Report cites need for research on the effects of fracking. There are grave concerns about water use for fracking, as well as drinking water contamination. ;They cant prove any water contamination, but there is no data looking at water contamination — that doesnt seem to me to be a very rigorous examination of the evidence on hand, said Jackie Pomeroy, a spokeswoman with the anti-fracking group CAFrackFacts. The Center for Biological Diversity has no complaint about the study itself — which it praised — but using it to justify new drilling defies logic and common sense,said Kassie Siegel, an attorney for the organization. The text of the report shows grave, grave reasons for concern, Siegel said. This clearly does not support continued fracking in California, yet they release this report then the BLM announces new leasing. Long, who directed the research, said investigators from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Pacific Institutes reviewed existing data and studies, but information was difficult to find and at times confusing. For example, she said that information companies self-reported to the quasi-independent website FracFocus did not match disclosures the same companies made to Californias oil and gas regulatory agency. Scientists asked for more time to conduct research but were told to adhere to the BLMs timetable, which required a draft report in seven months. Long also noted that the report raised questions it could not answer about such issues as the effects of the shallow fracking common in California and how it might affect groundwater. For instance, the report said: • Investigators could not determine the groundwater quality near many hydraulic fracturing operations and found that existing data was insufficient to evaluate the extent to which contamination may have occurred. • California needs to develop an accurate understanding about the location, depth and quality of groundwater in oil- and gas-producing regions in order to evaluate the risk of well stimulation to groundwater. • No information could be found about the toxicity of about a third of the chemicals and few of the chemicals have been evaluated to see if animals or plants would be harmed by chronic exposure. Read the article here: latimes/local/la-me-fracking-report-20140829-story.html Were in the middle of the most severe drought on record, so this makes no sense. More on fracking issues: Fracked Beef: Its Whats for Dinner? —By Sydney Brownstone motherjones/blue-marble/2012/11/fracked-food-its-whats-dinner New Research: Fracking Uses (and Loses) More Water than Previously Believed More than 90% of the water used in the Marcellus is permanently lost from the water cycle. switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/mmcfeeley/new_research_fracking_uses_and.html Santa Cruz County imposes permanent fracking ban ksbw/news/santa-cruz-county-imposes-permanent-fracking-ban/26085858#!bMOsCX Judge temporarily blocks fracking on central coast mercurynews/ci_22986646/judge-temporarily-blocks-fracking-californias-central-coast
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