California ‘Oil and Ag’ Face Rift on Fracking - NYTimes.com

Emily Berl for The New York Times
Oil companies are moving into agricultural areas like Shafter, Calif.
By NORIMITSU ONISHI
Published: June 1, 2013

SHAFTER, Calif. — Scattered on either side of Shafter Avenue just north of the town center here, new oil pump jacks, some bobbing and others thrusting, tower above this corner of California’s prime farmland. FULL STORY: California ‘Oil and Ag’ Face Rift on Fracking - NYTimes.com