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Publishing date: Apr 01, 2021 • 3 days ago • 4 minute read • Anticosti Island is home to some 125,000 deer and fewer than 250 people. A deer peers from the forest on August 13, 2013 on Anticosti Island, Canada. Between 800 and 1,000 tourists are expected to visit Anticosti in the summer of 2013, but every Fall as many as 4,000 hunters come to the island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The size of the French island of Corsica in the Mediterranean, Anticosti has only 216 inhabitants. Quebec s Petrolia gas exploration company announced a partnership with the community to install an hydrocarbons exploration program scheduled to star in 2014. Economist specializing in energy issues, Pierre-Olivier Pineau believes that fracturing gas increases opportunities for fugitive gas leaks that are worse for the greenhouse effect because it is methane that escapes without being checked. AFP PHOTO / Clement SABOURIN (Photo credit shoul