?The Central Coast’s energy industry is vital to the economic health of the region producing thousands of jobs and millions per year in tax revenue. Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," is an important technology in our statewide energy portfolio. Fracking allows us to access our domestic oil and gas in a safe, reliable manner.
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It actually not fracking that causes it, it the injection of wastewater fluids into the well that seem to cause it. That means any enhanced technique, whether fracking, steam injection or acidizing, increases the risks. Currently there is a lot of steam injection in the county which uses hundreds of thousands of gallons of water per well which then get injected into a hole in the ground. increasing the earthquake risk, and of course the risk of leaking into groundwater.
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InKern County, which has 30 times more oil production than SB County accounts for most of the State economic value cited by the oil industry, unemployment asthma rates are higher, wages values are lower than SBCounty.
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The midwest which is NOT notorious for seismic activity has seen a drastic rise in quakes eince fracking other "enhanced" drilling took off, ones over 3.0 including the damaging 5.6 in Oklahoma.
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