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Bill to regulate fracking passes California state Assembly
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A hotly contested bill that would impose California’s first regulations on fracking and other oil production practices passed the state Assembly on Wednesday, despite opposition from environmentalists and oil companies. Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is the practice of injecting water, sand and chemicals underground to crack rock formations and free up […]
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Death by Corporation, Part IV: Dissolving the Planet for Oil
Excerpt: … along comes “matrix acidizing,” the oil industry’s latest stroke of genius to extract oil from shale formations by literally disintegrating underground rock formations using – you guessed it, hydrofluoric acid. During the summer of 1986, Amoco, Allied-Signal, Du Pont and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory voluntarily conducted a series of six experiments involving atmospheric releases […]
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Dirty Dozen: The 12 Most Commonly Used Air Toxics in Unconventional Oil Development in the Los Angeles Basin
INTRODUCTION For the first time in California, operators of oil and gas wells have been forced to disclose some of the chemicals they use in extreme oil and gas production techniques. These reports confirm that dangerous extraction methods are using harmful and toxic chemicals and exposing Californians to unacceptable risks. Starting June 4, 2013, the […]
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Feature: No fracking way!
Marin is pumping for a ban on hydraulic fracturing You may not have heard of Mainstreet Moms or 350Marin, but you will feel the heat, and soon. The Moms, along with 350.org and its associated nonprofits, are tangling with big oil companies to ban fracking in California. You don’t know from fracking? Fracking allows oil […]
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Why Oil Companies Want to Drop Acid in California
In the Golden State, fracking has given way to ‘acidizing’ as a means to extract oil No, it’s not the brown acid passed around at a 1960s rock concerts. Hydrofluoric acid is the most dangerous chemical you’ve never heard of, and it’s being trucked around California’s back roads and injected into oil wells, with virtually […]
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Assembly Appropriations Committee approved Senate Bill 4 on fracking
The Assembly Appropriations Committee voted 12-5 Friday to approve Senate Bill 4 (Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills), clearing the way for the full Assembly to approve regulations for hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”), acidizing and other unregulated oilfield practices. Unlike at least 14 petroleum producing states including Texas and Wyoming, California does not currently regulate fracking, which is […]
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Acidizing could rival fracking in Monterey Shale
Fracking hasn’t unleashed an oil production boom in California, at least not yet. Could acid? Companies trying to pry oil from a vast shale formation beneath Central California have been pumping powerful acids underground to dissolve the rock and free the petroleum within. And there are hints that the process, known as “acidizing” a well, may work better […]
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Proposed Rules For Fracking On Public Lands Lack Scientific Merit
Later this week, the Bureau of Land Management will be closing the opportunity for public comment on its proposed rules to regulate hydraulic fracturing on public lands. The final rule will determine what safeguards against hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) are—or are not—in place on nearly 700 million acres of federally managed mineral rights nationwide. This includes national […]
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Monterey Shale. Part 2: The Most Dangerous Chemical You’ve Never Heard Of
Editor’s note: In part 1 of our series on the Monterey Shale, Next Generation researcher Robert Collier outlined the technical challenges of developing the Monterey Shale oil field – and how a technique known as “matrix acidizing,” which uses hydrofluoric acid to dissolve underground rock formations, may be the key to its development. In Part […]
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Calif. commission launches probe of offshore fracking
The California Coastal Commission yesterday launched an investigation into how much hydraulic fracturing is happening offshore and what power the agency has to control it. At a meeting yesterday in Santa Cruz, agency aides said they needed to find out more about the implications of fracking in the Pacific Ocean, following a news report that […]
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