Teresa Patry is feeling gaslit by Alberta’s oil and gas regulator — and she’s not the only one.
The Vermilion, Alta., farmer and rancher has two active oil wells operating on her land, which, according to an independent air quality assessment, are venting a steady stream of methane and potentially dangerous chemicals downwind from where she lives with her family and livestock.
Patry can smell the fumes from her home, and she believes they are negatively impacting her health and that of her family and animals. But every time she calls the province’s energy regulator, she says they tell her everything is operating as it should be.
“Our home isn’t an industrial site, but it’s sort of been turned into one,” she told What On Earth host Laura Lynch.
I’m so tired of governments treating oil and gas companies like their golden child who can do no wrong. Hold these companies accountable for their pollution!! They can afford it.
Make them pay upfront for the cleanup. Anything not needed they can get back.