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par Johanne Dion,
Les Ami(e)s du Richelieu

 

Archives : juin-juillet 2011 | août-septembre 2011 | octobre-novembre 2011



14 février 2012

Runners shouldn’t smoke, priests shouldn’t touch the kids, and environmentalists should never take money from polluters.

- John Passacantando, consultant en environnement et ancien directeur de Greenpeace

 

"The farmers in this region are already producing something much more precious than oil and gas; they are creating our HOMELAND FOOD SECURITY."

- Celia Wetzel, Baker Road, Albany, Ohio

 

 

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13 février 2012

"For cities and counties facing thousands of drilling projects, just finding out the details of what is planned, and where, often proves overwhelming. While companies employ landmen to line up access for drilling, local officials say finding the info to answer residents' basic questions is like picking up peas with a single chopstick."

- Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 12 février 2012

 

 

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11 février 2012

"La stratégie (du ministre de la Sécurité publique Vic Toews présenté à Ottawa le 9 février 2012) définit le terrorisme comme étant, notamment, une omission ou une action commise 'au nom d'un but de nature politique, religieuse ou idéologique en vue d'intimider la population quant à sa sécurité, entre autres sur le plan économique."

- Hugo de Grandpré, La Presse, 10 février 2012

 

"Keep your damned gifts and money! Instead, depart from this land, which you are thoughtlessly and uncaringly raping and destroying--all in the worship of Mammon--and give us back the once sacred forests, clean waters and air, and serene lifestyles that we loved so much before your unconscionable and unholy invasion."

- David Ira Kagan, citoyen de la Pennsylvanie

 

 

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10 février 2012

 

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9 février 2012

"To attract investment, the province traditionally has been soft on polluters. Maximum fines in the law are almost never imposed. They're in the law as PR for the electorate."

- Henry Aubin, The Gazette, 9 février 2012

 

 

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8 février 2012

“We don’t know what the chemicals are in a lot of these cases. It gets very frustrating when you start saying: What was in the tissue? What killed these animals exactly?”

- Michelle Bamberger, vétérinaire et co-auteur d'une étude des impacts sur la santé humaine et animale

 

 

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7 février 2012

 

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6 février 2012

"The basic question for physicians is not which side to pick for or against fracking, but rather to ask are we doing a good enough job being watchdogs for public health in these regions? As physicians, we also are scientists. We highly value evidence-based research as the basic tool we need to better assess and treat our patients and to be better advocates for protecting the community’s health."

- DR. Marilyn J. Heine, president of the Pennsylvania Medical Society.

 

 

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5 février 2012

 

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4 février 2012

"It didn’t take long to notice significant impacts to the water, the change to smell like diesel fuel. Methane was bubbling in the water. We had neighbors that actually had livestock die from drinking the water. And we also saw really huge impacts to our way of life. The farm fields are full of wellheads now that we have to work around. We have people coming and going off our property 24 hours a day. And we’ve seen over a 50 percent devaluation in the value of our land."

- John Fenton, fermier de Pavillion, Wyoming

 

 

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3 février 2012

 

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1er février 2012

 

"The first thing you should do is not sign. Then if you are presented with a lease, I would first contact an attorney who is versed in oil and gas law."

-Nicholas Grilli, avocat pour la firme Dagger, Johnston, Miller, Ogilvie & Hampson LLP, en donnant ses conseils lors d'une visite d'un "landman"

 

 

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31 janvier 2012

 

"It is your property against one of the greatest concentrations of wealth ever known. Stick your head in the sand, and they will cover up the other end."

- S. Thomas Bond, retired teacher from West Virginia with a doctorate in inorganic chemistry

 

 

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30 janvier 2012

 

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29 janvier 2012

 

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28 janvier 2012

 

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27 janvier 2012

There’s too many questions that are unanswered. This particular well is creating problems. People feel unsafe. My whole neighborhood felt [Saturday’s earthquake]. I thought my house was going down. Stuff fell off the shelves, and the whole house shook. I’m going to take out earthquake insurance.”

- Charles P. Sammarone, maire de Youngstown, Ohio

 

 

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26 janvier 2012

 

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25 janvier 2012

 

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24 janvier 2012

 

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23 janvier 2012

" It not good...it can't be to put poison down into the ground."

- Jeff Geisel, Mansfield, Ohio

 

"We must highlight the dangers of fracking, protect our water supplies and work to promote alternative sources of energy. In the interests of public health, we must not allow fracking in Ireland."

- Dr Elizabeth Cullen, Irish Doctors’ Environmental Association (IDEA)

 

 

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22 janvier 2012

''Arrow Energy really needs to hear that this community and many others around Australia will start to challenge what they see as their right to protect their agriculture, their water, and even other industries like tourism.''

- Heidi Ross, organisatrice du blocus près de Brisbane, Australie

 

 

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21 janvier 2012

"In case you haven’t noticed, the word "environmentalist" is no longer neutral. Thanks to politicians like Stephen Harper, the corporate interests they represent and their huge public relations machine, the E-word has come to mean "person who does not care about jobs or the economy" or, as Stephen Harper has recently asserted, "radical who wishes to turn all of Canada into a national park for the U.S."

- Anne Lévesque, Strathlorne, N.-É.

 

Would that capital be better spent on constructing a smart electric grid, and truly sustainable green and electric technologies? We conclude again that framing shale gas development as a bridge fuel makes no sense. It’s simply a bridge too far.”

- Anthony Ingraffea, Cornell University Environmental Engineering Professor

 

"The unrelenting surge in shale gas production and one of the warmest winters on record are driving the natural gas market toward uncharted territory. Soon companies may have to pay to get rid of their gas."

- Reuters, 20 janvier 2012

 

 

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20 janvier 2012

 

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19 janvier 2012

 

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18 janvier 2012

"But just because certain people in the United States would like to see Canada be one giant national park for the northern half of North America, I don’t think that’s part of what our review process is all about."

- Premier Ministre Stephen Harper en entrevue avec Peter Mansbridge de la CBC

 

"Even with the tools available to perform fracture diagnostics operators are still faced with challenges that are difficult to predict."

- Extrait de l'ouvrage "Denbury - A Case History of Tracking Water Movement Through Fracture Systems in the Barnet Shale" de l'EPA

 

 

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17 janvier 2012

"You're going to have noise, you're going to have dust, you're going to have a lot of traffic and roads that need repair because of heavy equipment."

- Greg Lowe, administrator of the Juneau County Land and Water Resources Department, WI,
en parlant de projets miniers pour du sable de fracturation

 

 

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16 janvier 2012


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15 janvier 2012

 

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14 janvier 2012

 

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13 janvier 2012

 

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12 janvier 2012

 

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11 janvier 2012

"Those who are drilling and extracting ... have not done the human health research and ecological studies to assure that the process and chemicals they use are the least hazardous possible."

- Jerome Paulson, of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children's Health and the Environment

 

"For goodness sakes, doesn't the fact that those poor people have to have water shipped in at all give damning evidence that all the fracking industry's promises of safe drilling are just hot air?"

- Daily Star, 11 janvier 2012

 

 

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10 janvier 2012

 

I think 2012 is a critical year for us to decide as a country what direction we want to go. Natural gas might be a clean energy source, but right now we’re seeing a lot of evidence of pollution.”

- Levana Layendecker, spokeswoman for Democracy for America

 

 

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9 janvier 2012

"A century of increased energy independence sounds almost too good to be true. At the least, it's speculative; at worst, it's a fairytale."

- The Associated Press, 7 janvier 2012

 

 

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8 janvier 2012

 

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6 janvier 2012

"Shale gas is not a climate solution. Any energy resource that sacrifices water protection and conservation, farmland, people's health and environmental safety in such significant ways should be halted."

- Cecily Mills, PhD, microbiology, University of Alberta

 

 

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5 janvier 2012

 

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  • Theo Colborn, retour sur une traduction de l'un de ses ouvrages "Natural Gas Operations from a Public Health Perspective" - les impacts sur la santé publique: Partie 1 - Partie 2 - Partie 3

 

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4 janvier 2012

 

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3 janvier 2012

"We can live without natural gas. Without clean drinking water, we will not survive."

- Rami Yoakum, director of communications at the Ross County Health District, Ohio

 

 

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2 janvier 2012

 

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31 décembre 2011

En cette veille du Jour de l'An, n'oublions pas Tim DeChristopher, toujours en prison pour son action nonviolente durant un encan de droits miniers.

  • Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu, mercredi le 18 janvier 19:00 heures, soirée avec Marc Durand comme conférencier


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30 décembre 2011

"We don’t have a fracking problem. We have a democracy problem."

- Thomas Linzey, directeur exécutif, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund

 

"As a biogeochemist with more than 30 years of experience with water quality issues, I believe that the environmental impact statement is not ready to be implemented. There is too much at stake and too many gaps in our scientific understanding. The bottom line: We should not proceed until we know that clean water, a resource essential to all of us, is not going to be a casualty of gas extraction."

- Jonathan Cole is a distinguished senior scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, NY

 

 

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28 décembre 2011

 

"The gas would not go anywhere while we took a long-term, long-sighted approach to assure that our most precious resource, water, is being protected at all costs. Please stand up for the basic rights of future generations."

- Tim O'Hara, Vestal, NY

 

 

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27 décembre 2011

 

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23 décembre 2011

" There’s no question there’s a small but very vocal, very well organized, every well-funded movement that’s opposing oilsands and shale gas development.

- Dave Collyer, président du Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP)

 

 

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22 décembre 2011

"I oppose fracking, not just because of the risk of deleterious effects on our environment, which should be enough, but also because of what it's doing to our collective moral soul. Those who have leased their land are promised riches, but at what cost? Do we really want to risk deepening our cognitive civil war?"

- Brad Pacalis, Windsor, NY, membre du conseil d'administration du Citizen Action of the Southern Tier

 

"Direct action is the only real solution at this point. We can’t rely on the same bodies who wouldn’t sign the Kyoto Protocols to make any decisions that are sane or rational. And we don’t have time for hashing out philosophical differences amongst ourselves anymore."

- Cara Hoffman, en entrevue avec mongabay.com

 

 

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21 décembre 2011

"We are fast loosing our freedom in this country. (...) We have to remain strong, within the law (...) It's YOUR community they want to destroy."

- Jessica Ernst, durant sa présentation à Memramcook en décembre 2011

 

 

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20 décembre 2011

 

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19 décembre 2011

"The way I read the EPA report, the surface casings were too short and that the cementing was inadequate and then they fracked at very shallow depths. It's almost negligence (...) They'll frack each well up to 20 times. Each time the pressure will shudder and bang the pipes in the wellbore. The cement is hard and the steel is soft. If you do it all the time you are going to break bonds and cause leaks. It's a real major issue. " Karlis Muehlenbachs, a geochemist at the University of Alberta.

 

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18 décembre 2011

"Now, suddenly, you've got those areas saying 'we don't want to be guinea pigs. I think that really begins to focus the public's concerns in the Southern Tier that they don't want to be the DEC's learning experience." Walter Hang, président de Toxics Targeting, NY

 

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16 décembre 2011

"The water returns to the surface over time, with about 20 percent returning as flowback water within the first two to three weeks after the fracking has commenced, and the remaining water is generally returned to the surface as produced, or saltwater, over the life of the well, which can be up to 30 years."  

- Tiré d'un communiqué de presse citant Richard J. Heckmann, chairman and chief executive officer de la compagnie Heckmann Corp.

 

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15 décembre 2011

"What is happening in the northern reaches of the state is modern-day colonialism. In essence, what we are dealing with is a group of established industries and wealthy people from afar attempting to exploit the land, water, and resources of the less well-to-do people who live here."  - Claudia Broman, éditeur, Ashland Current, 11 décembre 2011


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14 décembre 2011

"Not surprisingly, residents in rural parts of the state only now coming to grips with the impacts of the Marcellus boom see an injustice in rules that offer greater protection to suburban and city folks - as if different values can be placed on life depending upon where people live."

- Éditorial, Inquirer, 13 décembre 2011

 


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13 décembre 2011

«There’s no such thing as a perfect well seal. Occasionally sooner, often later, well seals can and do fail, period. No confining layer is completely competent; all geologic strata leak to some extent. The fact that a less-transmissive layer lies between the drill zone and a well does not protect the well from contamination. A drinking water well is never in “solid” rock. If it were, it would be a dry hole in the ground. As water moves through joints, fissures and bedding planes into a well, so do contaminants. In fractured media such as shale, water follows preferential pathways, moving fast and far, miles per week in some cases (...)Chemicals injected into the aquifer will persist for many lifetimes. When contamination occurs—and it will occur— we will all pay for it, regardless of where we live.»
- Paul Hetzler, environmental engineering technician with NYSDEC, Canton, NY

À noter et réservez dans vos nouveaux calendriers et agendas pour 2012, dimanche le 22 avril 2012, jour de la Terre, votre présence sera sollicitée pour une activité importante. Détails suivront....
 

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12 décembre 2011

"I say to you, say no to the poison apple. This is how they divide and conquer communities in my view. They did a really good job with this." Jessica Ernst, s'adressant aux gens du Nouveau-Brunswick samedi, en parlant d'EnCana

Québec, sur les séances d'information du plan de l'ÉES, apportez vos caméras et prenez-les en photos! (voir pdf "On vous a à l'oeil")

Saint-Jude et région, un petit oiseau m'a dit...que Marie-Ève Mathieu, une fière militante contre l'exploitation du gaz de schiste, se présente comme candidate du parti Québec solidaire dans la circonscription de Richelieu! À surveiller...

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11 décembre 2011

"Pennsylvania's regulators don't handle those pipelines, and acknowledge they don't even know where they are. And when he reported what he saw to a federal oversight agency, an inspector told him there was nothing he could do, either. Because the line was in a rural area, no safety rules applied." Inquirer, 10 décembre 2011, en parlant des gazoducs que personne ne surveille

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09 décembre 2011

"An economy based on shale gas is an economy without a future, where we accept that contaminating the earth and our water is our only alternative. It is not. We have to have confidence in our ability to break through the failed models of the past, to say no to shale gas, and to focus our collective effort on new green technologies that will create well paying jobs, new industry, and leave us a country we can be proud of, clean and green, to our children and grandchildren."

- Thomas Mulcair, s'adressant aux citoyens du Nouveau-Brunswick

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08 décembre 2011

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07 décembre 2011

« Partout où le profit se cache dans la terre, des conflits prennent racine. Quand ton voisin travaille pour la "compagnie" qui pollue la rivière où tes enfants se baignent, les partys barbecue sont rares. Les mégaprojets fissurent le tissu social de nos petites villes et de nos villages. La fracturation sera longue à cicatriser et elle perdurera bien longtemps après l'épuisement de la ressource. » 

- Nicolas Paquet, réalisateur du documentaire La règle d'or

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05 décembre 2011

“We don’t want communities to have false hope with a moratorium, which only creates public complacency, while industry and others work to create the illusion that fracking is ‘safe’ once it has been studied.  Then the onslaught of this industry will begin in earnest. We want a real ban.” LuAnne Kozma, porte-parole de "Ban Michigan Fracking"

“I don’t believe that drilling can be done safely. All of these radicalized forms of extraction damage water.” Mark Ruffalo, acteur et activiste engagé