{"id":15464,"date":"2014-04-11T20:22:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T20:22:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-04-11T20:22:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T20:22:31","slug":"butte-county-considers-fracking-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/11\/butte-county-considers-fracking-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Butte County Considers Fracking Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>County concerned about water and seismic risk<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>Butte County doesn&#8217;t actually have any fracking operations right now, and isn&#8217;t likely to become a hotbed of fracking anytime soon. But the Board of Supervisors is making a preemptive statement this week:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tuesday the Board of Supervisors voted to have county staff prepare an ordinance that bans fracking.<\/p>\n<p>Documents prepared by county staff for Tuesday&#8217;s meeting described fracking as &#8220;a common term for hydraulic fracturing that is a technique of well stimulation used to increase petroleum production,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At request from the county&#8217;s Water Commission, the supervisors were asked to adopt and ordinance that would require a conditional use permit before a fracking operation could take place within county jurisdiction. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicoer.com\/news\/ci_25525406\/butte-supervisors-move-ban-fracking\">Chico ER<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even if there weren&#8217;t any fracking operations around the corner, at the very least this local action could send a statement to other areas and perhaps be a model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>County concerned about water and seismic risk<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>Butte County doesn&#8217;t actually have any fracking operations right now, and isn&#8217;t likely to become a hotbed of fracking anytime soon. But the Board of Supervisors is making a preemptive statement this week:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tuesday the Board of Supervisors voted to have county staff prepare an ordinance that bans fracking.<\/p>\n<p>Documents prepared by county staff for Tuesday&#8217;s meeting described fracking as &#8220;a common term for hydraulic fracturing that is a technique of well stimulation used to increase petroleum production,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At request from the county&#8217;s Water Commission, the supervisors were asked to adopt and ordinance that would require a conditional use permit before a fracking operation could take place within county jurisdiction. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicoer.com\/news\/ci_25525406\/butte-supervisors-move-ban-fracking\">Chico ER<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even if there weren&#8217;t any fracking operations around the corner, at the very least this local action could send a statement to other areas and perhaps be a model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[86],"tags":[9859],"class_list":["post-15464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-86","tag-9859"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-41q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}