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May 17, 2012
VIDEO: Fracking's huge risks go ignored in California
No one can paint a full picture of the situation in California: the state doesn't even track when and where wells are fracked or what chemicals are used. By Kassie Siegel of the Center for Biological Diversity's Climate Law Institute
Many Californians were rightly upset by recent news of the near-total lack of oversight of hydraulic fracturing in the state. Fracking, as it is commonly known, is the practice of injecting huge amounts of highly pressurized water, sand and a cocktail of industrial chemicals deep into the Earth to break up rock formations to extract oil and gas.
It is a dangerous, damaging technique that has made headlines elsewhere in the U.S. but who...
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