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Friday April 13, 2012

Cornering Gas, Interviews:

Congratulations to our winners and the Cornering Gas podcast

This weekend, members of the Daybreak North team are being honoured for their work at the B.C. Radio Television Digital News Association Awards.Morning news reader Pamela McCall is taking home the award for "Best Newscast - Medium Market" and Daybreak producer Robert Doane and host Betsy Trumpener are receiving the "Dave Rogers Award: Long Feature" for their special series "Cornering Gas."

To celebrate, we are once again sharing the entire "Cornering Gas" series here, which you can stream online or download for later listening. "Cornering Gas" is an in-depth look at the shale gas industry and how it's affecting northeastern B.C. and beyond. Daybreak North co-host Robert Doane and CBC news reporter Betsy Trumpener hit the road to meet the people and places at the centre of the controversial industry. You'll hear from them, along with Daybreak host Carolina De Ryk in this award-winning series first broadcast in September 2011.You can find individual segments from this series, along with more photos at http://bit.ly/corneringgasonline.

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Friday September 30, 2011

Cornering Gas:

Cornering Gas: Friday

Cornering Gas continues with the light and the heavy.

Daybreak strolls the aisle at a tiny Fort Nelson store that gives "one stop shopping" a whole new meaning.

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Fracking is a thirsty business. Fracking just one shale gas well can use as much 600 Olympic-size swimming pools of water. That's a big problem for drought-prone Dawson Creek. So the northern city is freeing up "frack water" by putting its sewage up for sale.

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Christy Clark may have thrown her backing behind shale gas fracking... But not everyone is sold on the rapid development.

 

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Thursday September 29, 2011

Cornering Gas:

Cornering Gas: Thursday

Water, Earthquakes and growing towns -- oh my!

First, Daybreak's Cornering Gas team Robert Doane and Betsy Trumpener hear from northeast residents who are concerned about the water use in the region's Oil and Gas industry.

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Next, it's Town and Fracking. Fort Nelson is booming and that's changing the local landscape.

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Finally,

Could a RUMBLIN' in the horn river be man-made? As international companies descend upon the world class gas play, there seems to be a whole lotta shaking goin on.

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