Fracking earthquakes rattle a way of life on ranch in northeastern B.C. [Video]

Bo Hedges’ parents have lived on their ranch north of Fort St. John, B.C., for close to 50 years, running the Dead Horse Creek Cattle Company on the property where a natural spring bubbles up near their log home.

It sounds peaceful — but Hedges said earthquakes triggered by natural gas industry operations are “stressing them out completely” as the couple in their 80s wonder “when’s the big one going to hit.”

Hedges lives in Fort St. John, about 1,400 kilometres northeast of Vancouver, and he was visiting the ranch when an earthquake struck a few years ago.

“It felt like a big truck hit the house,” he said. “The whole house just shook and there was a giant bang and woke everybody up.”

A series of at least four earthquakes ranging in magnitude from 3.1 to 4.3 have struck the Peace Region of northeastern B.C. recently, between Feb. 8 …