Hydro Frack Blows Out Oil Well

[ASRG]

Yesterday went out to an oil well blow out west of Innisfail Alberta. Another company was hydro fracking a well 3/4 of a mile away and it blew out the producing well!
The farmer who phoned us tried to phone the ERCB emergency hotline but no one was answering, so he phoned us.
Oil was shooting up thirty feet in the air, misting across about 6 or 7 acres, big pool of oil ran down a gully and pooled below.
According to all the government BS...this shouldn't have been possible.....maybe they really don't have a clue about much of anything?
This morning on the radio (I guess they finally answered the phone!),the ERCB says they are "investigating"! There is your "world class regulator" hard at work for you!

[ALLFARMER]

Smoke and Mirrors

The ERCB handle's Public Relations for the oil
industry.

[ASRG]

I guess most people don't see this as a big deal? If you live in Alberta......believe me the shale play is coming to you. You will be amazed at what is about to happen.
Okay.....what does that mean?
It means, quite frankly, every square inch of the province will be drilled. It won't mean a super amount of wells.....they will drill the whole thing off multi-well pads. So no big deal right?
The only problem here is this: Expect, more problems like the one that happened here. Expect some real "water wrecks"......yes that means your water well! If a hydro frack can "migrate" between zones over 1,000 meters
The new well spacing rules in Alberta means this is going to be the norm! We need to take a second look here? What is important.......water or natural gas?

[smcgrath76]

I am 100% convinced they are goning to
destroy the water resources in this
province and then walk away. Currently NG
is more important because you can sell it
for money. Wait until there is no readily
accessible potable water and see what it's
worth.
We are already working on and planning
some bigger surface water developments for
this exact reason.

[per]

It's a big deal ASRG; it kind of leaves some of us speachless. Hard to focus on all the different fronts we need to be aware of.

[grassfarmer]

What should we do on an individual farmer basis to
prevent this expansion of drilling? And what should
we do collectively as landowners? What is the best
plan of approach?

[forage]

The daily papers just arrived here at camp the Red Deer had an excellant article in todays paper. Seems you guys where there before they got the chance to cover it up. Nothing in Calgary or Edmonton. I have heard this is happening more than what is being reported. The ercb needs to wake up and start telling the truth.
Damn Damn cold here Ft.Macfoundland , sounds like the deep freeze is to stay for a while.

[Ronski]

Hey ASRG. Very interesting indeed.
Thanks for the info.

[ASRG]

I guess we can be thankful the blowout was a sweet oil well.......might have been pretty ugly if it was a sour well?
I think the government better get some better regulations in place before they let the shale feeding frenzy go completely crazy! If they can't predict where the frack is going to go, they had better keep them far away from the H2S stuff?

[per]

Help me out here ASRG. Is the Fracking any different or more powerfull than it used to be or is the shallowness of the wells the issue or the well spacing? Has this always been an issue?