Hey Steel,
Here is the deal. 1 million fraced wells so far, and a contamination is very rare. The evidence is already there. You are seeing things advance. From treating waste water of fracs to make it cleaner than tap water...radioactivity levels the DEP said is zero. They are getting better, because technology advances...fracing is nowhere as good as it used to be 15 years ago...and today's fracing will look amateur 5-10 years from now too.
The difference here is that Quebec has zero experience, and requires more information to ease their minds. Instead of looking at the evidence we have, they would rather find it themselves to show it's sustainable. It's sustainable to 20+ states...if it wasn't, if fracing was completely deadly and the horror stories were true, you'd have the entire midwest US and east in an uproar crying out. Frankly, if people in those states saw their family members healths degrading and something serious was happening, you can bet they'd be going wild and demanding blood. All industry has risk, but the idea is to put in best practices.
This is why QEC has TLM...they are a leader in shale drilling. And at the same time, QEC learns from them. Good regulations will rid jurisdictions of bad companies that cut corners. Only the best and most serious companies require (they want it badly) strong regulations.
You are right. Exploration is studying. As Heltfeil mentioned, BAPE wants to see how this would play out in a full production case and how to maximize revenues. The absolutely only way to see that, is to allow (as that BAPE said) for exploration to continue so they can see the effects. If you don't, then are they just going to close their eyes, pretend they are on a frac site and that they're taking water samples?! lol.
I expect the companies to respond well to this.
Rocco
