Westchester Gasette has the scoop about the Baldwin Hills Dam that failed killing five people and destroying 65 homes. The video makes the connecting between oil & gas extraction and a fracking technique used which caused seismic activity leading to dam failure.
Westchester Gasette is your Dam source.
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Sharon Wilson is considered a leading citizen expert on the impacts of shale oil and gas extraction. She is the go-to person whether it’s top EPA officials from D.C., national and international news networks, or residents facing the shock of eminent domain and the devastating environmental effects of natural gas development in their backyards.
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Saw on the net that this area has been fracked since 2003, AND cracks in home foundations & driveways are getting worse lately:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-inglewood-fracking-20120624,0,1884563.story
Oh, gosh.
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Now operated by Plains Exploration & Production Co., or PXP, the nation’s largest urban oil field is at the center of a study that may provide some answers for residents.
The study is on fracking — an efficient but controversial method of extracting oil and natural gas from areas once thought to be depleted — and results should be in hand by next month.
Steve Rusch, vice president of the Texas-based company, said the study is the first of its kind in California.
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So, fracking is “efficient”?