[CRNMC] FW: [CAfrack] Poll: Most Californians Want Offshore Fracking Ban

[Shannon Biggs]

These items are really great news hooks to write LTEs about!

I¹m happy to help write one if anyone is interested.

Blessings, Shannon 
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From: Patrick Sullivan <PSullivan at biologicaldiversity.org>
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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 15:07:27 -0700
To: "cafrackattack at cafrack.org" <cafrackattack at cafrack.org>
Subject: [CAfrack] Poll: Most Californians Want Offshore Fracking Ban

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2014/fracking-08-12-2
014.html 
 <http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/>

For Immediate Release, August 12, 2014
Contact: Patrick Sullivan, (415) 517-9364, psullivan at biologicaldiversity.org

Poll: Most Californians Want Offshore Fracking Ban

65 Percent Back End to Dumping of Fracking Chemicals Into Ocean

SAN DIEGO‹ As the California Coastal Commission meets in San Diego this
week, a new poll 
<http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/california_fracking/pdfs/Calif
orniaFrackingPollResults.pdf>  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.
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.
³Californians know that offshore fracking poses a toxic threat to our entire
coast,² said Miyoko Sakashita, the Center¹s oceans program director. ³This
poll offers the Coastal Commission one more reason to halt fracking in our
delicate ocean ecosystems. It¹s time to protect our wildlife, beaches and
coastal communities from dangerous fracking chemicals and the risk of a
catastrophic oil spill.²
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.
The oil industry has federal permission to annually dump more than 9 billion
gallons of wastewater, including fracking fluid, directly into the ocean off
California¹s 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.
³This poll shows that Californians are deeply concerned about the
environmental consequences of fracking, whether it¹s done on land or in
offshore wells,² said Jim Williams of Public Policy Polling. ³A majority of
the state supports a ban on offshore fracking in California¹s coastal
waters.² 
Among other notable poll results:
* 70 percent of Democrats and 59 percent of Independents support a ban on
offshore fracking; 
* 56 percent of Californians oppose increased use of fracking in the state;
* 66 percent are concerned about offshore fracking¹s effects on endangered
marine wildlife like blue whales;
* Almost half of Californians believe that fracking harms the state¹s
reputation as a leader in addressing climate change.
> 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.
> 
> The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation
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> the protection of endangered species and wild places.
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