British Columbia faces lawsuit: Fracking dams exempted from environmental review

VANCOUVER — A conservation group is suing the British Columbia government for deciding two oilpatch dams are exempt from environmental rules.
The B.C. Sierra Club says foreign-owned Progress Energy built the dams in the province’s north without environmental assessments.
The club alleges the government then retroactively exempted them from needing the reviews.
It alleges the government’s own staff have said the dams, which are used to store water for fracking operations, clearl