Global Frac News

  • Turn toxic radioactive frac waste into bathing water to burn your babies’ skin off? To ingest, breath and live with? “It’s economically prohibitive to clean the water.” What do oil & gas companies hate more than anything? Spending money to clean up their deadly pollution, on the environment or to protect public health and our drinking water. Terrifying: Water management market for oil and gas production in the U.S. was worth $33.6 **billion** in 2018 (for their use, not ours!)
    A tiny taste of toxic frac history: 2016: IMPERILED AQUIFERS: Texas flouted federal aquifer rules for 34 years, Failed to get federal approval to inject oil, drilling waste into groundwater, Promised 34 Years Ago to Track Waste into Aquifers. It Didn’t. 2016: The Most Horrific Frac Deregulation Yet? US EPA preparing for “widespread” radioactive frac waste contamination ...
  • Canada underestimated methane emissions from abandoned wells by as much as 150 per cent; Texas and Alberta have highest percentage of wells but no prior pollution measurement. Of course not, Alberta is Hell where regulators help Encana/Ovintiv illegally frac community drinking water aquifers. Kassie Siegel, director Climate Law Institute: “Big Oil is getting rich. For individual, ordinary people, it’s all risk and no reward.”
    “Methane Emissions from abandoned oil and gas wells in Canada and the US” by James P. Williams, Amara Regehr and Mary Kang in Environmental Science and Technology, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c04265 Methane emissions from abandoned oil and gas wells underestimated, Uncertainty about annual methane emissions from abandoned wells in US and Canada highlights need for better measurements Jan ...
  • Oil patch polluted judicial industry: Trump’s extreme right Supreme Court Judge, Amy Coney Barrett, hears climate case against her father’s ex-employer Shell; Barrett participated even though as a lower court judge she recused herself from hearing cases involving Shell.
    Amy Coney Barrett is a Shell of a Justice: https://twitter.com/ClimateAd/status/1351733188901564417 Barrett hears climate case against her father’s ex-employer Shell by Rachel Frazin and John Kruzel, Jan 19, 2021, The Hill Amy Coney Barrett was among the justices who presided over a dispute Tuesday that pitted the city of Baltimore against some of the fossil fuel industry’s biggest players, ...
  • Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro, Courageous Attorney General who took on The Predator Pedophile Church (catholic), frac’ers and more, sworn into 2nd term: “Justice requires us to have one rule of law — not different rules for different people. Not competing realities.”
    Josh Shapiro sworn into 2nd term as Pa. attorney general by Paula Reed Ward, January 19, 2021, Triblive Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro promised to continue working toward justice for all residents on Tuesday as he was officially sworn into his second term in office. Throughout his 15-minute speech from the state Judicial Center in Harrisburg, Shapiro ...
  • Jan 19, 2021, Webinar 1: Crimes against Nature through the lens of Indigenous Sovereignty. Jan 23, 2021: Green Criminology Master Class. Feb 16, 2021, Webinar 2: From Grassroots to the Courts
    The purpose of this webinar series is to educate and raise awareness on using international law, and specifically a crime of ecocide, to reinforce Indigenous rights and environmental protection. Webinar one: Crimes against Nature through the lens of Indigenous Sovereignty by Stop Ecocide Canada and RAVEN Trust, January 19, 2021, 3 pm PT | 6 pm ET | ...
  • 1982 Alberta: Sour gas and sickness; Smelly smelly run-around. Regulators/Health authorities, then and now, lie to the harmed, coddle the polluters. Alberta’s Pollution Solution: Discredit the poisoned; call them crazy.
    As usual, after pointing out and or making damning documents showing health harm by the oil and gas industry public, authorities remove them from public access (some of these sour gas links no longer work). Sour Gas damages the brain, even at very low levels: 1. Exposure to levels below 10 ppm permanently damage the human brain 2. Harm ...
  • Pregnant women must avoid frac pollution to protect their health and that of their babies. How, when living surrounded by frac’ing?
    NE BC Fracking May Be Exposing Pregnant Women to Carcinogen, Study Says; Researchers found markers suggested benzene levels 3.5 times normal levels Encana’s Vexatious Sour Gas Frack Flaring near Grand Prairie, Alberta; After clip posted, Encana/Ovintiv pulls a scrubby dubby – removes from public access, their Emergency Response Plan Above photo: Vexatious frac pollution in NEBC Pregnant Women ...
  • Pennsylvania GOP lawmakers sue over Delaware River drilling ban, Two Republicans claim Delaware River Basin Commission overstepped its authority and usurped the Legislature with its moratorium on natural gas development
    Penn. state senators sue over natural gas ‘moratorium’ by river commission by Sebastien Malo, Jan 11, 2021, Reuters, Westlaw News Two Pennsylvania state senators filed a lawsuit Monday against the Delaware River Basin Commission in federal court claiming it has usurped the state’s legislative power by declaring a de facto moratorium on the construction and operation ...
  • RCMP: Oil & Gas Industry’s mafia
    Comments: JuHoansi If you have a dispute with a company, they can call the police and sick cops on you right away. Then if you have a dispute with the cops, they can do an internal investigation with no time limits. Meanwhile the company goes ahead and does whatever it wants anyway. It’s Orwellian. Sunny Sands: Justice delayed is justice ...
  • Pennsylvania: Delmont-based Penneco Environmental Solutions’ frac waste injection rears secretive toxic radioactive head. Dr. Ned Ketyer: “Fracking has a toxic and radioactive waste problem that has never been adequately addressed and solved.”
    Governor asked to intervene on Plum wastewater injection well by Don Hopey, Jan 14, 2021, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette email hidden; JavaScript is required Community and environmental organizations have asked Gov. Tom Wolf to revoke a state issued permit for a shale gas fracking waste disposal well in Plum, saying the well could endanger public drinking water supplies in Pittsburgh and nearby ...
  • Big $ Anti-tax Club for Growth gave $20 Million to Trump Klan to overthrow the US election. And we the citizenry, many starving, are directed to call politicians “Honourable?”
    No wonder judges serve bankrupt frac’ers to magically make $7 Billion in debt vanish and dirty politicos steal pensions of hard working Albertans to launder into AIMCo to also give big money to bankrupt frac’ers. Billionaires backed Republicans who sought to reverse US election results, Guardian analysis shows Club for Growth has spent $20m supporting 42 ...
  • US “watchdog” (more like kitten) bends over for orange mad man and his mad Repuglicans (not a typo): Starting April 1, 2021, Big US banks forced to loan to oil & gas. Greg Baer, president, CEO of Bank Policy Institute: “The rule lacks both logic and legal basis, it ignores basic facts about how banking works, and it will undermine the safety and soundness of the banks to which it applies.” Big Oil no longer equates to Big Jobs.
    Watch KopyKat Jason Kenney try to copy this. U.S. Watchdog: Large U.S. Banks Can No Longer Deny Funding To Oil & Gas by Charles Kennedy, Jan 14, 2021, Oil Price Days before the end of the current Administration, a U.S. banking industry regulator finalized a rule under which large American banks cannot deny lending money to oil ...
  • Courageous feisty and wise Ireland! “Cork LNG is scrapped!” “Fracking and all of its effects has no place…. Not here, not anywhere.”
    The Port of Cork has cut ties with a US firm which could have led to fracked gas being imported through, and stored in, Cork Harbour by Eoin English, January 14, 2021, The Irish Examiner The site in the lower Cork harbour where the liquified natural gas terminal was to be located. File picture Environment Minister Eamon ...
  • Judge lets nasty frac’er escape bankruptcy, rules Chesapeake is worth $1 Billion more than the company does, sets free $7 Billion in debt, gives “big payday” to some, says to CEO Robert Lawler: “To remember that a lot of people have suffered a lot of pain for Chesapeake to have a second chance….”
    Fracking Pioneer Chesapeake Energy Cleared to Exit Bankruptcy, The Oklahoma City-based oil-and-gas producer is authorized for a restructuring that cuts about $7 billion in debt and includes a $600 million equity offering by Jonathan Randles, Jan. 13, 2021, Wall Street Journal A judge authorized Chesapeake Energy Corp. to exit bankruptcy and cut $7 billion in debt ...
  • Florida: Bill filed to ban frac’ing and matrix acidization, “Because fracking is bad, actually.”
    Florida lawmaker will once again attempt to ban fracking, Because fracking is bad, actually by News Service of Florida, Jan 13, 2021 After the issue made little progress last year, Senate Minority Leader Gary Farmer, D-Lighthouse Point, began a renewed effort Tuesday to ban fracking in Florida. Farmer filed a bill (SB 546) that would ban hydraulic ...
  • Mad mad greed in Ohio: Akron city council pushing to frack under 475 acres of watershed, upstream of the drinking water supply, for a few puny bucks
    Akron wants to sell mineral rights for the fracking of 475 acres of water shed land by Doug Livingston, Jan 12, 2020, Akron Beacon Journal Akron City Council has given initial approval of a deal to allow horizontal drilling and fracking under 475 acres of public land at the La Due Reservoir, which is upstream from ...
  • U.S. Supreme Court turns down petition by Minnesota Sands LLC seeking to overturn Winona county’s ordinance banning the mining of frac sand.
    U.S. Supreme Court Tosses Review of Minnesota County Fracture Sand Ban by Carolyn Davis, January 11, 2021, Natural Gas Intel The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition that sought to overturn a Minnesota county ordinance banning the mining of silica sand, which is used in some Lower 48 well completions. Minnesota Sands LLC, which filed ...
  • RCMP told Ernst they “don’t do surveillance” when she refused them entry into her home without a warrant while trespassing on her land, lying and trying to terrify her silent after she served legal papers on Encana/Ovintiv, AER & Alberta gov’t.
    Harper’s anti-terrorist RCMP squad trespassed, without a warrant, on my private property after the Alberta gov’t, Encana/Ovintiv and AER were served with my legal papers. I was in my own home, not attending any protest (contrary to what media and NGOs, claim, I am not an activist). It seems my only crime was warning the ...
  • Excellent summary on water by Gail Tverberg, actuary
    2020: The Year Things Started Going Badly Wrong by Gail Tverberg, Dec 23, 2020, Our Finite World How today’s energy problem is different from peak oil Many people believe that the economy will start going badly wrong when we “run out of oil.” The problem we have today is indeed an energy problem, but it is a ...
  • Wisconsin: Judge denies frac sand mine permit; Rules regulator broke the law (as oil patch regulators do regularly, everywhere) when it granted Meteor Timber permit to fill 16 acres of wetlands
    Judge denies key permit for Monroe County sand project; Meteor Timber sought to fill rare wetlands by Chris Hubbuch, Sep 22, 2020, Wisconsin State Journal A judge has declined to reinstate a key permit for a Georgia company seeking to build a controversial frac sand operation in Monroe County. Monroe County Circuit Judge Todd Ziegler ruled Monday ...
  • Most apt legal quote of 2020. Prof Emmett Macfarlane on Canada’s top court: “The Supreme Court is a political institution.”
    It’s a breath of fresh air to read frankness from a Canadian prof about our top court, which pissed on our Charter and intentionally published (and distributed to media) fabricated facts (lied) to enable public health-harming frac’ing and let Alberta’s 100% industry-funded energy regulator, the AER, get away with violating my Charter rights. An ego-filled ...
  • Canada’s UNDRIP Bill C-15, “Shit Some More on Indigenous Peoples” bill to keep rape & pillage by white rich going strong. Rosemary Baxter: “I’m sick to death of our Canadian racism and discrimination…mostly against our Indigenous people. God.”
    For Lucie Jermy, 1926-2020. Dear friend, I love you. EXCELLENT WATCH! Messiah/Complex 1 hr 18 Min., Premiered Dec 13, 2020 Against the Grain Theatre’s daring new interpretation of Handel’s Messiah is a truly cross-Canada performance — in Arabic, Dene, English, French, Inuktitut, and Southern Tutchone, and accompanied by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Two of the comments: Michael Patterson: ...
  • Think 2021 will be better than 2020? Dylan Morris on COVID-19 variant, B.1.1.7: “Exponentials are so cruel that nobody wants to look them in the eye”
    The Mutated Virus Is a Ticking Time Bomb, There is much we don’t know about the new COVID-19 variant—but everything we know so far suggests a huge danger by Zeynep Tufekci, Dec 31, 2020, The Atlantic A new variant of the coronavirus is spreading across the globe. It was first identified in the United Kingdom, where ...
  • Illinois: Lodene Clark lives on top of NA’s largest underground gas storage leaking so badly: “The air explodes around her home”
    The air explodes around her home by Chilliwack Progress, Feb 2, 1991 The air is known to explode on occasion around Lodene Clark’s property in Livingston County, Illinois. Safety hazards, bad water and other concerns prompted the 62-year-old grandmother to fly out to the Fraser valley late last year to tell residents about her problems with natural ...
  • Vile: Job killers Ovintiv (American, previously Encana) and Cenovus (previously Encana) get pandemic relief, Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (and help spread COVID-19 from frac fields to communities?)
    Canada Revenue Agency names companies that received federal emergency wage subsidy by Bill Curry and Patrick Brethour, December 21, 2020, The Globe and Mail The Canada Revenue Agency released the names of all companies that received the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy on Monday, and urged employees to report any suspicious activities related to the pandemic-relief program, ...
  • Gas Patch Lie-Ability
    Gas Firm notes water liability by Bob Spring, Manager Fraser Valley Gas Project, January 23, 1991, Langley Times … Mr. Ferguson is understandably concerned about protection of his groundwater supply. This is an issue which has received a great deal of attention from groundwater experts So what? Many “experts” are oil and gas industry pollution enablers ...
  • 2020 Shale & Public Health Conference presentations now available
    2020 Shale & Public Health Conference Presentations at link. The eighth annual Shale & Public Health Conference was held as an online conference over two days Tuesday, November 17 & Wednesday, November 18 Featuring new research presented by national experts on shale and public health impacts, and practical applications. The video recordings of the 8th Annual Shale & Public ...
  • New 8-Year Study: “Significantly increased odds of hospitalization among heart failure subjects in relation to increasing” frac’ing activity near them; 12,000 patients analyzed. Lead author, Tara McAlexander: “These activities — unconventional natural gas development and fracking specifically — are having negative impacts on the health of populations living nearby,” thinks frac’ing needs to be banned. “We know enough to know that we shouldn’t be doing this”
    Complete study: Unconventional Natural Gas Development and Hospitalization for Heart Failure in Pennsylvania by Tara P. McAlexander , Karen Bandeen-Roche , Jessie P. Buckley , Jonathan Pollak , Erin D. Michos , John William McEvoy , and Brian S. Schwartz, J Am Coll Cardiol, 2020 Dec, 76 (24) 2862–2874 Central Illustration Download FigureDownload PowerPoint Abstract Background Growing literature linking unconventional natural ...
  • Monumental Abuse & Deception; Symbolic Destruction: Largest coal plant in USA’s west demolished, brings end to painful era of poisoning suffered by Navajo and Hopi. Is frac’ing next?
    Navajo Generating Station Demolished 1:41 Min. by Ecoflight, Dec 18, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZwoYB_ERLI&t=20s Navajo and Hopi Statements on the demolition of smokestacks at largest coal plant in the West, Razing brings an end to the painful era of coal for tribes; opens the door to healing and building new sustainable economies Press Release by Navajo Equitable Economy, Dec. ...
  • Steve Harper’s side flake, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, makes “worst people” of 2020 list. “Oil is over” and they know it but keep giving the industry billions of our dollars while enabling a viral murder spree with “Health” Minister Tyler Shandro in their lust to destroy public health care.
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  • Bravo Northern Ireland! Seán Lynch launches Assembly Bill to ban fracking
    Seán Lynch launches Assembly Bill to ban fracking by Victoria Johnston, Dec 14, 2020, Impartial Reporter A FERMANAGH South Tyrone MLA has launched an Assembly Bill to ban fracking in Northern Ireland. Seán Lynch launched his bill at the beginning of the month and is inviting the public to sign a consultation. Mr. Lynch said:“I have launched my ...
  • 1971: Demise of humanity begins: Alberta gov’t creates the ERCB to guard the ‘Oil patch Mafia’
    The ERCB then became the EUB after some big pollution problems. Next, after EUB got caught with its deregulatory pants down, lying and spying on innocent citizens, the gov’t turned it unimaginatively back into the ERCB. After Ernst vs Encana/AER/Alberta gov’t lawsuit went public, the gov’t magically turned ERCB into AER, with it’s mandate to ...
  • A decade of science on frac harms – Compendium 7 released: “The data continue to reveal a plethora of recurring problems that cannot be sufficiently averted through regulatory frameworks” while regulators in Canada continue to DEregulate to enable the endless **known** harms. Canadian frac-harmed Vicky Simlik: “Because there is no such thing as a kind & gentle frac’ it needs to be banned period.”
    Compendium of Scientific, Medical, and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking (Unconventional Gas and Oil Extraction) Seventh Edition Press Release by Concerned Health Professionals of NY, December 14, 2020 The Compendium of Scientific, Medical, and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking (the Compendium) is a fully referenced compilation of evidence outlining the risks and ...
  • Scientific Truth: “Fracking has been an unmitigated disaster for the planet’s climate system.”
    Scientific truth by Ned Ketyer, Dec 3, 2020, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette In the Nov. 16 editorial “Goodbye, Paris,” the editorial board continues its climate-denying disinformation campaign regarding shale gas development and climate change by repeating an easily debunked industry-sponsored myth. The fact is, fracking has been an unmitigated disaster for the planet’s climate system. Yes, burning methane produces ...
  • Consumer Reports: Frac’ing contaminates drinking water. So why is Consumer Reports pimping synergy to enable frac’ing?
    How Fracking Has Contaminated Drinking Water; The oil and gas extraction technique threatens water in North Dakota and elsewhere, but activists are fighting back by Elena Bruess December 03, 2020, Consumer Reports This article was co-published with Ensia, a solutions-focused nonprofit media outlet reporting on our changing planet. Lisa Finley-DeVille started drinking bottled water around the same time her ...
  • Nakoda Nation, Alberta: 1988, Engineer reported hundreds of drinking water wells contaminated with sour gas on Stoney Reserve west of Calgary. H2S is deadly, damages the brain even at low levels. AER blamed nature and if not nature, then bacteria. Same blame game polka after frac’ing contaminated drinking water wells with gas at Ponoka, Wetaskiwin, Spirit River, Rockyford, Rosebud, Redland, etc.
    Nasty! In 1988, Alberta’s energy regulator, then ERCB (later became EUB; back to ERCB after EUB was caught breaking the law, lying and spying on innocent Albertans; now AER) and reporter Mark Lowey did not publicly report that Stoney is riddled with industry’s sour gas and processing (including by Pan Canadian, that became Encana and ...
  • California: Suspected methane leak destroys home in explosion, injures two people inside, seriously damages house next door; Gas levels too high to safely investigate, source unknown: “The methane could be from abandoned oil wells under the home or nearby oil fields”
    Investigators suspect methane leak in Signal Hill house explosion, fire official says by Valerie Osier, November 20, 2020, Long Beach Post News Investigators are still working to determine the cause of the explosion that destroyed an Ohio Avenue home in Signal Hill, but they suspect it might be a methane leak, according to a Los Angeles ...
  • Josh Shapiro wins re-election as PA Attorney General; One of his most important accomplishments so far? “Exposing the corruption in the Roman Catholic Church. That led to hundreds of predator priests abusing thousands of children in a conspiracy and cover-up that went from the Pennsylvania diocese all the way to the Vatican.”
    How many hundreds of lawyers helped enable and cover-up the catholic church’s crimes (and those by other churches enabling rape/pedophilia) over the decades and for how much money? How many of theses lawyers were/are pedophiles/rapists? Have any been disbarred? And how many lawyers helped/help cover-up crimes by the oil & gas industry and illegal frac’ers ...
  • Law-violating, aquifer-frac’er bully Ovintiv/Encana/(Cenovus spawned after Ernst lawsuit filed): “New York-based investor considers Ovintiv…to be the poster child for all that ails the North American exploration and production sector…. The sector as a whole is rife with excessive compensation and a lack of accountability”
    Ovintiv Criticized by Activist Over ‘Excessive’ Pay by Scott Deveau, November 17, 2020, Bloomberg Activist investor Kimmeridge Energy Management Co. has built new positions in Ovintiv Inc., PDC Energy Inc., and Cimarex Energy Co. and plans to push for changes at the oil and gas companies to improve their performance and governance. The New York-based investor considers ...
  • Thank you Anthony Ingraffea and Robert Howarth!
    Two Professors Faced Years of Harassment for Defying the Fossil Fuel Industry. Now, They Are Reframing the Discussion Around Fracking by Anil Oza, Cornell Sun, Nov 16, 2020 “I do rule out banning fracking, because the answer we need, we need other industries to transition to, ultimately, a completely zero emissions by 2025,” said President-elect Joe ...
  • The New York Times: Living near drilling (and frac’ing) is deadly (in Canada too), especially with captured courts. “Law” makers take blood money to let companies poison us.
    Click on link, have sound on, sit back, watch the phenomenal visuals, listen, feel your anger boil (if you have a heart and soul): Living Near Drilling Is Deadly. Why Don’t California Lawmakers Care? 4:19 Min. by Josiah Edwards, November 16, 2020, The New York Times The state may be phasing out gas-powered cars, but it’s still ...
  • New report by BC Tap Water Alliance: BC’s Surface Rights Board’s File Collection by Petroleum Company
    Many landowners in Alberta call the Farmers’ Advocate Office the Oil & Gas Friendly Farmers’ Advocate and the Surface Rights Board the Oil & Gas Friendly Surface Rights Board. Canada’s regulators and courts are oil & gas friendly too, as are our environmental NGOs. British Columbia’s Surface Rights Board’s File Collection by Petroleum Company by Will ...
  • “Sheer Delight:” After 13 year legal battle, Irish High Court quashes all Shannon LNG permissions; Opens window for ban on imported frac’d gas
    Shannon LNG has all permissions to build its fracked gas import terminal quashed in the Irish High Court after 13-year battle – Conclusion of legal process opens window for an Irish ban on the importation of fracked gas as agreed in the Programme for Government by Safety Before LNG, Nov 9, 2020 Local campaigners in North Kerry ...
  • CNN’s Van Jones reacts to Joe Biden’s election as USA’s 46th president, Fights back tears: “Character matters”
    “… Telling the truth matters … Being a good person matters … It’s vindication for a lot of people who really suffered … You know ‘I can’t breath’ – that’s not just George Floyd … And you spend so much of your life energy just trying to hold it together … It’s easy to do ...
  • November 7, 2020: “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPIdRJlzERo
  • Kids tried to sue Canada over climate inaction. They lost, Not for the courts to decide, Harper Gov’t appointed judge says. Kids plan to appeal. Bravo kids! I am grateful and in awe of you, but don’t expect “justice” to be served by our oil-soaked Supreme Court of Canada, or your Charter rights respected.
    “Rule of Law” or “Rich White Man Law?” US Senate (controls Supreme Court nominees) created to represent the rich: “…to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.” John A. MacDonald, 1st thug PM on why Canada needed an appointed Senate: “We must protect the rights of the minority, and the rich are always ...
  • Nov 5, 2020: Supreme Court of Canada to release ruling if corporations are protected against “cruel and unusual treatment/punishment” under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms like people are. The ruling took a long time (9 months, in a pandemic), but not as long as the court’s Charter-damaging ruling in Ernst vs AER (12 months, not in a pandemic).
    The supreme court of Canada took 12 months to rule in Ernst vs AER on merely a preliminary motion, while taking 9 months in this much more complicated case. The entire top court process, from filing leave to appeal to release of the ruling, took 26 months in my case compared to 18 in this ...
  • Harvard researchers suggest not living within 12 miles of frac’ing – that puts much of rural Alberta and NEBC out of bounds for living (and parts of SK, MB and Ont)
    A little frac history: 2004: Ernst asks EUB (later became ERCB, then AER) and Alberta Environment to enforce the law and regulate out-of-control frac’ing by Encana/Cenovus/Ovintiv in her community, only to be bullied, harassed and lied to. 2005: EUB violated Ernst’s Charter rights trying to intimidate her silent, in writing no less. 2006 06 08: EUB’s lawyer ...
  • US Secretary of Energy, Dan Brouillette, farts out Big Lie pimping for Trump and health harming, polluting frac’ers: “What we are seeing here in the technology in rigs like this one and in companies like Range Resources is that the water that is being extracted from the process at the end of the process is actually cleaner than it was when it went in. That’s the innovation.”
    Even Canada’s corrupt NEB (now CER, led by Peter Watson who helped cover-up Encana illegally frac’ing and contaminating a community’s drinking water aquifers), reported in 2009 that frac waste water is harmful. Watch Mr. Brouillette lie at link: US secretary of energy tours a Marcellus Shale natural gas well in Washington County by Chandi Chapman, October 27, ...
  • Looking to the lying Supreme Court of Canada *is* an impossible choice in our oil-patch-raped-and-polluted country, but there is no other choice. Thank you Beaver Lake Cree Nation, for making it.
    ‘An impossible choice’: Beaver Lake Cree Nation looks to Supreme Court in advanced legal cost case, Alberta Court of Appeal overturned decision to compel governments to cover cost of legal fees for Beaver Lake by Jordan Omstead, CBC News, Sep 27, 2020 Beaver Lake Cree Nation is asking the Supreme Court of Canada to hear a ...
  • Canadian & Alberta gov’ts & Australian coal billionaire Gina Reinhart! Listen up: “Water is more important than coal and mountains hold more value than mines.”
    Water not Coal 3:55 Min. by Albertans for a Coal Free SW, Oct 25, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_ktNoGeWPU&feature=youtu.be Andrew Nikiforuk, Investigative Journalist: Water is more important than coal and mountains hold more value than mines. Refer also to: 2020 10 06, Andrew Nikiforuk: The Australian Invasion: Big Coal’s Plans for Alberta, Meet the speculators from Down Under aiming to carve up the ...
  • “A shallow shock.” New study on “extremely shallow” frac quake in China in 2019 that killed 2, injured 12, caused $2 Million U.S. in damages, including to numerous homes.
    A Shallow Shock: The 25 February 2019 ML 4.9 Earthquake in the Weiyuan Shale Gas Field in Sichuan, China by Hongfeng Yang; Pengcheng Zhou; Nan Fang; Gaohua Zhu; Wenbin Xu; Jinrong Su; Fanbao Meng; Risheng Chu, Seismological Research Letters (2020). DOI: 10.1785/0220200202 The complete paper. Abstract Earthquakes rarely occur at extremely shallow depths, for example, less than 2 km. Even for induced earthquakes that are typically shallower than tectonic ...
  • Bankruptcy plan to let Cenovus/Husky “legally” escape clean-up, aided by taxpayer-funded courts? Cenovus (Encana spawn), buys Husky for $23.6 Billion, “including debt” (financed by Canada Pension Plan and AIMCo?); Will kill jobs Kenney promised would increase when he gave industry $Billions in tax breaks, mega corporate welfare, tax super holiday and citizen-financed propaganda (war room and Steve Allen’s witch hunt).
    Any money to repair Rosebud’s drinking water aquifers, illegally frac’d and contaminated by Encana in 2004 – years before devilishly hatching out Cenovus? How many billions of dollars in liabilities including not yet cleaned up spills and leaking wells is Husky dumping with this deal? And as the deal is massaged, how many hundreds of millions ...
  • Online Nov 13, 2020: World Premier of “Home is a Sacrifice Zone” by Johnny Goran, Bandit Films at 65th Cork International Film Festival: How an Irish border community took on Calgary’s Tamboran & the Irish govt to force a change in oil & gas law
    Trailer: Home is a Sacrifice Zone, How an Irish border community took on an energy company – and its own government – to force a change in the law on oil and gas… 1:49 Min. by Johnny Gorgan, Bandit Films. World Premier on November 13, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wLUNASxIj0&feature=emb_logo Runtime Complete Film: 80 minutesLanguage: EnglishCountry: Ireland Director: Johnny GoganProducer: Johnny ...
  • Frac’ing Beautiful British Columbia: No regard for community, family, farms, wildlife; No Environmental or Cumulative Impact Assessments; No care for water or the lives of others, just spin, lies & broken promises; Premier John Horgan, his Dancing NDPipers and OGC heed demands of multinational corporate polluting abusers while ignoring the environment and harmed.
    Comment by a citizen in New York State: It’s all one continent, it’s all one world, I know many of us in the US stand with you.  Frac’ers are never satisfied; they always demand more wells, more facilities, more deregulation, more billions in subsidies and freebies as they lose more billions for investors and cause more harm ...
  • Canada Pension Plan (CPP) & Crestone Frac’ing Hanky Panky. More than 1,000 formal complaints made to state regulator against Crestone operations in Colorado (sneakily via Encana/Ovintiv)
    Some huge-money-losing background: 2014: Fracking in the Red & Junk Bonds Backing Fracking Facing $11.6 Billion Loss Down down down the frac’ers go, taking our pensions, drinking water, environment, communities, health and more with them, all to make a few rich richer and more vulgar. Myth of American energy independence based on willful deception “Alice in Wonderland” forecasts ...
  • Judicial Hanky Panky Supreme: “these robed sages are in fact mere grubby politicians….” Amy Coney Barrett’s dad was lawyer at Shell (for decades) that has massive climate case before US supreme court. “And just like Republican politicians, the conservative judges are dedicated to preserving the right’s minority rule.”
    Added Oct 21, 2020: Ooopsie Daisy! What ever will Mike Pence, Amy Coney Barrettt and her “secretive faith group” People of Praise et al, the Klan in the Trump House, US Supreme Court and Senate, KKKenney’s UCP and O’Toole’s Con Party of Canada etc. do now? Pope Francis backs same-sex civil unions, Pontiff’s endorsement likely ...
  • New Study: Airborne radioactivity increases downwind of frac’ing; Particles released could damage health of residents nearby. Marco Kaltofen: “This investigation backs up its big conclusions with big data.” Petros Koutrakis, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health in Boston, led the study: “If you asked me to go and live downwind [of fracking sites], I would not go.”
    Dangerous radiation levels from fracking; Dr David Lowry on the risk of the radioactive gas radon being pumped into homes Oct 15, 2020, Letters, The Guardian I was very interested to read your report (13 October) on recent research by Harvard University scientists on radiation risks from fracking. I have raised this concern in several letters to the Guardian over the past ...
  • Tonight! Oct 15, 2020 7PM: Final EHP Webinar in Shale Gas Development and Cancer Series: Radioactivity in frac fluid and natural gas by David O. Carpenter, MD
    Final Webinar in the Shale Gas Development and Cancer Series by EHP, Oct 15, 2020 David O. Carpenter is a public health physician whose current position is Director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University at Albany, as well as Professor of Environmental Health Sciences within the School of Public Health at ...
  • UCP appoints another “dickhead” to direct AIMCo: Nova Scotian Bob Kelly, past CFO of Wachovia (laundered $billions for drug cartels) and fallen from grace exCEO of Bank of New York Mellon.
    Bob Kelly A few tweets: Progress Alberta@ProgressAlbertaLost in the shuffle today was the announcement of a new AIMCo director, the former CFO of Wachovia from 2000 to 2006. You may remember Wachovia from: The billions of dollars it laundered for murderous Mexican drug cartelsHow a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico’s murderous drug gangsAs the violence ...
  • Cleanup of abandoned oil & gas wells onshore could cost Americans $278 billion, Texans $117 billion, Albertans $260 billion: “The industry is incentivized to delay, pray and walk away. This is a system that’s designed to fail.” In Canada too.
    BNN Interviews Alberta Oil Patch Consultant Brent Nimeck on Lexin and AER’s Orphan Wells: “This problem is 30 years in the making. … I would call it a Ponzi Scheme…. This is an orchestrated fraud from multiple angles: Industry, CAPP and the Alberta Energy Regulator have enabled this to happen. … Through our independent analysis ...
  • Seth Cardinal DodgingHorse: “Today is not a good day.” Heart ripping – like having your home & aquifer frac’d by Encana/Ovintiv with white privileged regulators, RCMP and politicians enabling the law violations, harms and abuses
    https://twitter.com/APTNNews/status/1311809351045263361?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet Tom Ross@Tommy_Slick I’ve been watching the ceremony opening a portion of the Ring Road in Calgary, and an Indigenous man just wrapped up a speech about how this is a bad day, and the road was built on his family’s stolen land. He finished by cutting off his braids and tossing them on the road. #yyc Indigenous ...
  • Nov 17 & 18, 2020, Noon to 4:30pm on ZOOM: 8th Annual Shale Frac’ing & Public Health Conference
    Eighth Annual Shale & Public Health Conference: Tuesday November 17, 2020 & Wednesday, November 18, 2020 from Noon to 4:30 p.m. EST The conference is presented by the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania and hosted by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. Registration link: https://www.shalepalwv.org/conference-registration/ The conference is free but you need to register. More information ...
  • Webinar Recording Now Available for Part 2: Dr. Shaina Stacy on Unconventional Natural Gas Development and Childhood Cancers. Part 3 on Oct 15 by David O. Carpenter, MD: Radioactivity in Frac’ing Fluid and Natural Gas, Potential Health Effects.
    Part two of our three-part webinar series about shale gas development and cancer. Shale Gas Development and Cancer – Part 2: Dr. Shaina Stacy by Environmental Health Project, Sept 15, 2020 For part two, we are joined by Shaina Stacy, PhD, MPH, to discuss “Unconventional Natural Gas Development and Childhood Cancers.” Dr. Shaina Stacy is a postdoctoral associate ...
  • Delicious justice! 13 Canadians will hold piece of history in limited edition collectible postage stamps with John A. MacDonald’s decapitated head.
    Canada Post Printed Stamps With Former Prime Minister’s Decapitated Head, The man who had them made, through Canada Post’s Picture Postage program, promised to send them to people for free if they or their ancestors were “fucked over” by John A. Macdonald by Kevin Maimann, Sept 10, 2020, Vice Canada Post has apologized after the severed bronze head ...
  • Typical evil of the Kenney-Harper Klan! Gregory Pohl: “It takes a special kind of vindictive short-sightedness to destroy a source of drinking water.”
    Shutting out Albertans Letter to the Editor by Gregory Pohl, Sept 10, 2020, Edmonton Journal For decades, a water well at the Bleriot Ferry Provincial Recreation Area has topped up water jugs; slaked the thirst of weary paddlers; cooled kids off on hot days; washed sandy feet; filled coffee pots on brisk September mornings. Until this year. ...
  • “To a riot cop, three is a crowd. How much money are we paying right now / So you’ll beat us down?”
    AWKWORD and Jesse Jett – TEN DEMANDS Sept 8, 2020, Ten Demands The Abolition Anthem. For Ten Demands for Justice. For the abolition of police and prisons. For justice and equality. For everyone we’ve lost. Vocals: AWKWORD, Jesse Jett (hook)Production: Jesse JettExecutive Production: AWKWORDMix/Master: TrilianVideo: VozableRelease Date: September 6, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX244hdbHXE Being an abolitionist requires unlearning every single ...
  • British frac’er, Ascent, sues Slovenia for protecting drinking water, just like Gastem did to Ristigouche Sud-Est in Quebec, and many other frac’ers have done elsewhere.
    Fracking company sues Slovenia over ‘unreasonable’ environmental protections, A British oil and gas company is using a controversial energy treaty to sue Slovenia, after being required to carry out an environmental impact assessment by Joe Lo, Sept 9, 2020, climate home news A British oil and gas company is suing the Slovenian government for making them do ...
  • European Court of Justice rules against regulator for approving USA New Fortress Energy’s frac’d gas import terminal in Ireland; All permits and permissions for Shannon LNG to be quashed. Bravo to Friends of Irish Environment and its unstoppable legal team of James Devlin, John Kenny and Fred Logue (unlike Ernst’s quitting lying lawyers, Murray Klippenstein and Cory Wanless, and Canada’s lying top court pissing on the Charter to enable law-violating AER).
    Shannon LNG set to lose planning permission for US fracked gas import terminal in Ireland following European Court of Justice ruling. Question to arise now is will the Irish Planning Authority have to refund the  €30,000 application fee paid to it by Shannon LNG/New Fortress Energy? Press Release by Safety Before LNG, Sept 9, 2020 The European ...
  • “Kenney the job killer.” Lyin’ thugs Steve Harper, Jason Kenney & Ralph Klein, etc. etc. etc., decimatin’ jobs, pensions, regulations, health & education to give $Billions to $Billion-profiting oil & gas companies (mostly foreign-owned), while hangin’ Canadians with pollution, infrastructure devastation, clean-up & health harms.
    Pre-pandemic! CUPE-Alberta Region, Sept 2, 2020 ….Jason Kenney promised 50,000 new jobs, no cuts to front line services like education and health care, and a lower debt and deficit. On all three, he’s delivered the exact opposite. Comments on FB: Fred Harvey: The people that believed these lies are to blame for the mess we are in now Maureen Moore: You ...
  • Shale Gas Frac’ing & Cancer: Conversations with the Experts (Part 1) webinar recording now available. Part 2 of 3 on Sept 15.
    Webinar Recording Now Available for Shale Gas Development and Cancer: Conversations with the Experts (Part 1) Shale Gas Extraction and Cancer: The Current EvidenceDr. Marsha Haley, August 11, 2020 Dr. Marsha Haley received her medical degree from the University of Virginia and completed a residency in radiation oncology at UPMC. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor of ...
  • Frac’er WPX made it rain toxic water upon New Mexico, sickens family, kills livestock, birds fell dead from the poisoned sky. As everywhere, the “regulator” did nothing but protect the company, issued no penalty. WPX does not have to disclose details on the toxic chemicals that rained on the family for proprietary reasons. Penny Aucoin: “This has ruined our lives in so many different ways. Our health, family relations, financial problems, literally all aspects of our lives. It has become a living nightmare.”
    Fracking Company Has Made It Rain Toxic Water Upon New Mexico Without Penalty by Dahr Jamail, Truthout, September 2, 2020 Penny Aucoin, her husband Carl Dee George, their son Gideon and their daughter Skyler have had their lives devastated by the fracking industry. There was no oil and gas infrastructure where they lived when they moved to Carlsbad, ...
  • ‘Liar in Chief’ visits Westmoreland Co, Pennsylvania, Sept 3, 2020. “Trump Plans to Frack-Up Your America”
    TRUMP PLANS TO FRACK-UP YOUR AMERICA by bobscaping, Sept 3, 2020 Tonight, President Trump is holding a pep rally in Latrobe, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Since his inauguration, he and his administration have worked to destroy nearly 100 sensible environmental laws and regulations. Those regulations were put into place by Republicans and Democrats, over past decades, to protect us ...
  • Wonderful wise words! Jesse William’s acceptance speech for Humanitarian Award at 2016 BET awards: “We know the police somehow manage to de-escalate, disarm and not kill white people every day. … The burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander. … If you have no interest in equal rights for Black people, then do not make suggestions for those who do, sit down.”
    The BET Awards is an American award show that was established in 2001 by the Black Entertainment Television network to celebrate African Americans and other American minorities in music, acting, sports, and other fields of entertainment over the past year. https://www.facebook.com/david.weeden.16/videos/10157394013331957/ Jesse Wesley Williams is an American actor, director, producer and activist. He is best known for ...
  • UCP’s witch hunt smells like a Jason Kenney-Vivian Krause flop: “If [Kenney] was serious about uncovering harm to Alberta he would set his sights on CAPP and the rest of the oil cabal.”
    “Starving polar bear eating an oil executive” Art by Stephanie McMillan. UCP’s ‘anti-Alberta’ inquiry may be little help to energy industry by Rob Breakenridge, Aug 18, 2020, Calgary Herald Albertans might be forgiven for altogether forgetting about the public inquiry into “anti-Alberta energy campaigns.” It’s been more than a year since Premier Jason Kenney announced the inquiry and it’s ...
  • Frac’ing = “Bottomless” Moneypit – built on lies, cons, law violations, corrupt officials (and courts), divided communities, endless harms to water, land, air, fish, livestock, pets, humans. “If you’re not a crook yourself, it’s very hard to figure out how somebody would lie like that.”
    “As a shale producer, you’re constantly fighting this enormous decline rate.” Fracing was never a revolution, it’s always been a con. Frac’ers and their enablers planned on making taxpayers and the harmed pay for clean up. And now it’s a bankruptcy con being used to further enrich the super rich, enabled by our courts (which are ...
  • Why no criminal charges against the long list of law violating oil and gas companies in Alberta? Allenco Energy hit with criminal charges for failing to properly abandon wells in LA, “knowing that we still have to fight for the basic right to breathe clean air is really upsetting”
    Oil company Allenco and its leaders face criminal charges over deteriorating wells by Emily Alpert Reyes, Aug 4, 2020, LA Times Allenco Energy, which has operated a South Los Angeles drill site that spurred an outcry over nosebleeds and headaches suffered by neighbors, is facing criminal charges for allegedly flouting a state order and failing to properly abandon ...
  • Aug 13, 2020, 7pm ET: Virtual Frac Tour & Youth Panel, Growing up in Shale Fields
    To register: http://www.vote4ourfuture.org/fracking.html Featuring: PA State Rep. Sara Innamorato​PA State Sen. Katie MuthJonah Gottlieb, National Children’s CampaignLeandra Mira, National Children’s CampaignLois Bower-Bjornson, Clean Air CouncilDr. Matt Mehalik, Breathe ProjectDr. Ned Ketyer, SWPA Environmental Health ProjectLeann Leiter, EarthworksMelissa Troutman, Earthworks
  • Too funny! Alberta’s UCP witch hunt changing rules midplay, again. Why? Can’t find any witches or their brooms?
    Alberta inquiry into funding of foreign environmental groups alters course again by Lisa Johnson, Aug 07, 2020, Calgary Herald Alberta’s publicly-funded inquiry into the alleged foreign financing of environmental groups has been tweaked again, suggesting it could target even more grassroots charities. The Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns was launched in July 2019 with an initial ...
  • ‘Water is sacred’ but you’d never know it in Canada where authorities enable corporate rape of it and judges lie in rulings
    ‘Water is sacred’: 10 visual artists reflect on the human right to water, The UN declared access to water and sanitation a human right a decade ago, but 785 million people worldwide still have no water close to home by The Guardian, August 4, 2020 Ten photographs marking the 10th anniversary of access to water and ...
  • “Rule of Law” or “Rich White Man Law?” US Senate (controls Supreme Court nominees) created to represent the rich: “…to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.” John A. MacDonald, 1st thug PM on why Canada needed an appointed Senate: “We must protect the rights of the minority, and the rich are always in fewer number than the poor.”
    Here’s an excellent example of how Rich White Man Law works: Louisiana Supreme Court upholds Black man’s life sentence for trying to steal hedge clippers more than 20 years ago https://twitter.com/ScottHech/status/1291571576903786499 Compare to Edmonton’s white – rich – convicted serial rapist, Matthew McKnight, getting kissed with 8 years in jail, likely out in 2, by white judge ...
  • New study: NE BC, Dawson-Septimus area in Peace region (where Vicky Simlik lives frac’d by Encana/Ovintiv et al) hit with about 1,500 frac quakes annually
    Vicky Simlik’s (who started keeping notes on the ground movement, jolts, bangs, seismic events, quakes and damages in 2014) response to the often repeated phrase …”no damage reported and not felt at the surface” by frac quake enabling authorities: High‐Resolution Imaging of Hydraulic‐Fracturing‐Induced Earthquake Clusters in the Dawson‐Septimus Area, Northeast British Columbia, Canada by Marco P. ...
  • Frac Webinar August 11, 2020 7 PM ET with Dr. Marsha Haley: “Shale Gas Extraction and Cancer: The Current Evidence.”
    Shale Gas Development and Cancer: Conversations with the Experts (Part 1 of 3) by Environmental Health Project, August 4, 2020 Join us for part one of a three-part webinar series about shale gas development and cancer. For part one of the series, we are joined by Dr. Marsha Haley to discuss “Shale Gas Extraction and Cancer: The ...
  • New study concludes UK gov’t ignored public health concerns while heeding frac and chemical industries. In Canada, authorities withhold official reports warning of frac harms; help frac’ers cover-up crimes and enable them to further harm families after they get sick. Most vile, AER’s (no health mandate) Dr. Monique Dube (not a health professional) wrote lying “health” reports about frac’d familiesand unlawfully made them public online, via Synergy, etc.
    Public health concerns about fracking were marginalised or ignored in England – new research by Ruth Hayhurst, July 2, 2020, Drillordrop The UK Government and its advisers “marginalised, downplayed or ignored” public health concerns about shale gas exploration and fracking in England, new research has concluded. A study by the University of Stirling found that science was frequently ...
  • UCP Alberta’s new plan (money laundering on a roll with more deregulation in the fine print?): Gives $billion gift from Canadians to $mega-billion profit-taking oil & gas companies via AER. Will the old wells and environmental liabilities be cleaned up? Unlikely.
    Province unveils new plan to tackle old wells and environmental liabilities by Chris Varcoe, July 30, 2020, Calgary Herald Governments of different political stripes have tried for years to solve the Rubik’s Cube of Alberta’s broken oilpatch liability management system that oversees the cleanup of thousands of oil and gas wells. However, little action was taken. The number ...
  • Total writes off $9.3 Billion worth of Alberta tarshit assets and (best wisdom ever!) cancels its membership in Rip Off Synergizing Propaganda Club, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP)
    Total writes off $9.3B in oilsands assets, cancels Canadian oil lobby membership, It will take writedowns worth $7.3B related to its ownership in the Fort Hills operation by The Canadian Press with a file from CBC, Jul 29, 2020, CBC News 161 comments French energy giant Total says it is writing off $9.3-billion worth of oilsands assets ...
  • “I get so angry when I see people not wearing masks… it makes me want to take a bar of soap & write on my car’s rearview window that ‘My husband who saved so many lives died of COVID-19. Wear a mask!’” … “now there is one less ICU doctor to care for pandemic patients in Baltimore”
    Joseph Costa, ICU doctor at Mercy Medical Center, dies of the coronavirus he worked to help others overcome by LILLIAN REED and FREDERICK N. RASMUSSEN with contributions from Daniel Oyefusi, July 27, 2020, Baltimore Sun Dr. Joseph Costa, the chief of the critical care division at Mercy Medical Center who treated patients battling COVID-19, died of the coronavirus ...
  • Here an illegal radioactive frac waste dump, there an illegal radioactive frac waste dump, everywhere they lie ‘n dump dump dump, Encana/Ovintiv too, but in Kentucky a Federal Grand Jury slams down hard on illegal waste dumper
    Indictment for Improper Radioactive Waste Disposal Highlights More Compliance Concerns for Fracking Companies and Uranium Miners by Paul M. Bessette, partner, and Grant W. Eskelsen, Associate, July 23, 2020, Morgan Lewis A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Kentucky issued an indictment against an individual for transportation of radioactive material generated from fracking activities ...
  • “Bayis Ilh Tus – a strong breath” – a community-based research project to estimate the prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in remote and rural first nations communities in Canada: research protocol.
    Turner, J., Holyk, T., Bartlett, K. et al. “Bayis Ilh Tus – a strong breath” a community-based research project to estimate the prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in remote and rural first nations communities in Canada: research protocol. Int J Equity Health 19, 123 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-020-01240-1 Abstract Background Respiratory health conditions appear to be more common among First Nations people versus non-First ...
  • Oil giants help fund powerful police groups in top US cities: “Many powerful companies that drive environmental injustice are also backers of the same police departments that tyrannize the very communities these corporate actors pollute”
    Revealed: oil giants help fund powerful police groups in top US cities, Investigation portrays fossil fuel industry as common enemy in struggle for racial and environmental justice in America by Nina Lakhani, 27 Jul 2020, The Guardian Big corporations accused of driving environmental and health inequalities in black and brown communities through toxic and climate-changing pollution ...
  • Suncor facing 7 environmental charges by Alberta Environment, seems in relation to sour gas leak at Sherwood Park refinery that sent numerous workers to hospital in 2018. Why no charges against Encana/Ovintiv for breaking every law there is in Alberta to protect residential drinking water supplies?
    This is the most empty press release on environmental charges against an oil and gas giant I’ve seen. And released on a Sunday. Of course by an Alberta regulator. The gov’t doesnt even state that it reportedly appears deadly sour gas was involved and workers were harmed and taken to hospital. First, some important facts on ...
  • Super Evil in Canada: Israel lobby, including B’nai Brith, Centre for Israel, Jewish Affairs (CIJA), Jewish Defence League (JDL), more, waging campaign to silence, punish, bankrupt Foodbenders, a pro-human rights, pro-Palestinian restaurant in Toronto
    Because of this new evil abuse of an innocent, and the many enabling it, I expand my boycot of Israeli goods to include: Instagram GoFundMe Any Uber, including Uber Eats DoorDash Ritual I will ask everyone I know to boycott them too. Outing and publicly denouncing the endless evils done by Israel, notably killing Palestinian children regularly, stealing lands, homes, destroying homes, ...
  • Dominion Energy Leaks Poison into PA well water supplies and kills fish in pond. Ethylene glycol, used as coolant at compressor stations, is poisonous if swallowed.
    BREAKING: Dominion Energy Leaks Poison Into Pennsylvania Water Supplies by Melissa Troutman for Public Herald, July 22, 2020 Dominion Energy Transmission is providing water to at least five households after leaking ethylene glycol from an underground pipeline into drinking water wells in Genesee Township, Potter County, Pennsylvania. The leak was first noticed by residents and reported ...
  • AG Josh Shapiro criminally charges two more drilling companies, both deliberately hid a spill (“is just the nature of the beast” was the excuse), face five violations of PA’s Clean Stream Law. Will Encana/Ovintiv ‘n CAPP allow an AG like Josh Shapiro in Canada?
    Probably not. Instead, we get flakes like AG Jody Wilson Raybould (tellingly silent when Supreme Court of Canada fractured Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms and knowingly published a lie in Ernst vs AER) and endless cowardly empty pea pod Encana crime-enablers: Peter Watson (now Chair federal regulator); Bev Yee (now on the board AER); Martin Foy ...
  • Frac Tank Reality Show: “Debt, Debt and Debt” and more debt; Judge-gifted bankruptcies to keep companies frac’ing & polluting and con investors into losing more money; Abandon thousands of frac harmed families; And intentionally dump pollution and clean-up on taxpayers. In the USA, “explorers burned through some $342 billion of cash since 2010, leaving little in the way of returns for investors.” In Alberta, AIMCo took $100s of millions (under Kenney & Harper, will likely take $billions more) from pensioners years ago to give to “quite leveraged” frac’ers already then.
    2016: AIMCo (ATB/Heritage Fund connected) announce $200 Million (bailout?) investment in “Quite leveraged” Calfrac Will mega loser AIMCo throw more pensioners’ money away in corporate welfare/bailout to failing flailing Alberta frac’er Calfrac?  2018: The New York Times: The Next Financial Crisis Lurks Underground, Fueled by debt and years of easy credit, America’s energy boom is on shaky ...
  • “You never really get over it.” Montana pedophile (repeat offender like Epstein) facing 60 counts of child sex abuse (including rape) given gift of 1-year “Deferred” sentence in plea deal; the judges involved need to be fired and the lawyers disbarred. Georgia pedophile sentenced for 1,000 years, “probably the most prolific collector of child pornography in the entire world” gets out after appeals court says he’s served enough time (a measily 8 years). Berlin authorities knowingly sent children to live with pedophiles for decades, new report reveals while Ontario’s Law Society licences known convicted pedophiles (to get them on the bench?).
    Despicable! Law Society of Ontario *knowingly* licences convicted pedophiles, knowingly gives pedophiles protected easy access to children “Law Society of Ontario taken over by ‘right-wing, fundamentalist religious zealots?’” Taken over by the catholic church to better protect and feed its sex-crazed, child-abusing “celibate” priests? Do white privileged people think loading up on religious self-righteousness and the ...
  • AER skulduggery escalates: Dave Goldie, Encana & Cenovus VP is new Chair (first was Encana & Cenovus VP Gerry Protti); Martin Foy, Encana crime-enabler, appointed Exec VP (remember AER exec VP, ex-Encana lying manager Mark Taylor?); Propagandizing Synergy Queen, Tracey McCrimmon & Encana crime-enabler Bev Yee appointed to the Board; Anti-science climate change denier, Steve Harper’s best buddy/compaign manager, Kenney’s Kamikazi campaign manager, John Weissenberger, made VP Technical Science & External Innovation Branch.
    Mike Dowden sums up AER’s new “Dickhead” CEO Laurie Pushor best (commenter to article included below): So they had to replace a guy because of corruption and mismanagement…and they hire a guy with a history of corruption and mismanagment…right on. https://twitter.com/LarryInnes/status/1283475619863506945 Premier Jason Kenney’s campaign manager hired as VP of Alberta Energy Regulator, John Weissenberger has been ...
  • 2020: Why is Zion Market Research promoting Sanjel Corp. as a “Major Market Player?” In 2016, Sanjel was sold in pieces at a great loss, less than the “$397 million owed 12 banks led by Alberta ATB” – nicely enabled by our courts.
    Sanjel is not four years old (refer to March 2020 press release below). The company just got a name change from Sanjel to Sanjel in 2016, after being sold to different companies (neither named Sanjel) because of massive debt. Sanjel is 18 years old; it was founded in 1982. In 2004, Sanjel Corp tried remedial cementing ...
  • Oil & gas friendly spy agency, CSIS, that for years, “relied on legal doctrine of Crown immunity as defence against criminal liability,” chastised in court yet again, for pissing on the rule of law. Better tell our lying Supreme Court of Canada judges; murdering illegally spying police; RCMP illegally operating as mobsters for Encana & AER trying to scare frac-harmed plaintiffs into silence and violently arresting innocents to enable oil & gas profits; too many criminal, lying politicians (that appoint our judges or become judges); lying “justice” lawyers; lying, rule-violating public interest lawyers; etc etc etc.
    All in the Protti Family? What are the connections between law-violating CSIS, law-violating Encana, propagadist big oil lobby group CAPP, law-violating EUB/ERCB/AER and the big banks? “Former CSIS head Raymond Protti (brother of Ex AER Chair, Ex Encana and Cenovus VP Gerry Protti) was named as new president of the CBA .” Pissing on Reconciliation, ...
  • Covid-19 killing oil workers at unparalleled pace in Mexico: Pemex (Petroleos Mexicanos) reported 202 employees and 5 contractors died so far.
    Covid-19 is killing oil workers at an unparalleled pace in Mexico by Amy Stillman, Bloomberg, July 15, 2020, Houston Chronicle Of all the companies around the world affected by covid-19, none has disclosed a worse death toll than Pemex, Mexico’s state-owned oil producer. Petroleos Mexicanos, as it’s also known, said late Tuesday that 202 employees and five ...