Lorne Fitch is correct in assuming that the UCP government must be living in a different universe. Water quality testing in Alberta is nothing short of abysmal...if it was working, they'd shut down the tar sands and fine every oil and gas company millions$$ instead of using the First Nations people as guinea pigs for their pollution.
It is not Kool-Aid they are drinking. It is their ivermectin that they are drinking; only the supplier is using the 'let industry regulate themselves' approach to making it safe.
Like the tailings pond effluent that poured into the Athabasca river for months? The lack of notice to local communities? The slap on the wrist for any infractions… if they ever even get to be known by the public?
The AER is a captured regulator, firmly in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry, & so is this government. Land owners are not being compensated while operators are going bankrupt.
What happens when all that monitoring finally proves that the selenium issue can’t be mitigated, they pack up their tents & Albertans get stuck with the bill for GENERATIONS!
Not a single shovel or drill bit should be allowed until a thorough independent & public involved environmental & safety review is conducted at arms length from this inept government!
When the largest toxic spill into a North American river occurred to that date in 2013,at Obed, near Hinton,into the Athabasca, nothing was noticed despite the fact "world class air and water monitoring" were allegedly in place.
Not a blip!
Flim flam and obfuscation are the main environmental tools used to monitor Alberta's environment.
AER,bought, paid for and operated by oil, gas, coal and other resource extraction industries.
It would be interesting to see satellite imagery of methane leaks in Alberta. The technology exists.
Lorne Fitch is correct in assuming that the UCP government must be living in a different universe. Water quality testing in Alberta is nothing short of abysmal...if it was working, they'd shut down the tar sands and fine every oil and gas company millions$$ instead of using the First Nations people as guinea pigs for their pollution.
It is not Kool-Aid they are drinking. It is their ivermectin that they are drinking; only the supplier is using the 'let industry regulate themselves' approach to making it safe.
Heavily monitored?
Like the tailings pond effluent that poured into the Athabasca river for months? The lack of notice to local communities? The slap on the wrist for any infractions… if they ever even get to be known by the public?
The AER is a captured regulator, firmly in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry, & so is this government. Land owners are not being compensated while operators are going bankrupt.
What happens when all that monitoring finally proves that the selenium issue can’t be mitigated, they pack up their tents & Albertans get stuck with the bill for GENERATIONS!
Not a single shovel or drill bit should be allowed until a thorough independent & public involved environmental & safety review is conducted at arms length from this inept government!
Great observations!
When the largest toxic spill into a North American river occurred to that date in 2013,at Obed, near Hinton,into the Athabasca, nothing was noticed despite the fact "world class air and water monitoring" were allegedly in place.
Not a blip!
Flim flam and obfuscation are the main environmental tools used to monitor Alberta's environment.
AER,bought, paid for and operated by oil, gas, coal and other resource extraction industries.
It would be interesting to see satellite imagery of methane leaks in Alberta. The technology exists.