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November 5th, 2015 
Awake Goy 
Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Co-Founder, Legacy Bio-Naturals
November 5, 2015
Reports are surfacing about California Governor Jerry Brown using state oil and gas regulators to survey, map, and report on any findings regarding petrol for potential drilling endeavors on the Brown’s private property located in Northern California.
This survey produced a 51 page document of historical and geological assessment; complete with personal satellite images of the areas surrounding the Brown’s ranch – extending to the town of Williams.
Brown was curious as to the “geology, past oil and gas activity, potential for future oil and gas activity in the vicinity of his long-time family ranch.”
All in all, the report indicated that petrol prospects were “very low”.
Californian taxpayers have foot the bill for the state’s division of oil, gas and geothermal resources (OGGR), although the agency claims that “the work was a legal and proper use of public resources.”
However, that claim is up for debate because petrol industry experts cannot recall a time when another state official had been able to get taxpayer funded surveys conducted on private property for personal gain.
Knowing that Brown has been attempting to boost his own private contribution to turning California into the nation’s 3rd largest oil-producing state, is more than disturbing.
This latest development makes sense when Brown’s relationship with big oil and fracking is considered.
Oil Change International (OCI) explains: “California’s Governor Jerry Brown has a problem: he wants to be seen as a climate champion who understands the science and takes this crisis seriously. At the same time, he just proposed new fracking rules in California that would amount to a gift to Big Oil. He can’t have it both ways.”
OCI reported that Brown has received an estimated $2 million for signing into law a recent favorable bill for the fossil fuel industry.
Financial contributors to Brown include:
• Occidental Petroleum
• Edison
• Chevron
• Phillips 66
A 2014 report the Ceres Investor Network (CIN) concludes that those areas identified as having a severe shortage of water happen to also be regions “heavily targeted for oil and gas development using hydraulic fracturing.”
The corporations responsible for these conditions include:
• Halliburton
• Anadarko Petroleum
• Chesapeake Energy
• Baker Hughes
According to the report:
- The Eagle Ford in south Texas faces some of the biggest water challenges of any shale play. Hydraulic fracturing water use was the highest in the country at 19.2 billion gallons.
- The Permian Basin faces significant water demand pressures, drought concerns and high groundwater use and stress. More than 70% of the Permian’s wells are in extreme water stress areas and the basin overlaps parts of the depleted Ogallala aquifer.
- 100% of all wells hydraulically fractured in the DJ Basin were in high or extremely high water stress areas.
- The Marcellus was the second highest water use play behind Eagle Ford, using over 13.5 billion gallons of water. Average water use per well is relatively high, at about 4.4 million gallons.
- Nearly all hydraulic fracturing water use in California is in regions of extremely high water stress, although water use per well remains relatively low.
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