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<B>From: </B>Patrick Sullivan <<a href="PSullivan@biologicaldiversity.org">PSullivan@biologicaldiversity.org</a>><BR>
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<B>Date: </B>Tue, 12 Aug 2014 15:07:27 -0700<BR>
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<B>Subject: </B>[CAfrack] Poll: Most Californians Want Offshore Fracking Ban<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'>For Immediate Release, August 12, 2014
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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'>Contact: Patrick Sullivan, (415) 517-9364, <a href="psullivan@biologicaldiversity.org">psullivan@biologicaldiversity.org</a>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'><B><I>65 Percent Back End to Dumping of Fracking Chemicals Into Ocean<BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'>SAN DIEGO— As the California Coastal Commission meets in San Diego this week, a new poll <<a href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/california_fracking/pdfs/CaliforniaFrackingPollResults.pdf">http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/california_fracking/pdfs/CaliforniaFrackingPollResults.pdf</a>> finds that 55 percent of Californians back a ban on offshore fracking and 65 percent want oil companies prevented from dumping fracking chemicals into the ocean.
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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'>The poll also found almost half of state voters are less likely to visit beaches because of chemical discharge and offshore fracking, which has been used in hundreds of oil wells off the Southern California coast. The poll was commissioned by the Center for Biological Diversity and conducted by Public Policy Polling.
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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'>“Californians know that offshore fracking poses a toxic threat to our entire coast,” said Miyoko Sakashita, the Center’s oceans program director. “This poll offers the Coastal Commission one more reason to halt fracking in our delicate ocean ecosystems. It’s time to protect our wildlife, beaches and coastal communities from dangerous fracking chemicals and the risk of a catastrophic oil spill.”
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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'>The Coastal Commission has struggled to determine the full extent of offshore fracking, which involves blasting water and industrial chemicals into the sea-floor at pressures high enough to crack geologic formations and release oil and gas.
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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'>The oil industry has federal permission to annually dump more than 9 billion gallons of wastewater, including fracking fluid, directly into the ocean off California’s coast. A recent analysis by Center biologists found that oil companies fracking in California waters have admitted to using at least 10 chemicals that can harm aquatic life.
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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'>“This poll shows that Californians are deeply concerned about the environmental consequences of fracking, whether it’s done on land or in offshore wells,” said Jim Williams of Public Policy Polling. “A majority of the state supports a ban on offshore fracking in California’s coastal waters.”
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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'>Among other notable poll results:
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<UL><P ALIGN=CENTER><LI><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'><B>70 percent</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'> of Democrats and 59 percent of Independents support a ban on offshore fracking;
</SPAN></FONT><LI><P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'><B>56 percent</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'> of Californians oppose increased use of fracking in the state;
</SPAN></FONT><LI><P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'><B>66 percent</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'> are concerned about offshore fracking’s effects on endangered marine wildlife like blue whales;
</SPAN></FONT><LI><P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'><B>Almost half</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'> of Californians believe that fracking harms the state’s reputation as a leader in addressing climate change.
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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'>The poll of 500 California voters was conducted by Public Policy Polling on Aug. 5 and 6 and has a margin of error of + or – 4.4 percent.
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