The Council of Canadians is beginning to track hydraulic fracturing projects across Canada.
Hydro-fracking is already happening in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and New Brunswick, and there are plans to establish the practice Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia.
HORN RIVER BASIN
Major activity is planned for the Horn River Formation, which is in north-eastern British Columbia extending to Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories. The Tyee.ca reports, “The Horn River play is being heavily developed in concert with incentive programs offered by the province, and with more than 600 trillion cubic feet of gas in place, is considered one of the top gas reserves in North America.”
CORPORATIONS
The CBC reports that, “Encana is working on a deal to team up with China National Petroleum Corp. to develop some of its shale natural gas holdings in northeastern British Columbia. In March, it signed an agreement with Korea Gas Corp. that saw the Asian company buy a 50 per cent stake in properties in the promising Horn River Basin and Montney shale gas plays in northeastern B.C.”
Other corporations in the Horn River Basin include Apache, EOG, Stone Mountain Resources, Exxon, Quicksilver Resources, Nexen and Devon Energy.
WATER USE
The Tyee.ca reports, “A significant amount of water was allocated to the gigantic Horn River Basin shale gas play near Fort Nelson in fiscal 2009, but only five per cent of the allocation was actually used, (British Columbia Oil and Gas Commission commissioner Alex) Ferguson told media in Fort St. John.”
INDIGENOUS CONCERNS
And Business in Vancouver recently reported that, “(West Moberly First Nation Chief Roland) Willson said the (proposed $6.6 billion Site C hydroelectric) dam will not only flood prime agricultural land along the Peace, but much of the power will be used to extract shale gas from B.C.’s Horn River basin. That gas will then be shipped to Alberta to produce oil from the tar sands, Willson said.”
MORE
More on hydro-fracking across Canada at http://canadians.org/campaignblog/?s=fracturing.
