Calgary- Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in Canada is taking its controversial operation to new levels with reports surfacing of the largest fracking job ever undertaken having occurred in northern British Columbia in 2010, using 259 million gallons of water.
The Apache Corp. performed a fracking job deep in B.C.’s forest which required the staggering amount of water along with 50,000 tons of sand to frack 16 gas wells side by side. At the time, Apache bragged it was “nearly four times larger than any project of its nature in North America,” according to ProPublica.
As with all records, it was meant to be broken. By year’s end, Apache partnered with Encana, the second largest gas-driller in North America, to top it by half at a nearby site. Slowly emerging from the new fracking boom in western Canada is a growing concern over drinking water contamination, with one Alberta resident claiming communities in the region are a “test tube” for the hydraulic fracturing industry.
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