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Legislature may consider moratorium on fracking
A moratorium on all forms of extreme well stimulation, including hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” and acidization until a comprehensive, independent and multi-agency review exploring the economic, environmental and public health impacts is complete is being proposed in the California Legislature. State Sens. Holly Mitchell, D-Los Angeles, and Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, are the sponsors of […]
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EDC Says Venoco “Acidizing” Offshore
The Carpinteria-based oil company Venoco has been “acidizing” its offshore wells from Platform Holly to extract more resources in recent years, and Santa Barbara’s Environmental Defense Center is concerned that the process — in which hydrochloric and/or hydrofluoric acid gets pumped into the earth to dissolve rocks and free up oil — is being allowed […]
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EPA Joins the Fray, Hits Allenco for Violations at L.A. Oil Facility Where Investigators Suffered
It took years of complaints from neighbors that the Allenco Energy Inc. oil facility, south of downtown Los Angeles, was making them sick—respiratory problems, nausea, headaches, nosebleeds and the like—before serious attention was paid to the problem. On Wednesday, two months after investigators for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suffered some of the same […]
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Says Frackers Can’t Overrule Local Laws
In a decision that breaks new legal ground by recognizing and enforcing environmental rights, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court last week ruled that key parts of Act 13—the state’s controversial pro-fracking law—are unconstitutional because they violate the state’s Environmental Rights Amendment (EnRA). On a 4-2 vote, the Court struck down a provision that exempted fracking operations […]
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France Upholds Ban on Hydraulic Fracturing
PARIS — France’s highest court on Friday upheld a government ban on a controversial drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing, in a defeat for a method that has revolutionized the oil and natural gas industry in the United States. The Constitutional Council ruled against a challenge by Schuepbach Energy, an American company, whose exploration permits […]
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Gov. Brown signs first fracking bill in California
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed the first law in the state of California that places specific requirements on operators when they utilize various well stimulation practices aimed at increasing oil and gas production in the state. Dubbed the Pavley Bill – for the bills author state senator Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills) – SB 4 authorizes […]
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California’s new fracking law divides environmentalists
Over the past year, legislators in Sacramento introduced a flurry of bills in an effort to study or tighten the leash on fracking in California. Most efforts failed, but in mid-September Gov. Jerry Brown state Sen. Fran Pavley’s SB-4, which regulates two methods of extracting tightly-bound oil in California’s Monterey Shale formation — hydraulic fracturing […]
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The future of the f-word
An investigation into the secretive world of fracking and what it means to California Red dots indicate hydraulically fractured wells as shown on a FracTracker.org map. Click on the image for a larger version. MAP COURTESY OF FRACTRACKER ALLIANCE/WWW.FRACTRACKER.ORG About this story: This story was first published in a similar version on ChicoSol.org, a bilingual online […]
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Could fracking the Monterey Shale lead to the next Big One?
The Monterey Shale runs through some major fault lines, and that’s raised concerns in earthquake-prone California. Could high-pressure pumping under the earth to free the shale’s valuable oil deposits — known as hydraulic fracturing — trigger the next Big One? It’s a question that seismologists get frequently as the debate heats up over fracking and […]
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Environmentalists turn on California’s first real fracking law
Earlier this month, the Environmental Working Group — the D.C.-based nonprofit that helps the green-conscious decide which sunscreen to wear and what to wash their dishes with — was rallying California followers to contact state legislators in support of a bill to regulate fracking. The sun was about to set on California’s 2012-2013 legislative session […]
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