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For more great energy coverage, visit Energy Trends Insider. Recent posts Subscribe Today to the Monitor Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS ofThe Christian Science MonitorWeekly Digital Edition But then the article went on to say something that I thought was very relevant to debates on just about any controversial energy topic — fossil fuel subsidies, climate change, hydraulic fracturing: One expert said there’s an actual psychological process at work that sometimes blinds people to science, on the fracking debate and many others.
Lubell said the situation, which happens on both sides of a debate, is called “motivated reasoning.” Keystone Pipeline and Climate Change Game Over For the Planet? So how did Hansen and McKibben respond? Hansen said: California Fracking. Don’t Frack With California Contaminated water. Greenhouse gas pollution. Dead wildlife. And grave threats to public health. Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing — and the industrial development that comes with it — have left a grim trail of damage across America. BREAKING NEWS: Fracking Boom Would Increase California’s Earthquake Danger, Report Finds Now fracking has become a major issue in the Golden State.
And the Center's helping that happen. California officials must move quickly to address this dangerous practice. Fracking has already taken place in at least 10 California counties — as well as offshore, in our oceans. Uncontrolled, fracking emits large amounts of the potent greenhouse gas methane and other air pollutants. Fracking routinely employs numerous toxic chemicals, including methanol, benzene, naphthalene and trimethylbenzene.
Wildlife is also at risk. To protect California's future, we need to act now. To protect California's future, we need to act now. California Fracking Lawsuit: Judge Slams Obama Administration. SAN FRANCISCO -– A federal judge struck a major blow against fracking in California this week, ruling that the government was wrong to allow energy companies to drill for oil on 2,700 acres of public land without first considering environmental impacts. The Bureau of Land Management's assessment of the land "did not adequately consider the development impact of hydraulic fracturing techniques," wrote U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal in a decision made public on Monday that sided with environmental groups that sued the BLM. The land in question sits atop the Monterey Shale, a formation of sedimentary rock stretching beneath much of Central California, which the U.S.
Energy Information Administration estimates contains more than 15 billion barrels of oil. But the oil can only be reached through hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, an invasive process that injects vast amounts of water, sand and chemicals to create cracks in the rock and force the oil to the surface. Related on HuffPost: California and Fracking. Groups Fighting Fracking in California Frack Target: Monterey Shale/McClure Shale Water Resources at Stake: Water Resources at Stake: Sisquoc River, Salinas River, Amargosa River Fracking in California has yet to begin in earnest, but that could soon change. In Monterey County, officials have given a green light to Denver-based oil company Venoco to drill exploratory wells in the Hames Valley using fracking technology.
The area has long been home to plenty of oil drilling and a new boom could be on its way, thanks to fracking. Oil and gas companies are also eyeing the large tracts of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land with mineral rights over the Monterey Shale formation. Below is a map of some of the high profile incidents ("fraccidents") related to the country's gas drilling boom that have already occurred. View Fraccidents Map in a larger map.