Vaughn Palmer: Scientists highlight regulator failings over fracking projects

VICTORIA — When the NDP government-appointed scientific panel on fracking visited B.C.’s Northeast last year, one eye-opener was a tour of  “a large water storage structure, clearly identifiable as a dam.”
The structure was some 20 metres high and held water for hydraulic fracturing or fracking, the process whereby water is injected deep into the earth to release natural gas locked in rocks.
But though the structure looked like a dam, and stored water like a dam