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The fracking industry is “California Dreamin‘,” to borrow the song title of The Mamas & The Papas age old classic.
Yesterday, The Bakersfield Californian reported that another oil and gas industry giant is making its way to The Golden State: Hess Corporation. Hess has operations on six of the seven global continents and will be headed to California’s yet-to-be-fracked Monterey Shale basin, which contains some 15 billion barrels of proven recoverable shale oil, according to the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration.
Hess also has fracking operations in three shale basins: Texas’ Eagle Ford Shale and Permian Basin, as well as North Dakota’s Bakken Shale.
Other major oil and gas corporations on the scene and purchasing leases in the Monterey include Venoco, Occidental Petroleum, Frontier Energy Group, and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.
Will the frackers move in and become a “California Nightmare?” Once the fracking for the “tough oil” begins, the answer is almost assuredly ”Yes, indeed” if history has taught us anything at all.
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Ban Fracking in California!
Where’s Tim DeChristopher… damn it.
Driving through rural west Texas recently there were roadside signs: Fracking Water
Well, frack me running! Is this a statewide frack or only around Bakersfield? I ask that because fracking might actually improve Fresno, Modesto, etc from an aesthetic p.o.v. Hopefully this energy will be under the foreclosed homes in exurbia. Then illegally foreclosed upon homeowners will have something to cry about, again. Irony, thy name is San Bernadino?
They are going to frack in California. The oligarchy is/will do exactly how they please. Take a look at what Obama is supporting:
http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2012/04/27/what-foreign-corporations-will-obama-empower-to-undermine-environmental-laws-near-you/
This world is dominated by planet rapists.
America is now on the resource chopping block.
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Sure. I figure fracking is coming soon to a location near us in CA. Why not??
And what does our intrepid governor have to say about any of this?
Don’t worry, CA AG Kamala Harris will jump right in and protect us. Also, I’m sure we can count on support from our reps in Congress like Peloser, DiFi, and Babs.
Not to mention Daryll Issa. I’m so sure he’ll lead the charge against fracking… unless, of course, it happens to mean more money for Daryll Issa… oh wait…
The San Andreas fault just happens to run the length of the very areas they want to frack. As we know from Oklahoma, fracking causes major geological upheaval. But I seriously doubt any consideration has been given to possibly setting the SA fault in motion.
Meanwhile here in Lake County, the Supervisors have pretty much nixed folks growing medical marijuana, as so many people complained about the water trucks tearing up the roads. Hopefully the same vocal crowd that un-did the marijuana growers will be equally upset when the entire County is destroyed by the fracking folks, but I doubt it./
Also, California doesn’t have the tremendous water resources that states like Pennsylvania possess. So the little water we do have in the Southern Calif. areas will now be poisoned. And the state legislature is very bought and paid for – it’s not going to be easy to stop these F___ing Frackers.
In response to extremistgreenie @ 11
Fracking and nuclear power plants. What could go wrong?
Now its a race in Cali, what will get them first Diablo/Onofrio, fracking activated earthquakes, or non potable water.
Too many more doses of this “Hope and Change” you can believe in and we’ll all be screwed.
In Monterey Basin? Are they effing kidding? Seriously, WTF?
I live in one of those areas, and I prefer the water my children drink not be any more contaminated. The fracking process is not safe, period. Especially not in a state with huge fault lines.