Press release
For immediate release
August 25th, 2026
NOFRAC SHOCKED BY NEW FRACKING COMPANY’S TRACK RECORD
Questerre in talks with province around fracking permits
[Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia] – NOFRAC says working with Questerre, the company in talks with Nova Scotia to receive a permit to frack in the Colchester Basin, is too big a risk for Nova Scotia to take. Fracking continues to carry a huge set of risks to human health, drinking water, public infrastructure, ecology, and economy, and Questerre’s controversial leadership only adds to these risks.
“The Canadian lead for Questerre, Michael Binnion, is not the kind of guy we want involved in transforming Nova Scotia’s economy,” says Robin Tress of NOFRAC. “He is a leader in a network of corporate elites working in the background to fund fringe groups that purposefully undo environmental, social, and health policy in service of the fossil fuel industry.”
Michael Binnion is listed as one of Canada’s top 10 climate villains by Environmental Defence. He not only leads Questerre, but founded a political organization called the Modern Miracle Network in 2016, which has funded the Canada Proud network (a key contributor to the 2022 trucker convoy), and deliberately assembled a coalition of corporate actors and lobbyists to call climate change into question, and disrupt meaningful climate policy from being enacted. He actively lobbied the Province of Quebec to abandon a developing climate policy in 2022, and when that bill passed anyway he sued Quebec for harm to his shareholders.
“Michael Binnion has said himself that his primary interest is in political advocacy, not fracking. He is clearly more interested in changing our politics and policies around extractive industries than he is about fracking, or contributing to the research purposes of the Dalhousie fracking project,” says Tress.
“This is not the kind of company that’s going to usher in a new era of great and fair economic development for people in Nova Scotia. With Binnion leading the charge, we can expect more backroom undemocratic influence, more changes to Nova Scotia’s policies without public or Mi’kmaq consultation, and much more misinformation about the health risks of fracking,” says Tress. NOFRAC has clearly laid out its critique of Dalhousie’s SERDIP project, and the safety concerns around fracking, at nofrac.ca
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Contact:
robin.tress@gmail.com
For more information, see Environmental Defence’s profile of Michael Binnion
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