BURNABY (NEWS1130) – It’s the first Metro Vancouver city, and perhaps first in the province, to call for a moratorium on fracking.
Despite the fact that there is no hydraulic fracturing in Burnaby, or even near Burnaby, city councillor Sav Dhaliwal says it’s an environmental question, and it affects us all.
“Since we are so interdependent with our neighbours and our environment, we have a duty to raise a concern.”
Burnaby becomes the first Metro Vancouver city to call for a moratorium on fracking.
The method injects a mix of water, sand and chemicals underground to get to natural gas. “We see ourselves as a part of a larger, broader community. All of us in North America and this world are connected,” says Dhaliwal.
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Anyone who thinks fracking is safe must not have seen David Suzuki’s doc. on the subject. If you have not seen the doc. please go to your google and just type “Town of dish lawsuit”. A town is taking 6 gas firms to court on the matter due to various health issues. Tell-tale sign is nose bleeds in children; maybe from the benzene, who knows…they are just starting the testing. Yeah sure these wells are safe, let me guess who would say just a thing…..big oil and gas guys.
Fracking is an old story in BC. It is done with existing gas wells to allow more natural gas to escape.
Please note that fracking is short for fracturing.
In 1980, on the Blueberry Indian Reserve in Northeast BC, fracking was being carried out. The “operator” left the site of the gas well and went home I suppose. The sand used in the fracking, under very high pressure, wore through an elbow joint at the well head. This was a “sour” gas well. That is, the natural gas came with significant amounts of hydrogen sulphide. As anyone who has been to the gas chamber can tell you, you only smell the gas briefly before it paralyzes the sense of smell. Then you die.
It was a Sunday when the Blueberry River gas well began spewing gas into the air. Just by sheer luck, a Reserve resident spotted the cloud of gas.
Raising the alarm, the whole community made a run for it into the bush carrying only what they could grab for clothing. They ran into the bush because the exit road ran through the cloud of gas.
Canada barely escaped having it’s own Bhopal.
It is well known that fracking contaminates aquifers. For that reason alone it should be banned in BC. A real concern about fracking, at least from my point of view, are the unanticipated consequences. The Burnaby City Council and Mayor should be commended for taking a stand on this issue. Thank God, the proponents can’t claim job creation through fracking. It takes very little manpower.
Are you fracking kidding me? Why is this fracking guy raising a fracking non-issue. He’s just doing some fracking political grandstanding for frack sakes.