[Occupymendocino] Calif. Finds More Instances of Offshore Fracking

[Richard Karch]

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/calif-finds-instances-offshore-fracking-20621540

Calif. Finds More Instances of Offshore Fracking
LONG BEACH, Calif. October 19, 2013 (AP)
By ALICIA CHANG and JASON DEAREN Associated Press


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.

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.

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 ...

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/calif-finds-instances-offshore-fracking-20621540
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