Geoff Morrison, the manager of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) state that fracking has never contaminated drinking water.
There is the case of Jessica Ernst (an oil patch scientist herself) who says her and her neighbours well water was contaminated after Encana fractured the aquifer that supplies Rosebud, Alberta, with its drinking water.
When the matter went to court Neil Boyle, Alberta government lawyer, argued that the Ernst lawsuit should be stuck down as “it would open a floodgate of litigation against the province. “There could be billions of dollars worth of damages.”
In Northern B.C. the Oil and Gas Commission is currently investigating Talisman for groundwater contamination east of Fort St. John. Maybe this should be swept under the rug too?
As Christy Clark, with her best Ronald Reagan imitation put it, we'll get out of your way.”
She said it to the mining industry but there is no reason to believe that this does not apply equally to the petroleum producers as well.
After all, this great LNG project, which is to bring a New Jerusalem of prosperity to B.C., will require a vast amount of fracking.
So why not cover the fact that afterwards one will not be able to drink the water?
And the air might not be too breathable either?
Dennis Peacock
Clearwater, B.C.