Moving vehicles for fly fishers along the Bow River since 1987
Monday, October 21, 2013
Fracking tensions should worry West
Photograph by: Andrew Vaughan, The Canadian Press
Fracking tensions should worry West
By Stephen Ewart, Calgary Herald October 19, 2013
A camouflaged police officer looking down the scope of a high-powered
rifle has become the picture of stakeholder engagement in the fracking
debate in Canada.
For the oil
and gas industry - which puts so much emphasis on the need for a social
licence to operate - the optics of snipers, burned-out police cruisers
and the tense standoff between RCMP and First Nations protesters in New
Brunswick this week could hardly be worse. The Mi'kmaq of Elsipogtog
have staged demonstrations at the site north of Moncton this summer
where U.S.-headquartered SWN Resources Canada is planning seismic
testing to evaluate the potential of the shale gas resource in the
Maritime province.
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