Shale gas boom threatens water
By Shaun Polczer,
Calgary Herald
October 15, 2010
A new report released by the University of Toronto on Thursday suggests the rush to develop shale gas could threaten Canada's water supplies without tough new environmental protection laws.
According to the study prepared for the Munk School of Global Affairs at the U of T, provincial and federal regulations regarding hydraulic fracturing have not kept up with the pace of shale gas development in places such as northeastern British Columbia and Quebec, where it says drilling poses a threat to groundwater supplies.
The report notes that shale development in the U.S. has sparked a wave of public concern over new technologies that are credited with unlocking a 100-year supply of natural gas from rocks that were previously considered impossible or uneconomic to produce.
"Canada has also witnessed its own 'shale gale' as the boom noisily expanded from its dramatic epicentre in northern British Columbia into rich shale formations in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick," the report states.
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