Environmentalists want California to stop offshore fracking

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Environmentalists want California to stop offshore fracking
| June 30, 2015 | Updated: June 30, 2015 7:06pm

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Environmentalists Tuesday called on California Gov. Jerry Brown to halt plans for months of hydraulic fracturing in the waters off Southern California, warning that it could lead to chemical pollution or an oil spill.

State regulators this month approved nine permits for operator Thums Long Beach Co. for so-called fracking operations between August and December in Long Beach Harbor.

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"Gov. Brown has to recognize that halting offshore fracking is critical to protecting marine animals and coastal communities from this toxic technique," center attorney Kristen Monsell said in a statement.

"Haven't we seen enough dead wildlife and polluted beaches?" she added, referring to a crude oil pipeline break near Santa Barbara in May that blackened the coast and spread goo on beaches as far as 100 miles away.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/business/energy/article/Environmentalists-want-Gov-Brown-to-stop-6358995.php

[Pharaoh]

1. I would be horrified

if Jerry Brown approved fracking there. Or anywhere else quite frankly. I say, follow suit with NY and ban it altogether.........

[rhett o rick]

2. Wait just a min. The conservatives including Pres Obama and H. Clinton assure us that fracking

is a bridge to a new energy future. That's why corporations love the conservative Democrats.

Support Sen Sanders not the corporations choice.

[passiveporcupine]

3. Fracking in or near California, which might affect the San Andreaus fault or any other

fault line in California, just sounds like a colossally stupid move to me.

[Nihil]

4. "There's no harm in just pushing this domino over here ..."

As you say, approving the very behaviour that has been proven many times to
cause earthquakes in a region that is not the most stable in tectonic terms is
indeed a "colossally stupid move".

But, as long as the right bribes have been paid, there is nothing to stop it
from happening ...