On Facebook, Northeast BC resident RanD Hadland says he visited the Bennett Dam and gained an understanding of why the downstream Peace River is so low. Behind the dam is the Williston Reservoir. Despite ongoing drought conditions, British Columbia has allowed oil and gas companies to draw water for fracking from waterways in the northeast, including the Peace and Liard rivers.
A series of provincial administrations and the politicians and bureaucrats we-the-people employ have consistently lied to us by both commission and omission. By wilful blindness, they have put and are putting lives at risk…
It seems Canada is about to end a long tradition of coordinating greenhouse gas reduction targets with the United States. With much of the densely populated east coast at risk from rising […]
In Fissures appear in scientists’ assurances about safety of fracking, Globe and Mail writer Mark Hume describes how industry used the work of Charles Groat, of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas, […]
Clark’s fracking registry: a fractionary issue, Vanessa Annand, The Martlet, Sep 22, 2011, Volume 64 Issue 7 “…Fracking, a process that allows companies to pump out hard-to-reach deposits of oil and gas […]
FORT ST. JOHN – Independent B.C. MLAs Bob Simpson and Vicki Huntington’s visit to the Peace allowed them to see the region’s natural resource face to face, resulting in questions and concerns […]
BC Liberals Pat Pimm and Blair Lekstrom have proposed a delegation agreement for the Peace River Valley, a move that is intended to free them of political responsibility for development of the […]
Canadian media doesn’t provide much detail but ProPublica, the American non-profit doing fine investigative reporting, is examining dangers of gas and oil production through hydraulic fracturing. In an earlier article here, we […]
“Five thousand gallons per well of toxic chemicals. If there is eight wells per pad site, that is 40,000 gallons of toxic chemicals.” – James Northrup, former energy investor British Columbia taxpayers reward energy companies […]
ProPublica,Science Lags As Health Problems Emerge Near Gas Fields, September 16By Abrahm Lustgarten and Nicholas Kusnetz Wallace-Babb was so sick she could barely move. She vomited uncontrollably and suffered explosive diarrhea. A […]
http://embed.5min.com/516997856/ Mud Volcano in Sidoarjo Indonesia
See this and more of Hummel’s work at The Common Sense Canadian. Gerry Hummell is a brilliant throw-back to BC’s great editorial cartoonists Len Norris and Roy Peterson. .
By Richard Black, Environment Correspondent, BBC News “Drawn from rock through a controversial “fracking” process, some hail the gas as a “stepping stone” to a low-carbon future and a route to energy […]
From the Center for American Progress: The oil and natural gas lobby is working hard to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from establishing safeguards to protect the public from chemicals used to […]
Aubrey Kerr (*) McLendon is CEO of natural gas producer Chesapeake Energy, founder of American Clean Skies Foundation and moneyman for the now defunct Swift Vets and POWs for Truth: “You don’t want […]
This small piece was first posted in March 24 and a comment added April 11. It suggests a little research is in order. I have not verified this but would like to […]
The Auditor General of BC today reinforced warnings raised repeatedly at In-Sights about the inadequacies of oversight and regulation in the northeast oil and gas industry. Mainstream media in this province have […]
Awareness builds elsewhere but the BC Government subsidizes hydraulic fracturing and enables the gas industry unprecedented access to fresh water, while ignoring the economic value of this precious resource. And they claim […]
Ben Parfitt and The Tyee make an important contribution, Our Water Secretly Sucked Away by Shale Gas Industry, showing how the BC Liberal government operates in secret to serve the oil and […]
A story that will not be told in British Columbia’s mainstream media, read the ProPublica article HERE and the entire series on gas drilling’s environmental threat HERE.
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