| Resource Name |
Shale gas in British Columbia: Risks to BC's Water Resources |
| Unique File Number |
254 |
| Information Type |
water management Programs and Tools |
| Surface Water |
A |
| Aquatic Ecosystem |
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| Groundwater |
B |
| Groundwater & Surface Water |
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| Information Subtype |
Hydraulic fracturing |
| Organization |
Pembina Institute |
| Resource Name |
Campbell, K and Horne, M. 2011. Shale gas in British Columbia: Risks to BC's water resources. Pembina Institute |
| Resource Purpose |
British Columbia has been extracting natural gas for half of a century but until recently, conventional wisdom held that the province’s economic gas reserves would be significantly depleted by 2020; the readily accessible gas was running out and other reserves were either too remote or too costly to extract. That notion has been challenged in the past several years because the costs of extracting hard-to-access sources of gas, notably shale gas, have dropped significantly. The impacts are far-reaching, as it is now known that B.C. is located on top of gas reserves that are significant not only provincially but also on a continental scale. |
| Type of Information |
report |
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| Program Status |
complete |
| NE Coverage |
NE BC Specific |
| Drinking Water |
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| Ecosystem |
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| Fish |
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| Groundwater |
Y |
| Public Safety |
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| SW Quality |
Y |
| SW Quantity |
Y |
| Link |
http://www.pembina.org/pub/2263 |
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