After four months of negotiations, the Quebec government has agreed to pay C$41.4 million ($33 million) in compensation to three oil and gas companies for putting a stop to their drilling campaigns on Anticosti Island.
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Quebec Moves to Prevent Drilling on Anticosti Island in Gulf of St. Lawrence
The Quebec government has made an opening move to evict fledgling natural gas and oil activity from the province’s prime exploration territory in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, said partners in the drilling program.
April 7, 2017
Quebec Leaders JV With Producers in Remote Anticosti Island Drilling
The surprising announcement recently by anti-drilling Quebec provincial government leaders and several Canadian producers that they were getting together on joint ventures (JV) for exploration drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) field trials in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in the northern part of the province, far from civilization, was explained by a French Canadian opposition party, “deer don’t vote.”
February 21, 2014
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