53 per cent of those people surveyed in the southern part of the province say shale gas development is important or critically important to the economic future of New Brunswick.
Most of those questioned, though, perceive shale gas exploration to be unsafe. When asked about how safe they considered it to be on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being not safe at all, people in the southern part of the province only gave shale gas exploration, with fracking, a 4.6. In Moncton and the northern part of the province, the scores were even lower.
