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No fracking way: Ban hydraulic fracturing in Canada

Hydraulic fracturing of 'fracking'. Graphic: Al Granberg/ProPublica

Oil and gas companies are injecting millions of litres of freshwater laced with thousands of kilograms of toxic chemicals and sand beneath the ground. Their goal is to extract natural gas embedded in a type of rock known as shale. This is currently happening in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and New Brunswick, and there are plans to establish the practice in Quebec and Nova Scotia.

At risk are ground and surface water, and human and non-human health.

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British Columbia's fossil fuel superpower ambitions

The following is the first in a two-part storyon corporate claims over British Columbia's natural resources. Part two can be found here.

The province of Alberta is well known as a climate-destroying behemoth. The tar sands developments in the north of that province are the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions on the planet.

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B.C. government needs to say 'no fracking way' this May!

| March 8, 2013
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Smash the State Report: Feb.15, 2013

February 18, 2013
| Homelessness marathon and the fight for social housing kicks things off, then we go into abuses in jails, a nuclear North Korea, dead executives.
Length: 1:06:56 minutes (61.3 MB)

B.C. throne speech repackages old announcements, lacks courage and vision

| February 13, 2013

Traditional practices reasserted as Unist'ot'en evict pipeline surveyors

Solidarity protest held in Toronto last week.

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On the morning of November 20th, 2012, Freda Huson, spokesperson for the Unis'tot'en clan of the Wet'suwet'en encountered materials left behind by PTP surveyors at 48 km on the Morice River Forest Service Road West.

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David P. Ball

'We're stopping them ... There's no way around us': Wet'suwet'en evict Pacific Trails Pipeline

| November 26, 2012

B.C.'s natural gas and the folly of using resource royalties to fund public services

| November 22, 2012

Carbon contradictions: Natural gas expansion and B.C.'s greenhouse gas law

| October 11, 2012
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