Ontheboatout

Following the intensive study resulting in the Wheeler Report, (Dr David Wheeler of UK) Nova Scotia Minister Andrew Younger has just announced fracking is to be banned in the Fall Legislature.

Aviator

So it should be, it is obscene, especially in a public place like the legislature.

BEVS

Bravo. Now can we just move New Zealand to Nova Scotia.

Yup! We have fracking here in the quake zone.

DandNHill

I don't know much about fracking, actually probably nothing... Does this mean no new off shore drilling will be possible then?

Simon Legree

No. It means no hydraulic fracturing on the land. You should gen up on it.

Siouxie

As this post has nothing to do with immigration I have moved it to the main Canada forum.

DandNHill

I should you are quite right. There's been a lot going on with this in Sussex where I'm from too so I really should understand.
I'm glad it doesn't mean no offshore drilling as there are some big plans off the coast of south west NS that could be great for the province

Souvy

Fracking is mainly for natural gas, not oil. It's been around for a long time (since the 1940s).

It pisses off people who knit their own muesli.

Piff Poff

Or those that would like to drink their own well water

DandNHill

My Dad was an engineer for natural gas and petroleum. I remember them digging around in all sorts of places all over the world... hmm hope he wasn't involved

Souvy

It's water and sand FFS! Basically the same stuff you'd find in a water filtration system.

Simon Legree

It isn't just "water and sand FFS !" They also use diesel fuel and a host of"proprietary" chemicals which they are not required to disclose thanks to Dick Cheney.
There are over 5 million liters of fracking waste stored in lagoons at Debert, NS which the frackers wanted to dump in the municipal sewer system. The Province and the Municipality stopped them and now it has to be trucked to NB, from whence it came, where they seem OK with disposing of it.
I do not " knit my own muesli" by the way.

Alan2005

Being able to set your tap water on fire doesn't strike me as normal.

Souvy

A good party trick, though

This fracking thing, along with other arguments involving the extractive industries, racks me off a bit. People seem happy to reap the benefits (like cheaper natural gas), provided it goes on somewhere else. NIMBYism.

I quite liked a bumper sticker I picked from the Alberta government booth at a trade show a few years ago.

"Ban mining. Let the bastards freeze in the dark."

Perhaps the breast-beaters should check to see if they own anything made from gold, silver or platinum. Like, perhaps, their bling. There are some seriously nasty chemicals involved there. They don't cause earthquakes but they can completely destroy a river in minutes.

Zoe Bell

Ditto with so called "green" solar panels, I believe some fairly noxious arsenides used in the manufacture.

And of course the batteries in cars like the Prius.

All they really give you is sense of warm fuzzyness as opposed to actually doing any good.

But at least it saves you from having to knit your muesli