Re: Fracking waterlines will require Mountain View County resident notification
Mountain View County’s approval of waterlines along rural roads for fracking is absolutely a bad idea.
Water is the most precious natural resource in the world. Without it we would all be short of food and possibly dye from dehydration. It is a resource that cannot be replaced or duplicated by science. It has been relatively the same capacity on earth since Jesus washed John’s feet.
However it is a diminishing resource, with climate warming the glaciers are melting away, the Columbia ice fields that sends water to three oceans is a fraction of its original size. The water that goes to the Oceans returns to us as rain.
However the fresh water that goes into fracking, never returns. It is lost forever from our needs or use. So when water is such a critical diminishing resource why does the Alberta department of environment whose responsibility is to save our water, OK its use for fracking? That is beyond my understanding.
Yes we need fossil fuels but there’s not much sense having gallons of gas on hand when you are dying of dehydration from lack of access to fresh water.
I think whoever is in charge of issuing fracking licences needs to give his head a good shake and be more concerned about saving this precious critical resource than helping his oil and gas producing buddies.
There should be no fracking licences issued in populated areas or areas where earthquakes can cause infrastructural damage, period.
Fracking with our precious fresh water as they are doing right now, and previously pumping thousands of gallons of fresh water out of the Little Red Deer River each day to use for fracking at a rig site northeast of Cremona. Yes energy is important but is it worth the risk of dying from dehydration for the lack of fresh water in the future. Think about it people and give Danielle Smith a call.
There are now another fracking site southeast of Cremona sucking fresh water out of Beaver Dam Creek. And the one northeast of Cremona is now sucking fresh water out of the Little Dogpound River as they apparently moved the pipe and pumps from the Little Red Deer. Why? Maybe because it was now not as easily seen by the general public.
And as a CBC report says Alberta is a black hole as far as information about fracking. The ‘guestimate’ is there has been about 1,700 fracked wells in Alberta since January. That’s 1.7 billions gallons of lost fresh water.
The average person consumes about 185 gallons of water annually. Water lost to fracking this year would supply a million people the annual water needs. This needs to be fixed by Alberta government officials.
If the premier really wants to help Alberta she needs to stop issuing oil and gas licences to foreign companies and keep the profits from the oil and gas production in Alberta
As the protest group in B.C. so aptly says, “We need to quit fracking around.”
Darrel Florence,
Cremona
