Maxime Daigle worked in the oil industry for seven years but is now protesting against further development of the shale gas sector See also “Say No to Shale Gas June 30, 2011, Rexton, New Brunswick, Part 2″- www.youtube.com www.cbc.ca Ex-oil worker blasts shale gas industry CBC News Posted: Dec 2, 2011 7:00 AM AT Last Updated: Dec 2, 2011 2:36 PM AT Maxime Daigle worked on oil and gas rigs for seven years before quitting to devote his life to protesting what he believes are the perils of shale gas drilling. Daigle spent his career in the oil and gas sector working in operations located in Alberta, British Columbia and across the United States. He started as a roughneck and worked his way up to drilling foreman. But he soon concluded the world’s dependency on oil was killing the planet and he left the industry. “We all have our hands dirty on it. It’s just an awakening I went through that made me realize what I was doing was wrong and that I needed to try and make a difference,” he said. So Daigle moved back home to New Brunswick and went back to school to study electrical engineering with a focus on renewable energy. Daigle is one of the many citizens that are speaking out over fears about the shale gas industry. There are nine companies that currently have 71 different leases to explore for shale gas. While the industry is in its infancy, it has turned into a high-profile political issue for Premier David Alward’s government. The Progressive Conservative government …
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Hats off to Maxime, anyone catch vids on people being able to light their well water with a match? Also i believe the natural gas is being used to extract oil from the tar sands. Whats wrong with this picture?
We are pushing this government for a moratorium on fracking so we can understand the magnitude of what we are dealing with. We are a small Island in the middle of two Oceans, the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean. We sit inside what vulcanologists call the “Pacific rim of fire”. The activity occuring beneath our feet is volatile. The rock formation is already unstable, layers upon layers apon layers built up over millions of years. It is a recipe for disaster. “Kia kaha, kia maia kia manawanui”
If, as the prof states, the weight of the overlying rock “should” seal fissures and fractures, why does fracking work? If the resettling of rock layers closes fractures, would it not be great enough to put liquids under enormous pressure, tending to force them wherever there is an outlet? I don’t know this prof, but many geologists depend on hydrocarbon extractors for grants.
“He leaves his father’s grave behind, and he does not care. He kidnaps the earth from his children, and he does not care. His father’s grave, and his children’s birthright are forgotten. He treats his mother, the earth, and his brother, the sky, as things to be bought, plundered, sold like sheep or bright beads. His appetite will devour the earth and leave behind only a desert.”
Chief Seattle, 1851
“We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.”
I wish you Mr.Daigle and all of us good luck.I am from Bulgaria and took part in the protests aginst this technology.I hope the U.S. understands how dangerous this is and stop it on time.
I wanna dollar sign on section 2:14 which flashes how much money Dr. Parks is getting from the industry to spew this rubbish.
Great job Mr. Daigle.
I posted this on my blog today. The industry is being a bit defensive in the comments. I have witnessed the “covering it with fresh dirt” many times.
Again, thanks to you!
Thank you so much for speaking up! We need more people like you who will put morals ahead of money.
Maxime you are a champ. Keep up the good work and good luck. We only have one planet to live on. Let’s love and preserve it.
Thanks! Pennsylvania needs to hear more from N. B. and from the West.
A sarcasm irony.
The point of this video, if nothing else, is that even the tightest regulations are ineffective if no one enforces them. Regulations are in place, and they are tight, but they’re so tight that fracking is effectively impossible to do while following them, and so they are ignored.
Fracking is simply unsafe. It cannot be done safely.
Thank you Maxime. It is going to take more people like you to come forward and speak out for the masses to believe us. This is very helpful and hopefully you will inspire more people like yourself to speak up so we will be able to save our land from the destruction of the natural gas industry. Here in Pennsylvania we are being fracked to death with many people unable to use their water and many rivers contaminated with fracking fluids. Many, Many thanks.
thank you SO MUCH Mr. Daigle! Be careful and Sing ON! I’m from Texas and it’s destroying the air, the water, the land, the precious property values, the livestock, the tourism.
1:55″It would be safe with the right regulations” WTF!?!?!?!?!? WELL THEN FUCKING DO IT THE SAFE WAS ASSHOLES! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
It ate thru his shoes, people!
Thank you for speaking out.
what a super hero!!!!