The Common Sense Canadian: First Nation upset CNRL is draining lake to...
photo: Canadian Natural Resources Limited Read this Sept. 28 story from CBC on the ongoing Alberta bitumen leak crisis near Cold Lake. The Common Sense Canadian has been following the unfolding...
View ArticleThe Common Sense Canadian: Will new Water Act rein in groundwater use for...
Frack water pit in BC’s Horn River Basin (photo: Damien Gillis) By Anna Novacek – republished from Energy Law BC As the only province in Canada that does not regulate groundwater use, BC has been...
View ArticleThe Common Sense Canadian: Athabasca River contaminated by Canada’s largest...
Read this Nov. 8 story from EcoWatch on what is quite possibly Canada’s largest coal slurry spill, which happened in late October near Hinton, Alberta. A scary thing happened on Halloween near Hinton,...
View ArticleThe Common Sense Canadian: Regulator, Encana sued over fracking, water
Vancouver-based environmental law firm ecojustice announced a lawsuit Wednesday in BC court against the province’s oil and gas regulator over its allegedly unlawful issuance of water permits for...
View ArticleThe Common Sense Canadian: Industry seeks right to release water from...
Syncrude tailings pond (photo: David Dodge, Pembina Institute) EDMONTON – Oilsands producers are talking with the federal and Alberta governments about conditions under which water from the industry’s...
View ArticleThe Common Sense Canadian: Yet another CNRL leak probed by Alberta regulator...
An earlier CNRL leak in Cold Lake, Alberta (Chester Dawson / Wall Street Journal) COLD LAKE, Alta. – The Alberta Energy Regulator is investigating another leak from a Canadian Natural Resources...
View ArticleThe Common Sense Canadian: David Suzuki: Trading water for fuel is fracking...
Fracking protest in New Brunswick (photo: Colin McPhail) It would be difficult to live without oil and gas. But it would be impossible to live without water. Yet, in our mad rush to extract and sell...
View ArticleThe Common Sense Canadian: Yukon fracking threatens groundwater safety:...
The Liard River Basin is threatened by proposed fracking (Two Island Films) Read this Jan. 31 article from the Whitehorse Star on the risks and benefits of hydraulic fracturing of shale gas wells on...
View ArticleThe Common Sense Canadian: SFU, regional district expand Peace Valley water...
Read this Aug. 20 story by Elaine Anselmi in the Alaska Highway News on SFU’s baseline studies Rural residents in the Peace River area are being asked to put their water to the test and allow...
View ArticleThe Common Sense Canadian: Fracking, Site C and the mystery of Hudson’s Hope...
Five year-old River Summer looks on at Brenot Creek landslide (Photo: Leigh Summer) A series of landslides above the northeast BC community of Hudson’s Hope has been dumping contaminated soils into...
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