- To view a report which calculates the job losses from reducing oil output, and the offsetting job gains from alternative energy investments that could begin to replace oil use, go here.
- CFROG's Oil Field Maps for Ventura County are HERE. See all the wells in the county and where wells have been fracked.
- The California Department of Conservation is responsible for strengthening and improving the state's oversight of oil and gas production; Geologic Energy Management Division: Cal-GEM home page
- To view areas where oil wells have been drilled and review well records and production levels, log on to the Cal-GEM interactive mapping site.
- Ventura River Watershed Council has an excellent series of watershed maps here.
- Earthworks has an excellent summary of the process and issues related to fracking.
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FracFocus is a website managed by the Ground Water Protection Council and Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission. This site lists some fracked wells that a few energy companies have voluntarily disclosed. To view wells in the Ventura County area that have been listed, visit the site.
- A map of groundwater basins published by the Ventura County Watershed Protection District. Compare it with Cal-GEM's interactive map of oil wells in Ventura County to identify areas where known petroleum deposits lie under usable aquifers.
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Here is the Forest Service's "Forests to Faucets" interactive map, "an education tool to illustrate the link between forests and the provision of surface drinking water—a key watershed-based ecosystem service."
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America Misled: How the fossil fuel industry deliberately misled Americans about climate change
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Did Exxon Deceive Its Investors on Climate Change?
- To download a report by the University of Southern California Global Energy Network and The Communications Institute, and funded in part by the Western States Petroleum Association, “Powering California: The Monterey Shale and California’s Economic Future,” click here.
- To review supporting materials from a 2013 presentation by Ventura County Staff and the State Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources regarding fracking in Ventura County click here.
- To review a report by the Wheeler Institute for Water Law and Policy, UC Berkeley Center for Law, Energy and the Environment, "Regulation of Hydraulic Fracturing in California: A Wastewater and Water Quality Perspective," click here.
- The California Water Resources Control Board tracks and publishes environmental data for regulated facilities and cleanup sites.
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