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    Lawsuit filed to stop unregulated fracking in California

    (I know i've posted two articles in a row and they aren't really original thoughts but there aren't alot of topics about fracking yet on here so this is at least a start)

    by the Center for Biological Diversity

    SAN FRANCISCO— The Center for Biological Diversity went to court today to compel California regulators to enforce an existing state law that should protect people and the environment from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a rapidly spreading new method of oil and gas extraction. The lawsuit filed this morning in Alameda County Superior Court says the California Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources has allowed fracking to expand without legally required oversight.

    California law applies safeguards and disclosure requirements to any underground injection carried out by the oil and gas industry, the lawsuit points out, and fracking clearly involves injection. Yet the state does not yet regulate or even monitor this controversial practice.
    “A looming fracking boom threatens to transform California, creating serious pollution risks to our air, water and climate,” said the Center’s Vera Pardee. “Existing rules clearly cover fracking, but state officials don’t regulate or even track this dangerous way of extracting oil and gas. The state needs to stop ignoring the law and start protecting our environment.”
    Fracking involves blasting massive amounts of water and industrial chemicals, mixed with sand, deep into the earth at pressures high enough to crack apart geologic formations, causing fractures that let oil and gas move into the wells and to the surface.
    More than 600 wells in at least nine California counties were fracked in 2011 alone, and recent advances in fracking techniques are driving a growing interest in the Monterey Shale, a geological formation holding an estimated 14 billion barrels of oil.
    Reports have documented the dangers of fracking, including more than 1,000 instances of water contamination around the country. Fracking also emits hazardous air pollutants and methane, a potent greenhouse gas. It has the potential to induce seismic activity in one of the nation’s most earthquake-prone states.
    California’s existing oil and gas regulations cover all forms of underground injection and clearly apply to fracking. While fracking was exempted from the federal Safe Drinking Water Act in 2005 by what is known as the “Halliburton loophole,” no such exemption exists in California law.
    Compliance with California’s existing oil and gas regulations would require public disclosure of all fracking chemicals, as well as engineering studies and tests to evaluate the potential for underground migration of fracking fluids. State regulators would also need to ensure that fracking is conducted in a way that prevented, as far as possible, damage to life, health, property, and California’s water and other natural resources.
    In response to growing public concern, state regulators have issued a “discussion draft” of new regulations that would cover fracking; but these regulations have not yet been formally proposed, much less finalized.
    “At present, industry fracks whenever and however it deems fit, and that practice has to stop,” said Pardee. “State regulators must implement the requirements that are already in place to provide better protection for the air we breathe and the water we drink.”

    http://earthfirstnews.wordpress.com/...in-california/
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    Got the link Chloe?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Got the link Chloe?
    Earthfirst.org. I'm sorry

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chloe View Post
    Earthfirst.org. I'm sorry
    No problem

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    I'm not so sure the risks of fracking have been established.


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    ok so I watched the video and the person makes a good argument that fracking is good for fossil fuel production but in my opinion it feels like he is sortof trying to skirt around the pollution and others problems surrounding it by making it out to be not that big of a deal or just caused by human error in one or two occasions. For example he said something like there's been no evidence of water contamination but then in the next comment said that it's happened a few times because of bad engineering or human error. I want to believe him but I've also read and heard so much more that shows that fracking does harm the environment in spite of the increased fossil fuel stuff.

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    Maybe we should include the costs of health care and early deaths due to fossil fuels into the cost of fossil fuels. The anti-green people certainly go out of their way to add entire manufacturing costs, water for crops, etc. into the costs of ethanol and methanol production.

    How about some fair comparisons?

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