Central Coast Battle Shaping Up Over Potential For Huge Oil Fracking Operation

Central Coast Battle Shaping Up Over Potential For Huge Oil Fracking Operation by August 7, 2012
A new gold rush is on in California, but this time it’s liquid gold. Instead of strawberries and artichokes, the Central Coast is getting a growing reputation for being the next motherlode for oil. That news is causing fears that a controversial extraction method called hydraulic fracturing – or fracking- is coming to town. … Oil deposits are so hard to get to here that drilling would have been economically unfeasible just a few years ago. But now it’s possible, thanks to advances in hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking. … Pat Lerman is now the spokesperson for a new community group calle “Aromas Cares for Our Environment.” www.aromascares.org. … “California has no regulations, none, on fracking,” she said. Industry spokesperson Tupper Hull said people are over-reacting, and in California so far fracking has been perfectly safe. … “If the seismic survey does show some possibility of oil, then we will work through the permitting process,” said Jeffrey. He promises there will be no fracking. But he wouldn’t say how oil would be extracted if found, leaving the people of Aromas unconvinced. … “I don’t want to rely on someone’s word. I want there to be regulations in place that protect us all,” said Polly Goldman.

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