Good evening. Welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. We devote the program to examining hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking. It uses water, sand and chemicals breaking up rocks to increase oil and gas production. Fracking is not yet widely used in california. But questions about the environmental impacts in other states have triggered calls to ban it here. We begin where the issue is going before the the film vertigo. Today, just around the corner from the famous church, a different kind of drama is unfolding. A Grass Roots Group called san ber nieto rising has put an initiative on the November Ballot that asked the voters to ban the oil and gas technique. They say it uses large amounts of water. The misuse of water in a drought time is the big issue. You know . Even some of the farmers and the farm workers around here are very concerned about that because that means jobs. Even though they produce little oil and none of it through fracking its the first county in california to quali
Good evening. Welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. We devote the program to examining hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking. It uses water, sand and chemicals breaking up rocks to increase oil and gas production. Fracking is not yet widely used in california. But questions about the environmental impacts in other states have triggered calls to ban it here. We begin where the issue is going before the the film vertigo. Today, just around the corner from the famous church, a different kind of drama is unfolding. A Grass Roots Group called san ber nieto rising has put an initiative on the November Ballot that asked the voters to ban the oil and gas technique. They say it uses large amounts of water. The misuse of water in a drought time is the big issue. You know . Even some of the farmers and the farm workers around here are very concerned about that because that means jobs. Even though they produce little oil and none of it through fracking its the first county in california to quali
Good evening. Welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. We devote the program to examining hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking. It uses water, sand and chemicals breaking up rocks to increase oil and gas production. Fracking is not yet widely used in california. But questions about the environmental impacts in other states have triggered calls to ban it here. We begin where the issue is going before the the film vertigo. Today, just around the corner from the famous church, a different kind of drama is unfolding. A Grass Roots Group called san ber nieto rising has put an initiative on the November Ballot that asked the voters to ban the oil and gas technique. They say it uses large amounts of water. The misuse of water in a drought time is the big issue. You know . Even some of the farmers and the farm workers around here are very concerned about that because that means jobs. Even though they produce little oil and none of it through fracking its the first county in california to quali
Good evening. Welcome to kqed newsroom. Im thuy vu. We devote the program to examining hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking. It uses water, sand and chemicals breaking up rocks to increase oil and gas production. Fracking is not yet widely used in california. But questions about the environmental impacts in other states have triggered calls to ban it here. We begin where the issue is going before the the film vertigo. Today, just around the corner from the famous church, a different kind of drama is unfolding. A Grass Roots Group called san ber nieto rising has put an initiative on the November Ballot that asked the voters to ban the oil and gas technique. They say it uses large amounts of water. The misuse of water in a drought time is the big issue. You know . Even some of the farmers and the farm workers around here are very concerned about that because that means jobs. Even though they produce little oil and none of it through fracking its the first county in california to quali