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 sympathize too, but these conditions have persisted for decades. People have sounded the alarm for decades.
Landowners get attention from legacy media, but it took a doctor who had to risk everything to sound the alarm for the people of Fort Chipewyan and beyond. Dr O’Connor faced complaints from his own College and defended himself. He must have felt like an island at that point.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-whistleblower-fort-chipewyan-john-o-connor-1.5943389