Thursday, April 28, 2011

What the frack is going on?


Rosebud resident Jessica Ernst sets her well water on fire, in a demonstration for the news media in 2006. Photograph by: Archive, Calgary Herald

Jessica Ernst, who lives in the Rosebud River Valley area of Alberta, is taking on Encana, Alberta Environment and the Energy Resources Conservation Board.

She contends that coal bed methane drilling has resulted in the pollution of her well water, and she’s suing for $33-Million.

Jessica is quoted in a
Calgary Herald article today as saying "I'm doing this case for all Albertans, and for our water. I'm not doing this for me".

You can follow the fracking issue, and Jessica's fight, on the blog
Fracking Canada.

As it happens, there was blow out on a fracking operation in Pennsylvania last week. Fly fishing blog
Chi Wulff posted an article ’Frack You’.

Still on the subject of fracking: An entry in the Calgary International Film Festival last year was ‘Burning Water’, also about the Rosebud River Valley.

Burning Water Trailer V.1 from Bunbury Films on Vimeo.

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