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 […]
Being fracked
Canada trails USA in risk awareness
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 […]
BC Government: Frack the barriers to pollution
“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 […]
More reasons to question
Whether Gas is Cleaner than Coal, Abraham Lustgarten, ProPublica: In January, a ProPublica investigation found that large amounts of “fugitive” emissions were left out of common comparisons between coal and gas and […]
Don’t drink the water
This issue is vital to British Columbians. Hydraulic fracturing will play an important role in northeast shale gas fields. Despite known and probable risks, BC Liberals have ceded oversight of the environment […]
Climate Benefits of Natural Gas May Be Overstated
http://pixel.propublica.org/pixel.jsby Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica, Jan. 25, 2011, 10:36 a.m.The United States is poised to bet its energy future on natural gas as a clean, plentiful fuel that can supplant coal and oil. […]
Luckily, oil leaks won’t happen here
ProPublica reports: “Almost all oil production on Alaska’s North Slope remains shut down after workers on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline system discovered a leak over the weekend. BP, the pipeline company’s largest single […]
When regulators do not believe in regulation – Updated
I began writing an article about tobacco companies convicted of multi-billion dollar fraud through smuggling schemes to escape punitive taxation of poisonous products sold to slow-witted youth and the addicted. I thought […]
Drilling for truth
The BC Government won’t give it to you. Canwest Newspapers won’t give it to you, nor Global TV. The truth is out there. From ProPublica: On April 30, 2001 a small drilling […]
Industry strongly opposes the USA approach . . .
During a time when energy companies are rapidly expanding efforts in BC’s Horn River Shale Basin, the Liberals are slashing funds for environmental oversight and inspection. Cuts in the latest budget plan […]
More from ProPublica
Abraham Lustgarten EPA Launches National Study of Hydraulic Fracturing,Responding to reports of environmental contamination [1] in gas drilling areas across the country, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will conduct a nationwide scientific […]
A lucrative dirty secret
A percolating story, one mostly ignored by traditional media, is the environmental risk from oil and gas activities in British Columbia’s northeast. We discussed it HERE and HERE at Northern Insights, with […]
What we don’t know
Gas Drilling is one of ProPublica‘s Hot Topics. Be sure to follow their links to associated stories. In northeast British Columbia, environmental risks from gas production compound, while government eliminates oversight. The […]
"Not good enough"
So said one of more than 300 people crowding a meeting at Sullivan County (N.Y.) Community College, many voicing the concern that they have little control over the drilling that seems destined […]
Oversight or undersight?
The David Suzuki Foundation gives natural gas a higher score than coal and nuclear fuels but still finds its use problematic. Combustion emissions of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides contribute to acid […]
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