Let’s get one thing clear, this is not about conspiracy theories. This isn’t about a powerful elite meeting in darkened rooms to fondle their fluffy white cats whilst talking in menacing tones. This isn’t about class warfare. What the diagram … Continue reading
EEI research
Brief review of threats to Canada’s groundwater from the oil and gas industry’s methane migration and hydraulic fracturing
Nearly a decade ago Encana, one of the world’s largest natural gas producers, began a risky and experimental drilling program that required intense hydraulic fracturing for shallow coalbed methane (Horseshoe Canyon Formation) throughout central Alberta. Landowner Jessica Ernst, President of Ernst … Continue reading
Extreme Energy As Genocidal Method: Tar Sands and the Indigenous Peoples of Northern Alberta
Author(s): Jennifer Huseman and Damien Short Abstract: In this paper we discuss the impact of the tar sands development in northern Alberta on the indigenous communities of the Treaty 8 region.[i] While the project has brought income to some, and … Continue reading
