Rallies in Bakersfield, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara to Oppose Trump's Oil-leasing Plan for California

Rallies in Bakersfield, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara to Oppose Trump's Oil-leasing Plan for California: Environmental and community groups joined by elected officials will hold rallies this week to blast the Trump administration's draft plan to open more than a million acres of public land and mineral estate in central California to oil drilling and fracking.
(Press Release, Center for Biological Diversity; May 20, 2019)


Activists speak out against fracking on federal land in California
(John COX, Bakersfield Californian; May 21, 2019)
https://www.bakersfield.com/news/activists-speak-out-against-fracking-on-federal-land-in-california/article_580160a0-7bf3-11e9-a498-27e9de1f7df5.html


Hundreds bash Trump’s oil fracking plan in SLO:  ‘This battle does not end tonight’
(Monica VAUGHAN, The Tribune; May 23, 2019)
https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/environment/article230703244.html


Santa Barbara crowd rallies against plan to open public lands to oil fracking
(Joshua MOLINA, The Tribune; May 24, 2019)
https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/environment/article230811619.html

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Demonstrators protest Trump administration fracking proposal
(KGET News; May 22, 2019)

Side Note...

Report:  Fresno, Valley rank No. 1 in U. S. for polluted air - Receives failing 'F' grades
(Carmen GEORGE, Fresno Bee; April 23, 2019)
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article229590949.html

Hydraulic Fracturing, Fracturing Fluids and Flowback Wastewater Chemistries

Video:

Hydraulic Fracturing 3D Animation

(Trial Exhibits, Inc.; March 2, 2012)

Selected Research Articles:

Quantitative Survey and Structural Classification of Hydraulic Fracturing Chemicals Reported in Unconventional Gas Production

(ELSNER and HOELZER, 2016)

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.5b02818

• Supporting Information for ELSNER and HOELZER, 2016

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acs.est.5b02818

Spills of Hydraulic Fracturing Chemicals on Agricultural Topsoil:  Biodegradation, Sorption and Co-contaminant interaction

(MCLAUGHLIN et al., 2016)

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.6b00240

• Supporting Information for MCLAUGHLIN et al., 2016

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acs.est.6b00240/suppl_file/es6b00240_si_001.pdf

A systematic evaluation of chemicals in hydraulic fracturing fluids and wastewater for reproductive and developmental toxicity

(ELLIOT et al., 2016)

http://www.fraw.org.uk/library/extreme/elliott_2016.pdf

Characterization of Marcellus Shale Flowback Water
(ABUALFARAJ et al., 2014)
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Patrick_Gurian/publication/273183651_Characterization_of_Marcellus_Shale_Flowback_Water/links/550050930cf2aee14b547111.pdf

Physical, chemical and biological characteristics of compounds used in hydraulic fracturing
(STRINGFELLOW et al., 2014)
https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/42707946/Physical_chemical_and_biological_charact20160215-13562-1d2e5gw.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A&Expires=1558546657&Signature=ji68ibAp6hiq%2BLlFPvJ83FVCMME%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DPhysical_chemical_and_biological_charact.pdf

Potential Contaminant Pathways from Hydraulically Fractured Shale to Aquifers
(Tom MYERS, 2012)
http://catskillcitizens.org/learnmore/Fracking-Aquifers.pdf

N. B.:  More on BLM's "proposed" Oil and Gas Drilling Plans in California may be accessed by clicking on the following EGISM former blog post dates:

5/11/2019

4/25/2019

8/18/2018