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30,000 people demand that Big Oil Brown halt offshore fracking
30,000 people demand that Big Oil Brown halt offshore fracking
by Dan Bacher
Sunday Nov 16th, 2014 7:19 PM
This rampant fracking has only become possible because of the cozy relationship between federal and state regulators and the oil industry, the largest and most powerful corporate lobby in Sacramento. The American Lung Association's Center for Tobacco Policy and Organizing has just released a new report revealing that the oil industry spent $70 million on lobbyists in California since 2009.
Department of Fish and Wildlife of so-called "marine protected areas" created on the South Coast under the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative. While the President of the Western States Petroleum Association Chaired the MLPA Blue Ribbon Task Force to create alleged "marine protected areas" in Southern California, the oil industry was fracking like crazy in the Santa Barbara Channel.
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...“Thousands of people are urging Gov. Brown(D) to stop offshore fracking before dangerous chemicals or an oil spill inflict catastrophic damage,” said Miyoko Sakashita, the Center’s Oceans director. “Fracking offshore and onshore poses a toxic threat to our air, water and wildlife. The governor can end fracking in California and reject oil development plans that would frack federal waters off our coast.”
The Center wants Brown to halt offshore fracking in state waters under the Emergency Service Act, which authorizes the governor to impose a broad array of measures to protect the health and safety of state residents. Federal law also gives governors a special say in offshore oil and gas decisions that Brown could use to fight fracking in federal waters in the Santa Barbara Channel.
Oil companies have fracked hundreds of wells off California’s coast and the oil industry has federal permission to annually dump more than 9 billion gallons of wastewater, including chemical-laden fracking fluid, directly into the ocean off California’s coast, according to Sakashita.
This rampant fracking has only become possible because of the cozy relationship between federal and state regulators and the oil industry, the largest and most powerful corporate lobby in Sacramento.
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/11/16/18764204.php
by Dan Bacher
Sunday Nov 16th, 2014 7:19 PM
This rampant fracking has only become possible because of the cozy relationship between federal and state regulators and the oil industry, the largest and most powerful corporate lobby in Sacramento. The American Lung Association's Center for Tobacco Policy and Organizing has just released a new report revealing that the oil industry spent $70 million on lobbyists in California since 2009.
Department of Fish and Wildlife of so-called "marine protected areas" created on the South Coast under the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative. While the President of the Western States Petroleum Association Chaired the MLPA Blue Ribbon Task Force to create alleged "marine protected areas" in Southern California, the oil industry was fracking like crazy in the Santa Barbara Channel.
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...“Thousands of people are urging Gov. Brown(D) to stop offshore fracking before dangerous chemicals or an oil spill inflict catastrophic damage,” said Miyoko Sakashita, the Center’s Oceans director. “Fracking offshore and onshore poses a toxic threat to our air, water and wildlife. The governor can end fracking in California and reject oil development plans that would frack federal waters off our coast.”
The Center wants Brown to halt offshore fracking in state waters under the Emergency Service Act, which authorizes the governor to impose a broad array of measures to protect the health and safety of state residents. Federal law also gives governors a special say in offshore oil and gas decisions that Brown could use to fight fracking in federal waters in the Santa Barbara Channel.
Oil companies have fracked hundreds of wells off California’s coast and the oil industry has federal permission to annually dump more than 9 billion gallons of wastewater, including chemical-laden fracking fluid, directly into the ocean off California’s coast, according to Sakashita.
This rampant fracking has only become possible because of the cozy relationship between federal and state regulators and the oil industry, the largest and most powerful corporate lobby in Sacramento.
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/11/16/18764204.php
