Dam fails partially due to fracking method

by TXsharon on June 24, 2012

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Westchester Gasette has the scoop about the Baldwin Hills Dam that failed killing five people and destroying 65 homes. The video makes the connecting between oil & gas extraction and a fracking technique used which caused seismic activity leading to dam failure.

Westchester Gasette is your Dam source.

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GhostBlogger June 24, 2012 at 9:52 pm

Saw on the net that this area has been fracked since 2003, AND cracks in home foundations & driveways are getting worse lately:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-inglewood-fracking-20120624,0,1884563.story

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WCGasette June 24, 2012 at 11:34 pm

Oh, gosh.

[...]
Now operated by Plains Exploration & Production Co., or PXP, the nation’s largest urban oil field is at the center of a study that may provide some answers for residents.

The study is on fracking — an efficient but controversial method of extracting oil and natural gas from areas once thought to be depleted — and results should be in hand by next month.

Steve Rusch, vice president of the Texas-based company, said the study is the first of its kind in California.
[...]

So, fracking is “efficient”?

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