According to the The Financial Post, B.C. Hydro, the Crown agency responsible for electricity in the province has been privately expressing concerns that earthquakes triggered by fracking are a potential risk to its dams.
Fracking brings dams
Fracking brings earthquakes
Earthquakes break dams
Fracking breaks dams
Apparently, concerns about this possibility were first expressed in internal documents in 2009 and it is suggested that as early as 2014, B.C. Hydro drew up an agreement with the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission (BCOGC), to create five-kilometer buffer zones around dams within which new fracking and drilling rights would not be issued.
While this alleged agreement indicates the serious concerns within BC Hydro, their public position seems a little more cavalier. In a response to Financial Times queries on this matter, BC Hydro seems to have responded with the following – “… our dams can withstand events many times larger than those associated with fracking.” The crown corporation holds that while, ” fracking does have the potential to increase natural seepage … ( this) … is an issue of increased cost, not dam safety … ”
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