PEI Environment Minister Richard Brown, needs to watch the movie Gasland. Maybe he will revise his statement "If there's problems with fracking..."

The increasingly controversial drilling practice of hydraulic fracturing will not get a green light on Prince Edward Island without first undergoing a thorough environmental assessment and public consultation, says the province’s environment minister.

Richard Brown says his department will be extremely cautious if and when it issues any permit to allow companies to drill in P.E.I. by so-called fracking, which involves injecting large quantities of water along with secret mixes of chemicals deep underground in order to break up gas-containing rock formations.

“If there’s problems with fracking, if it has any potential to hurt our groundwater or to hurt the environment or hurt the fisheries in any ways, we’re not going to allow it to happen,’’ Brown told a group of reporters outside the legislature Thursday.

P.E.I. politicians air "fracking" concerns
http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/News/Local/2011-04-15/article-2429557/PEI-p...