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Fracking Growth Outpacing Scientific Knowledge in Canada
Environment Canada-commissioned study urges a ‘go slow’ approach.
Photo of frack fields in northern B.C. by Hayley Dunning.
One of Canada’s premier scientific bodies has issued a critical report on the state of hydraulic fracturing in the nation, saying the industry has outpaced credible baseline data, scientific knowledge and necessary monitoring.
Moreover, threats to groundwater are real and immediate due to stray gases migrating along leaky and abandoned wellbores, natural fractures in rock, and permeable faults, it found.
“These pathways may allow for migration of gases and possibly saline fluids over long time scales, with potentially substantial cumulative impact on aquifer water quality,” noted the Council of Canadian Academies report.
Basic science on the 10-year-old brute force technology, which blasts rock formations open with water, chemicals and sand, remains in its infancy.
Bill Bard says:
Copy to Cameron?…
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/05/fracking-growth-outpacing-scientific-knowledge-in-canada/
