Port au Port/Bay St. George Fracking Awareness Group. Who are we? Jessica Ernst Port au Port Forum (400 ) People’s Forum Arts & Culture Centre (400) Walk-the-Block (200) Signs! Signs! 34 Presentations Global Frackdown (150 people)
Websites: Save Gros Morne & Our West Coast E ast Coast Fracking Port au Port/Bay St. George Fracking Awareness Goup DIVEST GRENFELL/MUN
1000s Protest Fracking in NB Fracking is a Global Concern! Bans/Moratoria - New York - Nova Scotia - New Brunswick - Quebec … Ontario?? - Scotland - Wales - Maryland - Municipalities - Denton, Texas (Home of George P.Mitchell)
Dr. Anthony Ingraffea - Cornell University Prof. of Engineering - Specialty: Rock Fracturing - Ingraffea … Our Go to Resource - Expert on Hydraulic Fracking - Worked for Schlumberger
Dr. Michael Bradfield - Economics Professor at Dalhousie - Retired after 36 years - Member of the NS Panel on Fracking - Advisor to Federal and Prov. Gov. To determine the profitability of fracking …. You must calculate the cost of Externalities
West Coast Oil Exploration Explored … Late 90s Then Pulled Out
Then Came the Juniors Vulcan (2004 fracked Flat Bay … without approval) Investcan Canadian Imperial Venture Corp. Shoal Point Energy Deer Lake Gas and Oil Leprechaun Ptarmigan
NALCOR Oil and Gas - 2007 PEEP - Petroleum Enhancement Exploration Program Partner with Juniors … Drilled Parsons Pond 2010 I nvest in Research of Geology … Aeromagnetic survey Junior Oil Companies (looking for investors) Investcan Ptarmigan Leprechaun Shoal Point Energy Vulcan Deer Lake Oil and Gas
Atlantic Canada Oil Play Nalcor gathers more data … completed aeromagnetic survey along west coast Green Point Shale: Complex … vaulted …. inconsistent … fractured
2012 … Shoal Point Energy Need Investors Shoal Point Energy CEO George Langdon We need to Frack to exploit the tight oil … Press Releases & Public Meetings
What’s all the Fuss About ? Shoal Point Energy / Black Spruce Exploration Applied for Amendment to Frack Shoal Point!
BSE Signs Farmin Agreement With Shoal Point Energy and Ptarmigan Press Release Spring 2013 Black Spruce has a drill rig in Texas ready to ship to Stephenville complete with pipe and supplies to do the job. - BSE formed in late 2012 … sole purpose to explore Green Point Shale (fracking) - Claims to have experience but never actually drilled a well - BSE sign agreements with other juniors January 2013 and into 2014 - Issues various press releases: April 10, 2013; C. B. Board of Trade: - Yr. 1 = 50 jobs+ Yr 2= 150 jobs+ Yr. 3 = 500 jobs +
Green Point Geology is Not Like the Bakken or Barnett Layer Cake Many in the Oil Industry will say top "layers are impermeable". Dr. Ingraffia/Oil Industry have verified that "fluid migration occurs"
Geology Doesn't Follow Plan George Langdon:“A Wild Frontier ...Difficult to drill ...well-bore keeps collapsing" (What about Migration of Fluids? Gas? Chemicals) F Fracking from onshore out under sea is very rare
Bottle Cove - Lark Harbour Outer Bay of Islands Keith Nicol Photo
Peace and Quiet - Trout River Near Gros Morne National Park
Sally’s Cove
Tourism & Fishery Will Be in Jeopardy Tourism: 228 million $ on the West Coast/ over 1 billion $ for the Prov. annually/1.03% annual increase 20/20 Vision?? …. Gov/HNL/Go West/Tourist groups T he Gravels
Fracking is an Extremely Controversial Practice!
Medical Concerns: Health & Safety Dr. Ian Simpson Toxic Chemicals, Water, Air, Noise, Radioactive Waste Water, Transportation, Spills, Stress, First Responders, Etc. Dr. Penny Allderdice
Flare Stacks: A Big Blow Torch Methane, Hydrogen Sulphide, Benzene, Frack Fluids Problem: Health, Pollution (Air/ Visual),Tourism, Wildlife, Global Warming
Full Disclosure of Chemicals ???? NO! Proprietary Information - Cannot Disclose If they don’t have full disclosure, you cannot identify the source contamination.
5 Mil. Gal. of Freshwater Per Frack 91,000 drums = a 51 km line of drums Once the fresh water is contaminated with 500 drums of chemicals it is lost from the water table. (Fresh vs Salt H2O)
Chemical Use in Fracking Tons of mystery chemicals (red) Tons hydrogen chloride (blue) Tons potassium hydroxide (lav.) Plus misc. chemicals ( chem. compounds also form) SkyTruth’s mission is to motivate and empower new constituencies for environmental protection. We use scientifically credible satellite images and other visual technologies to create compelling pictures that vividly illustrate environmental impacts and provide these pictures and supporting data to environmental advocates, the media, and the public. http://blog. skytruth.org/2012/06/meet-frack-family.html
Flowback and Waste Water Toxic Flowback Radioactive Waste Water Ponds Kennetcook, NS … 2006 - still there
Earthquakes Increasing - Deep Well Injection of Waste Water Fracking linked to Alberta earthquakes, study indicates The most recent earthquake in the province was recorded in Peace River on Nov. 2, 2014 By Kim Trynacity, Alicja Siekierska, CBC News Posted: Nov 10, 2014 6:00 AM M T Rocky Mountain House - Power restored after 4.3-magnitude earthquake hits western Alberta - Earthquake hazard linked with deep well injection in Alberta EARTHQUAKE OUTBREAK: ARKANSAS BANS FRACKING (From Crude Justice … Aug. 10, 2014 National Geographic March 2015: Dramatic Increase in Oklahoma Earthquakes 1990 >>>> 2008 (5 per year of mag. 3+) …. 2014 (584 of mag. 3+)
A Concern for Kippens If Fracking Proceeds Truck Traffic .. Upkeep of Roads? Bridges? Can infrastructure & residents handle the strain? Port au Port (Berry Hill) Romaines River Trucks 1st well 300 +/- Production well 1000s Are we ready for it?
What About Kippens Firefighters? Accidents Do Happen Are They up to the fight?
J uly 6/13 Lac Megantic Explosion Fracked Crude Not Like Hibernia Crude 47 People Died!!!!!! Who’s reponsible?
Alberta Fracking An Unregulated Free-For-All, Licence Data Shows: NDP Huff Post CP | By Dean Bennett, The Canadian PressPosted: 02/04/2014 1:27 pm EDMONTON - Alberta New Democrats say newly released documents show fracking has become an unregulated free-for-all in the province with no regard for the impact on groundwater or on people's health. NDP Leader Brian Mason presented information Tuesday provided under freedom-of-information laws that shows the number of hydraulic fracturing licences granted by the province soared 647 per cent last year to 1,516.
Gulf of Mexico - Fishery & Tourism Devastated Gulf St. Lawrence is one-third the Size Deepwater Horizon
John Watson, CEO of Chevron Admits that Fracking Raises Legitimate Safety Concerns Kurt Glaubitz ... a Chevron spokesman referring to truck traffic and disposal of hazardous waste water are concerns that they need to confront ... he explained: Watson said "public expectations are very high and there is no reason they shouldn't be high ... there are some legitimate risks out there" (From Grist online Mag: June 13, 2013 )
Exploring The Green Point Shale Can Be Risky Business Green Point Shale Geology - Dept.Natural Resources (Pg. 1) The increased geological complexity noted above * carries the potential for increased risk, so the potential of the Green Point shale as a suitable target for hydraulic fracturing must be fully and carefully evaluated. However, it is difficult to quantify the risk with the current available data. The acquisition of new data would provide valuable information about rock layers below the surface, making the risk assessment more reliable and accurate. “Not a simple package in a consistently layered sequence .” (Vaulted,transported,severely fractured)
Panel Review - Conflict Terms of Reference: " The independent panel has been appointed by the Minister of Natural Resources to conduct a public review and make recommendations on whether or not hydraulic fracturing should be undertaken in Western Newfoundland." Part 3 of Trilogy - Draft Regulations: The NL Minister of Natural Resources believes that hydraulic fracturing in recovery of oil and gas in NL onshore can be used safely if done properly within an appropriate regulatory framework and with effective oversight by the regulator. Use of oil and gas is important in all modern economies, and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future.
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