Blasting shale rock with toxic fluid can release riches in natural gas, but threatens critical water supplies.

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The earth-shattering exploitation of deep deposits of shale rock for natural gas production has broken global records in northeast British Columbia and now threatens critical water supplies across the country, warns a new Munk School of Global Affairs report by award-winning B.C. journalist Ben Parfitt....continued....