Posted on 12/13/2019 11:58:33 AM PST by Hojczyk
California leads the nation in the consumption of gasoline and jet fuel. The oil and gas industry provides more than 360,000 jobs and fracking helps the sector to pump annually into the state economy more than $55 billion in tax revenues.
Yet, today, state officials are threatening legal action after the Trump administration opened 1.2 million acres of federal land to drilling after a six-year moratorium.
“The Trump Administration’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) wants to expose more than a million acres of public land in Central California to drilling and fracking using a patently deficient environment impact study,” said Attorney General Xavier Becerra. “That’s not how we do things in California. We’re prepared to do whatever we must to protect the health and safety of our people. We intend to be good stewards of our public lands.”
Environmentalists are not buying it. They oppose any new drilling and fear fracking will pollute groundwater and nearby waterways.
“We won’t let California’s stunning public lands be fracked and drilled without a fight,” said Clare Lakewood, an attorney for the Center for Biodiversity. “Trump and the oil industry want to expose our communities and wildlife to more toxic pollution. The future of our state and our fight against the climate crisis depend on stopping this vast fracking expansion in its tracks.”
The BLM says its court-ordered analysis found no adverse environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing or drilling.
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There all going to have electric cars weather they want them or not..
Liberals seem to think gas comes out of a gas station hose. They give no thought to how its produced.
Like its a bad thing. Go figure.
Predicting gasoline at $5.00+ per gallon for the enviro-nazi controlled state while the rest of us pay $2.50 or less.
The crassness and stupidity of the communist left knows no bounds....insane idiots, ALL of em.
Ground water goes down, what 100 to 200 feet?
Fracking goes down to, what, 2-5 miles?
Go screw yourself CA. Feds own the Land you morons
Shut ‘er down. More for the rest of us. Sorry califreepers.
Lot of Californicators infecting your state and mine demanding same government they are running from ........ insanity personified . Maybe hang em as encountered with a siphon hose ..... my opinion.
Let them go to court. Appeal to the 9th Circuit too.
Uh, $2.99 in Reno.
There is a huge surplus of gasoline in California.
The price/gallon started falling in the middle of November in spite of Thanksgiving and is continuing to drop.
Of course the tax suckers hate this. Part of their taxes are sales taxed based on the $ amount of gas purchased on that fill up.
Can’t we make a deal to SELL California Back to Mexico and we get to DRILL??
Let them go to court.
Then, appeal to the new Trump, 9th Circuit!
Depends on the hydrogeology at the drilling location. Groundwater can be much deeper but current practices utilize multiple strings of steel casing and cement. Disposal ofcontaminated frack water must be managed properly.
In New Mexico, the problem is that water used so far is fresh and there is a limited supply of it. Wastewater is injected into other deep formations and has been for 60-70 years with no earthquake problems (again it’s understanding the geology that’s important). However, because fresh water is becoming scarce, there are numerous studies underway by private industry to clean up the produced water for reuse as frack water. Of course the enviro-nutters here claim the same risk as in California, but the progressive libs in charge of our state government have enough sense to know that the billion dollar surplus in state funds doesn’t come from taxes on small business or tourist activities.
Stop all shipments of evil petrochemicals into California. No gasoline, no natural gas, no oils of any kind. They will love it!....................
Corrected, but you're still too close to California!
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LOL! I can feel the negative energy creeping over the mountains. But at least it’s wind and solar energy. :-)
I want them to ensure no damage to this essential aquifer.
Be extra careful due to it’s critical need.
Then squeeze every last drop of oil out of Bakersfield and surrounds.
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