Sarcasm - I don't think so Klause - caught you out fair and square BS'ing. No methanol indeed - check out the white paper prepared for the Methanol Institute on the role of methanol in fracking. It's even got the company MSDS sheets on there listing the methanol, not even hidden in their proprietary information.
http://www.methanol.org/Environment/Resources/Environment/Methanol-Fracking-Fluid-White-Paper-Aug-2011.aspx
LEP seems a complete novice too - it's all shale gas fracking they are doing in central Alberta, not oil, but when you say shale gas and its closer proximity to water I guess you are actually meaning fracking coal bed methane like at Rosebud. And so naive as to point out that it's at a different level to the water so how could contamination happen.
With 20-30% of existing and abandoned wells leaking, corroded well bores and poor cement jobs there is plenty opportunity for migration. Ask the folks in Pavillion, Wyoming what is in their water and where it came from. Or the "well communication" issue at Innisfail, AB where fracking on one side of a hill blew out an oil well on the other side and they knew nothing about it until passers by pointed out the oil slick running across a farmers field.
Allis I'd be wary of investing in such a process. First there is the "ethical investment" side which doesn't seem to bother you. Just wait until it's your land or your water contaminated.
Secondly you are taking a big risk investing in such cowboy activity. Fracking bans and moratoriums are springing up around the globe as more is learned about the practice. Denton, Texas - the birth place of hydraulic fracturing has banned it. Scotland, Wales and numerous other EU countries have moratoriums. Here in Canada New Brunswick, Quebec, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland all have bans or moratoriums in place.
As landowners I think there is a bigger issue here - you folks need to educate yourselves and wake up to the risks before the land men knock on your neighbours door wanting to drill under your land.
Here in Alberta we had the Provincial Government argue in court last fall in the Ernst vs Encana lawsuit that through their regulator the ERCB they "owed no duty of care to individual landowners harmed by industrial activity" They also tried to have her lawsuit struck down "because it would open a floodgate of litigation against the province"
What more proof do you need that they know this practise is wrong and they know it? As landowners that should concern you all.
http://www.methanol.org/Environment/Resources/Environment/Methanol-Fracking-Fluid-White-Paper-Aug-2011.aspx
LEP seems a complete novice too - it's all shale gas fracking they are doing in central Alberta, not oil, but when you say shale gas and its closer proximity to water I guess you are actually meaning fracking coal bed methane like at Rosebud. And so naive as to point out that it's at a different level to the water so how could contamination happen.
With 20-30% of existing and abandoned wells leaking, corroded well bores and poor cement jobs there is plenty opportunity for migration. Ask the folks in Pavillion, Wyoming what is in their water and where it came from. Or the "well communication" issue at Innisfail, AB where fracking on one side of a hill blew out an oil well on the other side and they knew nothing about it until passers by pointed out the oil slick running across a farmers field.
Allis I'd be wary of investing in such a process. First there is the "ethical investment" side which doesn't seem to bother you. Just wait until it's your land or your water contaminated.
Secondly you are taking a big risk investing in such cowboy activity. Fracking bans and moratoriums are springing up around the globe as more is learned about the practice. Denton, Texas - the birth place of hydraulic fracturing has banned it. Scotland, Wales and numerous other EU countries have moratoriums. Here in Canada New Brunswick, Quebec, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland all have bans or moratoriums in place.
As landowners I think there is a bigger issue here - you folks need to educate yourselves and wake up to the risks before the land men knock on your neighbours door wanting to drill under your land.
Here in Alberta we had the Provincial Government argue in court last fall in the Ernst vs Encana lawsuit that through their regulator the ERCB they "owed no duty of care to individual landowners harmed by industrial activity" They also tried to have her lawsuit struck down "because it would open a floodgate of litigation against the province"
What more proof do you need that they know this practise is wrong and they know it? As landowners that should concern you all.
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