Associated Press investigation confirms fracking water issues in 4 states
Well water from Dimock, PA – like this jug taken in 2012 – prompted a controversial EPA study (EcoWatch.com) Read this Jan. 5 story from AP and USA Today, which…
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Researchers tackle fracking radiation
Wastewater from fracking can contain high levels of radiation (photo: J Henry Fair) by Ramit Plushnick-Masti, The Associated Press HOUSTON – Researchers believe they have found an unlikely way to…
Disney abandons educational tour promoting fracking to kids
Ohio TV station NBC 4 is reporting that Radio Disney has decided to back out of a controversial partnership promoting fracking to elementary schoolers, labelled “Rocking in Ohio”. Disney’s participation…
Disney promotes fracking to elementary schoolers
Read this Jan 8 story from Aljazeera America on Radio Disney’s controverisal participation in an educational tour of Ohio, promoting fracking to kids. An educational program funded by Ohio’s oil…
In BC, fracking happens closer to schools, homes
This school playground in Farmington, BC, sits a few hundred meters from a sour gas well (Damien Gillis) Read this December 29 Vancouver Sun story from Stephen Hume on the…
Lubicon Lake Nation appeals injunction over oil fracking blockade
Photo: Lubicon Lake Nation CALGARY – A First Nation is appealing a court injunction against a blockade of an energy company’s drilling site in northern Alberta. The Lubicon Lake Nation…
Fracking water issues keep bubbling to surface
Texan Steve Lipsky sparked a heated battle over fracking and water contamination (image: Gasland II) Despite the shale gas industry’s aggressive efforts to keep a lid on water use and…
Fracking California: State divided over Monterey Shale
Californians protest fracking in front of the governor’s offices, May, 2013 (Justin Sullivan/Getty) Read this Dec. 29 Los Angeles Times opinion piece by Alex Prud’homme on the potential fracking boom…
EPA watchdog finds water concerns over Texas fracking justified
Steve Lipsky’s water issues are at the centre of a regulatory controversy involving fracking in Texas Read this Dec. 24 story from Ecowatch.com and Earthworks on the findings of the…
Misconceptions abound in Elsipogtog media coverage
Read this Nov. 14 opinion piece by Chelsea Vowel in the Toronto Star pointing out a number of often-ignored facts in the Elsipogtog First Nation protest of explorartory work for…
BC/Yukon First Nation bans fracking, finds impacts outweigh benefits
Fracking operation in northeast BC’s Horn River (Two Island Films, Ltd.) A First Nation with un-surrendered traditional territory in both northern BC and the Yukon passed a motion late last…
American fracker wraps divisive seismic work in Elsipogtog territory
Members of the Elsipogtog Nation and RCMP clash at a recent protest over fracking in New Brunswick REXTON, N.B. – SWN Resources Canada says it has wrapped up seismic testing…
Talisman frackwater pit leaked for months, kept from public
Four frackwater pits in Talisman’s Farrell Creek operations in northeast BC – photo taken in March. Pond A, on the far right, suffered a rupture, leaking contaminants into the soil…
BC NDP at the Fracking Crossroad!
Kevin Logan-Cowichan Conversations Contributor This weekend is a pivotal weekend for the future of British Columbia. The stars seemed to have aligned as overlapping events occur simultaneously all of which…
Canada’s largest energy union wants national fracking moratorium
First Nations and supporters protest fracking in Vancouver last month (Damien Gillis) Canada’s largest private sector union, Unifor, has joined the growing chorus of concern over controversial shale gas development.…
NWT developing regulatory model for oil fracking before devolution
Controversial natural gas fracking operations in BC (Damien Gillis) CALGARY – With the Northwest Territories preparing to take control of its resource development next spring, its industry minister has been…
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…
Should industry frack with our water?
Thursday, November 14, 2013 Hydraulic fracturing – which uses and pollutes a whole lot of water – should be a major discussion point within the public consultations on a new…
LNG & Fracking: Risky Business for BC – Nov 18, Vancouver
The BC Government is touting liquefied natural gas (LNG) extracted by fracking as so profitable it could eliminate the provincial debt. But fracking to export LNG has questionable economics, and…
Fracking, dead cows and…RADIATION?
Alberta cattle rancher Howard Hawkwood (photo courtesy of Green Planet Monitor) Alberta cattle rancher Howard Hawkwood has a beef with the local fracking industry. He’s convinced the controversial technique for…