Fracking going on in California, potential for triggering the big one?
My god, how stupid and psychopathic are some of these oil corporations, they are willing to put California cities and many people's lives in danger just to extract a little bit more oil!!!??? I tell you, big corporations are a menace to society.
Article is old but has recently been brought to attention with the release of Gasland 2, and I don't think this (fracking in California) has been talked about much on DU.
http://news.firedoglake.com/2012/05/16/josh-fox-highlights-fracking-on-known-fault-lines-in-los-angeles/
"Yesterday, Josh Fox, the Oscar-nominated director behind the anti-fracking movie Gasland, witnessed fracking going on adjacent to an oil field in Baldwin Hills, close to a residential neighborhood as well as a public park, and directly on a known fault line. This is a fairly new phenomenon, where oil and gas companies use the oil lands they’ve already leased for fracking. The Western States Petroleum Association, an industry group, promised yesterday to voluntarily report fracking activity at FracFocus, a website tracking fracking across the country. The WSPA said that companies fracked on 628 wells in California last year, out of tens of thousands of oil and gas wells.
Fox held a press event in Baldwin Hills yesterday and spoke last night at the Hammer Museum in Westwood about this new threat. “This could trigger a 7.4 earthquake,” he said bluntly."
I read of a judge ruling as recently as April to suspend fracking in California, but it looks like it only affects land leased for oil and gas development issued by the BLM in 2011 in Monterey County (about 2,500 acres), I don't think it affects cases like this.
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