B.C. First Nations to be consulted on fracking

B.C. First Nations to be consulted on fracking October 14, 2011, CBC News
The commission is currently issuing the gas industry more than 50 water permits a month, a number that’s expected to rise. … “The freshwater, everyone says it’s such a precious resource…and the next thing you know it’s being sucked up into one of them [gas] trucks and it’s gone,” said Whitford. “We’ve caught them lots of times taking out of the river, we really don’t know how much water they’re using.”