KQED Newsroom Segment: San Benito County leads efforts in California to ban fracking at local level
1,149 views · Published 11 July 2014 · 8:58 · Indexed 12 November 2026
Channel: KQED News · 2014 · News & Politics
As California state agencies work to come up with regulations on the controversial oil and gas extraction technique called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," some counties have started to push for local bans instead. San Benito, 90 miles south of San Francisco, is the first county in the state to qualify an anti-fracking initiative for the November 2014 election. Read more:
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