Oh man, how right you are. For many years I worked in the oilfield here. It was mostly just building roads, so I told myself that the roads are going to help open up our vast, undiscovered area.

Then more discoveries were made and I started hauling produced water(poison) to disposal wells where it was pumped down a hole, supposedly forever. I told myself that the wells were already built and the water was a byproduct from the ground that was just going back in the ground.

Then the fracking started and we were told to start loading our trucks from the lakes and rivers to fill these massive tanks and ponds. They would then add acids and chemicals and blast it downhole into the formation. All of the spent water was brought back up to the surface and we would haul it away to pump it down the disposal wells.

That's when I got out of there and went back to hauling dirt to build roads. I couldn't sleep at night knowing I took part in millions upon millions of litres of clean, fresh water being contaminated and disposed of, all so a gas company can get bigger profits than the billions they were already getting.

Now I have completely left the oilfield, let all of my safety tickets lapse, and took a job with the highway department plowing snow in the winter and picking up garbage and assorted other work in the summer. I'm not getting rich, but I get lots of sleep and my family still gets to eat.

Cheers