What is high-volume fracking?
Apparently, legislation is coming to ban it in Nova Scotia.
Three days after the Wheeler report recommended Nova Scotia prepare community approval mechanisms, more area-specific science and an extensive regulatory regime before allowing hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas, Energy Minister Andrew Younger announced he will bring in legislation to ban high-volume fracking.
The only reference Marco Navarro-Genie from the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies could find to such a practice in the report was with regard to the amount of wells drilled.
Click here to read this interview in the Chronicle Herald!