The Briefing Room
General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Energy => Topic started by: Free Vulcan on May 28, 2016, 01:59:27 am
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The Obama administration's offshore regulators ruled Friday that fracking has no significant environmental effect off the California coastline.
The finding could open up debate to expand drilling off the coast using the drilling techniques that many environmental groups want to see banned across the nation.
The finding was made Friday by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.
"The comprehensive analysis shows that these practices, conducted according to permit requirements, have minimal impact," said Abigail Ross Hopper, director of the ocean energy bureau.
Read more: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/feds-find-no-harm-in-fracking-off-californias-coast/article/2592507
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The Obama administration's offshore regulators ruled Friday that fracking has no significant environmental effect off the California coastline.
The finding could open up debate to expand drilling off the coast using the drilling techniques that many environmental groups want to see banned across the nation.
The finding was made Friday by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.
"The comprehensive analysis shows that these practices, conducted according to permit requirements, have minimal impact," said Abigail Ross Hopper, director of the ocean energy bureau.
Read more: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/feds-find-no-harm-in-fracking-off-californias-coast/article/2592507
Wish they would expend their energies on how many of our national symbols bald eagles are getting incinerated by solar or wind turbines. Gee. wait they did, and they found thousands of deaths every year. So they are granted imperiously an exception, instead of a penalty.