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Home, Fracked Home: Lost Hair and Dead Cows
Home, Fracked Home: Lost Hair and Dead Cows
Alberta landowners say nearby industry has fractured their lives. First in an occasional series.
Nielle and Howard Hawkwood do not welcome the west wind at their 40-year-old cattle ranch just north of Cochrane in the foothills of the Rockies anymore.
The polite couple, whose family has farmed in the region for 100 years, will tell you why with a quiet sense of disappointment and an uncomfortable clarity.
The west wind now often carries flared-off pollutants from many of the 70 tight or shale oil wells in the region. All use the controversial technology of hydraulic fracturing with horizontal wellbores to access unconventional hydrocarbons in the nearby, booming Cardium tight oil play.
"It's an absolute disaster," says Nielle Hawkwood, a 64-year-old retired speech and language pathologist. "It's a public health disaster. It's an environmental disaster. It's a disaster for future generations. And it's very, very difficult to come out and say that when some members of the community are gaining income from this."
http://thetyee.ca/News/2013/10/21/Fracking-at-Home/?utm_source=mondayheadlines&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=211013
Alberta landowners say nearby industry has fractured their lives. First in an occasional series.
Nielle and Howard Hawkwood do not welcome the west wind at their 40-year-old cattle ranch just north of Cochrane in the foothills of the Rockies anymore.
The polite couple, whose family has farmed in the region for 100 years, will tell you why with a quiet sense of disappointment and an uncomfortable clarity.
The west wind now often carries flared-off pollutants from many of the 70 tight or shale oil wells in the region. All use the controversial technology of hydraulic fracturing with horizontal wellbores to access unconventional hydrocarbons in the nearby, booming Cardium tight oil play.
"It's an absolute disaster," says Nielle Hawkwood, a 64-year-old retired speech and language pathologist. "It's a public health disaster. It's an environmental disaster. It's a disaster for future generations. And it's very, very difficult to come out and say that when some members of the community are gaining income from this."
http://thetyee.ca/News/2013/10/21/Fracking-at-Home/?utm_source=mondayheadlines&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=211013
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