Legal Alert: Senate Bill 4 to Provide for Additional Regulation of Fracking Activities in California
From a BB&K Legal Alert:
“Last Friday, the governor signed Senate Bill 4, which addresses the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in California. Under existing California law, the state Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) is responsible for issuing permits for the drilling and operation of oil and gas wells. Senate Bill 4 would expand the regulation of fracking in California and would require DOGGR, in conjunction with the other state and local agencies in charge of water and air resources, to develop regulations that address fracking by January of 2015. Depending on the extensiveness of the regulations enacted, oil and gas companies may soon be pressing forward to mine the Monterey Shale Formation and other oil bearing formations, which are estimated to hold more than 15 billion barrels of oil, most of which is only accessible through fracking extraction.”
Among Aquafornia’s “Water Words of the Week” from its sister site Aquapedia has been fracking.