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  • EnCana donates $200 to transition home for women and children in Dawson Creek
    EnCana donates $200 to transition home for women and children in Dawson Creek by Matthew Baines, November 25, 2011, EnergeticCity.ca Local employees with the Calgary-based oil and gas producer raised $200 through an internal fundraising campaign, and the company matched that amount for a total contribution of $400
  • Front Page: ‘Frack hell is imminent’
    ‘Frack hell is imminent’ November 25, 2011 by Caroline Zentner, Lethbridge Herald “I have learned that in Alberta you are to toe the line whether you’re an oil patch consultant or a citizen.”… “I have learned painfully that I trust no politician in this province, I trust no regulator staff at the ERCB and I trust nobody at ...
  • 2011 11 24 Jessica Ernst at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta
    Jessica Ernst at the University of Lethbridge Alberta November 24, 2011
  • Battle For Wetzel County: Short Documentary Chronicles Impacts of Fracking In West Virginia
    Battle For Wetzel County: Short Documentary Chronicles Impacts of Fracking In West Virginia by Brendan Demelle, November 21, 2011, Desmogblog One man fights back tears as he shows a photo of a fracking tanker truck dumping contaminated post-drilling wastewater on a road that schoolchildren walk on every day. “This industry is out of control in the state of ...
  • Shale gas will be ‘revolutionary’ in Alberta, ERCB head says, Regulators retool for a coming wave of unconventional gas development
    Shale gas will be ‘revolutionary’ in Alberta, ERCB head says, Regulators retool for a coming wave of unconventional gas development by Jeff Lewis, November 21, 2011, Alberta Oil Magazine Alberta’s Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) is quietly preparing for the arrival of large-scale shale gas development in the province, moving quickly to craft regulations specifically tailored to the ...
  • Fracking and Quaking: They’re Linked And scientists, the military, and frackers themselves have known it for years
    Fracking and Quaking: They’re Linked And scientists, the military, and frackers themselves have known it for years by Andrew Nikiforuk, November 18, 2011, TheTyee.ca “We should also investigate with increased rigorous objectivity, all areas at risk in which seismicity may be induced through current activity of oil and gas production, enhanced oil recovery by water injection and in ...
  • Another Blow To Dirty Energy: Fracking Nixed In The Delaware River Basin
    Another Blow To Dirty Energy: Fracking Nixed In The Delaware River Basin by Laurel Whitney, November 18, 2011, Desmogblog After Delaware announced they would vote no at Monday’s meeting, as predicted, the meeting was soon cancelled. Ideally citizens would have liked to see fracking legitimately outlawed, but for now, it’s a temporary victory that will keep gas fracking ...
  • Company buys 23,000 acres of land in Ontario for fracking operations
    Company buys 23,000 acres of land in Ontario for fracking operations by Brent Patterson, November 18, 2011, Canadians.org In March 2010, the Toronto Star reported that Calgary-based Mooncor Oil & Gas Corp. has been buying land rights in southwestern Ontario for fracking operations. The newspaper article noted that Mooncor intends to drill for shale gas in the Kettle ...
  • EPA fracking findings in Wyoming relevant in Colorado disclosure debate; Garfield County resident cites parallels between two EnCana cases
    EPA fracking findings in Wyoming relevant in Colorado disclosure debate; Garfield County resident cites parallels between two EnCana cases by David O. Williams, November 17, 2011, The Colorado Independent EnCana in 2004 was hit with a $378,000 fine for failing to properly cement and later fracking a natural gas well near Bracken’s property that ultimately leaked thermogenic and ...
  • Huntingdon, shale gas and its spreading tentacles
    Huntingdon, shale gas and its spreading tentacles by lesamisdurichelieu, November 17, 2011 The impacts of shale gas in Quebec just multiplied, and that means that a lot more people should get worried. You thought it had nothing to do with you? Don’t be so sure!
  • BC gives gas industry violators gentle treatment
    BC gives gas industry violators gentle treatment by Chris Wood, November 17, 2011, TheTyee.ca How closely does British Columbia’s Oil and Gas Commission police the province’s thousands of natural gas production, collection and distribution sites? Let’s put it this way: you should be so lucky with traffic tickets. The Commission’s annual report claims that the 6,474 inspections it ...
  • Situation Normal All Fracked Up
    Situation Normal All Fracked Up by Eliza Griswold, November 17, 2011, New York Times (current title The Fracturing of Pennsylvania) About a year before Haney’s dog died, in the summer of 2009, she began to notice that sometimes her water was black and that it seemed to be eating away at her faucets, washing machine, hot-water heater and dishwasher. When ...
  • EnCana, chuckwagon driver present cheques for Dawson Creek food bank
    EnCana, chuckwagon driver present cheques for Dawson Creek food bank November 16, 2011, p. 26,dawsoncreek.ca The monetary total includes a contribution from EnCana, which agreed to match cash donations dollar-for-dollar, and $2 per pound of food, up to a total of $10,000.
  • Frac Tech has agreed to pay $450,000 to settle a lawsuit
    Frac Tech has agreed to pay $450,000 to settle a lawsuit by Jaime Adame, November 16, 2011, Reporter News Frac Tech Services provides hydraulic fracturing services to gas-well drilling sites, using pressurized rigs to shoot so-called “fracking fluid” into casings deep underground in efforts to fracture rock formations and free natural gas. According to the statement, the woman, ...
  • No More Drilling in the Dark: Exposing the hazards of natural gas production and protecting America’s drinking water and wildlife habitats
    No More Drilling in the Dark: Exposing the hazards of natural gas production and protecting America’s drinking water and wildlife habitats by Mékell Mikell, November 16, 2011, National Wildlife Federation While many potential impacts remain unknown, there have been documented cases of pollution and impacts on habitats that raise serious concerns. Fracking chemicals and methane have contaminated underground ...
  • Hollowich family’s lawsuit claims gas driller lied about property value
    Family’s lawsuit claims gas driller lied about property value by Don Hopey, November 15, 2011, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Hallowich family, which settled its lawsuit alleging that Marcellus Shale drilling damaged the family’s health and property value, has filed another suit claiming Range Resources has violated the confidential settlement agreement by falsely stating it paid $550,000 for ...
  • BC reviewing oil and gas industry health risks
    BC reviewing oil and gas industry health risks by Andrew MacLeod, November 15, 2011, TheTyee.ca
  • Gas Industry Geologists – Not Doctors – Decide If Water Is “Safe” in Alberta Fracking Contamination Cases
    Gas Industry Geologists – Not Doctors – Decide If Water Is “Safe” in Alberta Fracking Contamination Cases by Carol Linnit, November 15, 2011, Desmogblog
  • RFF to study shale-gas development
    RFF to study shale-gas development by Marty Niland, November 14, 2011, Energy Now! University of Alberta Professor Karlis Muehlenbachs presented evidence that drilling activity can cause “seeps,” including documented cases of poor well construction allowing gas to migrate to the surface.
  • 2011 11 14 Dr. Karlis Muehlenbachs at Washington, DC: Identifying the Sources of Fugitive Methane Associated with Shale Gas Development, updated January 2012 with new data
    Identifying the Sources of Fugitive Methane Associated with Shale Gas Development, updated January 2012 with new data by Karlis Muehlenbachs, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Original presented on November 14, 2011 at Managing the risks of shale gas: Identifying a pathway toward responsible development held at Resources For the Future, ...
  • Puny fines, scant enforcement leave drilling violators with little to fear
    Puny fines, scant enforcement leave drilling violators with little to fear by Mike Soraghan, November 14, 2011, E&E News Oil and gas drillers who pollute groundwater, spill toxic chemicals or break other rules have little to fear from the inspectors and agencies regulating the surge in American petroleum production. A Greenwire review of enforcement data from the largest ...
  • Federal environmental and health agencies collect data from Dimock families
    Federal environmental and health agencies collect data from Dimock families by Laura Legere, November 14, 2011, The Times Tribune Three representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry visited Thursday with families around Carter Road, an area of Susquehanna County where state regulators have linked increased methane in water supplies to ...
  • U of Texas prof Sharma says publicized methane contaminated water cases are natural, U of Alberta prof Muehlenbachs disagrees
    RFF to study shale-gas development by Marty Niland, November 14, 2011, Energy Now! University of Texas at Austin professor Mukul Sharma gave an overview, concluding that the benefits of development outweigh its risks. He dismissed concerns that the process causes large earthquakes, contaminates groundwater or leads to methane in home water supplies. Sharma attributed well publicized cases of ...
  • Sour water replaces fresh in Peace River shale gas extraction
    Sour water replaces fresh in Peace River shale gas extraction by Justine Hunter, November 13, 2011, Globe and Mail “We don’t know the hydrological and geological implications of drawing the saline aquifer down. We may be creating a different kind of problem.”
  • Est. 1885: Old Rail Depot New Home for Gas Worker
    Est. 1885: Old Rail Depot New Home for Gas Worker by Darcie Loreno, November 13, 2011. WKBN.27 “It helps our economy. It just destroys everything else.”
  • Busted! Fracking Chemical Found in Wyoming Water Supply
    Busted! Fracking Chemical Found in Wyoming Water Supply by Tina Casey, November 13, 2011, Cleantechnica.com As an aside, according to Abrahm the Pavillion gas wells at the center of the residents’ problems are currently owned by the Canadian company EnCana, which continues to deny responsibility.
  • Busted! Fracking Chemical Found in Wyoming Water Supply
    Busted! Fracking Chemical Found in Wyoming Water Supply by Tina Casey, November 13, 2011, Cleantechnica.com As an aside, according to Abrahm the Pavillion gas wells at the center of the residents’ problems are currently owned by the Canadian company EnCana, which continues to deny responsibility….
  • EPA Finds Fracking Compound in Wyoming Aquifer, The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finds fracking compounds in environmental monitoring wells
    EPA Finds Fracking Compound in Wyoming Aquifer, The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finds fracking compounds in environmental monitoring wells by Abrahm Lustgarten and ProPublica, November 10, 2011, Scientific American
  • Fracking for Support: Natural Gas Industry Pumps Cash into Congress, New report details 10-year spending campaign by fracking interests to avoid regulation
    Fracking for Support: Natural Gas Industry Pumps Cash into Congress, New report details 10-year spending campaign by fracking interests to avoid regulation Press Release by Common Cause, November 10, 1011 Natural gas interests have spent more than $747 million during a 10-year campaign – stunningly successful so far – to avoid government regulation of hydraulic “fracking,”… according to a ...
  • Energy Dept. Panel Warns of Environmental Toll of Current Gas Drilling Practices
    Energy Dept. Panel Warns of Environmental Toll of Current Gas Drilling Practices by Nicholas Kusnetz, November 10, 2011, ProPublica The report also concludes that joint federal and state efforts to ensure water quality are “not working smoothly” and urges the EPA to move unilaterally to improve oversight as it carries out a study on potential effects of hydraulic ...
  • Gas industry health effects to undergo B.C. study
    Gas industry health effects to undergo B.C. study November 10, 2011, CBC News The B.C. government will study any health risks posed by the province’s booming gas industry. Glenda Wager spent hours in a toxic gas cloud after a major leak in 2009. She says she’s still recovering…. Wilma Avery says her lungs were damaged when one company ...
  • EPA Finds Fracking Compound in Wyoming Aquifer
    EPA Finds Fracking Compound in Wyoming Aquifer by Abrahm Lustgarten and ProPublica, November 10, 2011, Scientific American
  • Gas Fracking Industry Using Military Psychological Warfare Tactics and Personnel In U.S. Communities
    Gas Fracking Industry Using Military Psychological Warfare Tactics and Personnel In U.S. Communities by Brendan Demelle, November 9, 2011, Desmogblog Is Range the only industry player deploying veterans with PSYOPs experience, and using these propaganda techniques in U.S. communities? The company’s leadership role in the Marcellus Shale fracking industry suggests that this practice is likely more widespread. … ...
  • Next Frontier in Natural Gas Wars: Psy Ops
    Next Frontier in Natural Gas Wars: Psy Ops by Kate Sheppard, November 9, 2011, Mother Jones Here’s the direct quote from Range Resources communications director Matt Pitzarella, from a from session titled “Designing a Media Relations Strategy To Overcome Concerns Surrounding Hydraulic Fracturing”: “We have several former psy ops folks that work for us at Range because they’re ...
  • EPA Pavillion Pavillion Groundwater Investigation 2010-2011 Sampling Summary Summary of Results and Next Steps
    EPA Pavillion Pavillion Groundwater Investigation 2010-2011 Sampling Summary Summary of Results and Next Steps November 9, 2011, EPA EPA released the latest data from Pavillion-area domestic and monitoring wells at a public meeting on November 9, 2011. We are sharing this data with the community, Encana, the state, tribes and federal partners as part of an ongoing ...
  • Encana donates $1.5 Million to create Institute for Sustainability and the Environment at Mount Royal University
    Encana donates $1.5 Million  to create Institute for Sustainability and the Environment at Mount Royal University News Release by Mount Royal University, November 9, 2011 “The knowledge students will gain from the use of this equipment in a learning environment, as well as during undergraduate research projects, will also provide them with unique opportunities to translate ...
  • EPA Pavillion Pavillion Groundwater Investigation 2010-2011 Sampling Summary of Results and Next Steps
    EPA Pavillion Pavillion Groundwater Investigation 2010-2011 Sampling Summary of Results and Next Steps November 9, 2011, EPA
  • EPA to announce new water well sampling data at meeting in Pavillion on Wednesday
    EPA to announce new water well sampling data at meeting in Pavillion on Wednesday by Mead Gruver, November 8, 2011. Associated Press Doug Hock, an Encana spokesman, said Tuesday that Encana did not plan to send a representative to the EPA meeting.
  • Statement from the A.G. Schneiderman regarding the feds’ proposed fracking regulations
    Statement from the A.G. Schneiderman regarding the feds’ proposed fracking regulations November 8, 2011, NY Office of Attorney General “By issuing these modified draft regulations, the federal government continues to ignore New Yorkers’ concerns about the impact fracking may have on our environment, health and homes. Though modified, these regulations still lack the benefit of a full ...
  • Oil Executive: Military-Style ‘Psy Ops’ Experience Applied
    Oil Executive: Military-Style ‘Psy Ops’ Experience Applied by Eamon Javers, November 8, 2011, CNBC It was a gathering of professionals to discuss “media and stakeholder relations” in the hydraulic fracturing industry — companies using the often-controversial oil and gas extraction technique known as “fracking.” But things took an unexpected twist. CNBC has obtained audiotapes of the event, on ...
  • Midnight Pennsylvania Explosion Rocks Bedford County; Residents Evacuated When Compressor Station Explodes
    Midnight Pennsylvania Explosion Rocks Bedford County; Residents Evacuated When Compressor Station Explodes by Iris Marie Bloom, November 8, 2011, Protecting Our Waters Compressor stations are scary. They emit benzene, toluene, formaldehyde, and other toxic chemicals at an alarming rate. They emit volatile organic chemicals and fine particulate matter which creates ground-level ozone, harming human health and animal health.
  • EPA to announce new sampling data at meeting in Pavillion
    EPA to announce new water well sampling data at meeting in Pavillion on Wednesday by Mead Gruver, November 8, 2011. Associated Press Doug Hock, an Encana spokesman, said Tuesday that Encana did not plan to send a representative to the EPA meeting.
  • Eagle Valley woman Kim Mildenstein urges action on traffic concerns
    Eagle Valley woman urges action on traffic concerns by John Gleeson, November 8, 2011, Mountain View Gazette An Eagle Valley woman is calling for Mountain View County and oil and gas companies to take prompt action to remedy ongoing traffic concerns in the area. Kim Mildenstein presented a list of requests and a litany of concerns ...
  • BC Tap Water Alliance Calls for Resignation of Energy Minister Coleman Over Fracking
    BC Tap Water Alliance Calls for Resignation of Energy Minister Coleman Over Fracking by Carol Linnitt, November 7, 2011, Desmog.blog The demand comes on the heels of a Global TV program 16:9 which on Saturday evening aired Untested Science, an investigation into the recent surge of fracking across BC and Alberta. During the program Minister Coleman is berated ...
  • Alliance Demands Energy Minister Rich Coleman’s resignation
    Alliance Demands Energy Minister Rich Coleman’s resignation Press Release by the BC Tap Water Alliance, November 7, 2011 “Mr. Coleman misled the Speaker of the House, the Legislative Assembly and the public in it’s court of law. The Minister’s misgivings and sorry excuse in 16:9’s interview about granting the 20-year contracts on a topic rife with controversy, amidst growing ...
  • ATSDR Leroy Township report finds elevated well water chemicals – Exact cause of elevated levels unclear
    ATSDR Leroy Township report finds elevated well water chemicals – Exact cause of elevated levels unclear Press Release by The Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry, November 07, 2011 The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) investigated the water quality of seven residential wells surrounding the Chesapeake ATGAS 2H natural gas well site in Leroy ...
  • Corporate funding of Marcellus Shale studies at universities raises alarms, Drilling on Campus: the second of two parts
    Corporate funding of Marcellus Shale studies at universities raises alarms, Drilling on Campus: the second of two parts by Reid R. Frazier, The Allegheny Front; and Olivia Garber, PublicSource, November 07, 2011 “There are so few institutions we have left that can provide unbiased knowledge, universities are really ceding that territory,” said Cat Warren, a North Carolina State University ...
  • CSG [CBM] and the unresearched risk to Australia’s water
    CSG and the unresearched risk to Australia’s water by Independent Australia, November 7, 2011 There are many good reasons why the general public, and in particular farmers, are concerned about coal seam gas (CSG) extraction. … Once a problem is detected it could be too late to do anything.
  • Tremors on fracking
    Tremors on fracking November 5, 2011, The Edmonton Journal The process of hydraulic fracturing…is causing the earth to quake, and tremors are noticeable several kilometres away.
  • Four treatment plants accused of raising bromide levels in Allegheny River
    Four treatment plants accused of raising bromide levels in Allegheny River by Bob Bauder and Timothy Puko, November 5, 2011, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority on Friday accused four industrial wastewater treatment plants on the Allegheny River and its tributaries of increasing bromide levels in the river that supplies drinking water to nearly 500,000 ...
  • Global 16×9 Untested Science: Fracking
    16×9 Untested Science: Fracking natural gas controversy Published by 16x9onglobal to Youtube on April 13, 2012, originally released November 5, 2011 (Season 4 Ep. 10)
  • Preview of Jessica Ernst in 16×9’s Untested Science
    WATCH: Extended Preview – Untested Science, 1:22 min November 5, 2011, Global News But experts say ‘fracking’ can cause contaminated ground water, earthquakes and pollute our land with toxic chemicals. http://www.globalnews.ca/video/extended+preview+untested+science/video.html?v=2164397054
  • Fracking process causing earthquakes noticeable kilometres away
    Tremors on fracking November 5, 2011, The Edmonton Journal The process of hydraulic fracturing…is causing the earth to quake, and tremors are noticeable several kilometres away.
  • Lawyers demand state reverse decision on water for Pa. town with tainted wells
    Lawyers demand state reverse decision on water for Pa. town with tainted wells by Michael Rubinkam, November 4, 2011, Associated Press A law firm is demanding that Pennsylvania Environmental regulators reverse their decision to allow a natural-gas driller to stop delivering replacement water to residents of a town whose drinking water wells were contaminated. Cabot Oil & Gas ...
  • Was Syracuse Right to Ban the Controversial Natural Gas Drilling Process?
    Was Syracuse Right to Ban the Controversial Natural Gas Drilling Process? by Amy Goodman, November 4, 2011, Democracy Now! We are broadcasting from Syracuse, which recently became the third city in New York state to ban the natural gas drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The Syracuse Common Council voted unanimously last week to ban hydrofracking ...
  • Encana sale in Pavillion area raises concerns
    Encana sale in Pavillion area raises concerns November 4, 2011, The Associated Press “So we continue to believe that whatever groundwater contamination people are claiming that they have in their wells is naturally occurring,”
  • Encana sale in Pavillion area raises concerns
    Encana sale in Pavillion area raises concerns November 4, 2011, The Associated Press “So we continue to believe that whatever groundwater contamination people are claiming that they have in their wells is naturally occurring,”
  • Citizens Call for Investigation and Halt to Encana’s Proposed Sale of Pavillion Gas Field
    Citizens Call for Investigation and Halt to Encana’s Proposed Sale of Pavillion Gas Field Press Release by Powder River Basin, November 3, 2011 “EnCana has made huge profits in our community and is in the middle of a superfund investigation that has already found oil and gas contamination in our drinking water, when will our government stop ...
  • EnCana donates to Northern Medical Program Trust
    EnCana donates to Northern Medical Program Trust by Erica Fisher, November 3, 2011, Energetic City Medical students who participate in rural clinical experiences have received additional support from a major gas producer. EnCana has made a $50,000 donation to Northern Medical Programs Trust of the University of Northern British Columbia.
  • Pa. DEP has ‘significant concerns’ about radiological materials in Marcellus wastewater
    Pa. DEP has ‘significant concerns’ about radiological materials in Marcellus wastewater by Bryan Schutt, November 3, 2011, snl.com
  • B.C. companies fined over fracking water use
    B.C. companies fined over fracking water use November 3, 2011, CBC News More than dozen energy companies drilling in northern B.C. have been fined for not reporting how much water they use. The energy companies are drawing fresh water from the northern rivers to use in hydro-fracking – a process that uses pressurized water to blast fractures into ...
  • EPA Announces Final Study Plan to Assess Hydraulic Fracturing
    EPA Announces Final Study Plan to Assess Hydraulic Fracturing Press Release, November 3, 2011 The final study plan looks at the full cycle of water in hydraulic fracturing, from the acquisition of the water, through the mixing of chemicals and actual fracturing, to the post-fracturing stage, including the management of flowback and produced or used water as ...
  • Fracking turmoil
    Fracking turmoil by Ayesha Rasco, November 3, 2011, Reuters The U.S. Interior Department plans to issue a proposal soon forcing companies to reveal the chemicals they use in the so-called fracking drilling process on federal lands, as the Obama administration responds to public safety concerns over the shale exploration boom.
  • Exclusive: Fracking company – we caused 50 tremors in Blackpool – but we’re not going to stop
    Exclusive: Fracking company – we caused 50 tremors in Blackpool – but we’re not going to stop by Tom Bawden, November 3, 2011, The Independent The report, which the energy firm commissioned, concluded it is “highly probable” that Cuadrilla’s operations were responsible for two tremors which hit Lancashire. … The report, which is being sent to the Government, ...
  • Margaree Environmental Association files legal appeal of Cape Breton drill permit
    Margaree Environmental Association files legal appeal of Cape Breton drill permit November 3, 2011, Cape Breton Post “We want to make people aware that we feel the minister failed to consider some important issues and procedural matters in granting this permit,” said association co-chair Brian Peters. “It’s a sensitive ecosystem and there’s a tourism industry in the area ...
  • City Bans Fracking on Municipal Land
    City Bans Fracking on Municipal Land by Liz Camuti, November 3, 2011, Cornell Daily Sun During the meeting, Common Council voted to amend the resolution — which was recently passed by the city’s Economic Development and Planning Committee — to state that hydrofracking “is likely to have severe adverse impacts on communities and the environment” by damaging the ...
  • ‘Fracking’ concerns lead to ban calls
    ‘Fracking’ concerns lead to ban calls by Alison Campsie, November 3, 2011, Herald Scotland Calls have been made to ban fracking in Scotland after it emerged that the process, which extracts natural gases trapped deep underground, caused two minor earth tremors in the north of England.
  • EnCana donates to Northern Medical Program Trust
    EnCana donates to Northern Medical Program Trust by Erica Fisher, November 3, 2011, Energetic City
  • Citizens Call for Investigation and Halt to Encana’s Proposed Sale of Pavillion Gas Field
    Citizens Call for Investigation and Halt to Encana’s Proposed Sale of Pavillion Gas Field Press Release by Powder River Basin, November 3, 2011 “EnCana has made huge profits in our community and is in the middle of a superfund investigation that has already found oil and gas contamination in our drinking water, when will our government stop ...
  • Residents fault DEC over claims of gas drilling impact on water wells, DEC says drilling not to blame, but assemblywoman doubts investigations’ thoroughness
    Residents fault DEC over claims of gas drilling impact on water wells, DEC says drilling not to blame, but assemblywoman doubts investigations’ thoroughness by Liz Lawyer, November 2, 2011, Ithaca Journal Landowners who believe their drinking water has been affected by drilling activity in central and western New York said they have had trouble getting the state Department ...
  • Fracking likely triggered U.K. quakes, gas firm says
    Fracking likely triggered U.K. quakes, gas firm says November 2, 2011, The Associated Press 
  • Okla. quakes associated with fracking, Hydraulic fracturing may be in for a bumpy ride
    Okla. quakes associated with fracking, Hydraulic fracturing may be in for a bumpy ride by Paul Voosen, November 2, 2011, E&E News A previously unreported study out of the Oklahoma Geological Survey has found that hydraulic fracturing may have triggered a swarm of small earthquakes earlier this year in Oklahoma.
  • Alberta water practices questioned, Scientist claims Encana contaminated her well-water through fracking process
    Alberta water practices questioned, Scientist claims Encana contaminated her well-water through fracking process by Richard LaRose, November 2, 2011, The Gateway Bob Curran, a spokesperson for ERCB, refused to comment due to the on-going legal case, but noted the ERCB has stringent regulations in place to ensure that the environment and the people of Alberta are protected. … ...
  • Untested Science
    Untested Science by Carolyn Jarvis and Anne Hainsworth, October 31, 2011, Global News, 16×9 “I’ve lived at my place since 1998 and the water change is incredible,” says Jessica, “one Christmas I was in tears because there was so much gas coming out of my kitchen tap I couldn’t close it.”
  • Living in fear of fracking, ERCB says frac chemicals publicly available upon request
    Living in fear of fracking, Rancher concerned about effects on water supply by Rebecca Penty, October 29, 2011, Calgary Herald Curran said the ERCB will make public the chemicals companies use in “frac” jobs when requested
  • 2011 10 27 Jessica Ernst at the University of Alberta Edmonton
    Jessica Ernst at the University of Alberta Edmonton October 27, 2011
  • High water use, contamination top list of shale gas concerns
    High water use, contamination top list of shale gas concerns by Mike De Souza, October 24, 2011. Postmedia News Water use and contamination are at the top of the list of environmental concerns surrounding shale gas exploration in Canada, Environment Minister Peter Kent was told earlier this year in an internal memorandum released on Monday. The advice, drafted ...
  • DEP: Cabot OK to stop Dimock water deliveries
    DEP: Cabot OK to stop Dimock water deliveries by Laura Legere, October 20, 2011, Citizens Voice The approval, which came 24 hours after the natural gas driller requested to halt the deliveries, shocked and upset the residents who have relied on the replacement water for drinking, bathing and washing for nearly three years while regulators determined that faulty ...
  • The Fracking Industry’s War On The New York Times — And The Truth
    The Fracking Industry’s War On The New York Times — And The Truth Robert F. Kennedy Jr., October 20, 2011, Huffingtonpost.com Superb investigative journalism by the New York Times has brought the paper under attack by the natural gas industry. That campaign of intimidation and obfuscation has been orchestrated by top shelf players like Exxon and Chesapeake aligned ...
  • Fracking discussions still moving forward
    Fracking discussions still moving forward by Derek Clouthier, October 19, 2011, Cochrane Eagle Just the word itself has ignited a passionate debate in Cochrane and around the world on whether this particular form of oil and gas exploration is a desirable method of extraction. It has also resulted in the formation of a group of concerned ...
  • Safety First, Fracking Second
    Safety First, Fracking Second by The Editors, October 19, 2011, Scientific American
  • The Truth about Fracking: Fracturing a deep shale layer one time to release natural gas might pose little risk to drinking-water supplies, but doing so repeatedly could be problematic
    The Truth about Fracking: Fracturing a deep shale layer one time to release natural gas might pose little risk to drinking-water supplies, but doing so repeatedly could be problematic by Chris Mooney, October 19, 2011, Scientific American (November 2011 issue) “I just wish the industry would stop playing the game of ‘fracking doesn’t cause the contamination.’ You’ve got to ...
  • Sussex mayor denounces seismic testing company, Seismotion official says waiting for council vote would have cost $60,000
    Sussex mayor denounces seismic testing company, Seismotion official says waiting for council vote would have cost $60,000 October 19, 2011, CBC News “When a company goes ahead and does this. Just like completely ignores the rules, completely just basically says, ‘You know what? Screw you guys,’” Coun. Shelley Bradley, Sussex, NB
  • Cortland clerk fights abusive gas leasing practices
    Cortland clerk fights abusive gas leasing practices by Emma Jacobs, October 17, 2011, Innovation Trail Elizabeth Larkin’s a stickler for the letter of the law. That’s made her a bulwark against abusive land leasing practices. Larkin is Cortland’s county clerk, and like others across the state, is one of the few people who sees the contracts ...
  • Oilsite protestor appears in Alberta court, says Constitution is her defence
    Oilsite protestor appears in Alberta court, says Constitution is her defence by Oilweek, October 17, 2011 CARDSTON, Alta. _ One of the three women facing a charge of intimidation for blocking a road used by an oil company on an Alberta First Nation has broken off from her group and lawyer. Lois Frank said outside court ...
  • Fracking will not contaminate groundwater, very shallow fracking has contaminated groundwater
    Fracking will not contaminate ground water by Steve Charbonneau, October 17, 2011, Rockyview Weekly This article highlights an often recurring situation, that of ill-informed and fearful landowners and local residents, versus a highly technical petroleum industry. In this case, the Lochend area group POWERS, and members Gary Tressider and Parry Pearsall-Pickup express their fear about fracking. The POWERS ...
  • Rocky View County seeking increased oil and gas notification
    Rocky View County seeking increased oil and gas notification areas by Dawn Smith, October 17, 2011, Rocky View Weekly Kim Magnuson, councillor for the Springbank area, said she has been inundated with calls and e-mails from residents pleading for help. She said a concern raised by many was the lack of notification for affected residents living outside ...
  • Drilling did cause ‘earthquake’
    Drilling did cause ‘earthquake’ October 15, 2011, Blackpool Gazette CONTROVERSIAL gas drilling DID cause Fylde coast earthquakes. And now energy chiefs have sent a stark warning to shale gas company Cuadrilla Resources – stop the tremors or we will shut you down…. The meetings followed the British Geological Survey’s (BGS) conclusion two recent earth tremors felt nearby were ...
  • USGS: No Fracking Fluid Found in Arkansas Water Wells
    USGS: No Fracking Fluid Found in Arkansas Water Wells by Claims Journal, October 14, 2011 The U.S. Geological Survey says no fracking fluid has been found in domestic water wells in the Fayetteville Shale area of Van Buren County, Arkansas. The fluid is a byproduct of hydraulic fracturing – or fracking. It’s a process of injecting fluid ...
  • B.C. First Nations to be consulted on fracking
    B.C. First Nations to be consulted on fracking October 14, 2011, CBC News The commission is currently issuing the gas industry more than 50 water permits a month, a number that’s expected to rise. … “The freshwater, everyone says it’s such a precious resource…and the next thing you know it’s being sucked up into one of them ...
  • New oil and gas well regulations: “Cleverly written document” fails to address increased impact
    New oil and gas well regulations could affect landowners “Cleverly written document” fails to address increased impact by Lindsey Wallis, October 13, 2011, Fast Forward Weekly Alberta’s Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) announced changes to the well-spacing framework, which environmentalists say is a “cleverly written document” that makes the changes sound more innocuous than they are and essentially ...
  • Alberta’s Energy Minister Morton expected to be “aggressive” in defence of industry
    Alberta’s new Energy Minister Morton shows a green side by Nathan Vanderklippe, October 12, 2011, The Globe and Mail That provides “consistency,” said Lowell Jackson, an energy company executive and chair of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. … He expects Mr. Morton to be “aggressive” in defence of industry….
  • Alberta’s new Energy Minister shows a green side
    Alberta’s new Energy Minister shows a green side by Nathan Vanderklippe, October 12, 2012, The Globe and Mail Industry expects Mr. Morton to continue where Mr. Liepert left off, he said…. He expects Mr. Morton to be “aggressive” in defence of industry….
  • Houston-based firm pleads guilty over Oklahoma acid spill in 2007
    Houston-based firm pleads guilty over Oklahoma acid spill in 2007 by Jack Z. Smith, October 11, 2011. Fort Worth Star-Telegram (MENAFN) Integrated Production Services, a Houston-based oil field services contractor, pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Muskogee, Okla., to violating the Clean Water Act by negligently spilling 400 to 700 gallons of hydrochloric acid — used in ...
  • Concerns Hunter aquifers under threat from coal seam gas extraction
    Concerns Hunter aquifers under threat from coal seam gas extraction October 10, 2011, ABC Newcastle “We’ve seen in a number of overseas jurisdictions that groundwater aquifiers have been irretrievably damaged by the addition of chemicals so Australia has got an opportunity here to make sure that the development of mining and mineral exploitation is done sensibly.
  • ERCB (now AER) Bulletin 2011-29: Massive Deregulation to Alberta-wide Framework for Well Spacing for Conventional and Unconventional Oil and Gas Reservoirs
    ERCB Bulletin 2011-29: Changes to the Province-Wide Framework for Well Spacing for Conventional and Unconventional Oil and Gas Reservoirs October 6, 2011, ERCB Subsurface well-density controls for coalbed methane and shale gas have been removed across Alberta, and in certain gas zones in southeastern Alberta. On November 25, 2010, the Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB/Board) issued Bulletin 2010-39: ...
  • ERCB announces changes to well spacing framework
    ERCB announces changes to well spacing framework by Government of Alberta, October 6, 2011 Subsurface well-density controls for coalbed methane and shale gas have been removed across Alberta. NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ERCB ANNOUNCES CHANGES TO WELL SPACING FRAMEWORK Calgary, Alberta (October 6, 2011) The Energy Resources Conservation Board has issued Bulletin 2011-29, which advises of regulation amendments to change its ...
  • Province may change well setback rules
    Province may change well setback rules by Alex McCuaig, October 6, 2011, Medicine Hat News Three leaking abandoned wells were found in Calmar in 2007 and 2008 leading to the demolition of several homes and a lawsuit against the town and developer.
  • Talisman’s Shale Gas Ambassadors
    Talisman’s Shale Gas Ambassadors October 6, 2011, Natural Gas Europe “There will be noise for sure, air pollution for sure….” In terms of the chemical substances used in fracking he said that all of them would be declared in Europe, unlike in the US or Canada.
  • State is ignoring health risks, federal review and its own executive order in rushing to approve hydrofracking permits
    State is ignoring health risks, federal review and its own executive order in rushing to approve hydrofracking permits Press Release October 5, 2011 More than 250 pediatricians, family practitioners, otolaryngologists, endocrinologists, oncologists and other doctors, along with the Medical Societies of at least seven upstate counties and the regional office of the American Academy of Pediatricians, wrote ...