If the controversial practice of fracking wasn’t infuriating enough for activists concerned about pollution and climate change, a new report has found that some companies have been fracking off the coast of California.

Fracking, which involves pumping a high pressure cocktail of toxic chemicals into the ground to release oil and gas reserves, is generally a land-based practice.

But, it has just been discovered that 12 fracking projects have taken place on suspect legal grounds offshore from the West coast.

West Coast residents are sensitive to off shore oil drilling projects because of the major 1969 oil spill in the Santa Barbara channel that ended up being the third worst such spill in US history.

Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar recently spoke with Brenna Norton, Southern California organizer with Food and Water Watch about this issue.

Watch a video of the interview here:

Find out more online at www.foodandwaterwatch.org.

Find out more about the upcoming event The Toxies, at www.toxies.com.

Bipasha Shom recorded this interview.