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2010., Bunbury Films Call No: DVD 363.73 B966b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the Rosebud River valley, an hour east of Calgary, the water in many homes can be lit on fire. Everyone agrees there's gas in the water. Few agree on why.At Fiona Lauridsen's farm, just outside the hamlet of Rosebud, Fiona and her family got skin burns in the shower. Fiona claims that EnCana, Canada's largest natural gas company, contaminated the aquifer by drilling (fracking) for coal bed methane, a new source of natural gas extraction that often uses chemicals for drilling. Yet in the hamlet, where the Rosebud Theatre is a popular tourist attraction, most residents refuse to even talk about burning water, for fear of harming the tourist industry. A government minister blamed the contamination on improper well maintenance on the part of the farmer. Other scientistœs disagree, and Fiona thinks the government is deflecting attention away from the negative consequences of an energy boom thatœs bringing record profits to the province.As gas wells sprout up across North America, and all around Rosebud, the Lauridsen family struggles to stay together and remain part of their community, at the same time confronting the dark truth of what may be happening beneath the surface.
![Burning water [DVD] (2010). Directed by Cameron Esler and Tadzio Richards. : fractured earth...fractured lives](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Burning water [DVD] (2010). Directed by Cameron Esler and Tadzio Richards. : fractured earth...fractured lives")
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-- Fracking and one insider's stand against the world's most powerful industry2015., Adult, Greystone Books Call No: 333.823 N692s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From the author of Tar Sands comes the story of an oil and gas industry insider's determined stand to hold government and industry legally accountable for the damage fracking leaves in its wake. When Jessica Ernst's well water turned into a flammable broth that even her dogs refused to drink, the biologist and long-time oil patch consultant discovered that energy giant Encana had secretly fracked hundreds of gas wells around her home, piercing her community's drinking water aquifer. Her ongoing lawsuit against Encana, Alberta Environment, and the Energy Resources Conservation Board has made her a folk hero in many places worldwide where fracking is underway. Investigative journalist Andrew Nikiforuk interweaves Ernst's story with the science of fracking and stories of human and environmental repercussions left in its wake. Slick Water raises dramatic questions about the role of Big Oil in government and society's obsession with rapidly depleting supplies of unconventional oil and gas. Andrew Nikiforuk was one of the first journalists in North America to document the devastating effects of hydraulic fracturing on rural communities"--Provided by publisher.
