The shale boom that has fueled the growth of the North American energy industry while generating a pile of work for outside lawyers in recent years appears set to spill into 2012.

The latest indication that the trend will continue: the announcement that Canadian natural gas exploration and production company Encana will sell a 40 percent stake in a shale project in British Colombia to Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi.

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