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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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
Oh, gosh.
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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.
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So, fracking is “efficient”?