Another Setback in Landmark Fracking Case as Lawyers Pull Out | The Tyee
Jessica Ernst has spent 12 years and $400,000 pursuing a lawsuit against the Alberta fracking industry and its regulator.
Now her Ontario lawyer has let go most of his staff and given up the case.
In 2007, Ernst, then an oil patch consultant with her own thriving business, sued the Alberta government, Alberta’s energy regulator and Encana. She alleged her well water had been contaminated by Encana’s fracking and government agencies had failed to investigate the problems.