Today, California Assembly Member Betsy Butler proposed legislation that would impose a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the state pending adoption of regulations governing the oil and gas drilling practice. The new bill, Assembly Bill 972, would add two new sections to the state’s Public Resources Code. The first, Section 3017, would provide […]
California’s Department of Conservation will conduct a series of workshops at locations throughout the state over the next three months to discuss hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” The purpose of the workshops is to gather information as the Department considers the adoption of regulations governing fracking. Various news sources have reported on recent legislative action directed […]
In a letter published today in the Chico Enterprise-Record (and elsewhere), Tim Kustic, Director of California’s Division of Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources (DOG), stated that concerns about hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, exaggerate the potential risks to California’s water supply, adding that “fracking has been used to stimulate [oil and gas] production in California for years without a single report of […]