Mike Cooper is the councillor for District 4 communities in Nova Scotia. At a recent meeting of the Nova Scotia Federation of Municipalities (NSFM) he stated:

“I just want to bring up one thing that I totally oppose and that’s lifting the ban on fracking,” he said. “From everything I’ve investigated over many years that I’d never support fracking.”

The councillor sitting right beside him — Dist. 5 Coun. Tim Johnson — had a diametrically opposing view. First, he said the province isn’t asking for approval; they’re asking for consent.

It’s important to know who your friends and enemies are if we need to fight fracking again.

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Critical Toxins Present, But Will Not Be Tested For — This report was written by Ken Summers for Ecology Action Centre. It’s in pdf format and you can click here to download it. IN this report it says:

AIS has given assurances to Council of extensive testing of all hydraulic fracturing fluids before the company accepts them for treatment. But the evidence indicates that there was little or no testing of fluids that AIS brought from New Brunswick. Results of testing performed on the fluids in the Triangle Petroleum Kennetcook waste ponds have been secured and made publicly available through Freedom of Information. These analyses were made available to AIS, but are only for a very limited number of chemical compounds. AIS also received from Triangle the manifests for all the chemical compounds used in the hydraulic fracturing- but the amounts used are not given, and cannot be calculated.