VICTORIA – With shale gas booming and work beginning for pipelines and export facilities in northern B.C., the NDP wants to tighten the rules and take a closer look at the environmental effects of the newest form of deep drilling.
Hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" injects large amounts of water and chemicals deep underground to crack shale layers and release trapped gas.
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