RE: Licenses
to drill six critical sour gas wells (applications no. 1276857, 1276858,
1276859, 1276860, 1307759, 1307760) and application for special well
spacing (application no. 1278265) Compton Petroleum Corporation.
Not far from Calgary,
Compton Petroleum Corporation want to drill 6 sour gas (level 2), 35%
(H2S) wells located "approximately 1.1km east of the southeast boundary
of the city limits of Calgary and approximately 1.2km north of the Bow
River".
Compton Petroleum
Corporation want to shorten the Emergency Planning Zone from 14 kms
to 4 kms around these wells. That means Compton Petroleum Corporation
will only be responsible for what happens inside of this 4 km radius.
A minimum of 300,000
people are in a 15 km radius and have 15 minutes to get out of town
if there is an accident.
On March 30th, Compton
Petroleum Corporation is going before the Alberta Energy and Utilities
Board to get license to drill these 6 wells. This is the last hearing
on it. If this passes, there will be no more hearings.
Communities that
are within the 15 km zone include Bonavista Downs, Canyon Meadows, Canyon
Creek Estates, Ceepeear, Chapparal, Copperfield, Cottonwood, Cranston,
Deer Ridge, Deer River Estates, Deer Run, Dewinton, Diamond Cove, Douglas
Glen, Douglasdale, Evergreen Estates, Foothills Industrial Park, Heritage
Pointe, Indus, Lake Bonavista, Maple Ridge, Shawnee Slopes, McKenzie,
McKenzie Lake, McKenzie Towne, Midnapore, Millrise, Mountain Park, New
Brighton, Ogden, Okotoks, Parkland, Queensland Downs, Riverbend, Shawnessy,
Shepard, Shepard Industrial Park, South Foothills Industrial Park, Sundance,
and Willow Park.
- 700 PPM (Parts
Per Million) will kill, less of that will do serious damage.
- People have been
injured and killed at a 1% to 5% well.
- On average,
the wind blows from the proposed well site to Calgary.
- Going to drill
the 6 wells horizontally, (to get the gas out faster, and more cost
effective) One well will be hundreds of times more deadly then the
5% wells near Calgary. Not just because of the percent level, but
mostly because of the drilling method.
- These wells may
produce 30 - 50 million cubic feet a day.
- Even with a flare
stack igniting any leaking gas or in the event of an accident, combustion
may not burn all of the hydrogen suphide (H2S). 7000 (yes seven thousand)
ppm can be left after combustion.
- What is burned
will be converted to sulphur dioxide, (20% heavier then air).
- Compton Petroleum
Corporation also want to reduce the safety radius because they can't
keep 300,00 people informed (so they say...)
Last
date listed was for January 11 2005. Meeting in the Safari Lodge at
the Calgary Zoo.
Go to the Serria
Club online for more: http://www.sierraclubchinook.org/SourGas/SourGas.html
Fill out their
form at: http://www.sierraclubchinook.org/SourGas/ActionCentre/ActionCentre.php
Addresses for
Calgary
office:
Alberta
Energy and Utilities Board. 640-5 avenue SW Calgary AB. T2P 3G4
Tel:
403-297-8311
Fax:
403-297-7336
