<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I've just called the spokeperson for this ordinance and asked for a copy of their ordinance. Will forward it, if they send it to me.<div>Thanks for the info, Ed.</div><div>Karina</div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div>On Apr 26, 2014, at 7:40 AM, edward Oberweiser wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="">
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<strong>San Benito County Residents Halfway to Signature Goal for Fracking Ban Initiative</strong></a></div>
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Sat Apr 12 2014 <small>(Updated 04/22/14)</small>
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<a title="Permanent link to this story" class="" href="https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/04/12/18754036.php">Community Members Hope to Be First "Frontline" County in California to Ban Fracking</a></div>
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Community members in San Benito are hoping they will be the first
"frontline" county in California to ban fracking and other methods of
extreme oil and gas extraction. Since late March, volunteers across the
county have begun collecting signatures for a fracking ban initiative
they hope to have on the ballot in November. Progress is moving quickly;
after two weeks of collecting signatures, the organization San Benito
Rising announced they were nearly halfway through their drive.
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Members of San Benito Rising filed the notice of intent to circulate the
petition with the county clerk in late February. That notice states
that they have begun the process in hopes of "protecting the county’s
groundwater supplies and preserving its rural heritage." They believe
the county is at a "tipping point" and hope the fracking ban will
prevent the possibility of what they call a "proliferation of proposals"
to conduct hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) and other high-intensity
petroleum operations in the county’s unincorporated areas. The
initiative to ban fracking, if passed by voters, will prohibit the use
of any land within the county’s unincorporated area for fracking and
other high-intensity petroleum operations. The initiative will also
prohibit the use of land for any petroleum operations within the
county’s unincorporated residential areas.
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Residents consider San Benito to be a "frontline" community because they
currently have oil and gas drilling in their county, which sits on top
of the Monterey Shale formation. In the county there are many dry or
abandoned oil wells near San Juan Bautista, and near Hollister there are
active wells, in addition to many that are dry or abandoned. In 2013,
environmentalists began fighting a proposal to bring oil operations in
endangered Condor habitat near Pinnacles National Park. San Benito
Rising is concerned that the oil and gas industry could re-stimulate the
abandoned, old wells in their area using new extreme drilling
techniques such as cyclic steam injection, acid fracking, and acid
matrix stimulation.
<br><br><strong><img src="https://www.indybay.org/im/imc_photo.gif" alt="imc_photo.gif"><a href="https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/04/08/18753842.php">Read More with Photos</a> | Update (4/22): <a href="https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/04/22/18754645.php">San Benito Residents Reach Fracking Ban Signature Goal</a> | <a href="http://www.sanbenitorising.org/">San Benito Rising</a>
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Previous Related Indybay Feature:</strong> <a href="https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/07/18/18740054.php">Lawsuit Targets San Benito County's Approval of 15 Oil Wells in Endangered Condor Habitat</a>
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