fracking

MR. MURPHY: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker.

NDP Environment and Conservation critic George Murphy (MHA, St. John’s East) has been hearing a lot of concerns about hydraulic fracturing, the fracking process used in oil extraction. Today he brought some of those concerns to the House of Assembly.

NDP Environment and Conservation Critic George Murphy (MHA, St. John’s East) says that in response to numerous requests, he has launched a petition urging government to think long and hard before permitting any fracking activity to take place in the province.

NL NDP Environment and Conservation Critic George Murphy, MHA for St. John's East, is circulating a petition calling on the House of Assembly to impose a moratorium on the use of slickwater fracking as a method of oil and gas extraction.

Interested members of the public are invited to contact George's office, and are welcome to circulate the petition and collect signatures.

NDP Environment Critic George Murphy (MHA, St. John’s East) has written to the provincial Minister of Environment in an effort to directly to communicate his own concerns about slickwater fracking, and to urge government to take steps to minimize any potential damage from the process.

NDP Environment Critic George Murphy (MHA, St. John’s East) says government must insist on a full environmental assessment before any fracking activity is allowed to proceed in the province.