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Increased fracking sparks fear of water use, pollution
by Stephen Ewart, Calgary Herald, Friday, February 07, 2014
.... "It's increasing on a dramatic scale without any understanding of what the potential consequences will be," [Mason] said.
The licences potentially amount to more than 17 million cubic metres of fresh water that would be used in a province with longstanding drought concerns in its southern regions. It would equal almost half of the fresh water used for conventional oil and gas production in Western Canada in 2012.
Including the oilsands, overall fresh water consumption by the industry was 244 million cubic metres.
Oil and gas activity accounts for about 10 per cent of water used in Alberta - farming is allocated more than 40 per cent - but much of the water industry pumps deep underground is effectively lost to human use forever....
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