Recent Streetsblog LA posts about fracking

“Frack Off, Folks!” Says California Legislature in Killing Anti-Fracking Bills

By Sahra Sulaiman | Aug 22, 2012 | No Comments

It’s been a disheartening summer for those seeking to regulate fracking in California. Back in May, the California Senate rejected SB 1054, which would have required companies to give property owners notice that they were going to engage in hydraulic fracturing to tap oil deposits on or near their land. But hope seemed momentarily at […]

The Artful DOGGR: DOGGR Embarks on a Listening Tour, is Told to Take a Fracking Leap

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jun 14, 2012 | 5 Comments

WHERE THE WORKSHOP ON HYDRAULIC FRACTURING, or “fracking,” drew a record (and raucous) crowd in Culver City Tuesday night, the scene Wednesday night in Long Beach was more subdued. There was a steady stream of speakers ready to voice their concerns about the practice, but there were fewer of them and they were more reserved […]

Go Frack Yourself, Part II: PXP Blames Cracked Home Foundations on Pesky Earthquake Faults

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 23, 2012 | 3 Comments

(Part 1 of the series is here.) IF FRACKING IS such a safe practice, then why is it such a secretive one? For the past several years, outspoken journalist and media critic Earl Ofari Hutchinson has likely been asking himself that question. Hutchinson is a resident of Windsor Hills, a community that sits adjacent to […]

Go Frack Yourself: neighbors in Baldwin Hills turn out to talk fracking with Plains Exploration & Production and DOGGR

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 9, 2012 | 1 Comment

Last night, representatives from the Department of Conservation’s Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR), Plains Exploration & Production (PXP), the oil company in charge of the Baldwin Hill Oil Field, and other officials went head to head with members of the Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance and a highly a skeptical community in a […]