Saturday, December 31, 2011

Countdown to CONNECT Canadian Premiere - 12 days!

Cuba fishing during the making of "Connect."
Photo courtesy: Jim Klug, Producer, Confluence Films

We are counting down the days to the Canadian Premiere of ‘CONNECT’ on January 13th, 2012!

Each day, we will post an exclusive Jim Klug photo from ‘The Making of CONNECT’.

Check back daily to enjoy behind-the-scenes action from the six corners of the ‘CONNECT’ world: Africa, Alaska, Cuba, Japan, Maine and Yellowstone.

Alberta: Fracking fears spur review of oilpatch regulations


Fracking fears spur review of oilpatch regulations

Provinces committed to registry to disclose use of chemicals

By Rebecca Penty,
Calgary Herald;
With Files From Dan Healing
December 30, 2011

The Alberta government is pushing ahead with a regulatory overhaul to handle an expected boom in light oil production from resource plays, attributed to the application of advanced oilfield technology.

Energy Minister Ted Morton is committing the province to updating its rules, amid public concern across the continent about the safety of multi-stage hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, which is being widely employed to tap previously unproductive reservoirs.

"We have the opportunity here to be leaders in the safe and responsible development of unconventional oil and gas," Morton said in a year-end interview.

"The Americans are a little bit further down the road than we are and they've had some success stories but also some failures."

Hydraulic fracturing typically involves forcing large amounts of water, mixed with chemicals and sand, down a well at high pressure.

The activity creates cracks in the impermeable rock that are propped open with the sand, to make paths for oil or natural gas that's pushed up the well bore to the surface.

Looking back along the Bow River - Season 2011

Photo: Copyright Bow River Shuttles 2011

Friday, December 30, 2011

Countdown to CONNECT Canadian Premiere - 13 days!

Alaska pike fishing during the making of "Connect."
Photo courtesy: Jim Klug, Producer, Confluence Films

We are counting down the days to the Canadian Premiere of ‘CONNECT’ on January 13th, 2012!

Each day, we will post an exclusive Jim Klug photo from ‘The Making of CONNECT’.

Check back daily to enjoy behind-the-scenes action from the six corners of the ‘CONNECT’ world: Africa, Alaska, Cuba, Japan, Maine and Yellowstone.

Journey on Sacred Waters: Upper Stikine River - Jan 04, 2012

Courtesy: Bruce Adair

Bow River Shuttles writes: Although this slide show is targeted to paddlers, we thought that fly fishers might enjoy it as well. While the Stikine may not be as popular as the Skeena and some of its tribs for fly fishers, the headwaters of both rivers originate in the same area, the watersheds are adjacent to one another and both are under threat of development by the oil and gas industry.

The Sacred Headwaters is a vast alpine basin in northern British Columbia, where three of Canada’s greatest wild salmon rivers — the Skeena, Nass and Stikine — all begin their journeys to the Pacific Ocean.

Courtesy: Bruce Adair

The Stikine River in northwest B.C. has two canoeing routes separated by the Grand Canyon of the Stikine.

The nearly three hundred kilometer route of the upper portion lies entirely within the Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness and Stikine River Provincial Parks. From sub-alpine lakes and a small stream, the waterway quickly develops into a major river.

The region is of current interest with mining and shale gas developments underway on what is often called the Sacred Waters.

This is a journey by two tandem canoes in August of 2011.

Presented by: Bruce Adair

Date: Wed Jan 04, 2012

Time: Doors Open – 7:00 pm
          Meeting/Slide Show – 7:30 pm

Place: Bow Waters Canoe Club
1975, 26 St. SE Calgary AB

Cost: Free




This video shows some of the fly fishing potential of the Stikine River

Looking back along the Bow River - Season 2011


Family trip – kids & the fishing dog
Photo: Copyright Bow River Shuttles 2011

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Countdown to CONNECT Canadian Premiere - 14 days!

Tiger fishing in Tanzania during the making of 'CONNECT'.
Photo courtesy: Jim Klug, Producer, Confluence Films

We are counting down the days to the Canadian Premiere of ‘CONNECT’ on January 13th, 2012!

Each day, we will post an exclusive Jim Klug photo from ‘The Making of CONNECT’.

Check back daily to enjoy behind-the-scenes action from the six corners of the ‘CONNECT’ world: Africa, Alaska, Cuba, Japan, Maine and Yellowstone.

Once bitten twice caught

Once bitten twice caught from chroniclesofcod on Vimeo.

Looking back along the Bow River - Season 2011

Michelle chatting with shuttle client
Photo: Copyright Bow River Shuttles 2011