Green war brewing over ‘fracking’ for gas

British Columbia’s next “war in the woods” could be fought over gas deposits buried far below the thinly populated ranchlands of the Peace River region.

The province’s two Independent MLAs are urging the B.C. government to investigate fracking – a technique for extracting unconventional gas deposits. Launching a probe now, they argue, could head off an environmental campaign that may put B.C. in an unflattering international spotlight, as the harvesting of old-growth forests did almost 20 years ago.

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