Montreal Gazette: Nathalie Normandeau, Quebec’s natural resources minister, announced Wednesday that the Quebec government would no longer authorize any hydraulic fracturing operations in the province.
Normandeau said the ban will apply to fracking both for gas and oil, but that fracking could be done for scientific purposes.
A panel of independent experts, which the government has yet to name, will determine whether an individual fracking operation will add to scientific knowledge about the impact of the controversial......
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Canada: Quebec will no longer authorize fracking for oil, gas
Posted by Montreal Gazette: Kevin Dougherty on March 18th, 2011
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