Alberta Environment's Steve Wallace Editing Ronalie and Shawn Campbell Water Contamination...

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$ d Page I ot') From: llgye_Wg!rye[9tev9.yv_a]lg-ce@9hg1v,ca1 Sent: January 15,2008 11:43 PM To: Alec Blyth Cc: Steve \A/allace Subfec* Campbell report HiAlec i finally got to the report. We basically need to get this finalized by end of day tomorrow (wed), in time for the announ@ment on Thursday. I'll print out an electronic version of the final, and bind it up with the covers from one of the other reports, so its ready to deliver to the Campbells. .J i ( #'iv"i'-ffiffi1"ffi {n rrfr*!' ; Hi;W%';;s-rz' *il ,J rJ'$ ( iOseems6standard protocolat ERCB is if the cement returns are good, no CBL is required (re: 5-18). {J t -, }o CBLs can't read through two strings (production and surhce casings), so this may not help. That said, she \ 71 4K can re@mmend that noise/temp logs be run and the wellhead be excavated to find cementtop in outer :\1 / l. Sllll]'r" points out that this wett is not desp enoush (Betty River) -to match theJiking/Mannvitte t 0 {Ji sisnatureonihecamperts. ,r%-d *, W" / l' } She's not resisting and is open to turther investigation, but woutd like more clarity aro(nd these points. u t1 t 11 Some of my more major comments: andfnaTE please put in a comment or two about the validity of the AENV gas data, to answer off on the Campbell questions I sent to you earlier. some lines of evidence contradict your conclusions. This is oK but we want to make sure we can explain that this doesnt necessarily invalidate these specific lines of evidence used for the other complainants conclusion bullets 3 and 5 on pg 15 - onsider Brenda's comments above. Also affects recommendations pg 16. conclusion bullet 4, pg 15 - its late, I'm sleepy, but I do not see this discussed anywhere in the report. X. 4. Here are my remaining comments, mostly smallthings: / c p91, 1st para - last senten@ "a water bearing zones" -/o gg 3, lst para - Aardley /. pg3,2.2,Zndpara- "Perhaps the orientation......" please rephrase (eg. The orientation could be...) /. pg4, top of pg - is 1-88 supposed to be 1-89? / . pg4,2nd para, last sentence - "is has sodium" ,< . pg 4, 3rd para - is Well2 supposed to be Well 1? .z o pg 4, 4th para - use "water supply" instead of "source" * o pg4,sec3-seenotesaboveaboutCBLon00/05-18 ,4* -/ . pg 5, sec 3 - last sentence does not make sense / . pg 5, sec 4, 1st para - operation should be operational. ls this Penn West well on Fig2? 0U1612008

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Alberta Environment retained the Alberta Research Council, name changed to Alberta Innovates Technologies Futures (to hide their shoddy cover up reports?), to conduct reviews of the regulator's incomplete investigation into thermogenic methane, ethane, propane, butane, pentane in Ronalie and Shawn Campbell's drinking water after nearby fracing (including shallow coal-bed methane fracs by Encana). The report author, Dr. Alexander (Alec) Blyth, claims his report was independent (the regulator and Alberta government claim the same), but a Freedom of Information request by Jessica Ernst of the Ernst vs Encana lawsuit revealed 4 years later, that Steve Wallace with the very regulator (Alberta Environment) that Blyth was to be doing his review on, edited his reports in secret.

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From: llgye_Wg!rye[9tev9.yv_a]lg-ce@9hg1v,ca1

Sent: January 15,2008 11:43 PM

To: Alec Blyth

Cc: Steve \A/allace

Subfec* Campbell report

HiAlec

i finally got to the report. We basically need to get this finalized by end of day tomorrow (wed), in time for theannoun@ment on Thursday. I'll print out an electronic version of the final, and bind it up with the covers from oneof the other reports, so its ready to deliver to the Campbells.

.J

i ( #'iv"i'-ffiffi1"ffi {n rrfr*!' ; Hi;W%';;s-rz' *il,J rJ'$ ( iOseems6standard protocolat ERCB is if the cement returns are good, no CBL is required (re: 5-18).

{J t -, }o CBLs can't read through two strings (production and surhce casings), so this may not help. That said, she

\ 71 4K can re@mmend that noise/temp logs be run and the wellhead be excavated to find cementtop in outer

:\1 / l. Sllll]'r" points out that this wett is not desp enoush (Betty River) -to match theJiking/Mannvitte t 0

{Ji sisnatureonihecamperts. ,r%-d *, W"/ l' }

She's not resisting and is open to turther investigation, but woutd like more clarity aro(nd these points.

u

t1 t 11 Some of my more major comments:

andfnaTE

please put in a comment or two about the validity of the AENV gas data, to answer off on the Campbellquestions I sent to you earlier.some lines of evidence contradict your conclusions. This is oK but we want to make sure we can explainthat this doesnt necessarily invalidate these specific lines of evidence used for the other complainantsconclusion bullets 3 and 5 on pg 15 - onsider Brenda's comments above. Also affects recommendationspg 16.

conclusion bullet 4, pg 15 - its late, I'm sleepy, but I do not see this discussed anywhere in the report.

X.4.

Here are my remaining comments, mostly smallthings:

/ c p91, 1st para - last senten@ "a water bearing zones"-/o gg 3, lst para - Aardley/. pg3,2.2,Zndpara- "Perhaps the orientation......" please rephrase (eg. The orientation could be...)

/. pg4, top of pg - is 1-88 supposed to be 1-89?

/ . pg4,2nd para, last sentence - "is has sodium",< . pg 4, 3rd para - is Well2 supposed to be Well 1?.z o pg 4, 4th para - use "water supply" instead of "source"

* o pg4,sec3-seenotesaboveaboutCBLon00/05-18 ,4*-/ . pg 5, sec 3 - last sentence does not make sense /

. pg 5, sec 4, 1st para - operation should be operational. ls this Penn West well on Fig2?

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' -/. pg5,4.2-anydetails onWell2?,/c pg6,4.4.1- period after Parks.

/o pg7,4.4.3 - 89-1 should be 1€9?,Z WAA.S.1 - including (how many?)lyAENV-/. pg 9,4.5.1, last para - tends should be tend

/. pg 10,4.5.3 - "....were air..." rephrase

4 . pg 10,4.5.3-'The remaining gas samples......"/ . pg 1 3, 4.5.5 - 2nd para - "....with that of the water wellg (5o/o....."

./, pg 15, gth bullet - ...drops much more significantly."o Figs 7&8 - y-axis should be "number of wells or samples" (otherwise Campbell has 3 wells)

almost there.....call if you want to discuss anything, l'm mostly around Wednesday. We can set up a call withBrenda if need be.

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