<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/calif-finds-instances-offshore-fracking-20621540">http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/calif-finds-instances-offshore-fracking-20621540</a><br>
<br><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: proxima-nova, arial; font-size: 13px; "><h1 class="headline" itemprop="headline" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal 600 32px/33px proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: 0px; ">Calif. Finds More Instances of Offshore Fracking</h1><div id="byline_container" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; position: relative; "><div class="byline_date" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; float: left; width: 490px; font: normal normal normal 12px/14px proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; "><div class="date" style="padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">LONG BEACH, Calif. October 19, 2013 (AP)</div><div class="byline" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">By ALICIA CHANG and JASON DEAREN Associated Press</div></div><div id="sponsoredByUnit" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; position: absolute; bottom: 0px; right: 0px; "><span id="sponsoredbylogo1" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span id="_fw_container_sponsoredbylogo1" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></span></span></div><div class="clearboth" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; font-size: 1px; "></div></div><div id="storyText" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/17px proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); position: relative; "><div class="media_empty" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; height: 0px; width: 640px; "></div><div id="wirelogo" class="partnerlogo" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; position: relative; display: block; text-align: left; float: left; "><img alt="Associated Press" border="0" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; " id="de8e8339-51a3-40d9-b894-3a2102ce2aec" height="50" width="140" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:9E3D0EC8-C354-4786-9C8E-C279EBC572B9"></div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p itemprop="articleBody" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; ">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.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; ">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.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; ">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 ...</p></div></span></div><div>http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/calif-finds-instances-offshore-fracking-20621540</div></body></html>