Concerns continue to flourish over the fracking wastewater that is ready to be released into the Bay of Fundy on April 30th, 2015 subject to an appeal first. Amid the concerns, is the mixing of the toxins into what could already be considered an already polluted bay. In a report published by the Bay of…
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Nova Scotian’s Don’t Want Sick Fish
On May 31st 2015, is the proposed date that Atlantic Industrial Systems may start pumping fracking wastewater through the Debert Sewer System which will end up in the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia. NRDC, the U.S. Natural Resources Defense Council, is a nonprofit organization of scientists, lawyers and environmental specialists dedicated to protecting public…
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Update: May 1st, 2015 Received word that the fracking wastewater will not be discharged through the sewer system in Debert. It will be processed by LaFarge, the cement plant in Brookfield, Nova Scotia. If you click on the proposed dumping date link in the paragraph below, you will see this event has been cancelled. There…
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While reading through some documents this morning, I ran across Critical Toxins Present, But Will Not Be Tested For — a report was written by Ken Summers for Ecology Action Centre. This pdf file has been posted on the documents page. It's important, that a couple of the chemicals Ken speaks of in this report,…
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Jessica Ernst is an environmental consultant in Alberta who has written 93-page report, Brief Review of Threats to Groundwater from the Oil and Gas Industry’s Methane Migration and Hydraulic Fracturing, and it covers a bit of what happened here in Nova Scotia, in 2013. As Doug Neil mentions in his appeal report that Bromide has…
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Cement Plant Disposal for Treated Fracking Waste Water: Government Says No Release to the Environment Written by Ken Summers and with his permission to reprint it. Who knew? Atlantic Industrial Services (AIS) has over the past year shopped to municipalities the treated fracking waste water held at their Debert facility at least five times. What…
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