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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A lot of us sent in our appeals, and we were contacted to see if we would like to make a presentation at upcoming public meeting. I can't help but wonder why they weren't able to tell us how much time we would be alloted. If it's the same as the meetings in Debert in…

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This list was published May, 2013 in the paper. They claimed they had nothing to hide and there weren't any secret chemicals. Funny, though... when you add them up, I came up with 96.039 which leaves about 4% of the mixture unaccounted for. Typical solution used in hydraulic fracking and common uses of the compounds:…

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