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Californians uneasy about fracking's safety, lack of oversight
2013-06-07 07:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: As energy companies seek to plumb vast reserves of underground oil in California through the controversial drilling technique known as fracking, voters are concerned about its safety and uneasy with the state's lack of oversight, according to a new poll. More than half of voters -- 58% -- say they favor a moratorium on the process of injecting chemicals deep into the ground to tap oil and natural gas deposits embedded in rock until an independent commission has studied its environmental effects....
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