Board needs more time to review Husky fracking application

The Sahtu Land and Water Board says it needs more time to review Husky Energy's application to frack four horizontal wells about 40 kilometres southeast of Norman Wells, N.W.T.

• Husky Energy applies to frack exploratory wells in N.W.T.

The board met this week to discuss the application,after people from across the territory weighed in on the proposed project.

Alternatives North, Ecology North and the Council of Canadians joined forcesto call on people concerned aboutfrackingtowrite to the board, urging it to order a fullenvironmental assessment of the project. About 50 people wroteletters for and against the project,which the board has been reviewing.

Now the board says it needs more time to review the file. It's asking Husky and parties involved in the project, including the Government of the Northwest Territories,for more information.

No decision has been made about whether the project if approved will undergo an environmental assessment.