Sharing a wealth of information: how regulators can improve fracking disclosure practices

Both the information about fracking and the know-how about how best to employ it is available. Should they choose to do so, regulators can easily and cost-effectively adopt disclosure practices that will benefit Canadians and their communities.
A fracking operation in progress in the Bakken Formation, North Dakota.
Hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) is a technology employed in the production of oil and gas from unconventional shale formations. The technology has become ubiquitous, with tens of thousands of fracking wells drilled worldwide over the past decade. Fracking often takes place in relatively popula...

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