Ewart: The top 10 energy stories of 2012 by Stephen Ewart, December 29, 2012, Calgary Herald
4. Fracking up
…
As regulators develop new rules or update existing ones and industry groups shared best-practices, the fracking revolution is just beginning in Canada as some 5,000 wells have been fracked in Alberta since 2008. This new era gained attention in January with a well blowout near Innisfail that spewed 500 barrels of oil and water onto a field after “communication” from one well during a frack job to another well nearby. In December, the ERCB issued a report about a failed 2011 frack job near Grande Prairie that left diesel fuel in the water table.
…
9. Encana gets smaller still makes big news
Encana is hardly the self-styled global super independent of a decade ago but 2012 proved Canada’s largest gas producer can still generate news – for better or for worse. The Christmas Eve sale of En-cana’s 30 per cent stake in the Kitimat LNG plant to Chevron followed a $2.1 billion deal with PetroChina for a minority stake in its Duvernay play in Alberta, also in December, and a $2.9 billion deal with Mitsubishi for a minority share of its Cutbank Ridge play in northeast B.C. Encana is looking for partners on some U.S. gas properties as well. Mike Graham, president of the Canadian division, left the company in February but the biggest challenges in 2012 for Encana were in the U.S. as the Environmental Protection Agency continues to monitor a fracking incident in Wyoming. Meanwhile, U.S. authorities continue to investigate allegations Encana colluded with Chesapeake Energy to suppress land prices in Michigan in 2010. Encana’s in-house review concluded company executives did nothing wrong.
…
The changing face of Calgary’s oilpatch was most evident in the office tower landscape. Both Encana and Cenovus Energy moved into landmark The Bow tower after five years of construction just as Imperial Oil started to make plans for its new headquarters in suburban Quarry Park. With vacancy rates for the highest-end office space in the downtown at less than one per cent, Brookfield Properties said in December it intends to build a 56-storey tower on Sixth Avenue SW. If it proceeds as planned, The Bow’s reign as Calgary’s tallest building could be over by 2017. [Emphasis added]
-
Recent Posts
- Of course Liar Danielle Smith Lied. Lying is Alberta UCP/Con Best Practice. Gov’t to appeal getting caught breaking FOIP law regarding Gina Billionaire et al’s water-destroying coal mines. Buster: “We used to get our facts from the horses mouth, now we get the alternative facts from the horses ass.” April 25, 2024
- Justin Nobel’s book, Petroleum 238, on oil, gas ‘n frac industry’s radioactive waste secret now available: “More Radioactivity Than at Chernobyl.” Jesse Lombardi: “In every single oilfield you will find these oilfield waste treatment centers churning radioactive waste around like pancake mix” April 25, 2024
- Racist misogynistic cowardly genocide-complicit Zionist Israeli run Canada: Big old white man tells black woman, MPP Sarah Jama, to leave her elected post for wearing a scarf. If she was a white man, that old white man wouldn’t dare. Incredible courage and integrity Sarah! Don’t let the cowards bully you. April 25, 2024
- Prof Eliot Jacobson: “F&%king ‘Earth Day'” and North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly April 24, 2024
- Dr. Jacquelyn Gill, Paleoecologist U Maine: “What is the purpose of a university if we cannot use our knowledge to serve others? What good are these hands, if not to repair the world? What use is my voice, if it is expected to keep silent? Why do I have a heart, if I am meant to ignore its breaking?” April 24, 2024
- Genocide-Complicit Madness May 27 to June 21, 2024 Suffield National Wildlife Area: DND to host “Sandbox” party for Israeli arms companies (Twenty20 Insight Inc, Sentrycs, etc.) to test “Smart Shooter” used in West Bank remote control turrets and on rifle scopes in Gaza to kill Palestinian kids. Companies will be given continual interaction with CAF experts, US Gov’t Irregular Warfare Technical Support Directorate, RCMP (to share what they use against Canadian Indigenous Water Protectors?), science experts (WTF!), and *cash prizes* up to $1 million and “other funding!” Who the hell pays for this? Canadian taxpayers? April 23, 2024
- Pedro Arrojo Agudo, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights to water, has grave concerns about Canada’s “judicial treatment, criminalization” of Indigenous water protectors, violating their rights to peaceful protest and freedom of expression. The militarized RCMP C-IRG raids on Wet’suwet’en territory was a “shocking reaction, so violent.” Are officials, judges, politicians, police and energy regulators listening? I doubt it, they’re rich, mostly white and don’t care about water or lives of others. April 23, 2024
- Frac’ers are psychopathic sadists too, with their abusive invasive illegal noise (and endless leaks and intentional dumping of toxic waste and poisoning water and communities) April 23, 2024
- Columbia students protesting Israel’s butchery of Palestinians vs antisemitism lies by The New York Times. Who knew The Times is a Zionist rag serving freedom of expression hating, kid-killing terrorist Bibi Netanyahu? Who knew Toronto Public Library are racist genocide enablers too, bending over for lying racist “human rights” Zionists, B’nai Brith (in essence, Bibi’s Stasi in Canada). April 20, 2024
- Toxic humanity: Horrifying new study results for all life, not just humans: Ocean spray emits more PFAS than industrial polluters. PFAS, used in frac’ing, are forever chemicals (do not break down) linked to cancer, kidney disease, birth defects, decreased immunity, liver problems and other serious diseases. April 19, 2024
- Vancouver BC: Frack Free BC, Stop Fracking Eby, Stop LNG, Climate Strike Rally at Premier David Eby’s Office April 19, 2024
- New Reality Show: Hot and Toxic! Full Trailer. April 19, 2024
- Another BDS Victory! Wilfrid Laurier U Faculty Association calls for permanent ceasefire, complete divestment & boycott of institutions, corporations complicit in Israeli war crimes, breaches of international law, human rights violations, etc., condemns scholasticide in Gaza, West Bank & East Jerusalem. Motion passes with huge majority. Which Zionistiche Gestapo judge will kill justice to kill it? April 18, 2024
- Zionistiche Gestapo ‘n B’nai Brith bribing bigots MPP Ted Arnott and Doug Ford gov’t? Discrimination and racism on steroids: Speaker Arnott pisses on Canada’s charter, bans Palestinian Keffiyehs from Ontario legislature. Yarmulke allowed? “Heaven forbid someone make a political statement in a …. legislature” April 17, 2024
- Humans increasing CO2 is driving increase in worldwide severity and frequency of wildfires; “The best way to decrease wildfires is to mitigate our carbon dioxide emissions. We need more emission control now.” April 17, 2024