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Date: August 30, 2024 at 23:32:21
From: old timer, [DNS_Address]
Subject: California is about to officially ban fracking. Kamala Harris would al |
URL: California is about to officially ban fracking. Kamala Harris would allow the practice nationally |
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California is about to officially ban fracking. Kamala Harris would allow the
practice nationally
Story by Julie Johnson 9h 2 min read
Presidential contender Kamala Harris said in a CNN interview Thursday
that she won’t ban fracking nationwide. But her home state of California is
about to do so.
Oil companies haven’t used hydraulic fracturing to extract crude oil or
natural gas in the state for at least two years, though the practice wasn’t
officially banned. California’s oil and gas regulator is putting a final end to
fracking in the state with new rules that go into effect Oct. 1.
“There is no fracking going on in California,” said Kevin Slagle, a
spokesperson with the Western States Petroleum Association. “Even the
rigs that do that type of work have left the state.”
Hydraulic fracturing is a controversial method of extracting crude oil and
natural gas by injecting a mixture of water, sand and chemicals into the
earth to break through bedrock. The fractures stimulate the flow of
natural gas or oil.
Critics of the process say that fracking can contaminate groundwater. The
Newsom administration has asserted the practice worsens climate
change.
Chevron held the last active fracking permit, which was issued for a Kern
County well in February 2021, according to records from the California
Department of Conservation’s Geologic Energy Management Division. The
permit expired in February 2022.
“California’s toxic love affair with fracking is finally coming to an end,”
said Hollin Kretzmann, an attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity’s
Climate Law Institute, as part of a press release in July looking ahead to
the formal ban. “It’s encouraging to see state regulators put people’s
health and a livable planet over oil company profits.”
Fracking is just one method of extracting crude oil and gas from wells, and
it was never widespread in California, though it is booming in other states.
Crude oil production hit its peak in California in the 1980s, when the
industry reported producing over a hundred thousand barrels per day
between 1981 and 1987. Production has fallen ever since.
The most recent data showed oil companies produced 285,000 barrels of
crude oil per day in June from California oil fields.
Slagle said that California’s tightening policies for fracking have led oil
production in the state to decrease “much more quickly than was
anticipated,” he said.
At least 75% of the crude oil processed at California oil refineries is
imported from outside of the United States, primarily Central America and
the Middle East, according to Slagle. The remaining 25% comes from
California oil wells.
In 2019, before she became vice president, Harris favored a ban on
fracking. In 2020, upon becoming the vice presidential candidate, she
said the Biden administration would not ban fracking. In Thursday’s
interview, she told CNN in an interview that she would permit the practice.
Slagle praised Harris for recognizing that fracking is “a critical process”
for oil production.
“We hope to see those words followed by action,” he said.
Reach Julie Johnson: julie.johnson@sfchronicle.com; Twitter:
@juliejohnson
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Date: August 31, 2024 at 01:05:39
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: California is about to officially ban fracking. Kamala Harris... |
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lol...always on top of the most pressing issues b-ot...
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Date: August 31, 2024 at 00:09:09
From: ao, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: California is about to officially ban fracking. Kamala Harris... |
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I think it’s pretty clear, you don’t have to ban fracking to make fracking
obsolete. Especially when one considers how valuable the soundbite is.
And besides, there’s so many alternatives afoot that the return on
investment will eventually fall behind other opportunities in the sector..
so there’s no percentage in Kamala playing that hand. All she has to do is
favor those alternatives.. and let the market place find its way.
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Date: August 31, 2024 at 09:51:33
From: georg, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: California is about to officially ban fracking. Kamala Harris... |
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yes, and price controls? how does that fit your
expectations of letting the market place find its way?
they seem to be counter the one to the other ... the
government determines the price of everything ... it is
a command economy ... just like the old commie days when
Mao was in charge ... five year plans like the old
soviet days ... what are you people thinking? horse
exhaust for brains? you can't seem to stay on one idea
for a minute
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Date: August 31, 2024 at 15:43:02
From: ao, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: California is about to officially ban fracking. Kamala Harris... |
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"the government determines the price of everything"
georg.. dear georg, if they did that we'd all be eating ambrosia, all the
delicacies, and omg the virgins! Just think..!
I suppose you could say something controls as easily as you could say
anything.. the Cookie Monster ate my homework? But come on.. and
besides did Comer ever produce anything?
Yeah, them cartoons are cool.. I especially like where that duck goes splat!
thanks for sharing..
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Date: August 31, 2024 at 16:59:36
From: georg, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: California is about to officially ban fracking. Kamala Harris... |
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and grasshoppers are Kosher ... when shall we be dining?
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