WORLD - Water Contamination from Fracking: Jessica Ernst Releases Groundbreaking Report. Jessica Ernst, a high-profile, Alberta-based environmental consultant, has released a comprehensive summary of science, facts and documents relating to groundwater contamination from the controversial practice of natural gas hydraulic fracturing (fracking).
The culmination of ten years of research, the 93-page report is sure to cause a stir with the energy sector and its critics. Groundwater contamination has been a key concern surrounding the booming fracking industry.
“Jessica Ernst has made a strong case,” says Will Koop, BC Tapwater Alliance Coordinator. “Her collection provides excellent and technically friendly working tools, enabling the public to draw their own conclusions from the critical information. This is not just an invaluable document for North Americans, but for the world.”
Having consulted for the oil and gas industry for thirty years, Ernst became concerned about its impacts when they began to hit home - "living with dangerous contamination after EnCana hydraulically fractured my community's drinking water aquifers
"http://bit.ly/12PdFxl #WorldWaterDay
[2] North America: Chemical Disclosure - What's in Your Water? http://bit.ly/19WngW7
[3] On a recent episode of 'Real Time with Bill Maher' Niall Ferguson questioned Josh Fox's credentials and veracity of the science used for his Gasland documentaries. He shouted at documentary filmmaker Josh Fox, "You’re exaggerating the environmental costs, and you’re totally understating the economic benefits. And the only people cheering you on are the Russians, Gazprom, who share your views by the way..You are doing scare-mongering...What are your credentials..What are your credentials.." Josh Fox's response, "I am a citizen of America."
http://bit.ly/15owq6L #StopHarper #NoKXL #Coal#GlobalRev #KeystoneXL #Alberta
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