Fracking Nova Scotia: Why we should be concerned

Presentation by Heidi Verheul & Gretchen FitzgeraldSierra Club Canada-Atlantic Canada Chapter

Wednesday, February 29, 2012Acadia Unviversity Wolfville, NS

Agenda

• (5 min) Introduction• (25 min) CBC’s Land & Sea “NB Gas” • (30 min) What is happening in NS? • (30 min) Discussion• (30 min) What do we do about it?

Location of Site in Reference to Debert Tim Hortons

Location of Debert Municipal Waste Water in Reference to Debert Tim Hortons

Where the Chiganois River Empties into the Bay of Fundy

We are risking our health, our environment, & our economies.

Toxic in, Toxic Out

The Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX)www.endocrinedisruption.com/files/Multistatesummary1-27-11Final.pdf page 3.

https://www.agronomy.org/publications/jeq/abstracts/40/4/1340

Radioactivity?

Rock formations in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia are known to contain uranium and radon.

Fracking sand used in New Brunswick are known to contain radioactive beads.

Fracking Sand Spill in NB in 2006:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2006/10/02/nb-spill.html

Onshore Leases

http://www.gov.ns.ca/energy/resources/RA/maps/onshore-petroleum-agreements.pdf

The risks are real and scientifically documented.

Legislated ban on hydraulic fracturing in all of the Atlantic Provinces.

Sierra Club Canada Atlantic Chapter’s Position

Investment in energy conservation, sustainable transportation options, and community based renewable energy sources moving towards a sustainablehealthy economy.

Nova Scotia should stop handling hydraulic fracturing waste from New Brunswick (and elsewhere).

Many Questions, Few Answers, & Lots of Discussion

What Can I do?•Join us! Become part of Sierra Club’s Water Committee

•Form local team to take action through education, research, and political action

•Take part in provincial lobbying day (Mid-March)

•Organize an Earth Day Picnic

Donate so we can take this campaign further!

Thank You!

Dr. Tango with his help in organizing thisevent.

Acadian for the space.

And to you for coming out this evening.

(All the photos in this presentation were taken of the Chiganois River, of its tributaries, or of life on its banks.)