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Liberals will force controversial energy bill into law despite protests by Philip Authier, December 7, 2016, Montreal Gazette QUEBEC — The province’s new energy policy designed to guide decision-making until 2030 will be steamrolled into law despite widespread opposition to the section on oil and gas development. Emerging from a meeting with his opposition colleagues Wednesday, Liberal house ...

McCarthy: EPA fracking assessment expected soon, Advisory board recommends further work on chemical toxicity by David Stegon, 29 November 2016, Chemical Watch Global Risk & Regulation News The US EPA will release its final assessment on the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) on drinking water resources soon, according to agency administrator Gina McCarthy Speaking at the National Press Club ...

From the last page of Compendium 4.0: Conclusion All together, findings to date from scientific, medical, and journalistic investigations combine to demonstrate that fracking poses significant threats to air, water, health, public safety, climate stability, seismic stability, community cohesion, and long-term economic vitality. Emerging data from a rapidly expanding body of evidence continue to reveal a plethora of recurring problems and ...

Study links groundwater changes to fracking by phys.org, November 15, 2016 A new study has found heightened concentrations of some common substances in drinking water near sites where hydraulic fracturing has taken place. The substances are not at dangerous levels and their sources are unclear, but the researchers say the findings suggest underground disturbances that could be ...

New Mexico court ruling revives oil contamination case by Susan Montoya Bryan, Associated Press, March 4th, 2016 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — More than 200 current and former residents who claim decades of oil and gas operations led to contamination that spurred a rash of illnesses in their southeastern New Mexico neighborhood will be able to pursue their case ...

Justice Delayed? Ernst Fracking Case Still Awaits Supreme Court Ruling, Alberta landowner’s complex lawsuit has now lasted nine years in total by Andrew Nikiforuk, 25 Oct 2016, TheTyee.ca Everyone from William Gladstone to Martin Luther King Jr. has recognized that justice delayed is just another form of justice denied in a democracy. Jessica Ernst is now feeling that ...

Alberta crop-dusting company fined for environmental breach by Edmonton Journal, November 14, 2016 A Westlock-based company has been fined $12,500 after admitting it sprayed pesticide from a plane without valid registration. Western Air Spray acknowledged it illegally crop-dusted farmland in northwestern Alberta near Falher in June 2013, says a news release from Alberta Environment and Parks. In June ...

In 2014, the Alberta government demanded to Court of Queen’s Bench Chief Justice Neil Wittmann that Ernst’s lawsuit against them be thrown out because they have legal immunmity like the AER and to prevent future claims by other harmed Albertans: Slide from Ernst presentations Farmers on the hook for oilpatch’s unpaid bills, Relationship fraying between Alberta farmers and ...

Keep in mind that Lonnie Saken works for Bonavista: *** “This is a government of the people, by the people and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations.” RUTHERFORD B. HAYES *** *** *** *** Above image source: Texas Sharon Alberta lawyer Kieth Wilson also settled & gagged the Peace River area families poisoned by Baytex *** Slide above ...

New Brunswick government says no to fracking wastewater at municipal sites by Andrew Cromwell, November 14, 2016, Global News The Gallant government has addressed one of the more high profile issues in its ongoing moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the province. The government says it will not allow fracking wastewater to be disposed at any municipal ...

 AER Order against Bonavista for contaminating drinking water supply near Edson with sulfolane by Don Weleschuk, Acting Director, Closure and Liability, November 8, 2016, Alberta Energy Regulator Under section 113 of the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act Colin Hennel, Manager, Environment Bonavista Energy Corporation (A5RX) 1500, 525 – 8th Avenue SW Calgary, AB, T2P 1G1 (“Bonavista”) WHEREAS Bonavista is the holder of gas ...

Officials Update Cushing Earthquake Situation While Clean-Up Begins by News9, November 7, 2016 CUSHING, Oklahoma – An official says 40 to 50 buildings in Cushing, Oklahoma, sustained “substantial damage” in an earthquake Sunday night. Cushing City Manager Steve Spears said Monday that the damage from the magnitude 5.0 earthquake includes cracks in buildings and fallen bricks ...

Expert: Fracking and Florida don’t mix by Chad Gillis, November 2, 2016, The News Press All the easy oil’s gone, and modern extraction practices aren’t good for Florida anyway. Those were two arguments made by an Ivy League engineer Wednesday in front of a group of about 200 people at the Florida Fracking Summit at Florida Gulf Coast ...

WATCH: Man killed in tanker explosion near Red Deer, Alberta 1 dead after tanker trailer explodes near Red Deer, Alberta Occupational Health and Safety has launched an investigation by CBC News, November 3, 2016 A 35-year-old man is dead after a tanker trailer exploded Thursday in the Burnt Lake Industrial Park, northwest of Red Deer’s city limits. (Rob Kellough/Twitter) A ...

Southern California’s deadliest quake may have been caused by oil drilling, study says by Rong-Gong Lin II, October 31, 2016, LA Times Damage from 1933 Long Beach earthquake On a March evening in 1933, the Newport-Inglewood fault ruptured violently along the Huntington Beach coast. The quake brought down scores of buildings from Santa Ana to Compton, with Long Beach ...

Refer first to: 2016 10 25: Yale School of Public Health: Fracking Linked to Cancer-Causing Chemicals 2016 07 18: 8-year frac health study shows fracking associated with increased asthma attacks: “Those who lived closer to a large number or bigger active natural gas wells were significantly more likely…to suffer asthma attacks” … “The highest risk for asthma ...

Gas drilling contamination case could go to State Supreme Court by Don Hopey, November 3, 2016, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Loren “Buzz” Kiskadden will appeal a Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruling that takes to task the “reckless” drilling operations of Range Resources, but finds the Washington County landowner failed to prove the company’s leaky Yeager gas drilling site contaminated his water ...

2016 10 29: USA National Science in Society Journalism Awards reception at the Witte Museum in San Antonio Texas: Andrew Nikiforuk’s acceptance speech: To San Antonio/National Association of Science Writers Thank you for this great honor and for inviting me to San Antonio. In Canada it would be difficult to fill a bus full of science writers—it is reassuring ...

Verbatim: Jessica Ernst’s case against Encana and the Alberta Energy Regulator by Alberta Venture Staff, Published December 3, 2015; interview by Email before the 2015 federal election, Alberta Venture Magazine She’s become one of Alberta’s most polarizing figures. In 2007, Jessica Ernst, who spent decades as an environmental consultant in the oil patch, sued Encana, Alberta Environment ...

Ireland Takes Major Step Towards Nationwide Fracking Ban by Lorraine Chow, October 27, 2016, Ecowatch A bill banning hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the Republic of Ireland was voted through the Dáil Éireann (the country’s House of Representatives, so to speak) on Thursday. According to the Irish Examiner, the bill’s passage is “the first step in enforcing a ...

Energy worker, 47, killed on Fox Creek jobsite by Amanda Stephenson, October 25, 2016, Calgary Herald A 47-year-old man was killed in a workplace accident near Fox Creek, Alberta on Sunday. The man, an employee of contractor Secure Energy Services, was working at a Shell Canada site approximately 260 km northeast of Edmonton when the accident occurred. Occupational Health ...

Pennsylvanians Against Fracking Responds to New Yale Study Linking Fracking to Cancer-Causing Chemicals, Call on Governor Wolf to Implement a Statewide Moratorium on Fracking Press Release by Pennsylvanians Against Fracking, October 26, 2016 Pennsylvania – The following is a statement from Pennsylvanians Against Fracking in response to a new analysis by Yale School of Public Health researchers establishing a ...

USGS links 5.1 quake to distant oil-field disposal wells by Mike Soraghan, October 25, 2016, E&E News Scientists have linked one of Oklahoma’s largest recorded earthquakes to oil-field disposal wells more than 7 miles away. Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey studied a magnitude 5.1 quake in February in western Oklahoma and linked it to the relatively distant ...

Husky Energy report does not identify cause of July 20 pipeline spill, extension granted by Alex MacPherson, Saskatoon StarPhoenix, October 21, 2016, Calgary Herald The provincial government has given Husky Energy Inc. an additional 30 days to explain what caused one of its pipelines to fail east of Maidstone on July 20, spilling approximately 225,000 litres of heavy ...

Fracking ban gains ground after Fianna Fáil opposes delay to legislation by Irish Examiner, October 27, 2016 Attempts to get the Government to ban fracking look set to pass their first hurdle, it has emerged. Legislation put forward by Fine Gael backbench TD Tony McLoughlin was due to be put on hold for at least eight months to ...

Activists’ murders turn Honduras into no-go zone for environmental by Amnesty International, October 19, 2016 The brutal murders of two land rights activists in Honduras last night are the latest tragedies in a seemingly unstoppable wave of deadly attacks turning Honduras into a no-go zone for human rights defenders, said Amnesty International. José Angel Flores, 64, President ...

Watch: Standing Rock Sioux Pediatrician: Threat from Fracking Chemicals is “Environmental Genocide” by Democracy Now, October 18, 2016 Watch: The complete show (well worth it!) by Democracy Now, October 18, 2016

Trilogy says pipeline may have leaked ‘for a while’ before spill was discovered by Reid Southwick, October 17, 2016, Calgary Herald More than a week after Trilogy Energy Corp. learned a pipeline was leaking oil northwest of Edmonton, the junior company has not determined the cause or the volume of crude that has spilled into marshland. [Intentionally ...

Where’s the AER’s formal order to Encana, to update the public, and especially Rosebud, about the company illegally frac’ing the community’s drinking water aquifers in 2004 and covering-up, to this day, the subsequent contamination of the drinking water supply with dangerous methane, ethane, and other chemicals?  Where’s the AER’s order to Encana to disclose all the ...

Corridor Resources taking lead on reinstating fracking in N.B. by Jeremy Keefe, October 14, 2016, Global News WATCH ABOVE: Earlier this year the New Brunswick government announced they would uphold the moratorium on hydraulic fracturing instituted in 2014. Now a major oil and gas player is taking the reins on addressing some of the government’s conditions for reinstating ...

It’s Official: Injection of Fracking Wastewater Caused Kansas’ Biggest Earthquake by Lorraine Chow. October 14, 2016, ecowatch  The largest earthquake ever recorded in Kansas—a 4.9 magnitude temblor that struck northeast of Milan on Nov. 12, 2014—has been officially linked to wastewater injection into deep underground wells, according to new research from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The epicenter ...

Councillor raises road concerns over heavy truck usage by Craig Lindsay, September 21, 2016, Didsbury Review As hundreds of thousands of tonnes of contaminated soil is being trucked into the Didsbury landfill, at least one Town of Didsbury councillor is questioning whether it will damage a town road and who should pay for it. ...

Activists fight trucking of highly radioactive waste to U.S. as Canada ends medical isotope production by Ian MacLeod, October 13, 2016, Ottawa Citizen OTTAWA — Medical isotope production using weapons-grade uranium is about to cease in Canada, ending decades of world dominance supplying life-saving nuclear medicine, but leaving a toxic legacy and heated environmental controversy. In recent ...

A bit of background: 2016 09 22: Is AER vs Redwater worsening cleanup of abandoned oil and gas wells in Alberta, BC and Sasktchewan? Did AER file the lawsuit intentionally to set legal precedent and dump clean up costs on taxpayers to enhance profits for oil and gas companies? 2016 08 18: More and more energy companies ...

DEHP expands contamination testing in Hopeland by Chinchilla News, 13th Oct 2016 THE Department of Environment and Heritage Protection has begun a second phase of testing in and around Hopeland to better understand the extent of contamination from Linc Energy’s Underground Coal Gasification test site. DEHP’s independent consultants, Gilbert and Sutherland, began drilling works and gas sampling ...

Trilogy oil emulsion spill in Alberta reaches size of four football fields by Elizabeth McSheffrey & The Canadian Press, October 12th 2016, National Observer Trilogy Energy says the pipeline leak it discovered late last week in north central Alberta has covered an area about three hectares in size with oil emulsion — a damage zone equivalent to ...

New Data: Water Use in Hydraulic Fracturing a Key Risk in Water-Stressed Regions in Texas and Colorado, , Increasing Wastewater Disposal Risks Press Release by Ceres, October 6, 2016 Meg Wilcox — Ceres | email hidden; JavaScript is required | phone: 617-319-6457 Tessa Castellani — Ceres | email hidden; JavaScript is required | phone: 617-247-0700 x 145 BOSTON, MA Oct 06, 2016 New Ceres research, released today via ...

Miami-Dade County Bans Fracking, Citing Multiple Environmental Concerns by Kate Stein, October 10, 2016, wlrn.org Miami/South Florida Fracking is now banned in Miami-Dade County, thanks to an ordinance passed unanimously last Wednesday by county commissioners. … The Miami-Dade ordinance says fracking could contaminate county water supplies, including the Biscayne Aquifier, where many South Florida residents get their water. “The ...

First Nations communities in the Gaspé unite against fracking, Group of First Nations leaders threaten legal action over Petrolia drilling projects by CBC News, Oct 08, 2016 Related: Gaspé citizens concerned fracking could be on the table for Petrolia oil project Groups fight to stop bill allowing oil, gas exploration Anticosti fracking could cause earthquakes, expert says Anticosti mayor wants ...

Crews cutting through bush to reach site of northwest Alberta pipeline leak by Gordon Kent, Edmonton Journal, October 10, 2016, Calgary Herald Dense bush and poor weather are hampering the efforts of workers trying to reach the site of a crude oil pipeline leak, a spokeswoman for the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) says. … Investigators still don’t know ...

Whistleblower refers email to watchdog, alleging unlawful approval of gas plants, Crime and Corruption Commission should look at a government email about the approval of the liquefied natural gas process, says Simone Marsh by Joshua Robertson, 6 October 2016, The Guardian A former Queensland government whistleblower has renewed her complaint to the state corruption watchdog about the approval of two ...

[Refer first to: 2013 12 20: VICTORY! Pennsylvania Supreme Court Says It’s Unconstitutional For Gas Companies To Frack Wherever They Want; Act 13, Gas Industry Takeover Law thrown out by State’s Highest Court “By any responsible account,” Chief Justice Castille wrote, “the exploitation of the Marcellus Shale Formation will produce a detrimental effect on the environment, on ...

One Year Later: Officials Found Drilling Chemicals in Public Water, But Told No One by Joshua B. Pribanic, Melissa Troutman and Sierra Shamer, September 24, 2016, Public Herald Updated  September 29, 2016: PA DEP responds to Public Herald’s report. One year ago, on September 24, 2015, a new company owned by ...

Colorado’s workers’ comp rules complicate accountability, “Exclusive remedy” provision gives companies immunity from lawsuits by John Ingold, September 26, 2016, The Denver Post On the first day of Von Phathong’s trial against drilling company Tesco, his attorney left little doubt about who she believed was to blame for her client’s injuries. “Tesco was just waiting for someone to get ...

Nature Conservancy gets $14 million donation, makes big land buy by Kim McGuire, September 29, 2016, Houston Chronicle The Nature Conservancy announced Thursday it has received a $14 million donation to acquire more than 3,700 acres of land in Texas and Arkansas. The donation is believed to be the group’s largest for land acquisition in Texas. In ...

Andrew Nikiforuk on tour in Nova Scotia this week speaking on earthquakes caused by frac’ing and his new book Slick Water. Tour details At Acadia to explore the Legacy of Fracking by Wendy Elliott, September 29, 2016, Nova News Now WOLFVILLE – On Saturday, Oct. 1, join author Andrew Nikiforuk for a stunning examination of Big Oil and government ...

Interview with Dr. Anthony Ingraffea 5 Min. by CBC News, September 29, 2016, event sponsored by concerned citizens A critical look at the full impacts of unconventional oil and gas development presentation by Dr. Anthony Ingraffea, September 29, 2016, Beringia Centre at 6:30PMa A few key comments by Dr. Anthony Ingraffea to the Yukon: “You have to make a ...

A few of the comments Bob Donnan7 hours ago The citizens of Pennsylvania owe a huge debt of gratitude to those who fought long and hard for the rights of all Pennsylvanians in the bold face of industry and political favoritism. Sincere thanks are due to attorneys John M. Smith, Jon Kamin and Jordan Yeager; Past and ...

75% of Drinking Water in America is Contaminated With Cancer-causing Chromium-6 by Mike Adams, September 28, 2-16, Global Research, originally in Natural News An Environmental Working Group review of government water analysis data reveals that 75% of drinking water in America is contaminated with cancer-causing hexavalent chromium (also known as chromium-6). In a widely publicized report, EWG ...

State introduces fracking regulations, one year ahead of ban’s end by Scott Dance, September 28, 2016, The Baltimore Sun A year before a fracking ban in Maryland expires, the state has proposed rules for the controversial industry. The Hogan administration has proposed rules that would prohibit the gas-drilling technique known as fracking within 2,000 feet of a private drinking ...

NEB says stalled review of Energy East Pipeline has cost $685,000 by Dan Healing, September 23, 2016 CALGARY – The National Energy Board says its review of the Energy East Pipeline cost at least $685,000 before members of the panel presiding over hearings into the development resigned, putting the exercise into limbo. Ninety per cent of the ...

COMING TUESDAY: CHAPTER 2 Oil and gas workers’ safety deteriorates with more subcontractors Inconsistent reporting of oil field deaths has become “a national problem.” by John Ingold, September 25, 2016, Denver Post More than 1,300 workers died in the nation’s oil and gas fields between 2003 and 2014 — at a rate that, in bad years, exceeded 10 ...

Why Harper was bad news for Canada’s environment by David Schindler, Sep 8, 2016, Outdoor Canada Knocks for Harper In Outdoor Canada magazine’s recent “Adventure Special” issue, Member of Parliament Robert Sopuck claims the Conservative Party is the only party that supports hunters, anglers and trappers, and that the Harper government was particularly praiseworthy for its environmental initiatives. My ...

An Alberta court case is boosting environmental clean-up costs in other provinces by Dan Healing, The Canadian Press, September 22, 2016, Calgary Herald Companies buying energy assets in Saskatchewan and British Columbia are facing higher deposit costs for environmental remediation after a precedent-setting court case in Alberta that dealt with abandoned oil and gas wells. In a letter sent ...

Junex Says Horizontal in Quebec’s Forillon Formation Delivering Historic Results by Charlie Passut, September 21, 2016, Natural Gas Intel Junex Inc., a junior oil and natural gas explorer based in Quebec City, said a horizontal oil well drilled two years ago into the Forillon formation in eastern Quebec continues to deliver strong results during a mandatory testing ...

Experts agree fracking won’t cut energy bills, ad watchdog rules Emily Gosden, September 21, 2016, The Telegraph Most experts do not agree with David Cameron’s claim that fracking will cut UK energy bills, the advertising watchdog has concluded. The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has now overturned the decision it took last year to ban a Greenpeace anti-fracking advert, which stated ...

Lightstream Resources Ltd is the latest oil and gas producer to seek creditor protection by Geoffrey Morgan, Financial Post, September 20, 2016, Calgary Herald CALGARY – Lightstream Resources Ltd. is seeking protection from its creditors after the oil and gas producer failed to reach a deal to restructure close to $1.2-billion worth of debt. Lightstream shares, which ...

“San Solomon Spring, the largest of several springs that bubble up from the deep pool in Balmorhea State Park, produces 20 million gallons of clear water every day” for now: Balmorhea State Park, Texas 2:55 Min by Texas Parks and Wildlife, August 14, 2009 The crystal clear springs of Balmorhea State Park are an oasis in the west Texas desert. ...

Where is Alton Gas’s greed induced impact assessment? How long before the company gets impatient and triples their dumping into the river to speed up their road to profits? Will frac’d gas be stored in the Alton Gas storage caverns? Science of trouble at the Alton Gas project site, The company points to years of study to bolster ...

Gulf of St. Lawrence oil drilling proposal provokes anger, Environmental and First Nations groups have opposed the Halifax-based company’s plans by Ian Bickis, The Canadian Press, Sep 17, 2016, CBC News Related Stories Old Harry drilling licence extended for environmental assessment Protect ‘beautiful water,’ Ethan Hawke says in call for drilling moratorium New concerns raised over Gulf of St. Lawrence oil ...

CAPE responds to Canadian government approving Pacific NW LNG Media Release by CAPE, September 28, 2016 Vancouver: The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) is deeply disappointed to learn that the federal cabinet has chosen to approve construction of the Pacific North West LNG (PNW LNG) processing facility on Lelu Island. This $36 billion project ...

ICC widens remit to include environmental destruction cases, In change of focus, Hague court will prosecute government and individuals for environmental crimes such as landgrabs by John Vidal and Owen Bowcott, September 15, 2016, The Guardian Environmental destruction and landgrabs could lead to governments and individuals being prosecuted for crimes against humanity by the international criminal court following a ...

100 Short Stories – The Battle to Save Lake Ainslie by Neal Livingston, September 19, 2016, Black River Productions Limited “100 Short Stories is a beautiful captivating film. Viewers will be enraged and amazed. I wanted ten more 100 stories by Neal Livingston when the film ended.”  Review by Jessica Ernst The Nova Scotia Advocate website Atlantic Film Festival twitter ...

Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard Reneges on Promise to Stop Fracking in St. Lawrence, Drill, Bébé, Drill by Alberta Oil Magazine, September 26, 2016 Quebec has come under fire from environmentalists for allowing fracking on an island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Liberal Premier Philippe Couillard says he’s sticking to a deal inked by the previous Parti Québécois ...

Gaspé citizens concerned fracking could be on the table for Petrolia’s Haldimand oil project, Petrolia says it may have to ‘artificially stimulate’ reservoir follow tests by Glenn Wanamaker, September 16, 2016, with files from Quebec AM, CBC News The energy firm Petrolia appears to be at a crossroads with its Haldimand oil project, located next to a residential area ...

Linc CEO charged with environmental breaches, If convicted, Mr Bond could face a fine of more than $310,000 per offence, or even jail time by The Australian, September 15, 2016 Queensland’s environmental regulator has filed a complaint and summons against the founder of Linc Energy, Peter Bond. The Department of Environment and Heritage Protection filed papers in the Dalby ...

Judge blocks Central California oil development over fracking by David R. Baker, September 7, 2016, sfgate A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the U.S. Bureau of Land Management from opening more than 1 million acres in Central California to oil drilling because the agency did not properly explore the potential dangers of fracking. U.S. District Judge Michael ...

Sinkhole on toxic pond has neighbors fuming by ABC Action News, September 16, 2016 The company that kept secret a massive sinkhole that drained a 215 million dollar radioactive pond into an underground aquifer said it didn’t go public with the crisis for three weeks because it found “no risk to the public.” Florida sinkhole ...

The Legacy of Fracking: From Earthquakes to Jessica Ernst with Andrew Nikiforuk by Inverness County Centre for the Arts 2011 09 10 Still of Andrew Nikforuk presenting at Cochrane, Alberta by BC Tap Water Alliance Date/Time Date(s) – Sunday, September 25th 2016 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Location Inverness County Centre for the Arts Andrew Nikiforuk NS-wide author speaking tour, Sept 25-Oct 1 Join investigative ...

Lloyd’s Wins Right to Fight in N.Y. Over Oklahoma Quake Coverage by Robert Burnson, September 09, 2016, The Washington Post with Bloomberg Lloyd’s of London has kept its lawsuit against New Dominion LLC over fracking out of the state where the ground is shaking. A federal judge in New York agreed Wednesday to decide the lawsuit by ...

September 3 Oklahoma Earthquake May Mean More Class Action Litigation Involving Hydraulic Fracturing by Dykema Gossett PLLC, September 13, 2016 On Saturday, September 3, an earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale shook Oklahoma and states as far away as Nebraska, Illinois and Texas. The quake caused significant property damage in the area and shook homes and buildings ...

Winners: SEJ 15th Annual Awards for Reporting on the Environment by The Society of Environmental Journalists, September 2016 The Society of Environmental Journalists is proud to present the winners of the 2015-2016 Awards for Reporting on the Environment. SEJ’s journalism contest is the world’s largest and most comprehensive awards for journalism on environmental topics. SEJ honors this year’s winners ...

[Refer first to: Will an honest and integral investigation be conducted by the RCMP given their murky past with Encana, energy regulators and government? 1999: RCMP bombed oil site in ‘dirty tricks’ campaign 2009 02 12: The Intimidation of Ernst: Members of Harper Government’s Anti-terrorist Squad (made up of RCMP ...

M3.8 – 0km WSW of Spencer, Oklahoma by USGS, 2016-09-09 02:06:29 UTC 35.521°N 97.385°W 5.0 km depth Snap from Google maps, data added from USGS Employees At Pawnee Business Worried Returning To Work by Melissa Hawkes, September 9, 2016, NEWS ON 6 PAWNEE, Oklahoma – A Pawnee business just re-opened after a huge 5.8 earthquake, but employees say they’re worried ...

Natural Resources Canada changed the 3.8M Saskatchewan earthquake location from southeast of Yorkton to east of Esterhazy. The reported story tone changes a bit, does not mention Yorkton or explain why the location changed. Yellow push pins with white font in map above show locations of where the 3.8M was reported, first southeast of Yorkton, then, east ...

Thank you Mike De Souza and National Observer! Pipeline panel recuses itself, chairman reassigned from Energy East duties by Mike De Souza, September 9th 2016, National Observer The panel reviewing the Energy East pipeline has recused itself in the wake of revelations uncovered in August by National Observer. The hearings have been adjourned and Peter Watson, the chairman and chief ...

Excellent comments by Diana Daunheimer and Rob Schwartz. 4 Comments Tariq Munir · Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of Calgary, Alberta Canada While working to reduce environmental footprint, I realized that too many groups were involved to converge to viable solutions. As well, much lesser of the total allocations were being spent on restorative technology or modeling which ...

Saturday Letters Clean-up diagnosis correct, but not the cure August 13, 2016, Edmonton Journal Re. “Ask for help with defunct wells,” Letters, Aug. 10 Did I interpret Edmonton-Riverbend MP Matt Jeneroux’s letter correctly? Is he really suggesting that Alberta and Canadian taxpayers pay for the reclamation-remediation of defunct wells in Alberta’s oil and gas patch? I agree that it is ...

Saskatchewan to inspect oil pipelines near rivers and lakes due to Husky Energy spill by The Canadian Press, September 9, 2016, The Globe and Mail Saskatchewan says it will be inspecting all oil pipelines that cross rivers, lakes or other bodies of water that supply municipalities. Energy and Resources Minister Dustin Duncan says the provincewide inspection is a direct ...

USGS Upgrades Pawnee County Earthquake To 5.8 Magnitude by Matthew Nuttle, Sept 7, 2016, NEWS9 The United States Geological Survey (USGS) upgraded the magnitude of Saturday’s earthquake in Pawnee County from a 5.6 to a 5.8 on the Richter Scale. The earthquake struck at 7:02 a.m. on Sep. 3, eight miles northwest of the town of Pawnee at ...

Texas officials found 50 cases of groundwater contamination in 2015 by Mike Soraghan, September 6, 2016, E & E News Russell Ray called Texas officials last year because he suspected the oil and gas wells surrounding his home in Lubbock made his drinking water salty and left it full of what he called “crud.” His was one of 50 ...

Snap of tweets before the 5.8M Pawnee earth quake was downgraded to 5.6M MORE DOWNGRADING. IS INDUSTRY PUTTING THE PRESSURE ON IN MORE WAYS THAN DOWN HOLE? Three Earthquakes Rumble In Grant County by Matthew Nuttle, Sept 06, 2016, NEWS9. GRANT COUNTY, Oklahoma – Three earthquakes were recorded in Grant County, Oklahoma, Tuesday afternoon. A 3.9 magnitude was recorded at 12:48 ...

Anticosti fracking could cause earthquakes, expert says, U.S. Midwest, Alberta, British Columbia enduring earthquakes due to ‘human activity’ by Elysha Enos, September 5, 2016, CBC News A 5.6-magnitude earthquake that shook the U.S. Midwest on Saturday is being linked to the same kind of fracking proposed for Anticosti in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Maurice Lamontagne, a seismologist ...

New genus of bacteria found living inside hydraulic fracturing wells by Pam Frost Gorder, September 5, 2016, phys.org Ohio State University researchers and their colleagues have identified a new genus of bacteria living inside hydraulic fracturing wells. These jars contain samples of “produced water fluids” — the fluid that is collected at the surface of a hydraulic ...

This post is dedicated to all harmed by petroleum industry induced earthquakes and to Fox Creek’s Ms. Barb Ryan, frac quake data observer and collector extraordinaire. Thank you Ms. Ryan. *** Do we believe industry and its enabling regulators when they promise us quakes caused by fracing and waste injection are only very small and we won’t feel ...

De Blasio signs Levin bill to ban fracking products, Council member says it will safeguard water supply by Paula Katinas, September 2, 2016, Brooklyn Daily Eagle ….New York has become the first city in the country to ban the use of oil waste products obtained through the controversial process of hydro-fracking. Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law a ...

[Refer first to: 2016 03 16: Canada’s biggest oil producers, including Cenovus, hoarding near-record pile of cash ] Tide shifts in abandoned well plan as province backs idea by Chris Varcoe, September 2, 2016, Calgary Herald You have to give Mark Salkeld at the Petroleum Services Association of Canada points for being persistent. It’s been two years since Canada’s energy sector began ...

Why so many applications by Albertans to chase money, but nothing done about oil and gas industry contaminating water across the province? Alberta landowners file hundreds of new complaints against resource companies for unpaid rents by Reid Southwick, September 1, 2016, Calgary Herald Alberta’s oil and gas sector continued to show signs of weakness in August when landowners ...

Preliminary Hazard Assessment of Chemical Additives Used in Oil and Gas Fields that Reuse Their Produced Water for Agricultural Irrigation in The San Joaquin Valley of California. Technical Report by Seth B.C. Shonkoff, William T. Stringfellow, and Jeremy K. Domen, September 2016, PSE Healthy Energy, Inc. Oakland, CA INTRODUCTION Oil field produced water has been used to irrigate food crops in the Cawelo Water ...

California and EPA Poised to Expand Pollution of Potential Drinking Water Reserves A little-known program under federal environment law is being used to permit oil and gas companies to inject waste into the state’s aquifers, even as the thirst for groundwater grows by Abrahm Lustgarten, August 30, 2016, ProPublica As the western United States struggles with chronic water shortages ...

CAPP raises doubts oil production caused contamination cited in study by Reid Southwick, August 31, 2016, Calgary Herald Government scientists will decide this fall how they will expand monitoring of lakes, wetlands and other surface water bodies near in-situ oilsands projects, after a study indicated such operations can release pollutants. But an industry group questioned whether the study ...

Australian explorer looking at grounds for lawsuit over fracking ban by Sonali Paul, August 31, 2016, Reuters Lakes Oil, a junior oil and gas explorer in Australia, is considering the grounds it may have for suing Victoria state, after the government there permanently banned fracking and extended a ban on onshore conventional gas drilling to 2020. Lakes Oil shares ...

Lexin Resources complies with safety orders after watchdog sounds alarm by Reid Southwick, August 30, 2016, Calgary Herald A Calgary oil and gas company that ran afoul of Alberta’s energy watchdog has complied with orders to return its sour gas pipelines to a safe state after warning about gaps in its ability to detect and respond to ...

2011 08 03: Australian Petroleum Association: Coal seam damage to water inevitable The coal seam gas industry has conceded that extraction will inevitably contaminate aquifers. “Drilling will, to varying degrees, impact on adjoining aquifers,” said the spokesman, Ross Dunn. “The intent of saying that is to make it clear that we have never shied away from ...

Bonterra Energy cleaning up after pump jack falls into Washout Creek by Reid Southwick, August 29, 2016, Calgary Herald Bonterra Energy Corp. said its crews are in the final stages of cleanup after a pump jack fell into a creek southwest of Edmonton, spilling what the company called a small amount of oil and gear fluid. Heavy rains last ...

2004: Guess who is on the board of directors of Bankers Petroleum? John Zaozirny, Director Mr. Zaozirny became a director in 2004. He is Vice Chairman of Canaccord Genuity Corp. He also is a Director for a number of public and private entities including: Canadian Oil Sands Limited, Petro-America Oil Corp., Pengrowth Energy Corporation and Computer Modelling Group ...

The study area, with its history of surface leaks, might be an extreme example. But Korosi said there might be other “hot spots.” A CAPROCK CHRONOLOGY Texaco/1980s/Fort McMurray In the early 1980s, Texaco experimented with steaming bitumen deposits with a Fort McMurray thermal pilot. “They had a blow-out and the steam geyser looked like Yellowstone” reportedGlen Schmidt, CEO of ...

BC Hydro responds to concerns about fracking and dam safety by Michael Harris, August 26, 2016, Hydroworld Recent concerns about fracking near BC Hydro’s hydroelectric power assets have led to a statement from the Canadian utility regarding their safety and stability. Fracking — a process of subsurface drilling — has been blamed for creating seismically unstable geographical ...

Texas failed to get federal approval to inject oil and gas drilling waste into groundwater by Jeff Mosier, 26 August 2016, The Dallas Morning News The Texas Railroad Commission has let the petroleum industry inject oil and gas waste into groundwater for decades without the required federal approval, a national environmental group says. Officials with Clean Water Action said ...

The husky spill, Response to massive Husky oil spill leaves critics concerned by Carrie Tait, August 26, 2016, The Globe and Mail Last month, some 200,000 litres of oil spilled into the North Saskatchewan river. Officials have praised the company for its financial response to the crisis, but critics are concerned about the lack of transparency, Carrie Tait ...