News from the South Niagara Chapter of the Council of Canadians
This Saturday, October 11th, 2014, the South Niagara Chapter of the Council of Canadians marks the third annual GLOBAL FRACKDOWN day by inviting you to an information session on fracking at the central St. Catharines Library, 54 Church Street, St. Catharines, in the Rotary Room, beginning at 2:00 p.m.
We’ll be screening Josh Fox’s award-winning documentary, GASLAND, followed by discussion and a presentation by Toban Black, co-editor of the newly-published collection, A Line in the Tar Sands. Struggles for Environmental Justice.
You’ve probably seen pictures of water coming out of a tap and bursting into flames. That’s a result of fracking for shale gas, a technology already used in many parts of Canada. Ontario is all fired up to join the party…and we think you ought to know what’s at stake.
Hydraulic fracturing – or “fracking” as it is more commonly known – is a technique that involves the injection of millions of litres of water and thousands of litres of unidentified chemicals underground at very high pressure, in order to create fractures in the underlying shale rock formations and extract the natural gas below the surface.
The Council of Canadians opposes fracking because of its high water use, its high carbon emissions, its impacts on human health, the disruption it causes to wildlife, and the danger it poses to groundwater and local drinking water.
The Council of Canadians is an Ottawa-based not-for-profit citizens group with chapters across the country, including Niagara, Ontario.
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