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DESCRIPTION:Unbelievably, fracking in California is unregulated by State government, 
 although hundreds of fracked wells have been drilled in the state.  “The 
 Monterey Shale Formation, which federal energy officials estimate contains 
 nearly two-thirds of the nation's shale oil reserves....stretches from 
 Santa Clara County through the Central Valley to Ventura County” (Santa 
 Cruz Sentinel, 7/13/12).  \n\nThe Center for Biological Diversity, 
 Earthworks,  the Environmental Working Group and the Sierra Club have just 
 (10/16/12) filed a lawsuit charging the State of California Dept. of 
 Conservation, Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources, with failing 
 to consider or evaluate the risks of fracking, as required by the 
 California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).\n\nEnvironmental concerns 
 about fracking include the enormous amount of water required (2 – 8 
 million gallons per well!), contamination of drinking water supplies, 
 increased carbon emissions that will undermine California’s efforts to 
 fight climate change,  adverse impacts on the habitat of endangered 
 species,  fish kills and breeding grounds for mosquitoes that can transmit 
 diseases to wild animals.\n\nFormer President Bush and Vice President 
 Cheney made fracking exempt from the Safe Drinking Water Act – an 
 insidious move known as the Halliburton Loophole – and even now hydraulic 
 fracking is not regulated by the EPA under Federal law. Senator Diane 
 Feinstein supports closing that loophole through S. 587, which is awaiting 
 action in the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.\n\nWILPF is 
 fortunate to have two knowledgeable speakers on fracking for our Nov 20 
 public program. \n\nRose Braz coordinates the climate campaign for the CBD, 
  including organizing against fracking in California.  She is a graduate of 
 U.C. Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, and has worked both in private 
 practice and at the United Nations International Commission of Jurists in 
 Geneva, Switzerland. The Climate Law Institute wages innovative legal and 
 public-pressure campaigns to limit global warming pollution and to prevent 
 climate change from driving species extinct.\n\nSteven Craig, former 
 Director of the Ventana Wilderness and Land Trust, and CEQA advisor to 
 cities and counties in central and southern California, has explored  how 
 oil and gas excavation are regulated in Monterey and San Benito Counties.  
 Mr. Craig was part of the group that established strict excavation 
 regulations in Monterey County, and he will be talking about how to 
 accomplish these goals effectively, focusing on  “what you can do at the 
 local government level”,  including CEQA review, and zoning ordinance 
 revisions.  \n\nNovember 20 , 7 – 9 pm at the Quaker Meeting House, 225 
 Rooney St., Santa Cruz.  Free, donations welcomed.  For more information, 
 call WILPF, 831-428-5096 . Co-sponsored by the SC chapter of the  Sierra 
 Club and Transition Santa Cruz.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/11/02/18724991.php
SUMMARY:Fracking in California: It's Here Now and It Is Dangerous!
LOCATION:Quaker Meeting House, 225 Rooney St., Santa Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/11/02/18724991.php
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