Santa Barbara Independent: The Water Guardians, a new Santa Barbara-based anti-fracking group that started gathering real momentum in March, have become even more recognizable in recent weeks.
Wearing bright blue shirts, the diverse group of about 300 volunteers has flocked to grocery stores, farmers markets, and college campuses to gather 20,000 signatures for an initiative that would ban fracking, acid well stimulation treatments, cyclic steam injection, and other enhanced oil extraction techniques for future projects...