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 'Exceptionally dry:' Little relief in drought conditions facing Calgary area, says top scientist

Posted by Helge at 1:13 PM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yup, digging last of the spuds north of Leslieville and they are coming out with no dirt clinging to them.

October 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Anonymous said...

In the area where I live in west central Alberta where we are entering the tenth year of a drought the UCP is either uninformed of or has no ambition to change the water licensing policies that is becoming a contributing factor to groundwater levels dropping significantly in some areas here. Paramount Resources is one of several oil companies active in this area and has just announced they are planning to drill 10-15 wells per year for the next 15-20 years, presumably all of which will be fracked using 50-60,000 cubes of fresh surface water under current permitting from the Medicine River and other freshwater sources and perhaps from the town of Rocky Mountain House’s new treated wastewater facility. Fracking used water is not being treated currently to be able to be returned to the ecosystem and is pumped down dispersal wells meaning it is gone forever from the groundwater system. Just how much this loss of freshwater to fracking is responsible for groundwater levels reseeding is currently a matter of heated debate in this area because some farmers wells have gone dry.
As a board member of the Medicine River Watershed Society, a group that has been an advocate for the wellbeing of that river for over 25 years, we are communicating with towns , counties and provincial authorities that the use of freshwater for fracking should be discontinued when ample water available to resource extraction companies.

John Fletcher
Clearwater County Resident
ajohntfletcher@hotmail.com

November 4, 2025 at 5:46 AM

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