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| A Nexen contractor Kerne Kennedy makes his way through this maze of pipes at the site on Nexen's 18 well shale gas pad b-77-H, where fracking is underway. Photograph by: Handout/ Nexen, Postmedia News |
Environment Canada asks industry to come clean on hydraulic fracking
By Mike De Souza, Ottawa Citizen/Calgary Herald/Postmedia News April 11, 2013
- “There is potential for water contamination from the use and disposal of drilling muds and fracturing fluids,” Paul Boothe, [the former deputy minister] , wrote in a memo to [Environment Minister Peter] Kent dated March 8, 2011. “There is also a risk of natural gas or saltwater from the formation leaking into surface water, water wells or water aquifers.”
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