Yes, Life. I try to folow what happens. I have read some of it from this newspaper:

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/environnement/dossiers/gaz-de-schiste/?utm_categorieinterne=trafficdrivers&utm_contenuinterne=cyberpresse_175ba3articleIsInDossier_ba3_4329158_article_POS1

all written in french languish. I guess you can read it or some of it, being an italian. I have to use google translation. What I get till now, is that the rules will be much stricter.

GHG, dust and noise seams to be main issues.

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google translation:

Virtually no proven cases of contamination of drinking water wells in the United States, despite hundreds of thousands of wells for the exploitation of shale gas, shows that current techniques are effective, according to the Ministry of Sustainable Development , Environment and Parks (MDDEP).

This is one of the findings contained in a Ministry Paper tabled yesterday in the Office of Public Hearings on the environment, including hearings on shale gas debuted yesterday.

"The procedures used in cementing the establishment of wells are governed by regulations of the MNR and provide protection for groundwater, it says. United States, even after the establishment of thousands of wells similar cases of contamination of aquifers are rare. "

However, MDDEP believes that exploitation of resources in Quebec will increase emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the province.

The Department cites a study by the department of environmental protection of the State of New York, which evaluates to 1163 tonnes of annual GHG emissions related to the exploration phase of shale gas wells for a single, and 12 263 tonnes annually for a well in the operational phase.

MDDEP also establishes several potential environmental impacts of the exploitation of shale gas.

Quoting its always screw-à-vis the State of New York, notes that MDDEP settling ponds of water as a result of fracturing of a borehole can emit pollutants at levels that exceed the standards.

MDDEP also rebuffed the Department of Natural Resources, noting that the noise of drilling indicated in his paper is measured at 1.5 km distance. Nothing in the current regulation prevents a drill to get much closer to home, and it has also been done. "It is likely that without the implementation of appropriate mitigation measures, noise levels exceed certain thresholds," says MDDEP.

The Department also addresses the cumulative impact of industry on the territory, noting that the density reaches six wells per square kilometer in the State of New York, even with the use of horizontal drilling.

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/environnement/dossiers/gaz-de-schiste/201010/05/01-4329558-peu-dinquietudes-pour-leau-dit-le-mddep.php

A bad translation. This: Nothing in the current regulation prevents a drill to get much closer to home, and it has also been done. What does it say. Do they want a new law? Tighten the old?

So will it be more difficult for qec and others?

Cause! : As for gas, the announcement did not seem to be unhappy, quite the contrary, even if it means more permits to apply for and more inspections.

"We will comply with new requirements," commented Vincent Perron, a biologist at Talisman said that speaking for the industry.

"And compared to more frequent inspections, that's something we felt during our stormy briefings, many citizens demanded more oversight of our field operations. So we welcome this positive, "said Perron.

---- So I turn to you(all), Please keep on posting, about impacts.

This looks OK:

Normal: The law already requires companies to obtain a certificate of authorization, noted La Presse. Therefore, Quebec would have to enforce this requirement from the beginning. The Ministry of the Environment himself confirming the existence of this legal requirement in a document filed before the BAPE.

"In regard to fracturing, it is a new activity which includes environmental impacts different from those generated by drilling" made in the traditional framework of mining, one can read in this document on environmental issues of shale gas. "Therefore, this technique is subject to first obtaining a certificate of authorization under section 22 of the Act on the quality of the environment."

The department is enforcing the statutory duty on a few occasions, even if Mr. Arcand said previously companies "did not need it, never." The Alberta company Talisman was awarded a certificate for each of its three wells in the Centre-du-Québec. Since 2009, the regional branch of the Department requires such a certificate, "said a representative of Talisman, Vincent Perron. The company has given its list of additives and indicated its mode of disposal of wastewater. She provided the same information at the direction of the Chaudière-Appalaches Ministry about another well. "For us, there's nothing new" in the package announced yesterday, "said Mr. Perron.

Asked about the Talisman case, Pierre Arcand said his goal is to "standardize" the practices within the Department of Environment and eliminate the "gray areas". He also announced the creation of an inspection program for wells drilled.

Member of the Oil and Gas Association of Quebec, Vincent Perron said the industry "sees a very good eye" the minister's announcement. "It will standardize the application of the law on environmental quality," he said.

But, I also read that some want to nationalize the industy or demand 50% from it:

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/environnement/dossiers/gaz-de-schiste/201010/03/01-4329158-marois-reclamerait-50-de-redevances-a-lindustrie.php

And, they want to know much more about impacts. Some activists have moved to Fort Nelson(I think it was).

But we have got a 6month delay, so I hope(and think), that by then, they will have got a new law(something to happen the 2nd feburary?) on loi&gas activities.