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Fracking is a non-technical term for Hydraulic Fracturing. Fracking or Hydraulic Fracturing is a method for retrieving, otherwise inaccessible, natural gas and petroleum by injecting pressurized fluid and chemicals into underground rock causing fissures. The fissures widen and expand allowing petroleum and gas to escape and flow to areas where it can be retrieved. less -

Senate Bill 4 to Provide for Additional Regulation of Fracking Activities in California

Best Best & Krieger LLP on 9/26/2013

State Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources to Develop Fracking Regulations - Last Friday, the governor signed Senate Bill 4, which addresses the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in...more

It's Said and Done -- Governor Brown Signs SB 4 into Law

Stoel Rives LLP on 9/24/2013

On Friday, September 20, 2013, just days after indicating his support for the bill, Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 4, which establishes a permitting system for the fracking of new oil and gas wells. The Department of...more

DOGGR Delays Release of Draft Fracking Rules Pending Possible Instruction from Lawmakers

Stoel Rives LLP on 8/9/2013

At a conference in Los Angeles at the end of July, the chair of the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB), Felicia Marcus, noted that the Department of Conservation’s Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources...more

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Senate Bill 4 to Provide for Additional Regulation of Fracking Activities in California

It's Said and Done -- Governor Brown Signs SB 4 into Law

DOGGR Delays Release of Draft Fracking Rules Pending Possible Instruction from Lawmakers

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