calif. finds more instances of offshore fracking

[xchrom]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OFFSHORE_FRACKING_CALIFORNIA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-10-19-13-13-50

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- The oil production technique known as fracking is more widespread and frequently used in the offshore platforms and man-made islands near some of California's most populous and famous coastal communities than state officials believed.

In waters off Long Beach, Seal Beach and Huntington Beach - some of the region's 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 nation's 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 over 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. ***yet.

[MADem]

1. I was out that way a couple of months ago; the beaches are grand.

I would be very concerned about the risk, not just to the tourist industry, but the environment as a whole.

[FirstLight]

2. nice...

so the fracking in relatively low fault areas causes earthquakes never seen before...and doing the same thing right near the San Andreas and dozens more BIG faults isn't dangerous?

After reading the recent story about the pacific being so polluted and dead, I am just waiting for the other shoe to drop now... we have SO fucked up Mother Earth, she deserves the chance to just kick the shit out of us...