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Buried within the more than 400 pages of this spring’s federal omnibus budget bill is an invitation for resource companies to open a new frontier in Canadian oil: the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

The gulf, which touches the coastlines of Canada’s five easternmost provinces, is the world’s largest estuary. It’s home to more than 2,000 species of marine wildlife — an ecosystem integral to the health of our Atlantic and Great Lakes fisheries.

A new study of hydraulic fracturing - or "fracking" - in the United States, finds current methods for waste water disposal put drinking water at risk.
 
Fracking involves pumping water, sand and other chemicals deep underground at high pressure to fracture rocks, allowing trapped natural gas to flow and be pumped to the surface.
 
While resource companies have used the technology on a small scale for decades, it's expected to ramp up significantly as deep shale gas re-serves are tapped.
 
But, in an American paper titled Water Pollution Risk Associated with Natural Gas Extraction from the Marcellus Shale, the authors found that the process is likely to contaminate nearby water systems.
 

An Angus Reid Public Opinion poll released exclusively to The Globe and Mail says despite recent discussion about Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway project, only 1 per cent of respondents think energy is the most important issue facing the province.

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The federal government’s budget legislation has forced the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency to cancel nearly 3,000 screenings into potential environmental damage caused by proposed development projects across Canada, including hundreds involving a pipeline or fossil fuel energy, according to published records.

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