Our Drinking Water and Fracking CBM on Vancouver Island

Your Water and Fracking CBM on Vancouver Island: This will be a new fight for people who value their drinking water over Coal Bed Methane which is obtained by drilling wells (hole in the ground) loading it up with fracking fluids to fracture the underlying geology to release methane gas for heating, etc.

Fracking - Natural Gas Affects Water Quality

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In our phone interview, Jessica Ernst says she's "still getting used to" being compared to Erin Brockovich (the environmental activist made famous by Julia Robert's film portrayal ten years ago). The comparison comes easy because the outspoken Ernst, a landowner in the town of Rosebud, Alberta, is o...

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    Chris J. Slater Drilling in Canada
    
    Meanwhile, the BC government has been pushing drilling for unconventional sources of natural gas since at least 2005, offering $50,000 royalty credits for every well drilled before December 2008, and selling oil and gas "sub-surface rights" at a fever pitch.
    
    Both BC and Saskatchewan have been courting the industry with lax or no environmental regulations and promises of low royalties charged to the companies. The Petroleum Services Association of Canada (PSAC) predicts a 10 percent increase in drilling in BC in 2010, mostly in the Montney shale field of northeastern BC and the Horn River Basin near Fort Nelson.
    
    In 2006, researchers for West Coast Environmental Law published a report noting that the oil and gas industry had identified at least six areas of BC holding coalbed methane (CBM) natural gas potential: Peace country in the north east; Elk Valley in the southeast; Vancouver Island; the south central interior (around Merritt and Princeton); northwestern BC (around Telkwa and Iskut); and the Queen Charlotte Islands.
    
    Nanaimo Daily News (Nov. 7, 2009) has reported that Vancouver Island's CBM gas deposits - stretching from Chemainus to Parksville, and in the Comox-Campbell River area - are currently not of interest to the industry. Nonetheless, a group called Citizens Concerned About Coalbed Methane-Vancouver Island, (Tom Easton
    Citizens Concerned about Coalbed Methane – Vancouver Island
    250.923.3091
    eastont@uniserve.com
    www.cbmvi.org ) has for the past year been pushing for development under its action plan, "Building a Safe Future for CBM."
    
    In 2008, BC took in a record $2.4 billion from these leases, which is now its biggest source of royalties income.
    

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    Chris J. Slater MORE GOOD NEWS ABOUT CITIZENS ORGANIZING LOCALLY TO PREVENT GREEDY PUPPET POLITICIANS, INDUSTRIALISTS AND CORPORATIONS FROM DESTROYING EVEN OUR WATER!! This is a very interesting story... http://www.sabrinaartel.co​m/trailer-talk-shale-proje​ct/ Sabrina Artel has Ben Price explaining how communities can fight corporate power with a new legal weapon.(
    It’s coming down to Home Rule and self-determination as a way to protect municipalities...applicabl​e for urban farming?)
    
    These last few days for gas drilling news in New York has been critical and a new level of urgency has been reached as the country watches how New York defines and decides its fate, the future of its famous unfiltered water supply, and communities in the directly impacted regions, whether for or against drilling are forging ahead to determine their immediate future and that for future generations.
    
    It’s coming down to Home Rule and self-determination as a way to protect municipalities from fracking. As the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) releases New Recommendations for Drilling in New York explained in the Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (SGEIS) released a few days ago, environmental groups, like Catskill Mountainkeeper are calling for a statewide ban and municipalities organize to decide the fate of their towns.
    
    This is the continuation of the story of individuals speaking up when the gas corporations are attempting to control their hometowns and of individual becoming increasingly involved in their local government, collaborating with each other as they face drilling throughout the area. MORE GOOD NEWS ABOUT CITIZENS ORGANIZING LOCALLY TO PREVENT GREEDY SHORTED PRIVATIZING PUPPET POLITICIANS, INDUSTRIALISTS AND CORPORATIONS FROM DESTROYING EVEN OUR WATER!!
    

    
    

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