California Gov. Jerry Brown's Legacy

To Gov. Brown, fracking is a fabulous economic opportunity.  Unlike other states where natural gas is being fracked, California is going to be fracked for oil.  The Monterey Shale, running from Monterey to Los Angeles under some of the richest farmland in the country, contains 400 billion barrels of oil.  And it's particularly carbon-intensive, sour, heavy crude - the California Air Resources Board ranks some California oil as the dirtiest in the world, even above the filthy Canadian tarsands.  Fracking and other unconventional extraction techniques could release about 15.5 billion barrels of that oil - about 2/3 of the United States' reserves.  I (RLMiller) have previously calculated that California's fracked up oil is as bad as Keystone XL for the climate.

California Gov. Jerry Brown's Legacy