“The Minister may, for the purpose of conduc/ng research, crea/ng an inventory of data, formula/ng objec/ves and codes of prac/ce, issuing guidelines or assessing or repor/ng on the state of the environment, publish in the Canada GazeUe and in any other manner that the Minister considers appropriate a no/ce requiring any person described in the no/ce to provide the Minister with any informa/on tha. [...] The growth in size and numbers of fracking opera/ons over the last decade in Canada points to an urgent need for public repor/ng of the use and release of the chemicals involved. [...] The expansion of Canada’s oil and gas industry has not been curtailed by concerns about climate changes, the use of fossil fuels, or by the exhaus/on of the more readily accessible reserves of oil and gas.2 For this review we have focused on the growth of shale gas extrac/on. [...] The growth in this last decade is taking place out of the regular view of the majority of Canadians, primarily in the forests and farming areas of northeast British Columbia and northwest Alberta, in the Laird, Horn River and Montney Basins. [...] As we mention above, the location of the oil and gas industry that is growing right now is in the Montney formation, out of the regular view of most Canadians.
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Table of Contents
- Review 48 NPRI Chemicals in Fracking 1
- March 2024 1
- Review 48 NPRI Chemicals in Fracking 2
- 1. Context 2
- In this review we found 48 chemicals that are reportedly used in fracking and are listed on the NPRI. 2
- Review 48 NPRI Chemicals in Fracking 3
- 2. A decade of no-reporng and under-reporng 3
- Commission on Hydraulic Fracturing Environmental Impacts of Shale Gas Extracon in Canada 3
- Both studies recommended precauonary approaches to regulaon that would have at their foundaon the principle of providing communies with as much informaon as possible. 3
- The last decade of under-reporng has leO communies unprepared for and ecosystems unprotected from an unprecedented industrial boom. 3
- Review 48 NPRI Chemicals in Fracking 4
- For the NPRI this would mean removing all exempons for fracking adjusng reporng thresholds and adding to the NPRI those chemicals used by the industry but are not currently included. 4
- 3. Hydraulic Fracturing in Canada an essenal contributor to industrys expansion 4
- Review 48 NPRI Chemicals in Fracking 5
- Appendix A Appendix B. 5
- Exporng LNG is likely to require 18000 new fracked wells over and above the number required to supply domesc use Wilderness CommiUee. 5
- Review 48 NPRI Chemicals in Fracking 6
- Appendix C 5. Growth and ConcentraIons 6
- ..the research needed to support improved science-based decisions concerning cumulative environmental impacts has not yet begun except in Quebec 6
- Review 48 NPRI Chemicals in Fracking 7
- Appendix D. 7
- 30 wells in this four square kilometer area were fracked. 7
- 5.1 More fracked sites closer together 7
- 5.2. The sacrifice zone. Opportunities for chemical and other substance release 7
- Review 48 NPRI Chemicals in Fracking 8
- 5.3 Cumulative impact over area and time 8
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- 6. What information about chemical use release or cumulative impact is available from 9
- NPRI and fracfocus.ca 9
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- 7. NPRI Chemicals Used in Fracking 10
- Table 1 10
- Table 1. 48 Publicly Reported NPRI Chemicals Used in Fracking 10
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- 8. Other fracking substances not reported to NPRI 12
- Table 2 Table 2. Fracking chemicals and substances not in NPRI 12
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- 9. Health Impacts 13
- Environmental Impacts of Shale Gas Extracon in Canada The Expert Panel on Harnessing 13
- Science and Technology to Understand the Environmental Impacts of Shale Gas Extracon 13
- Canadian Journal of Public Health 13
- Review 48 NPRI Chemicals in Fracking 14
- 10. Recommendaon Report hydraulic fracturing to the NPRI 14
- We recommend that releases and transfer of pollutants from hydraulic fracturing be reported to the NPRI. 14
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- SOURCES 15
- Can J Public Health All Fracked Up JAMA Pediatrics. 15
- American Chemical Society Omega 15
- Journal of Exposure Science Environmental Epidemiology 15
- Journal of Exposure Science Environmental Epidemiology 15
- Compendium of Scienfic Medical and Media Findings Demonstrang Risks and Harms of Fracking Ninth Edion 2023. 15
- Review 48 NPRI Chemicals in Fracking 16
- Environmental Impacts of Shale Gas Extraction in Canada The Expert Panel on Harnessing Science and Technology to Understand the Environmental Impacts of Shale Gas Extraction. 16
- Review 48 NPRI Chemicals in Fracking 17
- The Daily 17
- New Brunswick Commission on Hydraulic Fracturing Vol 1 3. hUpswww2.gnb.cacontentdamgnbDepartmentsenpdfPublicaonsNBCHF-Vol1-Eng- Feb2016.pdf 17
- Hydraulic Fracturing for Oil and Gas Impacts from the Hydraulic Fracturing Water Cycle on Drinking Water Resources in the United States Final Report 17
- Cumulative Impacts Research. 17
- Chemicals Used in Hydraulic Fracturing. Climac Change All Fracked Up . Environ Health Perspect. Environmental Reviews 17
- Review 48 NPRI Chemicals in Fracking 18
- Communities in Flux Fracking and Health Impacts The Lived Experience. 18
- ProPublica 18
- The Extractive Industries and Society. The Narwal 18
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- Potts Matthew Potts Kate Wiltse . C Dentons Environmental Polluon 19
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- APPENDIX A. UnconvenDonal Oil and Gas Plays in Canada 20
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- APPENDIX B. 21
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