Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider’s Stand Against the World’s Most Powerful Industry 56 Min. by Jill Buck, November 6, 2015, Voice America
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- New study: Unconventional oil/gas development has larger impact on ambient particle radioactivity (PR) level compared to conventional; Widespread upwind unconventional/frac activities could significantly elevate PR level in downwind communities and induce adverse health effects to residents. February 24, 2021
- Finally, “a non/racist justice and jury in Alberta,” Bradley Barton found guilty in 2011 death of Cindy Gladue February 19, 2021
- Water quality and quantity regulator (Delaware River Basin Commission) to make final decision Feb 25 on permanent drill & frac ban in Delaware River watershed. February 19, 2021
- New study: Songbirds’ reproductive success reduced by natural gas compressor noise. February 19, 2021
- Excellent letter by Darrell Trenholm on Alberta’s UCP. February 18, 2021
- California SB 467 “End Fracking & Harmful Drilling Act” proposes to ban all new frac’ing and other risky techniques like cyclic steaming, acid fracs, and water and steam flooding by Jan 2022 and completely by 2027. How many companies will sue to try to kill the ban and what will Trump’s judges do? February 18, 2021
- Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court upholds award by Environmental Hearing Board of $13,135 in court costs & legal fees to be paid by DEP to Stephen and Ellen Gerhart, who were seeking $265,976 in fees paid for experts, including $50,000 in attorney’s fees. February 18, 2021
- UK’s frac ban like Quebec’s and Germany’s? Twisted by definition? February 18, 2021
- Dirty politicians: Cooking the vote; cooking the books; cooking the courts. February 18, 2021
- New Mexico might ban frac’ing, study its harms. Industry loses it. February 17, 2021
- Study: Birth defects **significantly** more common in areas of strip mining/open pit/mountaintop coal mining; Health effects of related air and water contamination appear cumulative. Never forget: Courts ruled in Ernst vs AER that it is legally immune, owes no duty of care and is above Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. AER has no public health mandate and the Alberta gov’t removed its public interest mandate after the Ernst lawsuit went public. There is no authority to protect Albertans, our health, our rights and drinking water, and the feds have gone AWOL. February 17, 2021
- UPDATED: Texas: “No, it wasn’t the windmills.” How much does the fossil fuel industry pay politicians (and regulators) to lie? How much does it pay politicians to appoint dirty judges to the bench, then pay those judges to lie, grant favourable rulings and gag the harmed? February 17, 2021
- Feb 25, 2021, 7 – 8:30 pm: Expert panel on infectious lung disease and air pollution (especially important for those living/working in/near Alberta’s toxic tarsands, coal mining and or in frac zones) February 17, 2021
- Happy V Day 2021: One billion rising: “We are asking for justice!” “No more rape or incest or abuse. Women are not a possession.” February 14, 2021
- New study: Drone technology locates unplugged oil and gas wells February 12, 2021