Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition presents: An Evening of Conversation on LNG with Damien Gillis DAMIEN GILLIS is a journalist and documentary film maker who has extensive knowledge of the economics behind the Liquid Natural Gas Industry and controversial fracking – which would need to be dramatically increased in order to
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The Common Sense Canadian: LNG: What Does it Mean for Me? (Terrace – Oct.2)
Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition presents: An Evening of Conversation on LNG with Damien Gillis DAMIEN GILLIS is a journalist and documentary film maker who has extensive knowledge of the economics behind the Liquid Natural Gas Industry and controversial fracking – which would need to be dramatically increased in order to
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: LNG: What Does it Mean for Me? (Hazelton – Oct.1)
Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition presents: An Evening of Conversation on LNG with Damien Gillis DAMIEN GILLIS is a journalist and documentary film maker who has extensive knowledge of the economics behind the Liquid Natural Gas Industry and controversial fracking – which would need to be dramatically increased in order to
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: LNG: What Does it Mean for Me? (Moricetown – Oct.1)
Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition presents: An Afternoon of Conversation on LNG with Damien Gillis DAMIEN GILLIS is a journalist and documentary film maker who has extensive knowledge of the economics behind the Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) Industry and controversial fracking – which would need to be dramatically increased in order
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: LNG: What Does it Mean for Me? (Smithers – Sept.30)
Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition presents: An Evening of Conversation on LNG with Damien Gillis DAMIEN GILLIS is a journalist and documentary film maker who has extensive knowledge of the economics behind the Liquid Natural Gas Industry and controversial fracking – which would need to be dramatically increased in order to
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Pennsylvania’s fracking boom goes bust
Fracking operation in southwestern Pennsylvania (photo: Mark Schmerling) Read this Sept. 12 story from Philly.com describing how Pennsylvania’s fracking boom is going bust. Meanwhile, The Common Sense Canadian reported recently on the devastation faced by much of the fracking industry in Colorado from massive flooding. It was just a couple of years
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: BC LNG a gateway to carbon pollution, says new report
Australia’s Colongra gas-powered electrical plant – similar technology would be needed to power BC’s LNG VICTORIA – British Columbia’s pledge to develop the world’s cleanest liquefied natural gas plants looks hazy to an environmental organization that says the province appears to be prepared to allow oil and gas companies to
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Alberta scientist Jessica Ernst warns Newfoundland of fracking risk
Environmental consultant Jessica Ernst on her land in Alberta (Colin Smith photo) ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – Alberta resident Jessica Ernst is warning Newfoundland about the risks of hydraulic fracturing, saying she blames the contentious fracking process for making her well water flammable. “It does ignite like a blow torch,” she
Continue readingLeDaro: Fracking in New Brunswick: The scientist who recommended fracking in NB is a fake scientist
Louis LaPierre of Dieppe, N.B., is invested as Member to the Order of Canada by Governor General David Johnston, November 2012. Louis LaPierre has admitted he falsely claimed to have a doctorate in environmental science. (CP/Fred Chartrand) Fracking in New Brunswick is quite controversial. However, the scientist Louis LaPierre, who
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Colorado’s fracking flood: new aerial photos, contamination fears
a wellhead, crude oil tank, toxic waste water tank llifted from ground, separator, and combustor flares submerged under flood waters – Weld County, Colorado (all images courtesy of EcoFlight) Earlier this week, The Common Sense Canadian brought you the underreported story of flood damage to oil and gas infrastructure in Colorado
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Fracking: Is it worth the risk? (Vancouver – Sept.19)
A natural gas drilling rig near Fort St. John, BC (image: Damien Gillis/Fractured Land) An opportunity for the East Van community and beyond to learn the latest details and share their views on BC’s rush to frack for gas, and the LNG proposals driving it. Featuring Eoin Madden of the
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Colorado flood raises fears of fracking chemical spill – new photos
St. Vrain River – Weld, Colorado (all photos courtesy of East Boulder County United) A Colorado citizens’ group is raising alarm bells about the possible release of toxic chemicals into local rivers from flood-stricken fracking operations. The group, East Boulder County United – which aims to keep the controversial practice of hydraulic
Continue readingPostArctica: Nina Berman – Fracking
Methane flaring from gas-drilling wellsNina Berman/NOOR This Is What Fracking Really Looks Like by David Rosenberg Photographer Nina Berman had just started focusing on climate and environmental issues when she read an article about fracking and its connection to the possible contamination of New York City’s drinking water. Berman resides
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Justin Ling reports on the federal government’s covert surveillance of Idle No More: Sitting in her teepee on Ottawa’s Victoria Island in December 2012, Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence was officially starting her hunger strike, breathing fire into the Idle No More movement
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jenny Carson asks what governments are doing to lift poor workers out of poverty. (Spoiler alert: the Cons’ answer is “why would we want to do that?”). – Meanwhile, Kemal Dervis and Uri Dadush discuss the desperate need to rein in inequality
Continue readingLeDaro: Fracking: Natural gas and risks
I watched a documentary on fracking by David Suzuki -The Nature of Things. It is an eye-opener that how dangerous fracking can be to the environment. It causes water pollution, air pollution and produces methane more than CO2 produced by other fossil fuels. Gas can show up in drinking water
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Study Finds High Levels of Arsenic in Groundwater Near Fracking Sites
A new study by researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington found elevated levels of arsenic and other heavy metals in groundwater near natural gas fracking sites in Texas’ Barnett Shale. The post Study Finds High Levels of Arsenic in Groundwater Near Fracking Sites appeared first on The Canadian
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Water, Water Everywhere
Something to think about from the folks at Operation Maple: Recommend this Post
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: It is Time for the BC NDP to Clean House. No More Reviews are Needed.
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger I have been a member of the BC NDP since the early 70′s. Like so many others I have been on a full tour of duty including a ‘Mission Impossible’ run to be the Malahat Juan de Fuca MLA back in 2001. Today we face yet another
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Obama’s Climate Action Plan a “Full-Throttle Endorsement” of Fracking: Experts
by: Institute for Public Accuracy | Press Release: STEVE HORN, @steve_horn1022: Horn is a research fellow for DeSmogBlog. He wrote yesterday: “President Obama announced his administration’s ‘Climate Action Plan‘ for cutting carbon pollution in his second term in the Oval Office at Georgetown University and unfortunately, it’s a full-throttle endorsement of every aspect
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