New Brunswick reviews fracking ban amid U.S. trade war and gas-import reliance

Premier Susan Holt has ordered a five-month public review of New Brunswick's 2014 fracking moratorium, citing the Canada-U.S. trade war and the province's reliance on American natural gas via the Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline. Holt, a longtime opponent of widespread fracking, framed the review as an energy-security measure. Her Indigenous affairs and natural resources ministers joined the announcement.