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Alberta energy minister keen on industry group’s well cleanup proposal by Lauren Krugel, The Canadian Press, With files from Jennifer Graham in Regina, March 14, 2016, The Calgary Herald CALGARY – A proposal to use federal infrastructure funds to accelerate the cleanup of inactive oil and gas wells in Alberta — with the aim of spurring ...

Chesapeake seeks to seal court documents from public, Chesapeake Energy wants a court to permanently seal more than 30 documents, says they contain crucial trade secrets by Max B. Baker, March 11, 2016, Star Telegram It’s not exactly a secret that Chesapeake Energy likes its privacy. Last month, Chesapeake asked the Texas Attorney General’s office to keep the details of ...

Ruth A. Morgan reviews ‘Slick Water’ by Andrew Nikiforuk by Ruth A. Morgan, March 2016, Issue No. 379 Australian Book Review. SLICK WATER: FRACKING AND ONE INSIDER’S STAND AGAINST THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL INDUSTRY by Andrew Nikiforuk Greystone Books (NewSouth), $34.99 hb, 359 pp, 9781771640763 Ruth A. Morgan is a Lecturer at the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University. Subscription ...

No thanks! Nunatsiavut rebuffs request to talk about mercury in Lake Melville by CBC News, March 11, 2016   The Nunatsiavut Government is rejecting calls from the province to sit down and work through issues around methyl mercury in Lake Melville. Labrador Inuit are concerned that damming Muskrat Falls will lead to increased mercury levels in the lake, making fish there ...

We’re dealing with an environmental activist murder ‘epidemic’, U.N. warns by Alexandra Gerea, March 25, 2016, zmescience The killing of indigenous activists is reaching epidemic levels, the UN warns. The organization urges governments to ensure proper protection for environmentalists, especially in vulnerable areas like Central and South America. … Ultimately, activism strives to promote, impede, or direct social, ...

List of the Harmed – an ever-growing list of the individuals and families that have been harmed by fracking (or fracked gas and oil production) in the US – is at 16,974 as of March 10, 2016, list compiled by Jenny Lisak, Co-director of PACWA March 10, 2016: Ely et al vs Cabot Oil & Gas Verdict sheet [MUST ...

COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS VEHICLES EMIT AS MUCH AS GASOLINE by politico, March 9, 2016 Cities with fleets of compressed natural gas vehicles tout their reduced climate emissions, but when viewed throughout the fuel life cycle of natural gas, they emit just as much as gasoline buses, and more than diesel, according to a study from Rice University ...

Truck overturns, spills drilling wastewater that taints reservoir by Laura Arenschield, March 9, 2016, The Columbus Dispatch A truck hauling drilling wastewater overturned in eastern Ohio early this morning, sending thousands of gallons of toxic water into a nearby creek and contaminating a reservoir in Barnesville in Belmont County. The truck crashed along a curve just after 3 a.m. ...

Following Sudden Death of Indicted Former Chesapeake Energy CEO, Justice Department Investigation into Collusion Continues by Sharon Kelly, March 8, 2016, desmogblog Last Tuesday, the Justice Department announced criminal charges against former Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon, stemming from an alleged lease bid-rigging conspiracy between McClendon and another unidentified oil and gas company. The felony count against McClendon ...

Interview starts at 33 Min. by Ian Jessop, March 7, 2016, CFAX 1070

IS FRACKING BEHIND THIS TOWN’S DRY WATER WELL? by Elizabeth Hames, March 1, 2016, Alberta Venture Magazine Alberta Venture’s link: http://albertaventure.com/water/towns-in-albertas-industrial-heartland-ran-out-of-water-last-summer-is-fracking-to-blame/ LAST SUMMER THE water coming from Dana Boyc’s tap turned brown. Assuming he just needed to “shock” his well, he grabbed a jug of bleach and headed outside. But when he opened the lid, there was barely ...

Civil Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Chesapeake, SandRidge by News9, March 3, 2016 A Civil Class Action lawsuit has been filed against Chesapeake, SandRidge and former SandRidge CEO Tom Ward. The lawsuit was filed by a group of oil and gas royalty owners and alleges violations of federal antitrust laws by bid-rigging and limiting the competition for oil ...

Special Report: The final days and deals of Aubrey McClendon by John Shiffman, Luc Cohen and Heide Brandes in Oklahoma City, Brian Grow in Atlanta, Joshua Schneyer in Los Angeles, Ernest Scheyder, Liz Hampton and Terry Wade in Houston and Michael Flaherty, Michael Erman, Jessica Resnick-Ault and Mike Stone in New York, March 14, 2016, ...

THOUSANDS ATTEND ANTI FRACKING RALLY IN FRANCE by Kevin Bonnaud, February 29, 2016, Natural Gas Europe Source: Stop Gaz de Schiste Between 7,000 and 15,000 protesters, depending on the sources, attended an anti-fracking protest on February 28 in the small town of Barjac. They turned out in response to the decision made by the administrative court of Cergy Pontoise ...

Andrew Nikiforuk, Sheila Watt-Cloutier among finalists for 2016 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for political writing by Becky Robertson, March 2, 2016, Quill & Quire The Writers’ Trust of Canada announced the five finalists for the 2016 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing on March 2. The prize, now in its 16th year, is awarded to a book of ...

Refer also to! 2019: Teck reportedly rakes in $12 Billion in revenue 2017-2018; Teck, Suncor, CNRL take top spots in annual ranking of mining company revenues Teck Metals fined $3.4-million for polluting B.C.’s Columbia River by Mark Hume, February 29, 2016, The Globe and Mail Teck Metals Ltd. has been hit with what is being described as the ...

https://soundcloud.com/ian-jessop-cfax/march-1-1pm?in=ian-jessop-cfax/sets/ian-jessop Ian’s interview with Andrew Nikiforuk starts at 7 Min. Three Wacky Accounting Numbers for LNG and Shale Gas, Close read of BC’s budget shows realities of this subsidized industry boondoggle by Andrew Nikiforuk, February 28, 2016, TheTyee.ca

Controversial suits provide window on Marcellus drilling debate by Ken Ward Jr., February 27, 2016, West Virginia Gazette On Friday, a courtroom full of lawyers gathered near downtown Charleston to try to sort a path forward in litigating a series of major lawsuits that allege natural gas drilling in Northern West Virginia has forced residents to live ...

Shaw TV taped the presentations by Nikiforuk and Mildenstein, check listings for air times. Nikiforuk speaks on LNG, fracking by  Katya Slepian, February 24, 2016, Alberni Valley News The province of B.C. could do well to look at Alberta before leaping too far into liquefied natural gas, according to journalist and author of Slick Water: Fracking and One ...

2015 12 19 HAPPY ANNIVERSARY & MERRY CHRISTMAS! CHEMICALS ILLEGALLY INJECTED BY ENCANA IN 2004 INTO ROSEBUD’S DRINKING WATER AQUIFERS REMAIN SECRET, CONTRARY EVEN TO ALBERTA’S RULES OF COURT: Encana still has not filed with Ernst cleaned up records for their document exchange (which had a December 19, 2014 deadline ordered by Chief Justice Wittmann); chemicals Encana injected into ...

Study: Methane in Ohio county’s water from coal beds, not fracking by Kathiann M. Kowalski, February 22, 2016, Midwestern Energy News A multi-year study has found that coal beds, not fracking, are most likely to blame for methane found in water wells in an Ohio county. [The study doesn’t say frac’ing did not cause biogenic methane contamination in ...

[Refer also to: 2010: WATCH FracPoint Openhole Fracture Completion System by Baker Hughes Inc. FracPoint™ openhole fracture completion system precisely and reliably isolates multiple zones in open and cased holes. The system establishes openhole isolation between zones, zone lobes, or fault lines so fracture fluid is delivered where needed for maximum effect. Pinpoint fracture placements without cementing for improved initial productivity, ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 17, 2016 Contact: LuAnne Kozma, president, Ban Michigan Fracking email hidden; JavaScript is required   231-547-2828 Ban Michigan Fracking calls on EPA to halt DEQ’s application for primacy over Michigan’s injection wells, sues DEQ for information on secret “mineral” well Press Release by Ban Michigan Fracking, February 17, 2016 Charlevoix, Michigan – The non-profit organization Ban Michigan Fracking is calling on ...

Two Pennsylvania families who say fracking fouled water take case to trial by David Dekok, February 22, 2016, Reuters Jury selection began on Monday in a federal lawsuit in which two northeastern Pennsylvania families allege that Cabot Oil & Gas Corp contaminated their well water with methane when it began fracking for natural gas near their ...

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Marching Morons This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included ...

5.1 and 3.9 magnitude earthquakes recorded in Oklahoma by News9, February 13, 2016 FAIRVIEW, Okla. (AP) – The U.S. Geological Survey reports a 5.1 magnitude earthquake in northwest Oklahoma that was reportedly felt across Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Nebraska, Texas, Arkansas and Iowa. Fairview police and the Major County Sheriff’s Office say there are no reports of injury ...

UPDATED with: ‘It’s a serious situation that’s coming’: Alberta landowners’ advocate on ‘mushrooming’ problem of abandoned oil wells by Phil Heidenreich with files from Max Hartshorn, Francesca Fionda, Mia Sheldon and Vassy Kapelos, February 14, 2016, Global News An advocate for Alberta landowners says the glut in oil prices is leading to a growing number of smaller energy ...

A large increase in US methane emissions over the past decade inferred from satellite data and surface observations by A. J. Turner, D. J. Jacob, J. Benmergui, S. C. Wofsy, J. D. Maasakkers, A. Butz, O. Hasekamp, S. C. Biraud, and E. Dlugokencky, Accepted manuscript online: 6 February 2016, Geophysical Research Letters, An AGU Journal DOI: 10.1002/2016GL067987 Abstract The global burden of atmospheric methane has been increasing over ...

Pipeline cops go soft on Enbridge in property damage fiasco by Mike De Souza, February 10th 2016, National Observer Enbridge Inc. will save $22,000 after convincing Canada’s pipeline enforcement agency that it shouldn’t have been punished for failing to help neighbouring landowners with property damage. The savings will come after the National Energy Board agreed to water ...

Canada Says Its Drilling Law Is Fair In Gas Co.’s NAFTA Suit by Jack Newsham, February 11, 2016, Law360 A U.S. natural gas driller that argued that Quebec’s 2011 ban on oil and gas drilling beneath the St. Lawrence River amounted to an expropriation of its valuable permits failed to prove the government’s actions violated NAFTA, ...

Study shows Lac-Mégantic disaster left fish in Chaudière River with major anomalies by Andrew Peplowski, February 10, 2016, CJAD Government scientists studying the effects of the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster have found the Chaudière River has been left heavily polluted and fish are showing signs of major anomalies. About 100,000 litres of crude oil spilled into the river when ...

Drilling records suggest lax state enforcement  by Brett Shipp, February 10, 2016, WFAA8 ABC NEWS 8 INVESTIGATES DALLAS – A WFAA investigation of water contamination in the sprawling Barnett Shale natural gas field has uncovered what appear to be numerous violations by drillers apparently ignoring mandates to seal wells with cement in order to protect groundwater. [What good is ...

Oil bust could mean skyrocketing property taxes, Some Alberta municipalities are being hit hard as oil companies stop paying by Jennifer Blair, February 8, 2016, albertafarmexpress.ca With oil prices bottoming out around $30 a barrel, oil companies are scrambling to save money — sometimes at the expense of farmers. “Some companies are just deciding not to pay the annual ...

Water-monitoring well shows presence of gas northeast of Greeley Sharon Dunn, January 27, 2016, Greeley Tribune In two years of round-the-clock inspection, water analysts in recent months isolated one case of water contamination in a monitoring well in a heavily drilled area northeast of Greeley. Analysts with Colorado Water Watch, a water-monitoring partnership between the Center for Energy ...

Four Highlights from Tyee’s Evening with Andrew Nikiforuk, Missed our Vancouver event ‘Standing Up to Fracking’? Check out the full video and more by Sarah Berman, February 8, 2016, TheTyee.ca … 2. On déjà vu “When I was thinking about this — LNG and shale gas and earthquakes and this remarkable woman Jessica Ernst who was causing a political earthquake ...

Will all the provinces copy this? Ottawa must say no. Alberta says industry responsible for reclaiming oil wells by Darcy Henton, February 10, 2016, Calgary Herald Alberta hasn’t asked Ottawa to provide funding to put laid-off oilpatch workers to work reclaiming decommissioned oil and gas wells because it believes industry is responsible for those costs. The NDP government said ...

2015 05 18: Fossil fuels subsidised by $10m a minute, says IMF, ‘Shocking’ revelation finds $5.3tn subsidy estimate for 2015 is greater than the total health spending of all the world’s governments The Guardian [Are subsidies, including the scam of carbon taxes that only benefit polluting companies and their corrupt enablers (especially in Alberta and BC), the real ...

Racetrack Owner Wants New Look At Fracking Effects by Matthew Perlman, February 3, 2016, Law360 Jeffrey Gural, who owns the Tioga Downs and Vernon Downs racinos in New York, filed an appeal Wednesday questioning the results of water supply tests conducted by Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection for an equestrian facility he owns in the state after the ...

Study by four universities: Oil field operations caused California earthquakes by David R. Baker, February 4, 2016, San Francisco Chronicle For the first time, scientists have reported that the underground disposal of wastewater from oil drilling has probably triggered earthquakes in California, a problem already rattling nerves in Oklahoma and other states. Researchers on ...

Judges affirm that Canada Revenue Agency has ‘duty of care’ to taxpayers by Julius Melnitzer, January 26, 2016, Financial Post Two appellate court rulings confirm that the Canada Revenue Agency is not at liberty to intimidate and threaten taxpayers and must take appropriate care in how it treats them. In separate decisions released earlier this month, both the Federal ...

Hydrogen Sulfide Increasingly, scientific research is revealing that even low concentrations of hydrogen sulfide (in the low parts per million or even the parts per billion range) can affect human health, especially when exposure occurs over an extended period of time. Some findings include: A study of hydrogen sulfide in the workplace found that workers complained of ...

# Households relocated/in process out of California Gas Co’s Toxic Leak Zone: January 28, 2016: 8,000 December 27: 5,531 + (2,258 in temporary housing, 111 with family or friends receiving compensation from the company, 3,162 in process with more asking information on relocation) December 10: 2,522 (1,143 in temporary housing, another 1,379 in process) December 7: 2,000 December 2: 1400 (600 asking to ...

Flint sullies EPA’s name, despite efforts of individual feds by Joe Davidson January 26, 2016, Washington Post Given the federal government’s response to the Flint water scandal, EPA could stand for Ever Procrastinating Administrators, instead of the Environmental Protection Agency. While most of the blame for poisoning the city water system rests with Michigan officials, EPA’s reputation has ...

Environment Canada officers failed to uphold the law: report by Mark Hume, January 28, 2016, The Globe and Mail The federal department that enforces Canada’s environmental laws is ...

Watchdogs report lapses in CSIS, CSE intelligence practices by Amanda Connolly | Jan 28, 2016, ipolitics Both of Canada’s spy agencies took serious hits to their credibility Thursday in a pair of reports that slammed the Communications Security Establishment for breaking the law and sharing Canadians’ metadata, and slapped the Canadian Security Intelligence Service with an accusation ...

10th Largest US Frac Fleet Sold For 38 Cents On The Dollar by Joseph Triepke, January 26, 2016, oilpro.com Until Tuesday, Canada-based Trican Well Services was the tenth largest pressure pumping company in the US by frac horsepower. On Tuesday, the company announced a deal had been reached to sell their US frac fleet to Keane ...

Why write a letter if there’s nothing to worry about in frac-rule-loopholed Illinois? Letter: Earthquake myth by Seth Whitehead, Illinois Petroleum Resources Board, January 27, 2016, Kendall County Now To the Editor: Roger Matile’s recent column headlined “Reflections: There’s a whole lotta shakin’ going on…” endorses the myth that hydraulic fracturing is the cause for Oklahoma’s recent earthquakes. Experts ...

Case against fracking ‘stronger now than ever’ by Greg Russell, January 28, 2016, The National THE case against fracking is even stronger now than it was when the Scottish Government announced a moratorium on it and unconventional gas extraction a year ago, according to an environmental group. … Speaking on the anniversary of the moratorium, FoES campaigns ...

Canada: Fracking Litigation Heating Up by Paula Boutis, Siskinds LLP, January 14, 2016, Mondaq We’ve previously reported on the Ernst case, which yesterday was in the Supreme Court of Canada for argument of Jessica Ernst’s allegation that the Alberta Energy Regulator (Board) breached her Charter right to freedom of expression. Ms. Ernst alleges a breach on ...

Canada: $750,000 Fine For Killing Migratory Birds by Paula Lombardi, Siskinds LLP, January 8, 2016, Mondaq On November 5, 2015 Canaport LNG Limited Partnership plead guilty to charges under the Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994 and the Species at Risk Act and was ordered to pay a total penalty of $750,000 by the New Brunswick Provincial court. The investigation ...

Feds stay Lemon Creek charges by Bill Metcalfe – Nelson Star, January 25, 2016 The federal government has stayed charges against Executive Flight Centre and the provincial government for polluting Lemon Creek with diesel fuel from an overturned tanker truck in 2013.That means the government has discontinued the charges but has the option to re-open them within a year. However, if ...

1602: SLICK WATER Inteview with Andrew Nikiforuk 30 Min. by Maxine Margo Rubin with The Many Shades of Green, Brooklyn, January 19, 2016 “How does she endure the lawsuit?” It is no secret that mainstream media coverage of environmental issues is slow-moving, and many stories go un-reported in the press. Climate change deniers spout their ideology with reckless abandon. ...

Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider’s Stand Against the World’s Most Powerful Industry Andrew Nikiforuk, Author. Book review by Publishers Weekly, January 12, 2016 This book will infuriate its readers. In a dynamite example of investigative journalism, muckraker Nikiforuk (The Energy of Slaves) chronicles the environmental devastation wrought by the hydraulic fracking industry in Alberta and beyond. Nikiforuk ...

Fracking opponent warns Florida will ‘become more porous than Swiss cheese’ by Brendan Farrington, January 27, 2016, jacksonville.com TALLAHASSEE | The state House approved a bill Wednesday that would create regulations for fracking despite strong opposition from Democrats who said the oil and gas drilling practice could contaminate groundwater, damage the environment, make people sick and hurt ...

From: Seth Shonkoff email hidden; JavaScript is required Date: January 27, 2016 at 12:55:16 PM PST Subject: New study on methane leakage and Clean Power Plan from PSE Healthy Energy Colleagues- PSE Healthy Energy and UC Berkeley have released a new study today which analyzes the impact of methane leakage from natural gas systems on America’s ability to achieve meaningful greenhouse gas emissions ...

Does somebody have to die before Alberta’s Health Minister helps? SOS – Save Our Sister – A Call to Action https://myseniorparents.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/the-right-kind-of-attention/ My sister, Rebecca, was evicted from her long-term care home of five years back in February 2015. This was done after publicly raising serious care concerns (two hospitalizations where she could have died). She was dumped at ...

2015 12 27: The Ultimate Frac Fraud? In US EPA Draft Frac Report: “700 pages (24,000 lines) presenting the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on water resources and human health but only 2 lines concluding that it is not a universal problem” 2015 10 15: “A terrible terrible day.” George Bender, CSG (CBM) impacted farmer, Darling Downs, Queensland, ...

In North Dakota’s Booming Oil Patch, One Tribe Beat Back Fracking, The Turtle Mountain Band was among the first tribes to ban the drilling process. Here’s the difference it made by Sarah van Gelder, January 21, 2016, Yes Magazine Drive the long, straight roads of north-central North Dakota, and you pass lake after lake amid hayfields and forests. Migratory ...

“These fluids are driving faults to their tipping point.” Nicholas van der Elst, lead author on one of three studies published on Thursday in the journal Science (2013) In an accompanying article in Science, William Ellsworth of the US Geological Survey framed the problem another way: “Ignorance of the things that we understand we should know but do not ...

Reportedly 300 people attended. When will we reach the tipping point with fracking? by John Ackermann, January 24, 2016, News1130 VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has been linked to a record number of earthquakes in BC, Alberta, and elsewhere. The controversial extraction method is also the subject of the recent book, “Slick Water: Fracking and ...

Madison aquifer too valuable to pollute by Bob LeResche, January 24, 2016, Casper Star Tribune “Water is Wyoming’s most important natural resource,” wrote Gov. Matt Mead in Leading the Charge: Wyoming Water Strategy. That publication says Wyoming has spent $1.2 billion on water development projects since the Wyoming Water Development Commission was formed in 1975. The state of ...

Game of Thrones Emmy winner to speak in Cochrane at Spring Film Festival and Conference by Jenna Dulewich, January 14, 2016, Cochrane Eagle Game of Thrones Emmy Award winner Paula Fairfield will speak at Film Festival and Wilderness, Wildlife and Human Interaction spring conference in Cochrane. The conference is being held by Cochrane Ecological Institute and Cochrane ...

“THE CANADIAN OPPORTUNITY” Address by the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, January 20, 2016, Davos, Switzerland Our natural resources are important, and they always will be. But Canadians know that what it takes to grow and prosper isn’t just what’s under our feet, it’s what between our ears Les caricatures de Garnotte in Le Devoir January 23, 2016

Scientists mapping deadly radon in Calgary by Michele Jarvie, January 22, 2016, Calgary Herald It’s silent and it’s deadly. And it may be lurking in your house. Radon gas is prevalent across the prairies and a Calgary scientist is trying to determine how widespread the risk is in the city. The preliminary data is concerning. “One in five (homes) ...

How much will AER fine Apache this time?  $16,500.00? AER lays charges against Apache for 2014 pipeline spill News Release by AER, January 18, 2016 For immediate release Charges have been laid against Apache Canada Ltd. for the January 21, 2014, pipeline spill near Whitecourt, Alberta. The company faces a maximum penalty of $2.5 million. Apache has been charged ...

Where’s Alberta’s Attorney General? 2015 12 19: CHEMICALS ILLEGALLY INJECTED BY ENCANA IN 2004 INTO ROSEBUD’S DRINKING WATER AQUIFERS REMAIN SECRET, CONTRARY EVEN TO ALBERTA’S RULES OF COURT: Encana still has not filed with Ernst cleaned up records for their document exchange (which had a December 19, 2014 deadline ordered by Chief Justice Wittmann); chemicals Encana injected into Rosebud’s drinking ...

COMPRESSOR STATION EXPLOSION RAISES CONCERNS by Amy Robinson, January 5, 2016, watfordcitynd.com An explosion at an Oasis Midstream Services, LLC  compressor station located north of Watford City on Highway 1806 on Wednesday, Dec. 23, not only set off an automatic 911 call, but is raising concerns from McKenzie County officials as to the proximity that many ...

2014 06 09: St. Albert residents sitting on abandoned oil and gas wells Below list of 16 quakes at Fox Creek, Alberta from January 8 – 12, 2016, with the 4.8M felt in St. Albert Fox Creek Water Tower, Mural paid by Chevron. Did Chevron’s frac quakes crack it? Does big oil propaganda get any better than this? From ...

More quakes rattle Oklahoma but state avoids tough measures by Seth Borenstein, Kelly P. Kissel and Sean Murphy, Associated Press, January 18 at 4:32 PM, Washington Post OKLAHOMA CITY — In Oklahoma, now the country’s earthquake capital, people are talking nervously about the big one as man-made quakes get stronger, more frequent and closer to major population ...

Geosciences professor thinks earthquakes near Fox Creek are clearly linked to fracking by Travis Dosser, January 15, 2016 10:50 am, CKNW News Talk Vancouver Geosciences professor thinks earthquakes near Fox Creek are clearly linked to fracking There have been 367 earthquakes recorded in the Fox Creek area since last January but the Alberta Energy Regulator isn’t ready to blame ...

Jespersen Show Interviews Jessica Ernst on her Supreme Court of Canada Hearing vs AER & Dr. Jeffrey Gu on the 4.8M Earthquake at Fox Creek 40:48 Min., January 13, 2016, 630CHED

On a 2012 speaking tour in Michigan, citizens asked Ernst what was going to happen to all the toxic waste. Ernst replied, “We’ll be made to eat and drink it.” Could using oilfield water to irrigate crops be the future of farming? by Ellen Knickmeyer, The Associated Press, January 14, 2016, Global News RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif. – More farmers ...

This update on the ongoing poisoning in the Peace is an excellent example of the brilliant oil patch strategy of gag orders and why they are pushed on poisoned and abused families by AER’s vile Appropriate Dispute Resolution, Synergy Alberta, SPOG, politicians and gag lawyers (essentially working in disguise for oil companies and regulators to shut ...

Crews Discover New Problems After Battling Grady County Fracking Operation Fire by Joleen Chaney, January 14, 2016, News9 GRADY COUNTY, Oklahoma – News 9 continues to follow a fracking operation fire that happened east of Chickasha Wednesday. A lot of damage was reported and crews are still working on a crane that could cause another spark. The fire may ...

Alberta Energy Regulator fines Calgary company for 48-day oil pipeline leak  by John Cotter, The Canadian Press, January 14, 2016, Calgary Herald The Alberta Energy Regulator has fined Pengrowth Energy Corp. $250,000 for a 2013 pipeline spill in northern Alberta. Pengrowth Energy Corp. has been fined over a pipeline breach that spilled 537,000 litres of oil emulsion ...

Ian Jessop interviews Jessica Ernst on her Supreme Court of Canada hearing, Ernst vs AER January 14, 2016, CFAX 1070 Starts at 6:30 Min. Webcast of the Supreme Court of Canada Ernst vs AER hearing, Ottawa, January 12, 2016. (Some browsers won’t play it, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer do.) Court Hearing starts at 90:29 Min. Cory Wanless, counsel for ...

Shut the frack up! by Laura Tack, January 11, 2016 , BC Civil Liberties Association ENSURING CANADA’S ENERGY REGULATORS ARE ACCOUNTABLE FOR RIGHTS VIOLATIONS Imagine the tap water in your home was so contaminated with toxic chemicals that you could light it on fire. Imagine the government agency tasked with responding to these kinds of problems wasn’t taking action ...

BCCLA to argue Canada’s energy boards must be accountable under the Charter Media Alert by BC Civil Liberties Association, January 11, 2016 Ottawa – Tomorrow, January 12, 2016, the BCCLA will make oral submissions to the Supreme Court of Canada in Jessica Ernst v. Alberta Energy Regulator. At issue in this case is whether a provincial government can ...

Government agent immunity issue one of challenges for SCC, Winter session will also look at penalties, admissibility, infanticide by Cristin Schmitz, January 15 2016, Lawyers Weekly Raj Anand of Toronto’s WeirFoulds, right, and co-counsel University of Toronto law professor Cheryl Milne, represented the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, one of seven interveners in a Supreme Court constitutional test ...

EPA scientists suppressed information that fracking contaminates drinking water by Justin Gardner, January 10, 2016, The Free Thought Project in scott.net The EPA’s draft study—released in June to solicit input from advisers and the public—found that fracking has already contaminated drinking water, stating in the report: “We found specific instances where one or more mechanisms led to impacts on ...

One man dies in water-treatment plant explosion by Brandon Mulder, January 4, 2016, mrt An employee of a water treatment company died Monday when an explosion occurred as he was mixing chemicals, county officials said. The explosion that occurred about 10:30 a.m. Monday at the business along North County Road 1140 just west of Midland killed Julian Gallardo, ...

Charter Rights at Issue in Fracking Supreme Court Case, Jessica Ernst’s long battle over rights, well contamination reaches highest court by Andrew Nikiforuk, January 8, 2016, TheTyee.ca Les droits selon la Charte sont en jeu dans un dossier sur le fracking à la Cour suprême du Canada Translation by Amie du Richelieu, January 8, 2016

2013 10 30: Major earthquake could cause $75B in damage, study by Insurance Bureau of Canada warns; major quake would bring insurance industry to its knees 2014 07 21: Germany EPA Frac Report Released: Risks Associated with Fracing are Too High; “So far, no company has been able to present a sustainable waste management concept” *** OK Wastewater ...

Shredding ban in environment department still in place, Notley says by Mariam Ibrahim, January 7, 2016, Edmonton Journal in Calgary Herald Premier Rachel Notley said Friday a shredding ban in the environment department will remain in place until she’s confident the ministry has enacted stronger records management policies. Notley made the comments one day after a ...

EPA scientists criticize agency study’s conclusion drinking water is safe from fracking by Bloomberg News, January 7, 2016, Calgary Herald A landmark study by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that concluded fracking causes no widespread harm to drinking water is coming under fire — this time, from the agency’s own science advisers. The EPA’s preliminary findings released in June ...

California governor declares gas leak a state of emergency by Ellen Knickmeyer and Brian Melley, Associated Press, January 6, 2016, Business Insider LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency Wednesday over a massive natural-gas leak that has been spewing methane and other gases into a Los Angeles neighborhood for months, sickening ...

Toxins Found in Fracking Fluids and Wastewater, Study Shows January 6, 2016 by Stone Hearth News Newswise — In an analysis of more than 1,000 chemicals in fluids used in and created by hydraulic fracturing (fracking), Yale School of Public Health researchers found that many of the substances have been linked to reproductive and developmental health problems, and the ...

Painted Post loses case over water sales for fracking by Jeff Murray, January 5, 2016, Elmira Star-Gazette A state appellate court has upheld a lower court ruling that voids agreements the Village of Painted Post had with a hydraulic fracturing company in Pennsylvania to sell surplus water. The case involved a challenge by three environmental organizations and five ...

Refer also to this new study: New Study Confirms Fracking Wastewater Is Cancer-Causing. “Barium and Strontium were elevated in frac flowback water exposed cells.” Encana and Alberta government testing showed barium & strontium doubled in Ernst’s water after Encana’s illegal aquifer fracing Fracking plays active role in generating toxic metal wastewater, study finds by Science Daily, December 15, ...

Refer first to: The frac quakes go on & on & on: Oklahoma again orders oil & gas drillers to reduce amount of frac waste water injected to try to stop the damaging frac quakes The directives, however, are not mandatory, and one operator, SandRidge Energy, has chosen not to comply. The Corporation Commission is preparing a case in ...

Fracking Wastewater Is Cancer-Causing, New Study Confirms by Sayer Ji, Founder, January 4, 2016, greenmediainfo The natural consequence of the gas industry is the production of billions of gallons of cancer-causing wastewater. A new study published in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology titled, “Malignant human cell transformation of Marcellus Shale gas drilling flow back water,” is the first study ...

Despite judgment, Essential Energy vows to continue fracking patent fight by Dan Healing, January 5, 2016, Calgary Herald A legal showdown over who owns a well completion technology helping fuel the shale oil and gas boom in North America will rage on despite a first-round court victory by the company that claims to hold the patent, ...

Oklahoma Oil Firm Resists Call to Shut Down Wells Amid Earthquake Concerns by Erin Ailworth, January 5, 2016, Wall Street Journal A financially strapped Oklahoma oil company is defying the state regulator’s request that it shut down six wells used to dispose of wastewater, despite fears they may be contributing to earthquakes. Sandridge Energy Inc., which has ...

California-style massive gas leak could happen in Canada too, experts say by Charles Mandel, January 4th 2016, National Observer A view of the Aliso Canyon gas facility. Photo courtesy Earthworks It is possible that Canada could experience a California-like methane gas plume, according to a number of experts. … “Such a leak could happen in Canada,” warned Mark Brownstein, ...

SoCalGas knew of corrosion at Porter Ranch gas facility, doc shows by Mike Reicher, December 30, 2015, Los Angeles Daily News Southern California Gas Co. knew its pipes were corroding and failing at a worsening pace more than a year before the massive Porter Ranch methane leak, a document shows. In a November 2014 state regulatory filing, the ...

RULING: FRANCE WILL REMAIN FRACKING FREE by Kevin Bonnaud, December 29, 2015, Natural Gas Europe This past week, American firm Schuepbach lost its legal action against the French state to be allowed to frack for shale in Southern France. The Texas-based oil company had sued the French state for years over the abrogation of two permits in Southern ...

EPA opens probe into Porter Ranch gas leak by Gregory J. Wilcox, December 29, 2015, Los Angeles Daily News The federal Environmental Protection Agency has opened an investigation into the Southern California Gas Co. leak above Porter Ranch, and a San Fernando Valley assemblyman will hold a state hearing on the incident next month. The federal probe ...

A Meeting In A Part by Wendell Berry In a dream I meet my dead friend. He has, I know, gone long and far, and yet he is the same for the dead are changeless. They grow no older. It is I who have changed, grown strange to what I was. Yet I, the changed one, ask: “How you been?” He grins and looks at me. “I been ...

Is SoCalGas’ massive leak becoming the new normal? *** # Households relocated/in process out of California Gas Co’s Toxic Leak Zone: December 27: 5,531 + (2,258 in temporary housing, 111 with family or friends receiving compensation from the company, 3,162 in process with more asking information on relocation) December 10: 2,522 (1,143 in temporary housing, another 1,379 in process) December 7: 2,000 December ...

Encana gets exclusive access to treated sewer water for fracking operations by Jonny Wakefield, December 23, 2015, Alaska Highway News Encana Corp. has been given exclusive access to treated sewage water from the city of Dawson Creek for a fracking operation early next year. On Monday, city council approved a request from the oil and gas company ...