Original upload date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Fri, 03 Dec 2021 16:48:56 GMT
During 2012 Plains Exploration and Production Company released a series of technical studies which purported to demonstrate that the companies' oil recovery operations in Los Angeles including frackin
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g have no adverse effect on the public. The case is made here that this is not true. The oilfield activities in Los Angeles Inglewood oilfield have in fact resulted in activation of geologic faulting affecting residential property and two elementary schools. This 14 minute video presents the evidence for oilfield causation of surface and property damage in an urban setting. It also demonstrates that hydraulic fracturing for hydrocarbon recovery per se can be hazardous in relatively shallow geologic environments such as are common in California, and that conclusions reached on the basis of deep shale experience elsewhere are not universally valid.
