Senior officials with BC Hydro have “quietly feared for years that earthquakes triggered by natural gas industry fracking operations could damage its Peace River dams,” the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) has charged. In a statement posted to its…
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – There are too many unknown risks and data gaps to green-light fracking, says a government-appointed panel that studied hydraulic fracturing in western Newfoundland. In a report released Tuesday, it recommends that the province continue its freeze…
FREDERICTON – New Brunswick’s energy minister says his government’s moratorium on hydraulic fracturing will continue indefinitely. Donald Arseneault was responding to a report from the commission on hydraulic fracturing which was released in February. He says his government made it…