Letter to the editor: No to fracking
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article38332
- Author
- Morris, Anne
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2013 April
- Author
- Morris, Anne
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2013 April
- Volume
- 139
- Issue
- 4
- Page
- 4
- Notes
- "I am deeply concerned to learn of the Council of General Synod's approval of an agreement between the chief and council of the Blood Indian Band in Southern Alberta and Murphy Oil for the extraction of mineral resources on land that is adjacent to the Blood Reserve and owned by the Missionary Society of the Anglican Church of Canada ('Mineral rights', Jan. 2013, p. 5). The $50-million agreement gives Murphy Oil the right to extract methane gas trapped deep underground between layers of shale rock over an area of 129,280 acres (almost half the Blood Reserve), using hydraulic fracturing, or 'fracking'." "I hope that General Synod officials will investigate this situation and at the very least, advocate with provincial and federal governments for new rules on hydraulic fracturing to protect public health and water supplies".
- Subjects
- Mineral rights - Canada
- Mineral rights - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Oil industries - Canada
- Murphy Oil Company Ltd
- Fracking
- Hydraulic fracturing - Canada
- Hydraulic fracturing - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Blood Indians - Alberta
- Kainah Indians
- Kainai Indians