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Documents obtained through FOI requests in August
revealed that some BC Hydro employees are worried
fracking might cause B.C.'s Peace Canyon Dam to
fail. Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is the injection of
fluids into rock to release oil and gas; it's been linked
to earthquakes. The BC Oil and Gas Commission says
there's no problem, due to five-kilometre no-fracking
buffer zones around the Peace Canyon, W.A.C. Bennett
and Site C dams. Between Aug. 17 and 24, we received
1,074 responses to our question: Should B.C. ban
fracking, as other jurisdictions have?
Poll of the Month
Food for Thought
S ome t hing F ishy ?
Monab Enge had plenty to say
on Facebook about Squamish First
Nation Chief Ian Campbell's con-
ditional support of Woodfibre
LNG
(The Conversation, July/August).
"The chief is happy so many herring
have returned to Howe Sound,"
Enge says, "yet he supports a
project that uses a cooling system
banned in California because it has
been proven to destroy the marine
environment and marine life."
Enge thinks the requirement for
Woodfibre and FortisBC to provide
insurance coverage in the event
of an accidental explosion or fire
implies the deal is more important
than the dangers. "Prime Minister
Trudeau's famous election promise
that gave us all hope, that there
would be a fair approval process,
now rings hollow."
86%
(927 votes)
14%
(147 votes)
Yes. It's better
to be safe
than sorry:
B.C. should
follow the
lead of places
like Quebec,
New Brunswick
and New York
No. There's
no evidence
of a prob-
lem, and
precautions
have been
put in
place
In "Waste Not
Want Not" (July/
August), Marcie
Good looked at
how some B.C.
businesses are
addressing the
huge amount of food that is wasted each year.
On Facebook, Dawn Williams expressed her
concern about how much grocery stores throw
out, posting a link to an Independent story
about Italy's law requiring supermarkets to give
wasted food to charity. She commented, "This
should be law everywhere. Why not??" From
the same issue, Jamie Maw's story about Earls'
U.S. expansion plans ("Southern Comfort")
drove Daniel Jordan to comment that he'd
never had a bad meal at Earls—though Hazel
Urchuk had some beefs: "They need to have
better training for their chefs as they don't
know how to cook their steaks and to learn time
management along with customer service."
huge amount of food that is wasted each year.
