25 May 2015
To the Newfoundland and Labrador Hydraulic Fracturing Review Panel,
First we would like to thank you for reading our submission. My wife is a retire RCMP member and I’m a retired member of the Canadian Armed Force.
Only a few years ago, fracking was a vague concept to us. That all changed when we found out that the small rural community (Cape ST George) where we live in will be ground zero for fracking.
During a Town meeting(12 Nov 2012) with Black Spruce Exploration CEO David Murray who stated, that there will be no fracking at the Garden Hill site because the government won’t give out any permits to do so. After discussion; he said he didn’t think they needed to frack because of the geology. But if they had too and had permits from the government they would. Let’s not try to fool anyone, these oil people plan to do whatever it takes to see the money. It’s all about the money.
My family was drawn to this area on the West Coast of Newfoundland because of its clean air, natural beauty and tranquillity. We have done our homework on shale gas development and fracking. One can’t believe the picture that is emerging. All that we love about this area would be destroyed if shale gas development takes place. Fracking will destroy our health, our water, our tourism and our entire environment. The risk is too great. Fracking is not safe for our people or our environment. We say NO TO FRACKING.
Please consider some of these questions:
•What will be the impact on children and developing fetuses in areas with high airborne toxins, or undetected toxins in drinking water?
•What will be the impacts on adults and children of 24 hour a day exposure to airborne toxins, including carcinogens?
•What will be the impacts on children and adults of drinking contaminated water?
•What will be the impact of permanently removing millions, or trillions, of gallons of water from the water table, that portion of fracking water which remains underground?
•What will be the cumulative impacts of disposal of the trillions of gallons of contaminated wastewater from fracking, including the cumulative impacts of releasing large quantities of toxic, radioactive wastewater into the environment, whether into rivers and oceans or onto soil? ?
•Where will the toxic fracking chemicals left underground go — over decades, over a century?
•What will be the impact of hundreds of thousands of fractures of the shale layer? Will previously contained toxins be released over time? Will there be an increase in radon in houses, arsenic and uranium in wells in areas where these substances are present? Can there be a cumulative impact of multiple underground explosions on the geological structure? Already, earthquakes have followed well drilling, fracking and drilling underground injection wells for disposal of wastewater in Arkansas, Alabama, Pennsylvania and England.
Sincerely,
Wayne Deaves Jackie Deaves
To the Newfoundland and Labrador Hydraulic Fracturing Review Panel,
First we would like to thank you for reading our submission. My wife is a retire RCMP member and I’m a retired member of the Canadian Armed Force.
Only a few years ago, fracking was a vague concept to us. That all changed when we found out that the small rural community (Cape ST George) where we live in will be ground zero for fracking.
During a Town meeting(12 Nov 2012) with Black Spruce Exploration CEO David Murray who stated, that there will be no fracking at the Garden Hill site because the government won’t give out any permits to do so. After discussion; he said he didn’t think they needed to frack because of the geology. But if they had too and had permits from the government they would. Let’s not try to fool anyone, these oil people plan to do whatever it takes to see the money. It’s all about the money.
My family was drawn to this area on the West Coast of Newfoundland because of its clean air, natural beauty and tranquillity. We have done our homework on shale gas development and fracking. One can’t believe the picture that is emerging. All that we love about this area would be destroyed if shale gas development takes place. Fracking will destroy our health, our water, our tourism and our entire environment. The risk is too great. Fracking is not safe for our people or our environment. We say NO TO FRACKING.
Please consider some of these questions:
•What will be the impact on children and developing fetuses in areas with high airborne toxins, or undetected toxins in drinking water?
•What will be the impacts on adults and children of 24 hour a day exposure to airborne toxins, including carcinogens?
•What will be the impacts on children and adults of drinking contaminated water?
•What will be the impact of permanently removing millions, or trillions, of gallons of water from the water table, that portion of fracking water which remains underground?
•What will be the cumulative impacts of disposal of the trillions of gallons of contaminated wastewater from fracking, including the cumulative impacts of releasing large quantities of toxic, radioactive wastewater into the environment, whether into rivers and oceans or onto soil? ?
•Where will the toxic fracking chemicals left underground go — over decades, over a century?
•What will be the impact of hundreds of thousands of fractures of the shale layer? Will previously contained toxins be released over time? Will there be an increase in radon in houses, arsenic and uranium in wells in areas where these substances are present? Can there be a cumulative impact of multiple underground explosions on the geological structure? Already, earthquakes have followed well drilling, fracking and drilling underground injection wells for disposal of wastewater in Arkansas, Alabama, Pennsylvania and England.
Sincerely,
Wayne Deaves Jackie Deaves