The Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality must be followed in all of the provinces where hydraulic fracturing takes place and the results shared with the property owners (Gagnon, 2016).
Provinces
In Canada, a handful of provinces have banned fracking; Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland & Labrador, for the main concerns of water contamination, air quality, and the terms of clarification and operation licenses (Gagnon, 2016). While British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan allow drilling of this natural resource with the proper permits and if regulations are followed. (Olive, 2016). Within the province of British Columbia alone, back in 2013, over seven billion liters of water was used for fracking (Tracking Hotspots, 2014), …show more content…
In Lac-Megantic, Quebec, 47 people were killed and the downtown was incinerated after a rail car full of freshly fracked oil exploded (Tracking Hotspots, 2014). Phosgene can be formed from the burning of flare stacks, when carbon monoxide and chlorine gas are combined, from fracking chemicals (Tracking Hotspots, 2014). These are just a few examples on how hydraulic fracturing, if not carefully performed can initiate serious harm to the environment and …show more content…
Deep injection fluid induced earthquakes can be felt and are usually the result of wastewater injection, but recently hydraulic fracturing injections are becoming more common at low magnitudes (Petersen, et al, 2015). A case study was performed in the Horn River Basin, which is located in northeast British Columbia, where seismicity (earthquakes) were monitored before and after hydraulic fracturing (Farahbod, et al, 2015). The Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) keeps in depth records of earthquakes and only has one on record before 2009 in the Horn River Basin area (Farahbod, et al, 2015). Since the removal of shale gas has taken place in that area, over 40 earthquakes have been documented within the basin (Farahbod, et al, 2015). Back in 2002, before fracking became popular in the basin, 24 earthquakes were on recorder for that entire year, compared to in 2011, when fracking became a daily occurs, the number of earthquakes jumped to 131 with a magnitude of ML 3.6 (on the Richter scale) for that entire year (Farahbod, et al, 2015). In northern Alberta, in Duvernay shale, which is a boreal forest used to get on average zero to three earthquakes a year, every since fracking as taken place, this forest gets anywhere from zero to four daily (Nikiforuk, 2015). At the moment, scientist still has not figured out an accurate method to
Provinces
In Canada, a handful of provinces have banned fracking; Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland & Labrador, for the main concerns of water contamination, air quality, and the terms of clarification and operation licenses (Gagnon, 2016). While British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan allow drilling of this natural resource with the proper permits and if regulations are followed. (Olive, 2016). Within the province of British Columbia alone, back in 2013, over seven billion liters of water was used for fracking (Tracking Hotspots, 2014), …show more content…
In Lac-Megantic, Quebec, 47 people were killed and the downtown was incinerated after a rail car full of freshly fracked oil exploded (Tracking Hotspots, 2014). Phosgene can be formed from the burning of flare stacks, when carbon monoxide and chlorine gas are combined, from fracking chemicals (Tracking Hotspots, 2014). These are just a few examples on how hydraulic fracturing, if not carefully performed can initiate serious harm to the environment and …show more content…
Deep injection fluid induced earthquakes can be felt and are usually the result of wastewater injection, but recently hydraulic fracturing injections are becoming more common at low magnitudes (Petersen, et al, 2015). A case study was performed in the Horn River Basin, which is located in northeast British Columbia, where seismicity (earthquakes) were monitored before and after hydraulic fracturing (Farahbod, et al, 2015). The Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) keeps in depth records of earthquakes and only has one on record before 2009 in the Horn River Basin area (Farahbod, et al, 2015). Since the removal of shale gas has taken place in that area, over 40 earthquakes have been documented within the basin (Farahbod, et al, 2015). Back in 2002, before fracking became popular in the basin, 24 earthquakes were on recorder for that entire year, compared to in 2011, when fracking became a daily occurs, the number of earthquakes jumped to 131 with a magnitude of ML 3.6 (on the Richter scale) for that entire year (Farahbod, et al, 2015). In northern Alberta, in Duvernay shale, which is a boreal forest used to get on average zero to three earthquakes a year, every since fracking as taken place, this forest gets anywhere from zero to four daily (Nikiforuk, 2015). At the moment, scientist still has not figured out an accurate method to