As a consultant for the oil and gas industry for thirty years, Ernst became concerned about its impacts when they began to hit home "I am living with dangerous contamination after EnCana hydraulically fractured my community's drinking water aquifers."

"Jessica Ernst has made a strong case," says Will Koop, BC Tapwater Alliance Coordinator. "Her collection provides excellent and technically friendly working tools, enabling the public to draw their own conclusions from the critical information. This is not just an invaluable document for North Americans, but for the world."

Ernst's 93-page report, Brief Review of Threats to Groundwater from the Oil and Gas Industry's Methane Migration and Hydraulic Fracturing, will be a game-changing document, providing little wiggle room for private industry and government spokespeople advocating fracking be immune from public concern, criticism and liability.