New map shows all the oil and gas spills in Sask.

[chuckChuck]

Cities are big polluters too. I am glad you brought that up as everybody needs to protect the environment including cities, towns, farmers and all the industries that would pollute the environment if they can get away with it.

Yes there are lots of small oil and saltwater spills and H2S leaks, but there are big ones too.

Shhhhh don't tell anybody because they might notice and have to clean them all up including the old hidden ones and all the abandoned, suspended and orphaned wells that are punched through freshwater aquifers just waiting for the surface casing to fail.

[furrowtickler]

So you guys don't mind if salt water and oil is spilled on your land?

“You guys” 😱 lol

[FarmJunkie]

Why don’t u have a map of all the shit spills and garbage spills in our water ways. Phuck off retard!

[sumdumguy]

Afraid to look at the map? Why not just stick you heads in the sand maybe the issue will go away![/QUOTE]


Praying you go away. Far away!

[chuckChuck]

I tidied up my grammar so you can all relax now! I know it was bothering you a lot.

But I was disappointed several of you managed to reply with nothing more than go away.

Surely you can come up with a better response than that?

Go away you retard won't win you any debates or friends in the real world.

Maybe on Agriville it plays well, but its a clear sign you have lost before you have begun.

[chuckChuck]

I guess you have lost and given up?

[Guest]

you sound like a ****ing two year old , FFS

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I tidied up my grammar so you can all relax now! I know it was bothering you a lot.

That obviously wasn't a grammar mistake, it was you being over zealous in your campaign to smear everyone who dares take an objective view point. When no one bit on a post with no commentary, and no context, you couldn't wait to throw the response out there, and likely hadn't read the response anyways, as is usual for you.

You did however make a Freudian slip when you mention sticking your head in the sand and the problem will go away. Much to the consternation of green zealots, nature has the tools to remediate hydrocarbon spills, as it has been successfully doing for natural seeps for millions of years. Which is not a justification.

Perhaps if you had included some commentary, and put the spills into context it would have helped. How many of those spills are larger than a barrel of oil ( first point I looked at was 100l)? How many are a skid steer blowing a hose on a site? How many are within containments, so pose absolutely no risk? How many were 100% recovered( one random incident I looked at was more than 100% recovered)? What other industry has to report and track such things, and does such an ethical job of reporting?

As for context, the CBC article where you found this states that 59 million litres was leaked over 18 years. Total oil production in Sask over that same period was almost 400 billion litres. I'll let you do the math on that one. And how does that compare to spills from any other industry, such as sewage as mentioned above? And judging by all the examples I looked at, almost 100% of that was recovered. Although that didn't stop the Journalism professor who oversaw the map creation from putting an obvious bias into the commentary attached to the map.

Without commentary, readers could have easily assumed that you were pointing out how responsible the energy industry is in collecting and publicizing this info, compared to almost any other industry. How many spills have your fellow farmers had to report and remediate?

[chuckChuck]

I am not surprised you down play the environmental consequences of fossil energy sources. It is your MO on climate change.

So whats the plan for abandoned, orphaned and suspended wells?

Is the oil industry going to pay for the cost of cleaning them up or are taxpayers going to subsidize the oil industry again?

There are billions of dollars of liability sitting there on what was once good agricultural land. Whats the plan?

Fortunately regulators have tightened up on the oil industry when it come to leaks and spills. But they still have a long way to go.

Sometimes it seems as if the oil premiers are acting only on behalf of the oil industry and not landowners and the public.

[jazz]

Stop worrying about what we do out west. Its not your problem. And its farmers who make that deal with oil companies. Since you are not one, it doesnt concern you.