“It Can’t All Be True”: Canadian Government Launches New Fracking Studies by Carrol Linnitt, September 23, 2011. Desmogblog
Quebec’s cautionary approach has prompted others to ask why provinces like British Columbia, Alberta, and New Brunswick, where there is equal cause for concern, are not taking a similar science-based approach. But the federal government has met calls for independent investigations and environmental evaluation with silence. [Emphasis added]
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