Posted on 10/24/2013 4:52:38 AM PDT by thackney
The oil production technique known as fracking is more widespread and frequently used in the offshore platforms and man-made islands near some of Californias most populous and famous coastal communities than state officials believed.
In waters off Long Beach, Seal Beach and Huntington Beach some of the regions most popular surfing strands and tourist attractions oil companies have used fracking at least 203 times at six sites in the past two decades, according to interviews and drilling records obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request. Just this year in Long Beach Harbor, the nations second-largest container port, an oil company with exclusive rights to drill there completed five fracks on palm tree-lined, man-made islands. Other companies fracked more than a dozen times from old oil platforms off Huntington Beach and Seal Beach in the past five years.
Though there is no evidence offshore hydraulic fracturing has led to any spills or chemical leaks, the practice occurs with little state or federal oversight of the operations.
The state agency that leases lands and waters to oil companies said officials found new instances of fracking after searching records as part of a review after the AP reported this summer about fracking in federal waters off California, an area from 3 miles to 200 miles offshore. The state oil permitting agency said it doesnt track fracking.
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Politicians, NIMBYs and EnvironMENTALists don't let facts get in the way of shutting down American ingenuity and productivity.
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CA don’t need no steenkeen oil money. They can always raise taxes on business to finance their welfare society.
Green California Gives Its OK To Fracking As Safe
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/102113-675997-california-governor-signs-bill-allowing-fracking.htm
10/21/2013
The Golden State’s governor has signed legislation that regulates but does not ban the technology that has sparked an energy boom nationwide and which may yet restore the state to solvency.
If any state were to ban hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as fracking, the process that releases oil and natural gas trapped in porous shale formations, one would think it would be California.
Gov. Jerry Brown, who leads the government in a state that hosted Solyndra and embraces endangered bird-chopping wind turbines, is a leading advocate of renewable energy and environmental protection. Meanwhile, California’s film industry cranks out anti-scientific fracking propaganda flicks such as Matt Damon’s “Promised Land,” financed in part by OPEC-like interests.
Yet Brown recently signed SB 4, which while it imposes perhaps the strictest regulations on fracking in the U.S. rejected environmentalists’ demand to ban what has proven to be a fundamentally safe technology. The most popular fracking moratorium bill got only 24 out of 80 possible votes in the Assembly.
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Can't have any unregulated activity out there now, can we....
I couldn’t stop laughing when I learned about this yesterday.
NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) has been replaced by BANANA.
Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything.
Heaven’s to Betsy! They probably do gravel packs, as well. Oh, the huge manatee! Pumping sand and water into the earth.
More REVENUE is the crack of gubmint.
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