Comment from a rural Alberta:
Good job on the “barrel racing”, Jessica, they won’t forget …this isn’t your first rodeo! Ha.
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Yesterday, walking home checking the mail, I noticed a black blob that did not belong on the landscape (other side of the old Rosebud River on my property where there is no vehicle access).
Today, I went black blob hunting, to inspect and take photos:
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Heading out: Behind my barn, facing west, looking towards the old Rosebud River running through my land.
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The black blob, facing north. It’s a steep coulee. Encana/Ovintiv now Lynx 7-13 compressor station is past the top of it, to the north.
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The Sentron LD 3000 label, facing west. SENTRON Natural Gas engine oils are premium performance, long-life engine oils for Stationary Gas engines and compressors….
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Facing south towards the old Rosebud River.
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Facing east towards my home and Rosebud.
The water tower with taxpayer-funded new safe alternate water supply (as of Dec 2020) is the tiny red dot to the top left of the photo. (My place is just outside the hamlet, so I did not get safe water.)
Next, I went up to Encana/Ovintiv’s (now Lynx) 7-13 compressor station that has caused much noise invasion over the last near 20 years, to see what I might see.
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The 7-13 Compressor station, facing south towards my land.
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Three matching black barrels between the two compressors. In the background is the well Encana drilled under my already contaminated land, approved by AER in half a day.
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Two more matching black barrels.
Who is going to carry that barrel up the coulee off my land?
No point calling AER. I expect their lawyer would bully and blame me for being a terrorist, hiding bombs in black blobs on my land.
I emailed Lynx. They picked up their rogue barrel today. Now I need not worry about it ending up in the river. Thank you Lynx.