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The fracking frenzy in B.C and Texas is leading to record-breaking earthquakes [Video]

Standing in his living room, Richard Kabzems brandishes a thick binder stuffed with letters and notes of his two-year fight to stop fracking wells near his home in Farmington, B.C.

Ovintiv, a multinational oil and gas company, announced two years ago that it would expand fracking for gas at a new site built on a hill about a kilometre from Kabzems’s home in the rural Lebell subdivision. The B.C. Energy Regulator (BCER) approved the permit.

Over the last 24 months, Kabzems and his wife, Sandy Burton, have written six detailed letters to the gas company opposing the project, and another series of emails and letters to the provincial regulator. 

But drilling is scheduled to begin on Feb. 9, on the first of a projected 24 wells at the site.

“We are bearing the risk, and they are saying, ‘Don’t worry,'” Kabzems said.

He is, in fact, worried. That’s because in …

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