B.C. faces lawsuit: Fracking dams exempted from environmental review

A conservation group is suing the B.C. government for exempting two oil-patch dams from environmental rules years after the dams were built.
“It seems like the government was really playing catch-up,” Olivia French, the lawyer handling the lawsuit for the B.C. Sierra Club, said Monday. “Progress Energy acted with a bit of disregard for B.C.’s laws — one of those typical, ’Ask for forgiveness, not for permission’ sort of positions.”
The suit asks th