The size and scope of the gas development will help to determine the shape of British Columbia's economy in the next decade. The most ambitious of projections, from consultancy Wood Mackenzie, suggests the area contains almost as much recoverable natural gas used to heat homes and power industry as Canada has in current proven reserves.

Excellent read Silverhound, there are a lot parallels between this story and the one taking place in Hungary. The most notable one is that even here, in the energy reach country like Canada the time for exploitation of unconventional energy resources has come.