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(Updated: November 9, 2020)
People with their Own Ideas are
Cracking the Minds of the Frackers!

NoFracking Way (Rock Music Video) – Leo Sayer – Australia – Call to Arms – In Support of Lock the Gate Alliance

YouTube

Fort Nelson First Nation Fresh Water Fracking Forum

May 27, 2010
Released, March 30, 2023

New Site, November 9, 2020
British Columbia's Surface Rights Board's
File Collection, by Petroleum Company

ALR

Media Release, March 4, 2020
Frackers Rape Rule of Law and Gag Canadian First Nations under the Guise of 'Benefit Agreements': Case in Point, Coastal GasLink LNG Fracked Gas Pipeline
(Pdf, 120 kb)

Media Release, October 28, 2019
Attribution Science Proves Now is the Time for Canadians to Step Up and Sue the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and the Alberta Energy Regulator for Cumulative Fraud (Pdf)

October 2, 2019 - Media Release
Blueberry River First Nations vs Government of BC Trial Evidence Says: 91 Percent of Blueberry Territory Lands are within 500 m of an Industrial Disturbance, Primarily Oil and Gas (Pdf)

November 29, 2017 - Public Notice
B.C. Tap Water Alliance No Longer a Signatory for Public Inquiry of Fracking in BC
(with Backgrounder)
(Pdf, 3 megabytes)

November 4, 2015
Supreme Court of Canada Submission
In Support of Jessica Ernst's
Constitutional Rights (pdf)
(For background info, refer to Jessica Ernst's website, The Lawsuit link)

October 3, 2015 - YouTube Video
Video of Andrew Nikiforuk's book launch
opening event, held in Rosebud, Alberta. The book, Slick Water - Fracking and One Insider's Stand Against the World's Most Powerful Industry, features the plight and story of Jessica Ernst.

June 25, 2015 - BCTWA Update
A Chronological and Single Document Reference Tool: For PSE's (Physicians, Scientists & Engineers's) Healthy Energy Citation Database on Shale Gas & Tight Oil Developments
- Version 2.0 (478 pages)

June 1, 2015 - Media Release
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back:
Call for Federal Fracking Regulation Flies in Face of Call for a Ban

March 10, 2015 - Media Release
Did the Council of Canadian Academies' Frack Panel 'Cherry-Pick' the Scientific Evidence
on Harms from Fracking?
- Backgrounder (Reference Section from the CCA May 1, 2014 report)

March 10, 2015
A Chronological & Single Document Reference Tool: For PSE's (Physicians, Scientists & Engineers') Healthy Energy Database on Shale Gas & Tight Oil Developments (pdf - 2. 5 megabytes)


Recording of Glenn Solomon, lawyer representing the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER, previously ERCB) in the Ernst vs Encana lawsuit, giving legal advice to Ann Craft's son Brent O'Neill, about hydraulic fracturing contaminating Ann's well water and damaging her farm buildings and home.
For more information, refer to these articles by Andrew Nikiforuk:
The Nightmare of Ann Craft: Fracked, then Poisoned
http://thetyee.ca/News/2014/12/04/Nightmare-of-Ann-Craft/
Ann Craft's Fracking Nightmare: A Top Lawyer's Startling Counsel
http://thetyee.ca/News/2014/12/05/Ann-Craft-Fracking-Nightmare/

FREE DENTON !
FRACK-FREE DENTON (Texas)
A MUST WATCH VIDEO!
YouTube - Denton's Stand Against Fracking
(Published on July 23, 2014)
MAKE THE WORLD, FRACK FREE
(P.S. - Are You Listening, Christie???)

Harper Government Enabling the Frac Harm Cover Up?
Environment Canada Criticized for Leaving Fracking Chemicals Off Pollutant List, Saying Not Enough Frac Chemicals Used - 362,000 Litres of Diesel Invert Lost Underground Near Alberta
(Ernst Versus Encana Website Link: CBM & Frac News)

Released on July 9, 2014
YouTube Video (72 minutes)
Jessica Ernst Presentation, March 25, 2014,
at the University of Lethbridge
In BAD Faith: "These People Will Get Nowhere"


February 24, 2014 - Big Lies Public Poster
(46.7 inches wide, 66.7 inches high, 72 dpi, jpeg file, 1.1 megabytes)

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For higher resolution BIG LIES posters:
(28 inches wide, 40 inches high, 300 dpi, jpeg files)
Big Lies (6.6 Megabytes)
Big Lies (13.9 Megabytes)

February 20, 2014 -
Environment America News Release
1,000 (+) Health Professionals Call on President Obama to Act on Fracking

Februrary 1, 2014 - Talk of the Town:
Christy Clark's TERRIFYING Math
(by David Broadland, Focus Online magazine)

January 27, 2014 - Press Conference, Vancouver
Yukon First Nations & NGOs Announce Lawsuit Against Yukon Government Over Peel River Watershed Land Use Plan
(YouTube - 50 Minutes)

Presentation - Whitehorse - January 15, 2014
Don't Frack the Yukon Tour
64 minutes - YouTube Video

January 23, 2014 - Media Release
CAPP CONTINUES TO LIE -
NOW TO YUKONERS
(YouTube - Yukon Chamber of Commerce -
Jan.15, 2015 - CAPP Presentation)

NEW REPORT - January 18, 2014
BC LNG - A REALITY CHECK
By Dave Hughes (Pdf - 1.8 Megabytes)
 (The BIG SCOOP on BC's LNG Poop !)
Dave Hughes Report on LNG was publicized first
through the Watershed Sentinel.

Yukon Tour Info - January 13 - 18, 2014

Tour

New Report - December 11, 2013
Frack-Math Confidential:
Cracking Open the Big Mystery
on Water Volume Use in
British Columbia's Multi Fracking Operations
(Pdf file: 14.8 Megabytes )

  November 27, 2013
The Tip of BC's Fracking Iceberg:
Frac-Focus Toxic Chemical Data, Water Volumes, Fracking Locations, and Operators in the Altares Gas Field, North of Hudson's Hope, BC, Near and Within the Farrell Creek Watershed Area
(pdf - 5.6 megabytes - A new informative and interactive tool
designed to examine chemical data and fracking operations)
- Main Reference Map (10 megabytes)

November 18, 2013 -Talisman Frackwater Pit Leaked for Months, Kept from the Public

PondA
(Published in Common Sense Canadian)

The Contradiction of Fracking as
Public Water Stewardship in BC's Laws and
Proposed Water Sustainability Act
(November 15, 2013 - Submission to Proposed Water Sustainability Act)

LIPG (Lochend Industry Producers Group)
Fails to Reveal the Fine Print!
Link Here for the pdf explanatory document

LIPG

SynergyFor Your Daily Dose of Big Oil Propaganda, take one pill a day!

 (Free pills supplied by Encana, Alberta Energy Regulator, and CAPP)

For a history of Synergy in Canada, this link.


October 9, 2013 - Press Release
Chief Justice Rejects Alberta Government's Attack on Rosebud Water Contamination Case - But Dismisses Case Against Alberta's key Energy Regulator, the ERCB
* Andrew Nikiforuk's article in the Tyee -Alberta Energy Regulator Given Immunity in Landmark Fracking Suit

September 15, 2013
Is There a Media Blackout on the Fracking Flood Disaster in Colorado???
(Blue Daze Drilling Reform blog had over 300,000 visits
by the end of September 17th on this blog!)
Common Sense Canadian - Colorado Flood Raises Fears

September 11, 2013 - Press Release
Dubious Track Record in BC Legislature - BC Liberals Trash Public Accountability
for Fracking / LNG Agenda (pdf - 1.34 Mb)
* BC Legislature Standing Days Graph (1976-2013)
* BC Liberals Hold Worst Legislature Attendance Record -
by Damien Gillis (Common Sense Canadian website)

 September 10, 2013
Open Letter to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers from B.C. Tap Water Alliance
Quote from the letter: “I respectfully request that the Association apologize, in writing, to all Canadians for falsely stating that there has never been a documented/proven case of hydraulic fracturing contaminating groundwater.”

September 5, 2013
Valhalla Wilderness Society Press Release
* Heartland of the Khutzeymateen Grizzly Bear Sanctuary Threatened by Proposed Prince Rupert Gas LNG Route  (pdf)
* Map of Khutzeymateen Sanctuary with Proposed Pipeline
* TransCanada Pipeline LNG Pipeline Corridor Map

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September 3, 2013
Open Letter to 15 BC First Nations
Participating in the LNG Pipeline Agreement(s)
Sharing LNG Fracking Riches Means
Sharing Fracking Shame: Ecological and
Political Crossroads Crisis
in British Columbia / Western Canada (pdf)

Media Release - August 30, 2013
B.C. Energy Mnister's Public Response Plan for BC Hydro's Future Planning Report “Deficient and Unreasonable,” Claims Alliance
(Note: The BC Hydro Integrated Resource Plan Report contains proposals to provide significant electrical power for Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) plant proposals in BC, directives established through new BC Liberal government fracking/LNG policy: i.e., see Chapter 2 and Appendix 2A of the report)

Fracking Industry hits Northwest Territories with Trade Secrets
(August 13, 2013 Northern Journal article)

London, Ontario 1290 AM Radio Interview (August 12, 2013) with Jessica Ernst
Ernst: “I think the division of community is the most horrible” consequence of fracking!  http://www.ernstversusencana.ca/andy-oudman-1290-am-cjbk-london-ontario-and-pam-killeen-health-and-wellness-coach-interview-jessica-ernst




Landmark Alberta Fracking Lawsuit
(Jessica Ernst)
Court Hearing - Calgary, Alberta, on January 18, 2013
- Press Release
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/landmark-alberta-fracking-lawsuit-resumes-calgary-court-klippensteins-barristers-solicitors-1747008.htm
Ernst Versus Encana Corporation - Lawsuit Documents
(English and French)
http://www.ernstversusencana.ca/the-lawsuit
Andrew Nikiforuk's January 16, 2013 article in the Tyee
- How Alberta Will Fight Fracking Hero Jessica Ernst


HO HO HELL - MERRY FRACKMESS CANADA
http://www.frackingcanada.ca/how-the-west-was-lost/
Link to Fracking Canada's new page, HOW THE WEST WAS LOST!

November 30, 2012 - FRACK POKER
(The Biggest Gambling Game in Canada)
CAPP-DavidPryce
CAPP's Big Poker Bluff (One of the top ten quotes of the Frack Era from CAPP's nervous David Pryce on CBC Television on link below):
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2012/11/30/calgary-hydraulic-fracking-oil-cochrane-guidelines.html
We've hydraulicly fracked about 175,000 wells
in Western Canada without any problems !!!

RexThere is plenty of water (for fracking). It's just not in all the right places. It's not that (we) have a water resource problem; we have a water distribution problem.
(Quote from Exxon ceo Rex Tillerson on June 27, 2012, at a presentation sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations), from:
www.cfr.org/energy/new-north-american-energy-paradigm-reshaping-future/p28627
(2011 photo of Rex Tillerson, by Jeff Malet)

November 29, 2012 - Frack Sand Mining Pit
(5 kilometres wide, 200 metres deep)
Proposal by Stikine Gold Mining Corp.,
story by Desmog Blog
http://www.desmogblog.com/2012/11/29/mining-corporation-looks-bc-frac-sand-open-pit-mine

Should Fracking Be Allowed in British Columbia?
It appears that fracking is impossible to safely regulate
A Response to the November 15, 2012 report, From Stream to Steam: Emerging Challenges for BC's Interlinked Water and Energy Resources (pdf file)

NO DUTY OF CARE
http://www.frackingcanada.ca/no-duty-of-care/
Fracking Canada examines the tragic state of Alberta's collective
Petro Fracking Sins on its Citizenry and Natural Environment
(a portent of things to unfold in British Columbia???)

UNIST'OT'EN CAMP Website
http://unistotencamp.wordpress.com/
A resistance community on Wet'suwet'en (First Nation) territory, situated on the Pacific Trail Pipeline (PTP) deep shale gas right-of-way, and other proposed gas and oil right-of-ways, located south of Smithers and Moricetown, British Columbia.
(See also: our Pacific Trail Pipeline Chronology (pdf) report;
and our (pdf) Final Argument to the National Energy Board of Canada)

National Canadian Petition against the Canada/China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Act agreement (posted on AVAAZ.org)
   http://www.avaaz.org/en/one_man_is_selling_out_our_democracy/?tLHAYab
(Related: New Report from the Corporate Europe Observatory and the Transnational Institute - Profiting From Injustice: How Law Firms, Arbitrators and Financiers are Fuelling an Investment Arbitration Boom
http://corporateeurope.org/publications/profiting-from-injustice ; and
The Tyee article, November 30, 2012, Investment Treaties like FIPA Spin Huge Profits for Lawyers,http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2012/11/30/FIPA-Profits-For-Lawyers/
by Jamie Biggar and Emma Pullman)


Press Release - November 13, 2012 -
by the Alberta Surface Water Rights Group
First Shot in the War Against Bill 2


KEEPERS OF THE WATER VI -
YOU-TUBE VIDEOS
(Sixth conference of the Keepers,
held in Fort Nelson, British Columbia, September 26-29, 2012)
* CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS (42 minutes)
* Wade Davis (70 minutes)
* Ben Parfitt (16 minutes)
* Gilles Wendling (63 minutes)

BRITISH COLUMBIA OIL TIMELINE
History of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain Pipeline and the Federal Offshore Oil Moratorium - July 2006 report presentations to the National Energy Board by the B.C. Tap Water Alliance
Main Report (pdf, 31 pages)
Appendix A - Oil Timeline (pdf, 80 pages)

Regulations and Mitigations will never make fracking safe!
(Quote from the Executive Summary)

According to Will Koop, coordinator of the B.C. Tap Water Alliance, the shale (gas) issue (in northeastern British Columbia) is one that presents “a deep set of problems for the future, both environmentally and politically”. (Georgia Straight newspaper, December 29, 2010)

StopFrkingCanada

FOR BRITISH COLUMBIA INFORMATION,
CLICK ON THE UPPER RIGHT LINK,
BRITISH COLUMBIA FRACKING INFORMATION CENTER.

NEW - FOR ALBERTA INFORMATION
CLICK UPPER RIGHT LINK (POWERS WORKSHOP)

FOR QUEBEC INFORMATION
CLICK ON UPPER RIGHT LINK

FOR SOUTH AFRICA INFORMATION
CLICK ON UPPER RIGHT LINK

NEW CANADIAN WEBSITE:
http:www.frackingcanada.ca


Jessica Ernst - Truth & Consequences of Fracking
May 21, 2012 - Elmira, New York State - first speaking date of a four-day speaking tour, May 21-24. (For background information on leaking well-bores and gas migration, with contributions by Jessica Ernst, Anthony Ingraffea, and other researchers, see chapter 14 of our Frack EU report, above, and chapter 10, Harper's Men in Poland, and chapter 12, Operation Synergy, for background information on Alberta.) Here's the link to the Shaleshockmedia website which features Ernst's presentation:


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January 4, 2012
Alberta Surfac Rights Group Press Release
English - Hydraulic Fracturing: Alberta's Water in Peril
French - La Fracturation hydraulique: l'eau de l'Alberta en péril
Two Banner photos location (on an ASRG trailer located
2 miles south of Trochu, Alberta, on Highway 21)
SurfaceRights-2


- Related - November 10, 2011 -
Andrew Nikiforuk's compelling article in The Tyee
Natural Gas Exports Threaten Energy Security Says Expert



Global TV's program 16:9 - UNTESTED SCIENCE
November 5, 2011 Television Link no longer working (Why Not???)
Here it is - in two parts
Part One - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXChH1xw4Rk
Part Two - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKm-gKj4sho



What Fresh Hell is This? - Fracking Alberta
September 10, 2011
Public workshop, hosted by POWERS
(Protecting Our Water and Ecological Resources Society)
beld in Cochrane, Alberta, featuring two speakers,
Jessica Ernst and Andrew Nikiforuk
on hydraulic fracturing (fracking).
See POWERS website, www.powersalberta.ca

3. Andrew Nikiforuk
Part - 1
Part - 2
Part - 3
Part - 4
Part - 5
Part - 6
Part - 7
Part - 8
Part - 9
4. Jessica Ernst
Full Length Version
- 70 minutes
http://youtu.be/khRz8lpWGgQ
Part - 1
Part - 2







POST CARBON INSTITUTE'S NEW REPORT,
May 2011 -  Will Natural Gas Fuel America in the 21st Century?,
by J. David Hughes (A Must Read!)
DESMOGBLOG'S NEW REPORT, May 6, 2011

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April 19-2011 - NEW REPORT
FOLLOW THE GA$: KITIMAT LNG EXPORT TERMINAL AND PACIFIC TRAILS PIPELINE CHRONLOGY 
(revised on May 16, 2011)
(Pdf file - 4.3 Megabytes)
Press Release - April 14, 2011 and
Petition Letter to B.C. Ministers - April 13, 2011
Public Inquiry Needed in British Columbia to Address Human Health and Environmental Risks Posed by Shale Gas Drilling, Coalition Says
(Pdf file)

March 15, 2011 - NEW REPORT
Shale Gas & Oil Companies in Quebec
(Pdf - 3.6 Megabytes)




February 3, 2011 - Presentation by Will Koop
before Canada's Standing Commmittee
on Natural Resources
(Theme: absence of cumulative effects studies in northeast BC)
Go to link on right: Canadian Standing Committee
on Natural Resources for complete information

(13.725 Megabytes)
 (Including: 100 images, maps, diagrams, and information
on EnCana's most recent, largest fracking site in the world)
(See also: BC Cumulative Effects Discussion Page)

New Videos

December 2, 2010
Ben Parfitt's presentation to the
Federal Standing Committee on Natural Resources
on the deep shale gas industry and water use,
and criticism of the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu472CVGo7A

November 30, 2010
Excerpts from Voice of BC November 25, 2010 Broadcast
Community Television interview with Ben Parfitt
(original - http://vimeo.com/17221139)
 Part 1 - deep shale gas & water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZzdo5pOrWI
Part 2 - deep shale gas & BC Oil & Gas Commission
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqmW9AJF6zk
Part 3 - Site-C dam and deep shale gas producers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv-p9AzmlEY

October 28, 2010
My Very First Frack! - Or, No Love at First Frack!
(Talisman Energy Farrell Creek Operations frack,
north of Hudson's Hope, British Columbia)

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejYhAdmHIVs

November 1, 2010
The Komie Commotion - The BIG Gallop to
Siphon British Columbia's Deep Shale Gas
(A journey into the Horn River Basin fracking playground,
east and northeast of Fort Nelson.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH8y2pSUvnU

Many of North America’s ancient aquifer systems are the source of domestic waters for human and animal (wild, domestic) uses. The B.C. Tap Water Alliance has also come on board (as of February 22, 2010) to help advocate the end of impairing and poisoning North America’s and the Earth’s fresh water aquifers by the oil & gas industry complex through a process nicknamed “fracking”/“fracing” (hydraulic ‘frac’turing) which involves the use of toxic chemicals, and to ban fracking.
NoEvil
Fracking bans are currently advocated by Philadelphia City Council and similar movement in New York City and State.

First, and foremost, this means that here in Canada, and specifically in B.C., our legislations must undergo immediate and serious revisions by our legislators, the public’s representatives, to remove and ban the use of these chemical poisons (some which are still unidentified through company patents) from the fracking process, and to ban fracking methodologies which fracture the integrity of underground aquifer structures.

New report - September 4, 2010 - Natural Gas Operations from a Public Health Perspective (Endocrine Disruption Exchange)

See report, Drilling Around the Law, www.ewg.org/
drillingaroundthelaw, by the Environmental Working Group, for details on the toxics. For an excellent video (47 minutes long) on the entire process, produced by the U.S. group, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange:
http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/chemicals.videoplayer.php

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According to information in Chapter 4, Hydraulic Fracturing Fluids, a lengthy study completed and released in June 2004 by Environtmental Protection Agency in the U.S., (Evaluation of Impacts to Underground Sources of Drinking Water by Hydraulic Fracturing of Coalbed Methane Reservoirs), an outcome of litigation that began in 1989 about fracking in Alabama:

Most of the literature pertaining to fracturing fluids relates to the fluids’ operational efficiency rather than their potential environmental or human health impacts. There is very little documented research on the environmental impacts that result from the injection and migration of these fluids into subsurface formations, soils, and USDWs (U.S. Drinking Waters).

The Denver U.S. Regional Office of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health stated its concerns about chemical exposures of these toxics, mists and particulate dusts to gas and oil workers, namely that there is a lack of existing information on the diversity and magnitude of potential chemical exposures.

EPAHearing
1200 people gather at one of four scheduled hearings by the U.S. Enivronmental Protection Agency (EPA). This one on the evening of July 22, 2010, at the Hilton Garden Inn, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, where " most of the more than 100 speakers let it be known that they oppose Marcellus Shale drilling in the state, and many shared  personal stories of contaminated wells, dead farm animals and damaged health... Erica Staff, of PennEnvironment, a statewide environmental group, was joined by many speakers in requesting that the EPA broaden its study of the hydraulic fracturing process, known in the industry as " fracking ". " I urge EPA to expand the scope of the study to include the entire life cycle of gas extraction, "  Ms. Staff said. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 23, 2010. See tab to right, United States Congressional Hearings, for more. About 8,000 people are expected to attend the postponed and final public EPA meeting scheduled for September 13 and 15, 2010, at the Broome County Forum Theatre in Binghamton, New York.)

BC’s Drinking Water Protection Act must be immediately revised to prohibit the fracking use of toxics, chemical poisons mixed with fresh water injected deep into the earth, disturbing, cracking and compromising sealed aquifers. BC’s Water Act, about to be seriously altered ( " modernized " ) through a revision process (first such alteration since the late 1800s), must also incorporate this concern. Related environmental and mining Acts and Regulations must also be co-ordinately revised to compliment and harmonize these necessary revisions, and to ban fracking. Enough reports have been written in the United States that address the technical and environmental ruin and lasting harm to aquifers, reports and documented accounts which our legislators and government administrators may investigate, rely and act upon.

The BC government also needs to hire many more field officers to stringently, conscientiously police and effectively monitor the oil and gas industry in BC’s northeast energy sector. Such provisions, in addition to new legislations, will help stimulate and initiate the highest international standards applied to protect the earth’s surface and aquifer sources.

It is irrelevant how much tax revenue may be generated to aid government coffers as the oil and gas industry always harps upon, and which some elected administrators partner preach as a necessary economic tradeoff: this is literally where “the buck stops”, because absolutely no one should tolerate the use and application of chemical poisons into fresh water systems!

After many frustrating years of hardship to mostly rural residents, a large inter-State movement was eventually formed in the United States in September 2009 to help address and remedy the poisoning of the Nation’s groundwaters through fracking (see petition). 

Evidently, since 2001, former vice-president Dick Cheney is attributed as the primary culprit in leading private industry (through his secretive Energy Task Force) to counter Court instructions to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by withholding new regulations and restrictions (nicknamed the ‘Halliburton Loophole’) to be implemented under the Nation’s Safe Drinking Water Act, thereby also setting up an international precedent. This corrupt loophole tragedy permitted private industry, supported through professional and special interest associations, to continue with escalated exploration drilling in numerous States and to reap enormous profits (including Cheney’s large oil and gas service industry company, Halliburton) while escaping penalties and prosecution from indiscriminately disturbing acquifer integrity and poisoning numerous aquifer sources, people, domestic animals, and wildlife and the ecology, creating atmospheric pollution and increased Green House Gas emissions (see our section, Cabin Gas Plant, under the British Columbia Information Center link, for info on atmospheric pollution) under the collective banner of "jobs".

GasDwarfsSimilar to the scene in the Hollywood movie, The Insider, where the seven big tobacco CEOs (alias, the seven dwarves) testified at a congressional hearing in the 1990s and were later found to have committed perjury, is this photo of gas " industry-affiliated groups and an executive of Chesapeake Energy " who appeared before a Congressional Hearing on June 4, 2009 " vigorously defending the practice of injecting toxic fluids underground without federal regulatory oversight. " (Source, Propublica, Industry Defends Federal Loophole for Drilling Before Packed Congressional Hearing, June 5, 2009. Photo: from the film documentary, Gasland)

What the oil and gas industry complex now fears the most (as the collective tobacco industry did in the 1990s) from the public and its conscientious representatives, as Congress begins its underfunded side-show inquiries (while fracking continues unabated, or TALK and FRACK), is the looming possibility of a state or national legal inquiry or court case that may lead to severe related penalties and prosecutions, and related restrictions to its agressive and bullying-style fracking operations. Such a possibility could then quickly domino into its international investor-based operations as a precedent, much like the impacts and policies passed globally concerning big NoEviltobacco. Rather than surrendering peacefully, due to the escalated scale and projected increase of its global operations, big oil and gas will likely exercise all of its resources (through its tentacled public relations networks and lobbying) to maintain the status quo as much as possible and prevent this outcome (i.e., one of its present refrains: "there are no documented cases of ...").

It was reported on March 29, 2010 (Halliburton Hunts New Bacteria Killer to Protect Shale-Gas Boom, Bloomberg.com) that the oil & gas industry is now concerned about permitting costs associated with a possible regulatory crackdown with the federal environmental inquiry into its controversial practices of toxic chemicals and air emissions. A recent unidentified report by the U.S. Energy Department stated that because of the federal inquiries and expected regulatory outcomes they " would cut drilling by as much as half and add compliance costs as much as $75 billion over 25 years. " The industry fears it would have to obtain formal approval for each gas and oil well in the United States, which seems to be a worry to gas producing Houston billionaire George P. Mitchell.

There are dozens of websites, hundreds of newspaper articles, videos, audios - testimonial accounts and investigations devoted to uncovering the disgusting secrets and effects of this vexing issue which has been brewing throughout the U.S. (i.e., the March 26, 2010 television airing on PBS' Now of the video documentary director of Gasland). One of these troubling issues relates to the raging battle over New York City’s water supply, threatened by fracking within the large inter-state Marcellus geological formation (i.e., provided in our compilation of ProPublica feature news articles), a provocative issue in many ways responsible for finally igniting the national movement.

Overall, BC, Canada, and the globe desperately requires new “clean” and “wise” governance, strict legislations, and ethical leadership to overcome the “failed” governance problems that are continuing to plague our collective and sacred fresh waters.

In the 1900s, the rise of the chemical industries not only produced a new host of toxics but it also produced a new societal culture and public relations mechanisms that burrowed deep inside inter-governmental institutions - The Toxics Invasion. It was citizen-based groups, formed throughout North America, and globally, that would bring about change, that is, only after the multiple severe damages, afflictions, mutations and cancers had already been perpetrated to the world's life forms. These general sets of problems are well described and documented, for instance, in the 1983 book by Carol Van Strum, A Bitter Fog - Herbicides and Human Rights. It tells a tragic tale of Dow Chemical's production of toxic herbicides leashed upon the world over a period of decades (the herbicides, 2,4-D, 2,4, 5-T, dioxins, accounted for only 0.2% of its annual sales), how that company, alongside federal agencies (primarily the US Forest Service), defended it use, despite persistent objections from citizens and newly formed organizations, including the Vietnam Veterans poisoned by Agent Orange, aimed to educate the public and lobby governments. A similar scenario is emerging: citizen organizations and groups have emerged to solve and denounce the use of toxics in fracking. And, similar argumentative statements by the oil and gas industry, and by many represenative Statesmen and professionals, that the use of toxics for fracking have not caused any harm to groundwater or surface water sources, were the identical type of statements that eminated from the herbicide industry and government agencies not so long ago.
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