Industry Spotlight
CaNaDa'S FraCTureD VieW
OF FraCKiNG
The West has largely embraced the practice used to
release natural gas, but on the east Coast environmental
concerns are prompting provinces to say
'no fracking here.'
by Charlotte Santry
34 February 2014
INHOUSE
aS canada'S largeSt natural gas
producer defends itself in court against allegations linked to its fracking operations,
several provinces are expressing increasing
unease with the practice and, in some cases,
banning it.
Concerns over fracking — the practice
of injecting rocks with pressurized liquid to
release natural gas — appear to be unevenly
