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Oil Companies Used Fracturing in Coastal Waters Off California
2013-08-05 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Companies prospecting for oil off Californias coast have used hydraulic fracturing on at least a dozen occasions to force open cracks beneath the seabed, and now regulators are investigating whether the practice should require a separate permit and be subject to stricter environmental review. While debate has raged over fracking on land, prompting efforts to ban or severely restrict it, offshore fracking has occurred with little attention in sensitive coastal waters where for decades new oil leases...
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