No one knows what they screwed up when they injected hot steam under high pressure into the formation to produce the oil sands. Does that sound similar to the fracking process? The oily goo is still leaking up to the surface from four locations … [Read more...]
UPDATE: Quebec town wiped out from fireball when train carrying crude oil derailed.
About 30 buildings were destroyed and 60 people are believed to be missing, but the force of the fire has prevented rescue workers from searching for survivors. Sixty missing and scores feared dead as runaway train carrying hundreds of tons of oil … [Read more...]
Contamination of North America’s Groundwater from Fracking (Hydraulic Fracturing) Revealed in a New Case History Catalogue
Contamination of North America's Groundwater from Fracking (Hydraulic Fracturing) Revealed in a New Case History Catalogue (Stop Fracking British Columbia) Vancouver, BC – Alberta-based environmental consultant Jessica Ernst just released the … [Read more...]
Short Documentary: Methane in water causes well house to explode
We've heard this story hundreds of times. Here are the Cliff Notes: Happy life, good water. Drilling and fracking comes. Water changes. Regulators side with industry. Explosion. Hospital, scarring, long recovery ? … [Read more...]
Laws and regulations do not protect us from the new brute force hydraulic fracturing
Laws and regulations do not protect us from the new brute force hydraulic fracturing... ~Jessica Ernst, a Canadian scientist with 30 years of petroleum industry experience. Truth and Consequences of Fracking presentation … [Read more...]
Oh Canada! We have to produce more natural gas because exporting LNG takes a lot of natural gas
BC Hydro looks to hydro, gas units to service LNG, mining projects Washington (Platts)--29May2012/340 pm EDT/1940 GMT Faced with "considerable" increases in electricity demand caused in large measure by pending LNG and mining projects, British … [Read more...]
Fracked Canadian to speak on fracking to United Nations
Way to go Jessica!SHAMING CANADA: Jessica Ernst (Rosebud, AB) To Present To United NationsHalf a decade ago this Rosebud, AB resident alleges that her groundwater was polluted by EnCana's contractors. After years of not being listened to by Alberta, … [Read more...]