Five year-old River Summer looks on at Brenot Creek landslide (Photo: Leigh Summer) A series of landslides above the northeast BC community of Hudson’s Hope has been dumping contaminated soils into several local creeks, extending now to the Peace River. Local landowners whose water supply has been affected are demanding answers.
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The Common Sense Canadian: SFU, regional district expand Peace Valley water study re: oil and gas
Read this Aug. 20 story by Elaine Anselmi in the Alaska Highway News on SFU’s baseline studies Rural residents in the Peace River area are being asked to put their water to the test and allow researchers from Simon Fraser University (SFU) to dip into their wells and springs. “It
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Yukon fracking threatens groundwater safety: hydrologist
The Liard River Basin is threatened by proposed fracking (Two Island Films) Read this Jan. 31 article from the Whitehorse Star on the risks and benefits of hydraulic fracturing of shale gas wells on the Yukon’s groundwater: The Yukon needs a better understanding of its groundwater system before the government
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: David Suzuki: Trading water for fuel is fracking crazy
Fracking protest in New Brunswick (photo: Colin McPhail) It would be difficult to live without oil and gas. But it would be impossible to live without water. Yet, in our mad rush to extract and sell every drop of gas and oil as quickly as possible, we’re trading precious water
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Yet another CNRL leak probed by Alberta regulator in Cold Lake
An earlier CNRL leak in Cold Lake, Alberta (Chester Dawson / Wall Street Journal) COLD LAKE, Alta. – The Alberta Energy Regulator is investigating another leak from a Canadian Natural Resources (TSX:CNQ) bitumen well near Cold Lake. The regulator says 27,000 litres of crude bitumen were released underground on Jan.
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Industry seeks right to release water from oilsands tailings ponds
Syncrude tailings pond (photo: David Dodge, Pembina Institute) EDMONTON – Oilsands producers are talking with the federal and Alberta governments about conditions under which water from the industry’s tailings ponds could be released into the environment. Officials say releases would only involve treated water and wouldn’t happen until the end
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Regulator, Encana sued over fracking, water
Vancouver-based environmental law firm ecojustice announced a lawsuit Wednesday in BC court against the province’s oil and gas regulator over its allegedly unlawful issuance of water permits for fracking. The suit, which also names energy giant Encana, is being brought on behalf of the Wilderness Committee and Sierra Club BC
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Athabasca River contaminated by Canada’s largest coal slurry spill
Read this Nov. 8 story from EcoWatch on what is quite possibly Canada’s largest coal slurry spill, which happened in late October near Hinton, Alberta. A scary thing happened on Halloween near Hinton, Alberta. Canada had what may be the largest coal slurry spill in its history when a dam
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Will new Water Act rein in groundwater use for fracking, LNG?
Frack water pit in BC’s Horn River Basin (photo: Damien Gillis) By Anna Novacek – republished from Energy Law BC As the only province in Canada that does not regulate groundwater use, BC has been referred to as the “wild west” of groundwater. Groundwater has and will continue to be relied on
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: First Nation upset CNRL is draining lake to contain Alberta bitumen leak
photo: Canadian Natural Resources Limited Read this Sept. 28 story from CBC on the ongoing Alberta bitumen leak crisis near Cold Lake. The Common Sense Canadian has been following the unfolding disaster for several months now and there appears to be no resolution in sight, as CNRL’s operation has spilled over 1.5 million litres
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