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

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 part in 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. Martin Tango with his help in organizingThis event (Emma Hebb for putting us in touch at the food court!).

Acadia University for the space.

And to you for coming out to learn moreabout this issue!

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