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- Gargot, on 07/16/2008, -4/+59Now we can have a water-powered car for real!
- KenSPT, on 07/16/2008, -3/+33Still probably tastes better than Dasani ...
- cdtoad, on 07/16/2008, -2/+32Free gas...$4.00 gallon of water.
- Slovenian6474, on 07/16/2008, -3/+31That's exactly what I was thinking.
"A test by University of Alberta water expert Karlis Muehlenbachs also showed strong similarities between the gas in Ernst’s well and the gas EnCana was pumping out of the ground nearby."
No way! I thought they'd be pumping soda pop fizz out of the ground nearby! - dtfinch, on 07/16/2008, -1/+24She drinks their milkshake.
- ippey, on 07/16/2008, -2/+21That's hot.
- CedEx, on 07/16/2008, -1/+16Water cycle.... we'll be ok.
- Railer, on 07/16/2008, -0/+11Look for all you guys who have never seen a REAL cows before THIS ***** IS NORMAL!
In Alberta and most of the western provinces we actually have MANUALS and EQUIPMENT for getting rid of methane well gas.
http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.n ...
Stop scaring the ***** out of yourselves about a NATURALLY OCCURRING EVENT.
Seriously go work on a farm for a while it would do you all good. - Railer, on 07/16/2008, -3/+12Oh really because I did RTFA and it says:
"Earlier this year, a provincial report on Ernst’s well even concluded that the gas in the well was naturally occurring and had nothing to do with the company."
oh guess you missed that little tidbit?? - netneutrality, on 07/16/2008, -0/+9Don't try to put out a fire with it!
- pintomp3, on 07/16/2008, -3/+11the beauty of the free market. fire-water.
- nbcaffeine, on 07/16/2008, -0/+8Man, there is a line? That sucks.
- Sairynn, on 07/16/2008, -0/+8cue* ... A queue is something you stand in.
- rrife, on 07/16/2008, -0/+8Wasn't Canada in the top 15 of the most environmentally friendly nations earlier today??
- scooterbaga, on 07/16/2008, -6/+13Sounds like it could've happened naturally eventually... an earthquake or something. But it's pretty obvious what instigated it.
- Gargot, on 07/16/2008, -0/+7You also have a new cool party trick
- theberlindoctor, on 07/16/2008, -6/+13Sure. Given that it was fine until "EnCana fraced the underground aquifer where area landowners get their water." and "It also showed signs of heavy hydrocarbons, like the ones used in drilling fluids."
But I bet they had nothing to do with it. Sure. - norman619, on 07/16/2008, -0/+7LOL!!!! Your naivete is cute.
- ericjohnson0, on 07/16/2008, -0/+7Well, now that people are pushing for oil renewed explorarion/ expansion in North America, they bring on the fearmongering... this could be completely faked too.
- GothAlice, on 07/16/2008, -0/+6I want me some of that water!
- diggstown, on 07/16/2008, -1/+7With the cost of fuel these days, why is she complaining?
She's getting it for free! - Zenham, on 07/16/2008, -11/+17More honestly stated than you put it:
- People were drinking from a clean water source
- Large company came in, prospected for drilling sites, and during their exploration, spoiled the town's aquifer with fossil fuels
- Following the exploration, the water is now contaminated.
Your spin style is inferior to my RTFA technique. - krismanx, on 07/16/2008, -3/+9lol treehugger.com
- Slovenian6474, on 07/16/2008, -1/+6from: http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.n ...
"Gases (not dissolved in water) can migrate into wells that are not properly cased. Gas can also be naturally present in the water in an aquifer."
There's no doubt gas is near. They only thing missing is convincing evidence that the gas in her well ISN'T naturally occurring. - Wonderama, on 07/16/2008, -2/+7a. It's not a matter of defending the oil companies or not. The issue is determining the source of the contamination.
b. The source of gas in her well and the oil company's well are most likely identical, hence the similarity in the composition. If the source is identical, that doesn't necessarily mean the source is the oil well. - dark169, on 07/16/2008, -1/+6How about quoting the line above the part you quoted:
"Earlier this year, a provincial report on Ernst’s well even concluded that the gas in the well was naturally occurring and had nothing to do with the company." - Beylan, on 07/16/2008, -0/+5I wonder if she can burn it in her car. If so she might have just struck it rich.
- ericjohnson0, on 07/16/2008, -3/+8Proof?
- gn0stik, on 07/16/2008, -1/+6*****, that's your queue to get some oil prospectors on your property and start drilling.
If this is naturally occurring, this woman's a millionaire already, she just assumes its pollution, and in spite of the fact that two sources have said it's not, she's yet to realize she could cash in on the situation.
I mean after all if it's not Encana's deposit causing it, it must be... HERS right?
***** you Encana. - inactive, on 07/16/2008, -0/+5Yeah im really gonna believe a site called treehugger I am sure they do not have an agenda.
- flaxx, on 07/16/2008, -1/+6i didn't know the ocean was drying up :p
- wertach, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4I would just hook up to public water and heat it and my house with well water!
- Otto, on 07/16/2008, -4/+8Huh? It sounds entirely like it is natural. There's an oil/gas company pumping gas out of the ground. She has a well. Wells are in the ground too. The relationship between these things is *the ground*.
In other words, her water is full of gas for the same reason the gas company is there. That's where the gas is. It's not like the gas company is pumping gas into the ground, they're trying to get it OUT. - sonofarex, on 07/16/2008, -1/+5she should have been fined when she drilled the water well for extracting oil without a permit
- 120decibel, on 07/16/2008, -5/+9Moron, read the fin article!!!
The well was delivering perfectly fine water before EnCana started drilling!! - grey580, on 07/16/2008, -1/+5Time to tap her well and hook it up to a generator.
She could make some money by selling back electricity to her electric company.
sounds like a win to me. - brettg102, on 07/16/2008, -6/+9Not gas companys fault. Her fault for digging a well in oil rich soil. She, is a tard.
- mnemy, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3Firewater straight from the tap.
- ScottOrwig, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3So she only needs one pipe running to her water heater!
Actually, this happens all the time with wells. And of course it's the same gas the company is pumping. That's why they're there pumping it. - Railer, on 07/17/2008, -0/+3No the government investigation was done AFTER the fracing, and how is that a shock that the oil they pull out is similar to the oil that is found in the habitat around the well?
Oh my God! I just figured it out! The oil they are getting out of the oilsands right now "showed strong similarities" to the oil shale and oils sands across from the areas where they are pulling out the oil!!!
Oh my God! Someone call TreeHugger and Al Gore tell them they are finding oil in the soil right beside where they are getting oil from the soil, AND THEY'RE THE SAME! HOLY ***** RUN! - RUEZ, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3Oil was being pumped out of Alberta long before Harper became PM of Canada.
- Slovenian6474, on 07/16/2008, -1/+4http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.n ...
"Gases (not dissolved in water) can migrate into wells that are not properly cased. Gas can also be naturally present in the water in an aquifer."
This is what I mean, leave it up to treehugger to leave out the fact that methane gas in well water and aquifers is a common occurrence. - rheaume, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3I told you, they are selling their souls up there, massive pollution and we still ***** pay through the nose for gas...
yeah wooo oil sands, gas is 5.60$ a gallon here! - trollick, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3Damn greedy oil companies drilling for oil everywhere. Don't they have enough oil already? What do they do with all that oil any way?
- Hetman, on 07/16/2008, -2/+5Do you use oil? You are a greedy bastard then. Because the oil companies would not be drilling for oil if people like you did not buy it.
- gn0stik, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3It depends what their pumping it into, if there are basalt deposits, which there likely are, the carbon will react with the basalt and create limestone, trapping it for good. You are painting with a pretty wide brush there sparky.
- cnosal, on 07/16/2008, -3/+6The common element may be the ground, but the difference is the depth. Fossil fuel deposits do not form in the aquifer AFAIK, and the article states that they breached the aquifer. The company tries to get the gas out, contaminates the water, and the contaminates get into the well mb?
- splatter, on 07/16/2008, -3/+6Yes, looks like Tssst neglected to RTFA before commenting. Granted, the Treehugger article was sparse on details as it was a brief mention of the actual article here: http://tinyurl.com/6lzb5l
From the story at that link, "Jessica Ernst lives on an acreage a five-minute walk from town. The environmental consultant was working for EnCana in the summer of 2003... In 2005, Ernst noticed something was happening to the water from her well. At first, her dogs wouldn’t drink it. Then, she saw it was fizzing as if it was carbonated. In December, she couldn’t turn her taps off: there was so much gas in her water, it raised the pressure and forced its way through her pipes."
Do we have lurkers on Digg that represent oil interests? - dark169, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3The article even states an investigation cleared the company of fault. It continues like that fact doesn't effect their premise.
Wow its the same gas! Big shocker, there's gas in a formation covering thousands of acres and then gas naturally gets into a well above it. The fact its the same gas proves nothing other then yes its gas from the ground.
These countless cases of people living above or near coal beds suffering from sudden well problems, without the "big oil" angle. Aquifers can be fickle, coal seams even more so. -
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