Noise

When they drilled the well, less than 100 yards from my home we had 3 weeks of 7X24 drilling, with noise that is almost unbearable. After the first day, my ears were ringing and I was nauseous most of the time. We called the Encana supervisor who was very sympathetic and offered to put us up in a hotel. That was not an option for us as we have dogs and horses to be taken care of as well as not wanting to be away with crews full of strangers now living behind us.

We had a pregnant mare at the time and were scared she would drop the foal with the noise as loud as it was. The horses and the dogs were very upset. Can you imagine how that felt on a dog or horse's sensitive ears?

At that point, Encana offered to bring in noise abatement which consisted of double stack insulated rail shipping containers. It looked just horrible, all rusty and different colors, but it made a noticable difference in the noise level and provided us some privacy from the rig hands.