Global Frac News

RCMP pushes for new law to get Canadians’ private information without a warrant. Who’s pushing the RCMP?
RCMP PLANNING MASS ARREST OF INDIGENOUS ACTIVISTS UNDER BILL C-51, SUPPORTERS WARN by Red Power Media staff, August 28, 2015, Red Power Media CANADIAN SPIES CAN ACCESS INDIAN STATUS RECORDS UNDER BILL C-51 by Jorge Barrera, March 20, 2015, Red Power Media RCMP investigators and Canadian spies would legally be able to access personal information found in ...
The Ultimate Frac Fraud? In 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”
Board questions EPA draft report on fracking Water supply issues focus of concern by Don Hopey, November 28, 2015, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A review by an EPA advisory board says that a draft report on hydraulic fracturing did not support the conclusion that shale gas fracking hasn’t caused significant damage to the nation’s water supplies. … According to the peer-reviewed document by the ...
National Post’s 2016 Outlook: Five major Canadian legal cases to watch includes Ernst vs AER
five major court cases to watch in 2016 by National Post Press Reader, December 26, 2015 Jessica Ernst v. Alberta Energy Regulator: An Alberta woman goes after Encana and the provincial government over alleged contamination of groundwater [and well water, household water, tap ...
Books in Brief: Andrew Nikiforuk’s Slick Water reviewed in Nature, International weekly journal of science
Books in Brief by Barbara Kiser, December 17, 2015, Vol 528 Nature, International weekly journal of science Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week’s best science picks Click to read Books in Brief Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider’s Stand against the World’s Most Powerful Industry Andrew Nikiforuk GREYSTONE (2015) This meticulously researched study by journalist Andrew Nikiforuk lifts ...
“What is the acceptable risk for increased risk for childhood cancer? It’s zero.” & Open Letter by Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment to NB Premier Gallant: Termination of Dr. Eilish Cleary, Chief Medical Officer of Health, a concern
This post is for Kimberly Mildenstein, Alberta mother of three sons Termination of New Brunswick’s Chief Medical Officer of Health a concern: open letter to Premier Gallant by Dr. Warren Bell, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) Board Member and Former Founding President, Dec 15th, 2015 11:19 AM (OPEN LETTER Released December 15, 2015) The Honourable Brian Gallant Premier ...
W. Va: Prenter Camp, Boone County community, out of water with nowhere to turn. How much has Fox Creek paid for hauled water? What happens when Fox Creek runs out of money? Will Encana step up like Bonavista was ordered to?
Boone County community out of water with nowhere to turn by Chris Lawrence, December 17, 2015, wvmetronews.com PRENTER CAMP, W.Va. — Residents of a small Boone County community were thrust into a dire situation this week they didn’t see coming. Wednesday, residents in the 25 homes of Prenter Camp turned on the faucet and nothing came out. “A ...
Merry Christmas! Ian Jessop with CFAX 1070 in Victoria interviews Jessica Ernst
Ian Jessop interviews Jessica Ernst December 18, 2015, CFAX 1070 A listener’s email read by Ian on his show (another listener called in): From: d m Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 1:24 PM To: CFAX Talk Subject: Jessica Good afternoon Ian, Jessica, you are a fascinating women on so many levels. If the movie industry has not approached you, l believe they soon ...
Community stops Australia’s NSW Northern Rivers CBM/CSG exploration & extraction; Metgasco shareholders reluctantly accepted $25 million settlement from govt to buy back licence
Please help UK citizens, sign: Petitioning Prime Minister David Cameron and 1 other I pledge to take non-violent, direct action against unconventional energy (fracking, csg, cbm etc) #PledgeNVDA Tina Louise Lancashire, United Kingdom *** Metgasco accepts $25m compensation to end CSG at Bentley in NSW Northern Rivers by Anne Davies, December 16, 2015, www.smh.com.au Coal seam gas exploration and extraction will cease in NSW’s Northern ...
Why the Bully Victim Act? What fraud this time? What are AER & Bonavista hiding? Perpetual acid gas injection break outs into drinking water zones? Frac hit(s)? Other toxic chemicals contaminating Edson groundwater? Bonavista whines about AER ordering it to do the right thing. PS Who’s going to fix the aquifers?
Bonavista Energy (T.BNP) whines as regulator deals with contaminated groundwater at local dairy farm by Canadian Press, with file by Stockhouse. com December 16, 2015, stockhouse.com In a display of what happens to energy executives when they forget they’re living in a polite society, an Alberta energy company is fighting an order to truck water to a ...
Canadian Geophysicist Dr. Gail Atkinson: Provinces must do more to prevent fracking-induced earthquakes
Provinces must do more to prevent fracking-induced earthquakes: expert by Shawn McCarthy and Mark Hume, December 17, 2015, The Globe and Mail Provincial regulators are struggling to keep up with a fracking boom that has caused small earthquakes in British Columbia and Alberta and could result in a larger one in the future, one of Canada’s top ...
Dr. Anthony Ingraffea’s testimony to Parliamentary Inquiry on Fracing in SE of South Australia
Hansard: Dr. Anthony Ingraffea’s testimony to Natural Resources Committee Inquiry on Fracking December 4, 2015, Parliament of South Australia … Flowback impoundments: I did not see anything at all in your regulations regarding surface containment or underground containment or tank containment or lake containment of flowback. This is a major issue in the United States. It was when it ...
‘Slick Water’ is a page turner
Slick Water in general books (non-textbooks) with a few other bestsellers at University of Victoria Bookstore in December 2015 Best of BC by Vancouver Sun, December 7, 2015 1. Vancouver Vanishes: Narratives of Demolition and Revival – Caroline Adderson (Anvil Press) 2. The Wild in You: Voices from the Forest and the Sea – Lorna Crozier (Greystone Books) 3. ...
Regulator Order Fraud? Was this AER’s plan all along? Bonavista Energy asking Alberta Court of Appeal to quash AER’s order that the company supply safe water to Sakens and their dairy herd after groundwater contaminated with sulfolane
Energy company fights order over chemically tainted Alberta dairy farm by The Canadian Press, December 16, 2015, Global News An Alberta energy company is fighting an order to truck water to a family farm the company admits it has contaminated with chemicals from its gas plant. Bonavista Energy is asking the Alberta Court of Appeal to overturn the ...
BC Regulator: 4.6 quake in August 2015 triggered by fracking largest on record, OGC finds while Geological Survey of Canada experts get their frack quake harm facts mixed up
4.6 quake in August triggered by fracking largest on record, OGC finds by Jonny Wakefield, December 15, 2015, Alaska Highway News Fluid injection during hydraulic fracturing caused a 4.6 earthquake north of Fort St. John this summer, the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission (OGC) has found. The regulator released a report on the Aug. 17 quake Tuesday ...
Industry’s Massive Natural Gas Leak Into Porter Ranch Community to Be Declared Local State of Emergency, More than 1,000 households moved out, another 1,379 leaving
# Households relocated/in process out of California Gas Co’s Toxic Leak Zone: December 10: 2,522 (1,143 moved into temporary housing, another 1,379 in process) December 7: 2,000 December 2: 1400 (600 asking to relocate) December 1: 800 (300 + 500 more in process) November 30: 300 November 27: 170 November 23: 30 Gas Leak Into Porter Ranch to Be Declared Local State of Emergency, More than 1,000 ...
An Environmental Scientist at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University warns that Fracking is “Inconsistent” with Climate Change Mitigation Policies
An Environmental Scientist at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University warns that Fracking is “Inconsistent” with Climate Change Mitigation Policies Press Release by Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, December 10, 2015, Canada News Wire LONDON, Dec. 10, 2015 /CNW/ — As ministers from around the world gather at COP21 in Paris in a bid to come to an agreement on a new ...
Companies asking Oklahoma judge to throw out Prague resident Sandra Ladra’s frack waste quake lawsuit
Companies asking Oklahoma judge to toss earthquake lawsuit by Associated Press, December 9, 2015, Fuel Fix Incredible photos. Click to view TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Two energy companies are asking a judge to throw out a lawsuit by an Oklahoma woman who claims she was injured in an earthquake caused by the injection of wastewater deep into the ground ...
Pa. Appeals Court rules Landowner Loren Kiskadden Can’t Revive Claim That Fracking by Range Resources Contaminated his Water Well, not even with proving that Range withheld radioactive frac tracer data during the legal proceedings
Court: Range not responsible for contamination in Amwell Twp. drinking water by Karen Mansfield, December 8, 2015, Observer-Reporter A Commonwealth Court panel Monday affirmed a state agency’s ruling that an Amwell Township man failed to prove Range Resources contaminated his drinking water. The procedural decision means the Commonwealth Court will hear the appeal of Loren Kiskadden, who claims his well ...
Frac Fraud on the Run: Pennsylvania attorney general sues Chesapeake Energy over shale gas royalties; When will Alberta’s attorney general sue oil companies deceiving & robbing Albertans?
AG Kane sues gas producer for ‘deceptive practices’ in fracking industry by Candy Woodall, December 9, 2015, Pennlive … State residents who feel they were victimized by Chesapeake, Williams Partners or other companies are asked to file a complaint with the AG’s Antitrust Section at www.attorneygeneral.gov or by calling 717-787-4530. State attorney general sues Chesapeake Energy over shale gas royalties by ...
Four train cars derail at yard NE of Edmonton; one rolled down embankment, spilled all its 99,000 litres of hazardous, flammable, toxic liquid styrene monomer (used in oil & gas drilling & fracing)
Four train cars derail at yard northeast of Edmonton; one leaking hazardous product by Edmonton Journal, December 9, 2015 A cleanup is ongoing at a Canadian Pacific Railway yard northeast of Fort Saskatchewan after four train cars derailed Tuesday afternoon. One of the derailed cars rolled down an embankment and spilled all of its contents. It was ...
Former Oklahoma state seismologist Austin Holland confirmed industry pressure and conflicts of interest by state officials handling swarms of frac waste quakes shaking & damaging the state
Former Okla. seismologist confirms pressure, conflicts of interest in TV interview by Mike Soraghan, December 9, 2015, E&E News In a soon-to-be-televised interview, former Oklahoma state seismologist Austin Holland confirmed industry pressure and conflicts of interest by state officials handling the swarms of quakes that have rattled the state. Talking with Al-Jazeera last summer on his last day working ...
L.A. city attorney sues SoCal Gas over gas leak making Porter Ranch homes “unlivable.” Why isn’t Alberta’s Attorney General suing Encana & AER for illegally frac’ing a community’s drinking water supply, then engaging in Charter violations, fraud to cover it up?
# Households Relocated (or asking to be) out of California Gas Co’s Toxic Leak Zone: December 7: 2,000 December 2: 1400 (600 asking to relocate) December 1: 800 (300 + 500 more in process) November 30: 300 November 27: 170 November 23: 30 What about the undisclosed frac chemicals in this leaking stored natural gas? Are any health “authorities” demanding the list of all chemicals ...
Frack Firing Fraud? New Brunswick’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Eilish Cleary, fired by provincial Liberal government to clear way for lifting frac moratorium
Fracking returning to NB after firing of top doctor, says provincial NDP December 7, 2015 by APTN National News New Brunswick’s top doctor was fired by the provincial Liberal government to clear the way for the lifting of a moratorium on shale gas exploration this spring, according to the leader of the provincial NDP. Provincial NDP leader Dominic ...
Alberta Taxpayers give 84 Million dollars for 79 flood-damaged homes, greedily built in floodplains where they ought to have never been built. Homes & farms not built in flood plains but harmed by fracing, get no help – just fraudulent reports and gopher shit water sampling
NDP set to announce fate of purchased floodway homes by Darcy Henton, December 8, 2015, Calgary Herald Municipal Affairs Minister Danielle Larivee is set to announce the fate of the Calgary flood zone homes purchased by the government after the 2013 flood, but it appears most of the damaged houses will be demolished. Larivee will reveal Wednesday ...
Oil Patch Boom ‘n Bust Harm? Alberta’s suicide rate, always slightly higher than national average, Spikes up 30 per cent in first half of 2015, compared to last year
Alberta’s Suicide Rate Spikes As Unemployment Soars by Sarah Rieger, December 7, 2015, Huffingtonpost.ca Alberta’s suicide rate has grown almost 30 per cent in the first half of this year, compared to the same period last year. The data, which comes from the chief medical examiner’s office, shows Alberta could have 654 suicides this year, CBC News ...
Payback time for oil patch fraud? Risk of Lawsuits Against Fossil Fuel Companies Getting Harder to Ignore
Attn. Fossil Fuel Companies – the Risk of Climate Lawsuits Is Getting Harder to Ignore by Jessica Clogg & Andrew Gage, December 4, 2015, Slaw Canada’s online legal magazine In a recent speech to the world’s insurance companies, Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England (and formerly of the Bank of Canada), warned of the risks ...
Terrorism? The Pentagon’s Carbon Boot Print
DECEMBER 4, 2015 The Pentagon’s Carbon Boot Print by JOYCE NELSON, Counter Punch With both France and the UK now “at war” with ISIS in Syria and joining the U.S.-led bombing mission, it’s not likely that there are many voices at the COP21 climate change negotiations in Paris who would dare to discuss what a few critics have ...
After more than a year, Nova Scotia’s Energy Dept can’t figure out what a community is, and still can’t define high volume hydraulic fracturing “because of the implications that certain words in the definitions can have.”
Nova Scotia still pondering rules for fracking by Michael Gorman, December 4, 2015, Chronicle Herald After more than a year of work the province’s Energy Department still cannot define high-volume hydraulic fracturing. Energy Minister Michel Samson said the effort, which has been underway since the release of the Wheeler report in August 2014, remains a work in progress, ...
The Fraud Files: Alberta NDP govt says AER performing well, No plans for any improvements. Energy Minister Marg McCuaig-Boyd: “[AER] is working well. Industry likes it.”
Methane plan will take work, energy regulator says by David Howell, December 4, 2015, Edmonton Journal Developing a plan to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas industry will be a major task for the Alberta Energy Regulator, president and CEO Jim Ellis said Friday. As part of its new climate-change goals, the Alberta government wants ...
First 30 families relocated out of California Gas Co’s catastrophic gas storage leak in community of Porter Ranch, then 170, then 300, then 800, now 600 more asking to leave
# Households Relocated out of California Gas Co’s Toxic Leak Zone: December 2: 1400 (600 asking to relocate) December 1: 800 (300 + 500 more in process) November 30: 300 November 27: 170 November 23: 30 What about the undisclosed frac chemicals in this leaking stored natural gas? Are any health “authorities” demanding the list of all chemicals used to frac the gas stored ...
CBM Cleanup Fraud? Wyoming Supreme Court rules Pennaco Energy responsible for CBM cleanup and back payments to two landowners, after selling wells to firm that went bankrupt
Wyoming Supreme Court: Pennaco Energy is responsible for CBM cleanup by Benjamin Storrow , December 3, 2015, Casper Star Tribune Pennaco CBM ruling The Wyoming Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Pennaco is liable for back payments to two landowners and reclamation of their properties. There are almost 7,000 abandoned CBM wells in the state. The Wyoming Supreme Court ruled Wednesday ...
Invisible Hand, Out of the current struggle for democracy in an unfettered free market, Rights of Nature are born: Public Herald announces new film project
Public Herald is nonprofit, fearless investigative journalism. Our independence is guaranteed. We’re publicly funded, which means we work for and are supported by public donations. You can’t buy us, and we don’t give credence to awards and ratings. … INVISIBLE HAND, Out of the current struggle for democracy in an unfettered free market, Rights of Nature are ...
Slick Water by Canadian Journalist Andrew Nikiforuk; Skull Girl by Canadian artist Marianna Gartner
December 2, 2015: Marianna Gartner’s Facebook post on Slick Water Gartner in her studio Skull Girl (Light box #4) 2004 by Marianna Gartner oil on wooden panel with illuminated glass slide 180 x 110cm Skull Girl was purchased by Jessica Ernst in 2004 – the year Encana illegally fractured Rosebud’s drinking water aquifers, which Ernst didn’t find out until two years later. Skull ...
“Abnormally dangerous and ultra hazardous activity.” Did TRC or Chevron’s fracing kill Robert David Taylor? What happened to California regulators’ vows to make steam injections safer? “Safer?” Why not make it “safe?”
What happened to California regulators’ vows to make steam injections safer? by Julie Cart Julie, November 28, 2015, LA Times On the morning of the day he died, David Taylor and his crew were looking for a “chimney” — a fissure in the earth where steam and oil periodically spurted into the air in an oil field west ...
Carbon Tax Synergy Frac Dance: Govts, oil industry, environmental groups, universities, First Nations dancing happily together. “One key reason: Those taxes are probably good for their natural-gas businesses” keeping big oil bribes rolling in for a greedy few while frac harm & pollution escalates
Secret deal on Alberta’s oilsands emissions limits divides patch by Claudia Cattaneo, December 1, 2015, Financial Post A hard cap on oilsands emissions that became part of Alberta Premier Rachel Notley’s climate change plan was the product of secret negotiations between four top oilsands companies and four environmental organizations, the Financial Post has learned. The companies agreed to the cap ...
‘Natural Gas as a Bridge Fuel’ Fraud? Another study: “Considering only physical climate system effects, we find that there is potential for delays in deployment of near-zero-emission technologies to offset all climate benefits from replacing coal energy systems with natural gas energy systems….”
Down load complete study at link: Climate benefits of natural gas as a bridge fuel and potential delay of near-zero energy systems by Xiaochun Zhang, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Zeke Hausfather, Ken Caldeira, Applied Energy (Impact Factor: 5.61). 10/2015; DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.10.016 ABSTRACT Natural gas has been suggested as a “bridge fuel” in the transition from coal to a near-zero emission energy system. However, the ...
Why so much frac fraud? Why is Health Canada hiding frac hazards to drinking water? Why publicly release pathogen harms, but not frac hazards and harms?
Why was a 2012 Health Canada Report, admitting significant health hazards and risks to groundwater and air from hydraulic fracturing, kept from the public? *** Estimating the number of cases of acute gastrointestinal illness (AGI) associated with Canadian municipal drinking water systems by Murphy HM1, Thomas MK1, Medeiros DT2, McFADYEN S2, Pintar KD1. Epidemiol Infect. 2015 Nov 13:1-15. [Epub ...
Public and Corporate Health Fraud? Where’s the regulator? Huge natural gas leak in California has impact of burning 300 million gallons of gasoline, is sickening residents, could take months to fix, class action lawsuit filed
Huge natural gas leak in CA has the impact of burning 300 million gallons of gasoline by Cat DiStasio, November 24, 2015, inhabitat In California, where the environment is already endangered by severe drought, a natural gas leak has quietly released enough methane to create as much impact on the atmosphere as up to 2.9 million metric ...
FracFocusFraud? New Study from journal Energy Policy: Industry increasingly using trade secrets to limit disclosure
….FracFocus’ continued success is the result of state and federal government agencies and the oil and natural gas industry to provide public transparency. fracfocus.org website What Chemicals Are Used in Fracking? Industry Discloses Less and Less, Companies that report their hydraulic fracturing chemicals to FracFocus have become less forthcoming since 2013, finds a study of 96,000 disclosures by ...
Slick Water excerpts translated into French. Thank you Amis du Richelieu!
Mes traductions d’extraits du livre “Slick Water” by Les Amis du Richelieu, September – November, 2015 Voici donc la liste d’extraits du livre “Slick Water – Fracking and One Insider’s Stand Against the World’s Most Powerful Industry” écrit par Andrew Nikiforuk que j’ai traduit. Pas nécessairement parce que les bouts choisis étaient mes préférés, mais parce ...
Promise of Fracking Three Part Series by Tom Wilbur: Was it too good to be true? “It continues to be the driller’s dirty secret: Play nice and you get water. Buck the system and you’re on your own.”
*** Malcolm Mayes cartoon, Edmonton Journal November 24, 2015 Fracing pollution is blessed and set to increase by Notley/industry/env NGOs et al in their “plan” This post is recommended reading for Rachel Notley and the NDP, CAPP et al, Pembina Institute et al, Andrew Leach, Angela Adams, Stephanie Cairns, Linda Coady, and Gordon Lambert, because: Meeting global climate change ...
Podcast now available: Jefferson Public Radio Interviews Andrew Nikiforuk on “Slick Water” And The Effects Of Fracking
“Slick Water” And The Effects Of Fracking 40:39 Min. by Geoffrey Riley and Emily Cureto, November 23, 2015, Jefferson Public Radio Click link above to access podcast The Jefferson Exchange JPR’s live call-in program devoted to current events and news makers from around the region and beyond. Participate at: 800-838-3760 or email email hidden; JavaScript is required. …
Bravo! Prevent Cancer Now calls out AER’s Health Fraud! “The AER has no jurisdiction for human health, and Alberta is famed for a chill against the medical community linking ill health to petrochemicals.”
Alberta Energy Regulator Aspires to Excellence – Admirable Goal is Difficult and Distant Media Release by Prevent Cancer Now, November 23, 2015 The content in this release is offered for reprint, with attribution to Prevent Cancer Now In the lead-up to Paris climate talks and amid accusations of Canada exporting “dirty oil,” the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) is ...
Phil Johnson, AM 1150 Kelowna, interviews Jessica Ernst on Slick Water, book by Andrew Nikiforuk about her fracking case
Jessica Ernst – Book about her fracking case by Phil Johnson, November 17, 2015, www.am1150.ca
Sound Familiar? “Intimidation” by Mapping
2004 10 21: Encana map handed out by the company at its open house in Rosebud. There are more than a hundred residents living in the map area. An industry executive gave Ernst a copy, laughing about the angry invasions soon to come to her home. (The eventual noise monitoring by Encana was fraudulent, but still showed non-compliant noise ...
Netherlands court orders more cuts in gas production after stronger and more frequent earthquakes continue
Dutch court orders more cuts in gas production by JURIST, November 18, 2015 The Dutch Council of State more cuts in gas production. The court came to this decision after stronger and more frequent earthquakes occurred in the Netherlands as a result of extraction. ...
New Study: “Groundwater is a super-important resource.” Is that why so much frac fraud by NGOs, AER, CAPP, Synergy Alberta & its offspring, companies, Alberta Innovates (previously Alberta Research Council), etc?
The global volume and distribution of modern groundwater by Tom Gleeson, Kevin M. Befus, Scott Jasechko, Elco Luijendijk & M. Bayani Cardenas, Received 18 May 2015 Accepted 14 October 2015 Published online 16 November 2015, Nature Geoscience (2015) doi:10.1038/ngeo2590 Abstract Groundwater is important for energy and food security, human health and ecosystems. The time since groundwater was recharged—or groundwater age—can ...
Andrew Nikiforuk Slick Water Book Launch Islands Tour: November 18 – 26, 2015
Victoria’s Munro’s Books third on list of globe’s most interesting bookstores by The Canadian Press, March 24, 2016, The Globe and Mail When it comes to world-class bookstores, a top 10 list from National Geographic speaks volumes, and that list now includes a literary treasure in Victoria. Munro’s Books, in Victoria’s Old Town, ranks third on National Geographic’s ...
MUST WATCH! CAPP’s Frac Fraud & The Synergy Con 2015
CAPP – – The Synergy Con 2015 3:22 Min. by Catalyze This, November 16, 2015
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Paris 1966. Photographs by John Spencer Arc de Triomphe and the Champs-Élysées on Bastille Day.
Texas: Hydraulic Fracturing Stimulation contaminating drinking water, 25 per cent of water wells tested by Dr. Zack Hildenbrand show contamination with man-made chemicals used in fracking the Eagle Ford: “This practice is having an affect”
Must watch video news report “This practice is having an affect” Trouble Shooters get exclusive access to water test results in Eagle Ford Shale by April Molina, November 12, 2015, News 4 San Antonio Jimmy Stevens has lived in Wilson County for more than fifty years. He is one of 80 private well owners who agreed to allow research ...
Book Review by Robin Mathews: Justice In Chains. Jessica Ernst And Slick Water
Justice In Chains. Jessica Ernst And Slick Water by Robin Mathews, November 14, 2015, blogborgcollective “Slick Water”, of course, is the feel of good water when changed by Fracking poisons. It is good water invaded by (Corporation-imposed secret) human-and-plant-destroying poisons pumped underground during “Fracking” (hydraulic fracturing of natural underground strata) to “retrieve” oil and/or natural gas. ...
The Sakens need to prepare themselves for when AER’s “Best in Class” cruelty kicks in and takes the water deliveries away
Time for Conservatives to make the environment their issue too by David Krayden, November 12th 2015, National Observer … The Sakens would like to sit down with these titans of the energy industry and discuss some form of compensation. They have so far received nothing but bottled water: 9.5 million litres a year, to be sure, but ...
“THAT’S B*PEEEP*T!” Alex Smith reporting for Radio Ecoshock interviews “Canadian investigative journalist Andrew Nikiforuk on the shadows of fracking”
Radio Ecoshock interviews Canadian investigative journalist Andrew Nikiforuk on the shadows of fracking by Alex Smith reporting for Radio Ecoshack, November 12, 2015. Let’s reach out to the best reporter on the case. Complete program, Nikiforuk interview starts at 24:25 and goes to 47:10 Min. Or Download or listen to just the interview with Andrew Nikiforuk: CD Quality Lo-Fi ANDREW NIKIFORUK: YES FRACKING ...
More lies & frac fraud? Why did AER’s Darin Barter (now NEB) suggest trucks to blame for citizens feeling frac quakes at Cardson? Why not tell the truth? Why are regulators and “experts” so loath to publicly disclose fracing’s many public safety risks?
The Cardston Earthquake Swarm and Hydraulic Fracturing of the Exshaw Formation (Alberta Bakken Play) by Ryan Schultz,Shilong Mei, Dinu Pană, Virginia Stern, Yu Jeffrey Gu, Ahyi Kim, and David Eaton, November 5, 2015, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America Abstract More than 60 small earthquakes (ML 0.7–3.0) were detected from December 2011 to March 2012 north of Cardston, Alberta, an area with ...
Parr vs Aruba $3 Million frac harm verdict: “The Dallas Court of Appeals hasn’t yet issued a decision to either affirm or overturn the jury verdict.”
Success of nuisance suits against Texas oil and gas companies in limbo by Maryann B. Zaki, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, November 9, 2015, FuelFix.com Marathon Oil EF, LLC, and Plains Exploration & Production Co. recently prevailed against landowners who claimed harm to their health and property from surrounding oil and gas operations in the Eagle Ford ...
Specific Claims Tribunal found Canadian government breached its obligations to First Nations when it botched a 1948 land swap. Blueberry & Doig First Nations win “75-year-old legal battle” over access to oil & gas beneath their reserves
First Nations tribunal win corrects 75-year-old mistake by Jonny Wakefield, November 9, 2014, Alaska Highway News The Blueberry River and Doig River First Nations have won a 75-year-old legal battle over access to oil and gas beneath their reserves. On Nov. 5, the Specific Claims Tribunal found the Canadian government breached its obligations to the First Nations ...
AER’s ADR: Enforcer or Fraud? Sakens want AER to force talks on their Edson dairy farm’s water contaminated by Suncor, Bonavista (that AER knew about since 2009 but covered-up)
AER’s ADR = Appropriate Dispute Resolution Alberta family wants talks on farm contaminated by oil and gas industry by Bob Weber, The Canadian Press, November 8, 2015, Calgary Herald WATCH THE VIDEO AT LINK! Alberta family wants regulator to force talks on contaminated farm by Bob Weber, The Canadian Press, November 9, 2015 12:38 pm Updated: November 9, 2015 ...
A+++ Voice America host Jill Buck interviews Andrew Nikiforuk on Slick Water: “It’s a page turner.”
Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider’s Stand Against the World’s Most Powerful Industry 56 Min. by Jill Buck, November 6, 2015, Voice America
HOLY FRACK! Endeavours Radio host Dan McPeake interviews Andrew Nikiforuk on Slick Water
HOLY FRACK! FEAT. SCARLETT JANE, EVA BUTTERFLY, & ANDREW NIKIFORUK interview, published On October 17, 2015, 137 views (as of November 8) by Leaminn Ma, Endeavours Radio, podswithbenefits Listen now! This episode features folk Duo Scarlett Jane. Consisting of Cindy Doire and Andrea Ramolo, ...
MUST READ: A Medal for Brent Rathgeber, past MP for Edmonton St. Albert, only Conservative in Canada who publicly resigned from Harper’s Party for reasons of conscience
The Enemies of Democracy in Canada by Robin Mathews, November 08, 2015 Many, many Canadians weren’t wrong – on October 19, 2015 – to feel they were part of an important historical event happening before their eyes. They knew, too, that they, themselves, were actively making the historical event happen. That experience doesn’t happen frequently in most ...
Dr. Mackenzie Brooks interview conversation with Jessica Ernst, dedicated to George Bender and his loved ones
The Jessica Ernst Interview Conversation with Dr. Mackenzie Brooks, Interview on October 9, 2015, posted November 2, 2015, Dr. Mackenzie Brooks Your source for continuous development and life-long learning. Click here to listen and/or download. 48:08 Min. Jessica Ernst is a 58 year-old Canadian scientist with over 25 years experience working in the petroleum industry and lives rurally near ...
Frac Fraud Academia? How University of Calgary’s Enbridge relationship became controversial, “Most damningly it smacks of us being apologists for the fossil fuel industry.” Is that why Alberta government switched labs to U of C after U of A isotopic fingerprinting analysis of gases in Rosebud drinking water matched those from Encana gas wells?
Premier monitoring allegations at U of C and examining change in conflict of interest legislation by Annalise Klingbeil, November 3, 2015, Calgary Herald In the wake of allegations of undue corporate influence at the University of Calgary, the premier suggested Tuesday her government will examine if Alberta’s post-secondary institutions should be forced to comply with provincial ...
Northern Alberta landfill opens after decade of controversy; “We’ve lost all the water”
Northern Alberta landfill opens after decade of controversy by Bill Mah, November 1, 2015, Edmonton Journal After nearly a decade of controversy, Waste Management of Canada opened its Thorhild landfill facility on Thursday. Ten days earlier the site, located about 85 kilometres northeast of Edmonton, had begun accepting its first truckloads of garbage. “We received our final operating approval ...
LISTEN: EXCELLENT 7 MIN INTERVIEW with Andrew Nikiforuk in Colorado on his new book Slick Water: “Albertans haven’t reached the same political conclusions that Coloradans have in terms of fighting the spread of this very disruptive technology.”
Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider’s Stand Against the World’s Most Powerful Industry by news.KGNU.org, October 27, 2015, in Breaking News, Featured, Morning Magazine Audio Player 6:49 Min. Scroll down to arrow, hit to play. Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. “Local government, local legislators are not listening to local people and are in a very ...
What’s in the milk? AER orders Bonavista to deliver safe water to cows at Edson, but not to Albertans living with dangerous levels of Encana’s frac’d gases in their water & homes
THE SIGNED ORDER on AER website THE SIGNED ORDER uploaded to ernstvsencana website (because AER too often removes from public view, important documents). MADE at the City of Edmonton, in the Province of Alberta, on October 29, 2015 ALBERTA ENERGY REGULATOR Under section 104 of the Oil and Gas Conservation Act Bonavista Energy Corporation (A5RX) 1500, 525 – 8 th Avenue SW Calgary, AB, T2P ...
What frac fraud now? Fraser Institute joining Dr. Maurice Dusseault; Dr. David Wheeler; Dr. John Cherry & Council of Canadian Academies Frac Panel; charter-violating, no-duty-of-care, lying, bullying, worst-in-class, legally immune AER; Alberta government; U Penn law/political science prof Cary Goglianese & Synergy Alberta; Encana; Bellatrix; Angle Energy; Frac contaminating water confessing CAPP; other enablers in cycle of frac abuse? Why so many enablers? Scared of the Supreme Court without Harper slaying justice?
Ex CEO Encana Gwyn Morgan on the Board of Directors of the Fraser Institute. Gwyn was CEO when the company illegally fractured Rosebud’s drinking water aquifers. Snap below taken October 28, 2015: The Fraser Institute Board of Directors is a distinguished group of individuals who provide governance of the business and affairs of the Institute. Managing the ...
Albertans battered by oil and gas industry ask for help too, never get it unless they sign freedom of speech violating gag orders. “It never hurts to ask” says CAPP. OK. When’s CAPP gonna fix Rosebud’s dangerously contaminated aquifers illegally frac’d 11 years ago by Encana and fraudulently covered up by “World Class, Best in the World” AER? Why are residents paying for Encana’s intentional frac fiasco?
Battered oil industry asks for help … from bruised Alberta government by Stephen Ewart, October 26, 2015, Calgary Herald The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers has some 60 asks of the province’s royalty review panel. They say ...
BC regulator copying AER’s frac fraud? BC OGC blames nature for heavy metals surfacing into Brenot Creek and contaminating Lynx Creek in frac quake zone in NE BC
Fracking, landslide blamed for contamination of Northern B.C. creek, B.C.’s Oil and Gas Commission says ‘no evidence’ that fracking to blame, heavy metals naturally in soil by Betsy Trumpener, October 25, 2015, CBC News A relentless landslide that’s contaminated a source of drinking water near a community in northeastern B.C. has residents blaming oil and gas exploration’s effects ...
2015: Andrew Nikiforuk tours his new book Slick Water in Colorado and Wyoming & The Case for Public Accountability: Slick Water book review by Angela K. Evans
The case for public accountability by Angela K. Evans, October 22, 2015, Boulder Weekly Jessica Ernst won’t back down and she won’t settle. And for that, the Canadian has drawn international attention for her ongoing multimillion dollar lawsuit against oil and gas company Encana for its alleged gross negligence while fracking natural gas reserves near her ...
MUST READ! Will Canadian cops become next victims of industry’s water contamination and fraud? A dangerous new police “best practice?” RCMP members “drink the water” while “trying to understand the shale gas industry” and “educate” themselves. No word on if RCMP plan to try to understand, or investigate, the dangerous and rampant fraud associated with oil and gas industry’s widespread frac contamination, or the number to call if families need RCMP “water taster” to come taste their water after it’s been frac’d, as companies, regulators, and research councils try to cover it up, while lying to the public (including the police) that now toxic and explosive water is “common, normal, and safe”
Exclusive: New Brunswick RCMP, Pennsylvania police, FBI, share ‘best practices’ on policing shale gas by Miles Howe, October 21, 2015, Halifax Media Coop Travel itinerary, budget approval, obtained for June 2014 meetings Four Days in June – New Brunswick RCMP, Pennsylvania state police and the FBI had a 2014 meeting on how to ‘properly’ police shale gas. KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) ...
If frac’ing is safe & wonderful, why so many gag orders, why is fracking killing hope, people, fish, animals, vegetation, water, air, soil, and busting caprock? Why so much fraud by regulators, politicians, companies, NGOs, experts, academics etc covering up murderous corporate crimes: threats, bullying, abuse; dropping rodent shit into water wells of the harmed; trespassing, home invasions, interrogations of harmed families by police; intimidation; “terrorist” labeling to violate rights of citizens filing lawsuits? George Bender “died of a broken heart” says family.
George Bender’s family shares their grief with the world 1:49 Min by msn.com Chinchilla community mourns loss of local farmer by Alana Calvert, October 23, 2015, The Chronicle THE Western Downs community is grief-stricken with the tragic passing last week of local farmer George Bender. Mr Bender died on Wednesday night, October 14, leaving behind his wife Pam, their five adult ...
“After four years, you lose hope,” he says. “There’s no hope.” Four years without water in frac’d Pennsylvania community; Eleven years without safe water in Rosebud after frauds by Alberta’s “Best in the world” regulators enable Encana’s frac crimes
Four years without water: How shale drilling impacted one rural community by Wallace McKelvey, Candy Woodall contributed, October 20, 2015, PennLive.com Uncle Denny knew that long before the Rex Energy convoy pulled up four years ago: a yellow school bus full of pumps instead of pupils and two flatbed trucks hauling water buffaloes — the freestanding tanks ...
What happens when communities firmly and loudly say “NO!” to fracing and the endless fraud that goes with it? Canadian company Rathlin Energy pulls out of Northern Ireland!
Rathlin Energy blames Ballinlea borehole planning delay for withdrawal by BBC Northern Ireland, October 21, 2015 Rathlin Energy found a small amount of crude oil in its first exploration well at Ballinlea. A Canadian-owned company that holds the licence for oil and gas exploration on the north coast of Northern Ireland is to withdraw from the area. Rathlin ...
More fraud in the frac patch? Trying to cover-up a major frac hit by blaming vandalism? 6.4 km long North Dakota oil well spews more than 67,000 gallons of crude & 84,000 gallons of brine for days
Workers cap out-of-control North Dakota oil well by James MacPherson, Associated Press, October 20, 2015, WRAL Crews successfully plugged an oil well blowout Tuesday in western North Dakota that had been spewing a mixture of oil and saltwater since the weekend, state and company officials said. The well near White Earth, owned by Houston-based Oasis Petroleum North America ...
AER trying to buy Harper votes? When’s AER going to criminally charge Encana for violating AEPEA and the Water Act by illegally fracturing and diverting fresh water from Rosebud’s drinking water aquifers, and releasing gases that contaminated citizen water wells and blew up the community’s water tower?
Companies charged over 2013 coal tailings pond spill: Alberta Energy Regulator by Bob Weber and John Cotter, The Canadian Press, October 15, 2015, The Calgary Herald Two companies have been charged over a huge 2013 spill from a coal tailings pond that fouled tributaries feeding the Athabasca River. Coal Valley Resources Inc. and Sherritt International Corp. (TSX:S) ...
HOW MUCH FRAUD ARE COURTS, REGULATORS, COMPANIES ENGAGING IN TO HIDE THE FRAC POISONING? Tracers to blame? Range Resources unwillingly confirms fracking directly pollutes drinking water? Damning new information surfaces in Washington County water well contamination case
New information raised in Amwell well water contamination case by Francesca Sacco October 16, 2015, Observer Reporter Newly discovered evidence in a case filed by an Amwell Township man who claims Range Resources contaminated his drinking water could result in a new trial before the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board. According to a motion filed Wednesday in Commonwealth ...
AER gets a frac “expert,” a liar no less?
A citizen who witnessed the March 15, 2012 AER (then ERCB) frac propaganda at Eagle Hill, reported that Bob Willard admitted he is not a frac expert and said (lied?) local fracs are no bigger than 10 to 20 thousand liters per well! Edmonton-area fracking boom brings new life, new issues to old oilfields http://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/controversial-devon-fracking-operation-uses-municipal-drinking-water by Sheila Pratt, October 15, ...
“A terrible terrible day.” George Bender, CSG (CBM) impacted farmer, Darling Downs, Queensland, killed himself. “Not only does this community have to live with this scourge of CSG coal seam gas mining on a daily and nightly basis, now they have to deal with one of their most-respected and most-loved community members taking his life.”
February 2, 1968 Poem by Wendell Berry during the darkest days of the Vietnam War. In the darkness of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover. George Bender by one of his two dried up water bores after CSG (CBM). George ...
Why not practice with a sour gas “mock” emergency and show first responders and the community how deadly sour gas is?
Mock emergency hits Taylor, From rail car fires to car accidents to ruptured pipelines, emergency responders from district, industry get exercise in staying prepared and keeping co-ordinated when catastrophe strikes by Bronwyn Scott, October 15, 2015, Alaska Highway News Fire, sirens, traffic control and emergency personnel were all on scene in Taylor for a mock emergency exercise ...
New Research: Fracking chemicals lower sperm count in mice when they reach adulthood, Could have fertility implications for people living in shale gas zones
Fracking chemicals lower sperm count in mice when they reach adulthood, says new research, The research could have fertility implications for people living in shale gas zones in the United States by Paul Gallagher October 14, 2015, The Independent Chemicals used in fracking lowered the sperm count in mice when they reached adulthood, according to new research which ...
COMPENDIUM 3: SCIENTIFIC, MEDICAL, AND MEDIA FINDINGS DEMONSTRATING RISKS AND HARMS OF FRACKING (unconventional oil and gas), Updated with more than 100 new studies
COMPENDIUM OF SCIENTIFIC, MEDICAL, AND MEDIA FINDINGS DEMONSTRATING RISKS AND HARMS OF FRACKING (unconventional oil and gas exxtraction) Third Edition by Concerned Health Professionals of New York & Physicians for Social Responsibility. October 14, 2015. … Emerging Trends 1) Growing evidence shows that regulations are simply not capable of preventing harm. Studies reveal inherent problems in the natural gas extraction ...
Fracing the Bow River: “The most important resource in the province, and the rarest, is water” Then why let “No duty of care,” legally immune, led by Ex-Encana VP, Charter violating AER permit multinationals to frac it?
Protecting the health of Alberta’s Bow River by Roy MacGregor, October 11, 2015, The Globe and Mail [Reality avoidance? In such a comprehensive article about impacts to the Bow River, why leave out frac impacts, when it’s known that companies are sucking massive amounts of water out of the Bow River – without oversight – for drilling and ...
Frac Trickery & Loopholes in Scotland: Thousands joined hands in stand against test drilling announced by govt one day after govt announced moratorium
Thousands line bridge in protest after gas drilling test go-ahead by Stefan Schmid, October 12, 2015, The National Though the Scottish Government announced a moratorium on UCG but it was announced a day later that test drilling would be allowed to take place Thousands of people joined hands along the Forth Road Bridge yesterday to take a ...
When will oil and frac company executives be sentenced to life in prison for violating laws in place to protect families and their homes, water, air and land?
China sentences former executive of state oil company to 20 years in prison for corruption by The Associated Press, October 12, 2015, Calgary Herald A Chinese court sentenced a former senior executive of a state oil company on Tuesday to 20 years in prison after finding him guilty of corruption. The sentencing of Wang Yongchun, former deputy general ...
Gas Fracs: Gas in, gas out; the highly dangerous waterless fracking alternative
Gas in, gas out: the waterless fracking alternative by Nelson Bennett, October 13, 2015, midnight, Mining & Energy, Business Vancouver Millennium hauls liquefied natural gas to well sites, then re-gasifies it before injecting it underground at high pressure to fracture shale gas deposits | Millennium Stimulation Services As concerns mount about the vast amounts of water used in hydraulic fracturing, ...
Last Chance? Is Harper stealing from Canadians to give Encana & frac industry two billion dollars from pensioners before Harper’s law-violating Gang get punted?
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to invest $1 billion for energy infrastructure in Western Canada by the Canadian Press, September 30, 2015, The Province TORONTO – Canada’s largest pension fund manager is committing $1 billion for energy infrastructure acquisitions in Western Canada, in partnership with a private Calgary-based firm with expertise in the sector. Canada Pension Plan Investment ...
Cushing, Oklahoma: 4.5M earthquake ignores newly imposed frac quake prevention rules
Earthquake hits near Oklahoma oil hub amid fracking regulations by Al Jazeera and Reuters, October 11, 2015 An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 struck near the U.S. crude oil hub of Cushing, Oklahoma on Saturday, just days after regulators imposed new rules meant to prevent temblors in the area and said more changes were possible. The ...
Let’s Heave King Steve: “This law-and-order man routinely abuses the legal system, wasting more than $100 million a year in courts denying justice to the Aboriginal Peoples; keeping Omar Khadr tangled in specious cases despite losing at every turn, including thrice at the Supreme Court; not accepting three court rulings against his ban on the niqab; and fighting scores of Freedom of Information requests. When the judges don’t do his bidding, he insults them, including the chief justice of the Supreme Court.”
King Stephen has changed Canada for the worse, Stephen Harper’s biggest problem is not that he is a right-wing ideologue. It is how he has governed. by Haroon Siddiqui, October 8, 2015, Toronto Star One can agree or disagree with the political orientation of a government, even on such seminal issues as where to draw the line between ...
Another study showing serious frac harm: Women near frac sites 40 per cent more likely to give birth prematurely, and 30 per cent increase in chance that an obstetrician had labeled their pregnancy high-risk
Study: Fracking Industry Wells Associated With Premature Birth NEW RESEARCH SUGGESTS INCREASED RISK OF ADVERSE PREGNANCY OUTCOMES CLOSER TO ACTIVE UNCONVENTIONAL NATURAL GAS WELLS Press Release by John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, October 8, 2015 Expectant mothers who live near active natural gas wells operated by the fracking industry in Pennsylvania are at an increased ...
Oil and gas industry pollution travels hundreds of kilometres, No wonder Harper is muzzling Canadian scientists
Computer-generated video shows pollution spread across the Prairies, Emissions from oilsands, oil and gas plants travel hundreds of kilometres by Terry Reith, October 8, 2015, CBC News “The bright yellow plumes represent sulphur dioxide. … On the prairies, the only source is industrial activity. … Pollution is traveling at greater distances and over greater areas than previously ...
Scotland widens fracking moratorium
Scotland widens fracking moratorium by Mure Dickie in Edinburgh, October 8, 2015, www.ft.com Scotland has announced a moratorium on underground coal gasification and has also widened a review on the effects of fracking…. … Scotland was taking a “precautionary, robust and evidence-based approach” to unconventional gas, Mr Ewing said. Critics of the SNP have accused the government of ignoring scientific evidence ...
Encana joining Alberta Energy Minister McCuaig-Boyd on her trip to China to talk money
Alberta Energy Minister off to China by Matt Dykstra, October 7, 2015 Calgary Sun Alberta Energy Minister Marg McCuaig-Boyd is embarking on a $33,000-trade mission to China. The NDP government says the mission aims to encourage energy investment in Alberta and share environmental best practices with China’s largest oil and gas companies, ...
Who believes what Cenovus or Encana say? And, just how cruel are those companies to their workers? Encana offspring Cenovus apologizes: a lot too little, too late
Cenovus says workers not barred or suspended before layoff notices issued by The Canadian Press, October 8, 2015, Calgary Herald Officials at Calgary-based Cenovus say their workers were never barred from their workplace, nor were their cellphones suspended, before they were told they were being laid off. Cenovus began laying off 540 employees last week. Spokesman Brett Harris ...
Does it get any more terrifying than this? Encana dumping frac water wars on Canadian pensioners? Encana sells troubled Colorado assets for nearly $1 Billion US to entity 95% owned by Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
Encana sells Colorado assets to Broe Group partnership for $900M, Private equity firm partners with Canada Pension Plan Investment by Alicia Wallace, October 8, 2015, The Denver Post The Broe Group, a Denver-based conglomerate, in partnership with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board plans to acquire the entirety of Encana’s oil and gas assets in the Denver-Julesburg Basin ...
!!! Regulators launch inquiry after WFAA questions EOG gas well records related to Cody Murray’s water well explosion. Will the AER ever investigate Encana illegally fracing Rosebud’s drinking water aquifers?
Regulators launch inquiry after WFAA questions gas records by Brett Shipp, October 2, 2015, WFAA Some of Cody Murray’s injuries News 8 Investigates PERRIN, Texas – Questions raised by News 8 about whether gas wells were properly constructed near a family home whose water well exploded last year have prompted an official review by the Texas Railroad Commission. The investigation ...
Since frac’ing, earthquakes now frequent near Fort St. John; Why is OGC lying about drinking water contamination caused by hydraulic fracturing?
Earthquakes occurring frequently near Fort St. John by Energetic City, September 30, 2015 Did you feel that? Maybe not, but there have been small across the Peace recently, noticed by some, or quietly occurring. In the last week, 15 small earthquakes were recorded northwest of Fort St. John, and 10 have been recorded outside of Dawson Creek, ...
Why are Spectra Energy and the NEB lying about flaring deadly sour gas at Taylor, BC, claiming it poses no risk to the public?
Spectra Energy and NEB say there’s ‘no reason for concern’ in McMahon gas plant flares September 30, 2015, Energetic City The National Energy Board and Spectra Energy have both released more information about the flares that went off at the McMahon gas plant in Taylor, saying they do not pose any risk to the public. Jesse Semko with ...
Fracking banned in Northern Ireland!
No fracking in Northern Ireland, no fracking anywhere Press Release by Friends of the Earth, September 29, 2015 Friends of the Earth today (28 September 2015) strongly welcomed a major blow by Environment Minister Mark H Durkan to prospects for unconventional drilling for oil and gas in Northern Ireland. The Minister has just released a new Strategic Planning Policy ...
Hold your breath! Unplanned power outage at Spectra Sour Gas Plant in Taylor, BC causes massive flare and small grass fire
2011: Don’t flare up – Spectra’s new turnaround process During turnaround at Spectra Energy’s McMahon natural gas processing plant in Taylor, British Columbia this June, the company introduced a new process designed to eliminate flaring of sour gas at the facility. … The main motivation for developing the process was to reduce flaring of sour gas. … “We’re always trying ...

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