PROPERTY RIGHTS ADVOCATES HELP POISONED FAMILIES; REGULATORS DITHER

Email forward via

Colleen Boddez

President

Alberta Landowners Council

http://www.albertalandownerscouncil.com/

Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 8:18 PM

Subject: Families forced from homes by Baytex Energy . . . Let's help them get home for Christmas

 

Colleen,

 

I am helping some farm families near Peace River who have been forced from their homes by an unusual form of oil sands production.  Baytex Energy is operating dozens of oil sands wells that are connected to 86 super-heated bitumen tanks around these people’s homes and farms.  In fact, all of these heated tanks and wells are within a 1 by 5 mile area. 

 

But Baytex is open-venting the heated tanks to maximize production.  The aerosol plume and tar-solvent like smell I encountered when I was up there on October 28^th was unlike anything I have every experienced before.  It was overwhelming.

 

These people and their kids started to get sick and had to abandon their homes.  The government is even concerned and has called a public inquiry but that does not get these people back into their homes or relocated. 

 

We need people power to help get this fixed. 

 

It turns out that the banks like CIBC, BMO, RBC and others are the major shareholders in Baytex.  The hope is that if enough people email the banks and other institutional shareholders about what Baytex is doing that Baytex will get the message and stop harming these people.

 

Below is an email from the families explaining their nightmare and how easily people can help.  The are not looking for donations, just people to email the banks and shareholders. 

 

All they have to do is go to their Stop Baytex website, and click on the yellow banner at the top.  A fresh email will open for people to send their concerns directly to the shareholders.  Here is the link to their website:  http://www.stopbaytex.ca/

 

The Labrecques are hardworking, honest farm families.  They really need our help.  It’s just wrong what’s happening to them.  Please send this to others. 

 

Also, here is a link to YouTube video a videographer from Britain made this summer that shows firsthand the nightmare these families are living:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqfFeKWm9lc

 

Thanks for your help with this. 

 

Regards,

Keith Wilson

One Number (780) 991-5050
Fax (780) 401-3178
kwilson@wilsonlawoffices.ca
Wilson Law Office
Suite 195, 3 -11 Bellerose Drive
St. Albert, Alberta, Canada   T8N 5C9

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EPA: FRIEND OR FOE OF THE FARMER?

"We at EPA really want to partner with them (farmers/landowners) to get to the common goals we all share: cleaner air, cleaner water, cleaner land..."

http://www.agweb.com/article/epa_friend_or_foe_of_the_farmer_NAA_Tyne_Morgan/

Nothing quite like a "partner" who takes your property rights by force of statutory law and regulation, and then threatens you with jail if you don't like it.

Thank goodness there will be a "comment period" prior to the taking.


Sounds just like here in Ontario!


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SO THE GUN REGISTRY IS DESTROYED EH?

How did this joker get the gun registry data? http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2013/11/28/the-canadian-gun-registry-a-portrait-of-montreal/

MOVE ALONG FOLKS. NOTHING TO SEE HERE...

CBC wants us to believe that most of the High River gun theft scandal was actually folks just wanting their guns safely stored at RCMP HQ:  http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-felt-political-pressure-over-alberta-flood-gun-seizures-1.2442859