundland & Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board declines Shoal Point Energy application to frac (under the guise of not fracking) Shoal Point, Port au Port Peninsula
    C-NLOPB turns down Shoal Point Energy well application by Frank Gale, August 1, 2017, The Western Star Former drilling at Shoal Point on the Port au Port Peninsula. No worries says the regulator, it’s a natural “spring!” The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board has declined an application by Shoal Point Energy to carry out drilling at Shoal Point on ...
  • Court bars Aliso Canyon SoCalGas storage facility from reopening after massive blow out forced thousands from their homes and the “regulator” authorized reopening. When will Canada develop courts courageous enough to justly, fairly and honestly stand up to the oil & gas industry?
    Court bars natural gas plant from reopening by Brian Melley, Associated Press, July 29, 2017, sfgate.com LOS ANGELES — A California appeals court judge temporarily blocked a Los Angeles natural gas storage facility from reopening a year and a half after a major blowout spewed methane that drove thousands of families from their homes. The order late in ...
  • Quebec government puts end to oil & gas exploration on Anticosti Island
    Quebec government puts end to oil and gas exploration on Anticosti Island, The exploration work was aimed at determining the hydrocarbon potential, in terms of quality and volume, on the eastern Quebec island by The Canadian Press, July 28, 2017, Financial Post QUEBEC — The Quebec government announced Friday there won’t be any further oil and gas exploration ...
  • Wow! Must Read! The Poison Papers: Documenting the Hidden History of Chemical and Pesticide Hazards in the United States, Makes public 100,000 pages of chemical industry secrets and regulator collusion. “We didn’t think of ourselves as environmentalists, that wasn’t even a word back then,” Van Strum said. “We just didn’t want to be poisoned.”
    The Poison Papers – Documenting the history of pesticide hazards in the United States The Poison Papers are a diverse set of internal memos, court depositions, and other documents detailing pesticide and chemical safety concerns of companies, government regulators, and their employees. The Papers The “Poison Papers” represent a vast trove of rediscovered chemical industry and regulatory agency ...
  • Diana Daunheimer on Supreme Court of Canada rulings on National Energy Board approvals: Clyde River & Line 9: “It’s a wash for our soiled SCC”
    Comment by Diana Daunheimer The rulings released yesterday demonstrate what happens to our Supreme Court, when fossil fuel interests are yanking puppet strings in the hallowed halls of justice. The SCC ruled the NEB can consult for the Crown in both rulings, but clearly didn’t in one. A 50% failure rate, yet, our top justices are confident ...
  • Update on Journey Energy Inc.’s Crude Oil Spill into Creek Near Winfield that Went Undetected for 3 Weeks, “Dozens of animals were later found dead”
    Small pipeline spill went undetected for three weeks by Reid Southwick, July 13, 2017, Calgary Herald A small pipeline spill that sent crude oil into a creek and beaver ponds southwest of Edmonton, where dozens of animals were later found dead, went undetected for nearly three weeks. [The usual “Best in Class” practice by oil and gas in ...
  • Alberta Pipelines: Here a spill, there a spill, everywhere a spill spill; Energy Minister McQuaig-Boyd says pipeline network safe & fine
    What Are We Do With The Many Many Soils Of Salty Produced Water! Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 11:47:28 -0600 From: Stewart Shields email hidden; JavaScript is required To: Ministre / Minister (EC) email hidden; JavaScript is required, email hidden; JavaScript is required, Office of the Premier email hidden; JavaScript is required CC: brian mason email hidden; JavaScript is required, Doreen Mueller email hidden; JavaScript is required, email hidden; JavaScript is required, ENV Minister email hidden; JavaScript is required, Lacombe Ponoka email hidden; JavaScript is required>, email hidden; JavaScript is required, letters email hidden; JavaScript is required, email hidden; JavaScript is required, Tom email hidden; JavaScript is required, whitecourt email hidden; JavaScript is required Certainly there ...
  • AER & Oil and Gas Industry Gas Migration Negligence? Medicine Hat Explosion Kills One, Destroys One Home, Extensively Damages Two Others
    When will the AER show diligence and respect to public health and safety, and release their unreleased urban industry gas migration problem (including under the new Calgary Airport Terminal!) report that Andrew Nikiforuk reported on that no other media did? People living in homes and working in buildings/enclosed spaces in Alberta do not know if they ...
  • “Holy Hell! I totally disagree that the industry should be involved at all in determining the level of any cash fines!!!!” Environment groups wait for charges in year-old Husky oil spill in Saskatchewan. No charges were laid against Encana for breaking the law in Alberta and contaminating a community’s drinking water supply. It’s highly doubtful Big Oil Buddy Brad Wall will allow charges against Husky, no matter how bad the behaviour or pollution
    Subject: Environment groups wait for charges in year-old Husky oil spill in Saskatchewan Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 09:04:14 -0600 From: Stewart Shields <email hidden; JavaScript is required> To: Ministre / Minister (EC) email hidden; JavaScript is required, email hidden; JavaScript is required, Office of the Premier email hidden; JavaScript is required CC: brian mason email hidden; JavaScript is required, Debbie carlson email hidden; JavaScript is required, email hidden; JavaScript is required, email hidden; JavaScript is required, goodale email hidden; JavaScript is required, innisfail email hidden; JavaScript is required, Lacombe Ponoka email hidden; JavaScript is required, email hidden; JavaScript is required, Liberal Canada email hidden; JavaScript is required, Ministerial Unit email hidden; JavaScript is required, ...
  • Geoscience BC: Industry Money Thieving Scheme? Propaganda Puff Piece: Scientists focus on hydraulic fracking fallout in B.C.
    Puff piece on Geoscience BC below. A few financial tidbits about Geoscience BC first: Geo”science” BC Geoscience BC is an independent, non-profit organization that generates earth science in collaboration with First Nations, local communities, governments, academia and the resource sector. Our independent earth science enables informed resource management decisions.  We ...