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NATIONAL PARKS: Drilling at ‘doorstep’ drives visitors away — report by Scott Streater, August 26, 2016, E&E News Oil and gas development near national parks is driving away visitors to some of the nation’s most iconic sites, according to a new report by a watchdog group that warns the development threatens the economic benefits of parks to local communities. The ...

Study: Fracking chemicals in water raise fertility risks by Jim Waymer, August 25, 2016, Florida Today New research released Thursday suggests chemicals used in fracking and other gas and oil operations increase risk of miscarriages, reduced male fertility, prostate cancer, birth defects and preterm birth by disrupting hormones. The study by researchers at Duke, the University of Missouri ...

Complete paper available at link: Associations between Unconventional Natural Gas Development and Nasal and Sinus, Migraine Headache, and Fatigue Symptoms in Pennsylvania by Aaron W. Tustin, Annemarie G. Hirsch, Sara G. Rasmussen, Joan A. Casey, Karen Bandeen-Roche, and Brian S. Schwartz, Received: 22 December 2015, Revised: 29 July 2016, Accepted: 31 July 2016, Published: 25 August 2016, Environ Health Perspect; DOI:10.1289/EHP281 Background: Unconventional ...

Awards: Andrew Nikiforuk‚ Cybèle Young among Lane Anderson Awards shortlisted by Becky Robertson, September 13, 2016, Quill & Quire The finalists for this year’s Lane Anderson Awards have been announced. The two prizes of $10,000 each are presented for the best Canadian science writing. The Fitzhenry Foundation‚ which administers the awards‚ is also running a contest for ...

EXCELLELNT LETTER! Fracking has many potential pitfalls by Larry Barzelai, MD, August 23, 2016, The Vancouver Sun Photo by Tim Fraser 2006 08 16 for Calgary Herald’s SPECIAL REPORT: WHAT LIES BENEATH. COAL BED METHANE – DAY 2 OF 4 * Rosebud, Alberta. Darryl Penner an employee of TRICAN Well Service takes a break outside of fracking operation at ...

Anticosti mayor applying for UNESCO heritage designation, The island’s mayor will submit an application for ‘Galapagos of the north’ by CBC News, Aug 23, 2016 Related Stories Philippe Couillard says he’s ready to pull plug on Anticosti oil, gas exploration Court orders Quebec to continue financing Anticosti operations Salmon population at risk if Anticosti exploration continues, says federation Innu community moves to bolster ...

EPA says oil industry likely to blame for Texas tremors by John Siciliano, August 22, 2016, Washington Examiner The Environmental Protection Agency is pointing its finger at the oil and gas industry for causing earthquakes in Texas that could endanger public health. The agency said “there is a significant possibility” that recent earthquakes in the northern part ...

The 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning was the arsenic poisoning of more than 200 people in Bradford, England, when sweets accidentally made with arsenic were sold from a market stall. Twenty-one victims died as a result. Water around Giant Mine in N.W.T. may never recover from arsenic contamination by Bob Webber The Canadian Press, August 18, 2016, Winnipeg ...

Clean air declaration out of bounds for Rocky View by Enrique Massot, August 4, 2016, Country News Online What matters in Rocky View County and Region A Rocky View councillor opposed a declaration in support of making clean air and water and safe food a human right. “The one that bothers me in this is the right to clean ...

OIL ON THE WATER Sask. oil spill has many wondering if a similar disaster could strike Alberta by Dave Mabell, August 20, 2016, Lethbridge Herald Could that happen here? Do we have an emergency plan? [Does Canada have any plan anywhere, except to give multinational corporations what ever they want (media control and more and more deregulation by our ...

Woo hoo! by David Parkins, August 23, 2016, The Globe and Mail Nestle continues to extract water from Ontario town despite severe drought by Keith Leslie, The Canadian Press, August 21, 2016, The Globe and Mail Environmentalists are urging the Ontario government against renewing one of Nestle’s water-taking permits in a southwestern Ontario town, saying “water should be for life, ...

TRUST IN DUTCH GAS BOTTOMS OUT ON INVESTIGATION OF EARTHQUAKE REPORT by Janene Pieters, Netherlands Times, Aug 19, 2016 Scientists at TU Delft sharply criticized the conclusions of a study into the risk of earthquake damage to homes and buildings on the edge of the Groningen gas field. The scientists found that the number of buildings examined ...

Sask. tracking energy companies not making payments to landowners by D.C. Fraser, Regina Leader-Post with files from the Calgary Herald, August 18, 2016, Calgary Herald Nine energy companies operating in Saskatchewan have had complaints made against them for not paying landowners for use of that land. This is the first year the province is tracking such numbers, although there ...

NASA Study Nails Fracking as Source of Massive Methane ‘Hot Spot,’ The 2,500-square mile plume is said to be the largest concentration of the potent greenhouse gas in the country by Lauren McCauley, August 16, 2016, Common Dreams A NASA study released on Monday confirms that a methane “hot spot” in the Four Corners region of ...

One of the comments to the article below: annie_fiftyseven ….title of the article is misleading. I suggest: “Alberta Offers Lessons In Keeping Oil and Gas Industry ‘Safe’ From A Public Endangered By Fracking” Much more fitting. Alberta Offers Lessons in Keeping Dams Safe From Fracking, BC Hydro feared effects of fracking-induced earthquakes, relies on ‘understandings’ to reduce risk by Ben Parfitt, August ...

[Refer first to: 2012 11 28: Power of Attorney Calgary managing partner for Osler Hoskin Harcourt, Maureen Killoran, lawyer representing Encana in the Ernst vs Encana lawsuit: And, to be perfectly frank, when you do energy law, as I do, or corporate litigation, you’re not dealing with life and death situations and people whose lives have been turned ...

Is this enough? Saskatchewan city of Prince Albert gets $5M from Husky for oil spill cleanup by Jennifer Graham, The Canadian Press, August 15, 2016, Calgary Herald PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. – A city that was forced to close its water intakes after an oil spill on the North Saskatchewan River has received a $5-million payment from Husky Energy. The ...

A comment to the Herald article below: Allan MacRae Banff School of Advanced Management The history of this matter is described below. Portions of my email have been excerpted for brevity. From: Allan MacRae Sent: May-28-16 12:28 PM To: Senior Executive, Alberta Energy Regulator Subject: Critical Sour Gas Alert Importance: High I have, on usually reliable authority, the following information. The Mazeppa Sour Gas Plant reportedly ...

Environment minister urges confidence in Energy East process after NEB revelations by The Canadian Press, August 9, 2016, Calgary Herald Environment Minister Catherine McKenna urged Canadians on Tuesday to have confidence in the evaluation process of large-scale energy projects like Energy East. McKenna declined to comment directly on new revelations surrounding the National Energy Board, the body responsible ...

Police shooting of suspect in double homicide at Alberta work camp near Fox Creek was ‘necessary,’ police watchdog finds by Clare Clancy, August 8, 2016, Edmonton Journal in Calgary Herald An investigation by the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team has determined that the shooting of a 29-year-old man by RCMP officers was necessary because the man ...

Peace Country explosion raises questions about safety of shut-in wells, No regulations in place to require clean-up, researcher says by Kim Trynacity, August 9, 2016, CBC News Claude Labrecque was watching the morning TV news a few weeks ago when an explosion rocked his trailer. “It was such a strong explosion, I’ve never felt anything like that. “The first thing ...

Record numbers of farmers seeking lapsed payments from oil and gas industry by Reid Southwick, August 6, 2016, Calgary Herald Lana Bulger’s barley and hay farm in southern Alberta is a sprawling expanse of green fields scarred by a dirt road that leads to a swath of cleared land where a natural gas well is surrounded by ...

Thursday’s letters: Picture perfect editorial cartoon August 11, 2016, Edmonton Journal Re. Editorial cartoon, Aug. 5 My family and I were so touched by the cartoon of our father, Mel Hurtig, drawn by Malcolm Mayes for the Edmonton Journal. It was perfect. Leslie Hurtig, Philadelphia *** Mel Hurtig. 1932-2016. By Robin Mathews, August 3, 2016 On Wednesday, August 3, 2016, Mel ...

Chinese-owned company Sinopec fined $150,000 over Alberta pipeline spill by The Canadian Press, November 7, 2014, The Globe and Mail Two days later, the contractor realized that no water was flowing into a disposal well, despite the fact the well was producing. “(He) then realized the pipeline must be leaking,” the statement says. ‘He immediately shut the pipeline ...

Sask. premier promises full public investigation into Husky Energy pipeline spill by Morgan Modjeski, Saskatoon Starphoenix, August 3, 2016, Calgary Herald Watch 2:12 Min video at link of interviews with Premier Wall, city officials. Snaps below from the video: Prince Albert Mayor Greg Dionne says he will do everything in his power to ensure Husky Energy Inc. covers the costs ...

PDF version Alberta Provides Guidance On Use Of Exposure Control To Manage Risks At Contaminated Sites by John Georgakopoulos, Matthew Gardner and Anand Srivastava Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP, July 29, 2016, Mondaq Alberta Environment and Parks has published a new guidance document entitled Alberta Exposure Control Guide1 (the “Guide”). The Guide outlines the requirements for risk management ...

How About an Under ice bitumen slurry runaway?? email by Stewart Shields to federal and provincial authorities and politicians, Aug 1, 2016 With the knowledge now that bitumen from Western Saskatchewan can very easily reach Prince albert and ruin their water supply, a permanent stand by clean safe water solution is a must before freeze up!! North ...

Why did the AER leave this out of their Fox Creek blanket approval frac frenzy “evaluation?” Fox Creek has now the highest crime severity rating in Canada (rural and municipal) Source Stats Canada Get crime stats on your community here. Click on the ADD/Remove data tab and choose. And why did the AER leave out all the other serious frac ...

The Solution To Pollution Is Dilution email by Stewart Shields to federal and provincial authorities and politicians, Aug 1, 2016 Are the people of Saskatchewan really going to buy this?? If so they bought in to the old adage—”The Solution To Pollution Is Dilution” From this spill looking foreword are we to expect bitumen spills to be ...

Has Husky disclosed all the chemicals it spilled into the North Saskatchewan River to the Environment Canada, NEB, the provincial government and regulators, and harmed families and communities in Saskatchewan? Wanna bet the company never is made to disclose those toxic chemicals, not even to the regulators or public, or those who will bathe in ...

Coffee and Testicles A guy goes to the Sask. Environment to apply for a job. The interviewer asks him, “Are you allergic to anything?” He replies, “Yes, caffeine. I can’t drink coffee.” “Ok, Have you ever been in the military service?” “Yes,” he says, “I was in Iraq for one tour.” The interviewer says, “That will give you 5 extra points ...

MUST READ! Worst than a boil advisory! by Gérard Montpetit, La Présentation, Qc, July 28, 2016 On the TV news and in newspapers, we have seen that a pipeline, property of Husky Oil, has spilled more than 200 000 liters of petroleum in the North Saskatchewan river. The oil slick is rapidly moving downstream, polluting the river bottom, ...

Quebec’s Anticosti Island: Dreamers come and go, but it remains an enigma for developers by Phillip Authier, July 23, 2016, Montreal Gazette As far back as anyone can remember, people have been trying to make a buck off Anticosti Island. Henri Menier, a Frenchman who made his millions in the chocolate business, dreamed of a hunting and fishing ...

M4.1 – 21km W of Perry, Oklahoma by USGS Earthquakes July 17, 2016 2016-07-17 04:17:59 UTC 36.281°N 97.532°W 7.6 km depth Did You Feel It? The data below are the most preferred data available on where the quake was felt, last updated 2016-07-19 01:11:13 (UTC) Covington, OK 73730 1 7 km 36.297°N 97.544°W Lucien, OK 73757 11 km 36.265°N 97.444°W Douglas, OK 73733 16 km 36.232°N ...

Sask’s oil regulator saw budget cut in June, not known when pipeline that spilled last inspected by D.C. Fraser, July 26, 2016, Regina Leader-Post The 2016-17 provincial budget in June cut funding of provincial offices tasked with enforcing oil and gas development in Saskatchewan. Government officials confirmed Monday that the Petroleum and Natural Gas branch, which serves as ...

Water treatment plant in the works for Grovedale and surrounding area by Svjetlana Mlinarevic, July 21, 2016, Daily Herald-Tribune Grovedale residents should have a fully functioning water treatment plant in three years. MD of Greenview Reeve Dale Gervais said council has approved administration to enter into negotiations to purchase land in the Grovedale and Landry Heights area in ...

Tippi • Comment to Saskatchewan city prepares for possible arrival of oil from major pipeline spill Crickets are leading the chorus from the Saskatchewan media. We, in this province, didn’t even know that pipelines could possibly leak. We are baffled by this – aren’t all pipelines, good pipelines? And since when did pipelines start carrying oil? We were ...

Another health study showing harm, and still, the poisoning goes on and on and on. [Remember: 2015: Oil and gas industry pollution travels hundreds of kilometres, No wonder Harper is muzzling Canadian scientists 2015: Fracing’s long reach: New Study says Fracking Wells Could Pollute The Air Hundreds Of Miles Away ] ACCESS THE COMPLETE STUDY HERE, FREE: Association Between Unconventional Natural ...

Tailings ponds and pipeline leaks keep heat on Alberta Energy Regulator by Chris Varcoe, July 16, 2016, Calgary Herald Canada’s energy sector has several formidable issues to deal with, but two of the trickiest surround pipeline leaks and how to deal with tailings ponds in the oilsands. On Thursday, the ...

Taranaki Regional Council spends $85,000 fighting BSA decision by Jeremy Wilkinson, July 15, 2016, Taranaki Daily News The Taranaki Regional Council have spent $85,000 worth of legal fees fighting about a Radio New Zealand segment on landfarming. The Broadcasting Standards Authority dismissed the council’s complaint in December 2014 but an ...

Alberta Energy Regulator tells companies to improve detection of pipeline leaks by Ian Bickis, The Canadian Press, July 14, 2016, The Calgary Herald The Alberta Energy Regulator is urging pipeline operators to do a better job of developing and maintaining programs to discover leaks after it examined nearly two dozen spills over the last three years. The AER said ...

Nexen says worker error led to deadly blast, reveals design flaws led to pipeline rupture by Reid Southwick, July 12, 2016, Calgary Herald Nexen Energy said a deadly explosion at its oilsands facility in January was caused by employees and exposed “gaps in our safety culture,” which the company vowed Tuesday to rectify. The Calgary subsidiary of Chinese oil firm ...

L’illusion des nettoyages des marées noires Translation of Andrew Nikiforuk’s article by Amie du Richelieu, July 13, 2016 The Oil Spill Cleanup Illusion, Why do we pretend to clean up oil spills in the ocean? by Andrew Nikiforuk, July 12, 2016, Hakai Magazine When the Deepwater Horizon well operated by BP (formerly British Petroleum) exploded and contaminated the Gulf of ...

Alberta’s revamped oil and gas royalty scheme ready for early use: Notley by James Wood, July 12, 2016, Calgary Herald Premier Rachel Notley says oil and gas companies operating in Alberta can choose to immediately start operating under the province’s revamped royalty scheme. The modernized royalty framework — the product of the NDP government’s royalty review released earlier ...

A few comments to the Calgary Herald article below: Diana Daunheimer This is hardly a surprising announcement, at a less obvious time, by the NDP to subsidize high risk, high decline and high cost fraccing operations in Alberta, with public money. After all, the NDP claim in their fluffy Climate Leadership Plan that fracced resources are “clean” ...

Shale Gas Production in England – an updated public health assessment by Medact, July 7, 2016 Medact today released an updated assessment of the potential health impacts of shale fracking in England. This new report reaches broadly the same conclusions as our 2015 report Health and Fracking, however it is now supported by a much larger ...

How Anticosti became the centre of a debate over oil and gas exploration,  ‘We’re going to protect that unique ecosystem, I can tell you that,’ Premier Philippe Couillard says by Benjamin Shingler with files from The Canadian Press, July 6, 2-16, CBC News Plans to drill for oil and gas on an island in the Gulf of ...

Don’t Frack NL – A Musical Submission to the NLHFRB by James Parsons, June 2, 2015 … The main gravitating body of reference was Corie Hartnett, with the solid gold Satellite Dancers Jenne Nolan and Paula Graham. Essential camerawork was provided by Erika Steeves. I shot some video here and there, and did the editing. One very ...

Province fires back on Blueberry River FN’s cumulative effects claims, First Nation says province not doing enough to prevent resource development from impacting Treaty 8 rights by Mike Carter, July 4, 2016, Dawson Creek Mirror Minister of Aboriginal Relations and Reconcilliation John Rustad is firing back after the Blueberry River First Nations’ (BRFN) called out the provincial ...

Francis, you’ll have to read the Supreme Court of Canada ruling in Ernst vs AER by the light of a star. Third-generation rancher Francis Gardner had a ‘love of the land’ by Colette Derworiz, June 30, 2016, Calgary Herald Francis Gardner, a third-generation ‘gentleman’ rancher along the Eastern Slopes of the Rockies in southern Alberta, is being ...

Sioux County landowners win appeal, District court judge rules against Nebraska Oil and Gas Commission in fracking wastewater case by Maunette Loeks, June 29, 2016, Star Herald A Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission’s decision to grant a Colorado company permission to use an abandoned oil well in Sioux County as a wastewater disposal site has been reversed. In ...

Warren man pleads guilty for role in dumping fracking waste into waterway by Eric Heisig, cleveland.com CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Warren man pleaded guilty Friday to violating the Clean Water Act by directing an employee at his former job to dump fracking waste into a stormwater system with a link to the Mahoning River. David Jenkins, a former ...

High-Level EPA Adviser Accused of Scientific Fraud in Methane Leak Research by Sharon Kelly, June 28, 2016, desmogblog.com … Recently, over 100 community and environmental groups sent a letter urging the Environmental Protection Agency’s internal watchdog to investigate claims that a top methane researcher had committed scientific fraud and charging that he had made false and misleading statements ...

2016 07 01: Ernst loading water in Rosedale Alberta (45 minutes drive – one way – from Rosebud) Canada Day 2016 Ernst still hauling water – 12 years after Encana illegally fractured repeatedly into multiple drinking water aquifers at Rosebud and contaminated them. How many days can your family live on 185 gallons of water? Ten years now, Ernst ...

British Columbia And Imperial Globalization. Part Four by Robin Mathews, June 30 2016, The Straight Goods Attention across the world is, at last, focussing more and more on what is called ‘imperial globalization’ – the growing power of unchecked international capital to poison grand attempts at democratic community such as the ones struggling in the European Community ...

Alberta posts spike in orphan well count by Reid Southwick, July 26, 2016, Calgary Herald Alberta posted a big spike in the number of oil and gas wells abandoned by industry in recent months, sparking renewed calls to fix what a landowners’ group says is a broken system of cleaning up old wells. Low commodity prices have resulted ...

In California, Study Finds Drilling and Fracking into Freshwater Formations, The overlap of oil and gas development and water sources underscores the vulnerability of California’s groundwater, and the need for monitoring, the authors said by Neela Banerjee, June 27, 2016, InsideClimate News In California’s farming heartland, as many as one of every five oil and gas ...

Oilsands giant CNRL fined $500K for hydrogen sulphide gas leaks by Emily Mertz with files from John Cotter, June 24, 2016, Global News Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. will have to pay $500,000 for releasing a potentially deadly gas in two separate incidents at its Horizon facility in 2010 and 2012. Three environmental charges were laid after a hydrogen ...

SEC: Fracking CEO’s Mass Fraud Funded ‘Lifestyle Of Decadence And Debauchery’ by Allegra Kirkland, June 24, 2016, Talkingpointsmemo A Texas energy mogul known in the media as the “frack master” allegedly carried out an elaborate $80 million fraud scheme to fund his extravagant lifestyle, including a penchant for strippers, according to a lawsuit filed Friday by the ...

Sussex hopes New Brunswick government will lift fracking ban for community by Andrew Cromwell, June 24, 2016, Global News The government of New Brunswick says it’s willing to work with the town of Sussex about potentially lifting the fracking moratorium that’s been indefinitely put in place across the entire province. Residents and businesses in Sussex want their ...

Germany imposed limits on fracking on Friday, dealing a blow to efforts to develop shale gas by Caroline Copley and Vera Eckert, June 24, 2016, Reuters Under legislation passed by its lower house of parliament, fracking will be banned in clay formations, which typically lie between 1,000 and 2,500 meters deep. Scientific test drilling will be allowed but ...

Alberta Energy Regulator tries to stem tide of orphan wells, It just got harder to buy oil and gas assets in Alberta by Tracy Johnson, June 21, 2016, CBC News With little fanfare, the Alberta Energy Regulator has tightened up the rules for buying oil and gas assets. From now on, a company looking to buy oil and gas ...

Un autre journaliste gênant flushé! Translation of Talk Show Host Ian Jessop Out at C-FAX 1070 (Original in English included below) by Amie du Richelieu, June 23, 2016 I listened to Ian Jessop for his interviews with Jessica Ernst: it was one of the only ways left for her to talk publicly about her case against Encana, Alberta ...

Colo. regulators find methane violations at 10 companies by Gayathri Vaidyanathan, June 22, 2016, E & E News Colorado regulators have issued warnings to 10 energy companies that operate in the Denver-Julesburg Basin for emitting methane, a potent greenhouse gas, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that contribute to ground-level ozone or smog. Methane and VOCs are stringently regulated ...

Reportedly, the German Government (SPD and CDU) is caving to the oil and gas industry and will vote June 24, 2016 on the legal framework of the partial frac “ban” that is not a ban: The ban is not a ban, it’s a moratorium on fracking for shale (gas and oil) and CBM that will last ...

In the Birthplace of U.S. Oil, Methane Gas Is Leaking Everywhere by Jennifer Oldham, June 20, 2016, Bloomberg Some wells sunk since 1859 leak methane into homes and water “Citizen scientists” join regulators in race to map lost sites In Pennsylvania, birthplace of the U.S. oil industry, century-old abandoned oil wells have long been part of the landscape. Nobody gave ...

Oil bust leaves states with massive well cleanup by Paul J. Weber, June 19, 2016, Associated Press BIGFOOT, Texas – The worst oil bust since the 1980s is putting Texas and other oil producing states on the hook for thousands of newly abandoned drilling sites at a time when they have little money to ...

“It’s not a farm any more, it’s a gas field.” Keep Out by 60 Minutes, aired June 19, 2016 (available online for Australians June 20, 2016; perhaps it will be youtubed for the many concerned around the world) What would you do if someone walked into your backyard, dug a big hole and put a fence around ...

Petrolia Inc./Issuance of Certificate of Authorization for Anticosti: A New Step Forward! Press Release by Petrolia Inc., June 15, 2016 QUEBEC CITY, QUEBEC–(Marketwired – June 15, 2016) – This document corrects and replaces the press release that was sent on June 15, 2016 at 6:50 PM EDT. Pétrolia (TSX VENTURE:PEA) is proud to see a new step forward ...

Range Resources, TestAmerica accused of fraud in suit by David Singer, June 16, 2016, Observer-Reporter A lab company Range Resources hired to test water in 2011 that federal authorities later found to be contaminated in Amwell Township is being accused in Washington County Court of altering test results. Attorney Kendra Smith, representing John, Beth and Ashley Voyles, argued ...

Watch Out for a Possible Increase in Radioactivity in Your Drinking Water by Mark Karlin, June 16, 2016, Buzzflash at Truthout … The advocacy organization Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) has reacted with alarm to the new plan put forth by a government agency that is supposed to be protecting us from toxic substances. The EPA ...

Study Finds Chemicals In Residents Living Near Gas Wells by Sydney Pereira, June 16, 2016, Common Dreams The Colorado Supreme Court has struck down attempts by two cities to ban or delay fracking. The Monday, May 2, 2016, ruling is a victory for the oil and gas industry and for state officials who say only state government ...

2016 CJF Jackman Award for Excellence Winner is the Telegraph-Journal for Tracking Daycare Deficiencies 2016 CJF Awards Sold Out! The Tyee (Vancouver based) “Did Alberta Just Break a Fracking Earthquake World Record?” “Fracking Industry Has Changed Earthquake Patterns in Northeast BC” “Supreme Court Rejects Argument to Dismiss Landmark Fracking Case“ Tyee Nominated for CJF Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism, Winners to ...

UK fracking policy founded on scientific fraud, misrepresentation and prevarication by Nick Cowern, June 15, 2016, The Ecologist The key study that justifies the Government’s claim that fracking is a climate change ‘solution’ is based on serious scientific errors, writes Nick Cowern. Not only has the Government failed to correct them, but it is now delaying the ...

Why are these commissioners not concerned with how to define fracing like the Nova Scotia government is? Fracking continues to scare local leaders by Chris Aldridge, May 19, 2016, Huron Daily Tribune Fracking isn’t going over well with Huron County officials. “The more you look into it, the scarier it gets,” said Scott Boshart, Bad Axe’s director of ...

Delays on Nova Scotia fracking regulations could be political, Documents show options being presented to government behind the scenes by Michael Gorman, June 15, 2016, CBC News The provincial Energy Department has been presenting government with potential definitions ...

2013 07 08: Radium 226 was found in returned fracking fluids at Preese Hall, Lancashire: Radium 226 was the highest naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) found in the flow back water from the Bowland shale measuring between 14 and 90 Becquerel per litre – according to an analysis by the Environment Agency (EA) in December 2011,  Even at its ...

Cabot Oil Can’t Nix $4M Pollution Verdict, Pa. Families Say by Brian Amaral, June 14, 2016, Law360 Boston — Two Pennsylvania families who say Cabot Oil & Gas Corp.’s natural gas drilling in Susquehanna County contaminated their groundwater blasted the company’s efforts to overturn a $4.2 million federal jury verdict in their favor on Monday, the latest chapter ...

EPA bans disposal of fracking waste water at public treatment plants by Jon Hurdle, June 14, 2016, State Impact The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has banned the disposal of hydraulic fracturing waste water at public sewage plants, formalizing a voluntary practice that removed most fracking waste from Pennsylvania plants starting in 2011. The EPA on Monday finalized ...

Elevated cancer risks surround oil and gas drilling — report by Umair Irfan, June 15, 2016, E&E News More than 200 counties across 21 states face elevated cancer risks from toxic emissions stemming from oil and gas production in ...

2016 01: Ernst vs AER Supreme Court of Canada hearing followed by 4.8M quake in AER’s Immoral Blanket Approval Fox Creek Frac Experiment Gone Wild, felt 280 km away Pipeline leak fouls creek near grizzly protection area in northwestern Alberta by The Canadian Press, June 14, 2016, Calgary Herald The Alberta Energy Regulator says a pipeline leak in northwestern ...

Bankrupt energy firms add to Alberta’s abandoned well problems, Nearly 150,000 oil wells in the province are inactive or abandoned by Tracy Johnson, Business reporter, June 14, 2016, CBC News Tony Bruder lives in one of the most beautiful parts of Canada, the deep southwestern corner of Alberta where the Prairies bump into the mountains, on a ranch that’s ...

Christopher Adams is an intern with the National Observer and freelance reporter who covers climate change and environmental issues in Alberta and Western Canada. A recent graduate from the University of Calgary with a degree in political science, his reporting has taken him all over the province to cover budget cuts, violent protests, and provincial ...

Because of Andrew Nikiforuk’s article (included below) published early morning June 11 on Hawkwoods being poisoned? Snap from live feed at CBC article On June 10, 2016, the frac ban resolution was put to the very bottom of the list at the NDP convention, ensuring it would not be heard. The CBC reported a Party official telling them ...

Judge rules Fayette fracking ban invalid by Sarah Plummer, June 11, 2016, Register-Herald CHARLESTON — A federal judge ruled Friday that Fayette County’s ordinance banning fracking waste disposal is invalid because such regulations are pre-empted by state and federal law. Judge John T. Copenhaver issued the order hours before a hearing was scheduled between Pennsylvania-based petroleum company ...

Mass. Senate Passes 10-Year Fracking Moratorium Press Release by Environment America, June 10, 2016 Boston, MA. – The Massachusetts Senate approved a bill yesterday to place a ten-year moratorium on fracking and the disposal of fracking wastewater in the Commonwealth. “Across the country, fracking is polluting drinking water and making families sick,” said Ben Hellerstein, State Director for Environment ...

TD Tony McLoughlin’s Bill is the third legislative proposal before the Republic of Ireland to ban fracking, the previous two: Private Members Bill by Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP): The Prohibition of Hydraulic Fracturing Bill 2015; A bill to ban the process of fracking in Ireland was brought by Sinn Féin Deputies Martin Kenny and Brian Stanley, The Petroleum ...

Fracking to be banned in Pinellas County after unanimous vote by WFTS Webteam, June 8, 2016, ABCactionnews PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. – The collection of gas and oil resources by means of fracking is set to be officially banned in Pinellas County after commissioners voted unanimously on the measure in a recent board meeting. The decision cites harm to the ...

Anti-Fracking Momentum Grows with Another People’s Victory in California, Measure E passed with an overwhelming 71 percent, making Butte County the fourth in the state to ban fracking by Lauren McCauley, June 8, 2016, Common Dreams Notching another victory for the growing national anti-fracking movement, voters in Butte County, California on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a measure that bans ...

Toxic Landslides Raise Alarms about Fracking, Site C, Almost two years after slides began carrying heavy metals into creeks, few answers by Ben Parfitt, June 8, 2016, TheTyee.ca Toxic heavy metals including arsenic, barium, cadmium, lithium, and lead are flowing into the Peace River following a series of unusual landslides that may be linked to natural gas industry ...

Whistleblower: EPA Official Covered Up Methane Leakage Problems Across US Natural Gas Industry News Release by NC WARN, June 8, 2016 Inspector General called to investigate scientific fraud that wasted crucial years in slowing climate crisis while risking safety of workers, communities Durham, NC – A watchdog group today charged that a high-ranking federal official connected to the ...

Video at link: Water complaints pour in from Barnett Shale region WATER SUPPLIER AND STATE OF TEXAS SAY THE WATER MEETS STANDARDS; RESIDENTS INVITE THEM TO COME DRINK IT by Brett Shipp, June 2, 2016, WFAA8 WISE COUNTY, Texas – Dirty, smelly, foul-tasting water. For many in the Chisholm Springs community north of Fort Worth, the water has been undrinkable. A ...

Slick Water is a true-life noir filled with corruption, incompetence, and, ultimately, courage. It is a deeply informative, disturbing, and important book. -Elizabeth Kolbert, 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winning author of The Sixth Extinction  2016 Alberta Literary Award Winners Announced by Ellen Kartz, June 4, 2016, Writer’s Guild of Alberta The Writers’ Guild of Alberta is pleased to reveal the ...

Danger Below? New Properties Hide Abandoned Oil And Gas Wells by Stephanie Joyce, May 30, 2016, NPR In 2007, Rick Kinder was working for a contractor, building a house in southern Colorado. The workers had just finished putting in all the doors, windows and sealing the house. Kinder and a colleague were working in the crawlspace, ...

2016 03 10: Jury awards two Dimock Twp. families $4.24 million after Cabot offered a few thousand to Gag & Settle; Cabot plans appeal alleging ‘improper conduct’ by the families’ lawyer 2016 04 06: Cabot Appeals ‘Grossly Excessive’ Damages in Dimock Contaminated Water Wells Case, Asks Court to Overturn $4.24 Million Jury Verdict, or Reduce it ...

B.C. ‘enhances’ earthquake monitoring at oil & gas wells after last year’s fracking shake, 4.6 quake last year largest on record in B.C. by Dawson Creek Mirror News, June 2, 2016 B.C.’s oil and gas regulator is stepping up monitoring of seismic activity after hydraulic fracturing triggered a series of small but high-profile earthquakes last year. Starting June ...

The results BC Canadian Water Attitudes Study by RBC Blue Water Project, May 2016 Most Canadians take water for granted. We think we have lots of it and it will always be there. So in 2008, RBC started polling Canadians about their attitudes towards water—to see if the serious water issues around the world were having an impact ...

Trican sells global well completion tools business for $53.5M to pay debt by The Canadian Press, June 1, 2016 , Calgary Herald Calgary’s Trican Well Service says it is selling its worldwide oil and gas well completion tools business to a Houston-based rival to pay down debt. The sale, for $53.5 million to National Oilwell Varcoe, includes its ...

Is this the best U of C School of Public Policy can come up with to counter Andrew Nikiforuk’s masterfully researched, “rapid read” Slick Water and the ever growing frac bans, pauses and moratoria? What the frack? U of C researcher says public wants scientific proof by Colette Derworiz, June 1, 2016, Calgary Herald A University of Calgary researcher says ...

Scottish Parliament votes to ban fracking Press Release by Friends of the Earth Scotland, June 1, 2016 Friends of the Earth Scotland has welcomed the Scottish Parliament’s vote to ban fracking on the grounds that it is incompatible with Scotland’s climate targets this afternoon. Head of Campaigns, Mary Church said: “It’s great that the Scottish Parliament has voted to ...