The Monterey Shale resources could slash California’s oil imports, bolster its balance sheet, and create lots of good jobs, if only those damned environmentalists would get off the industry’s back. Industry money was pouring into the region, which could become the next Bakken or Eagle Ford. Millions of readers took away a wafer-thin narrative about how fracking would create a new California “ gold rush” in the Monterey Shale, which contained two-thirds of the nation’s estimated tight oil resources (or “reserves,” in the case of the more energy-illiterate writers). Investor’s Business Daily wondered if it could “ save California.” The Economist quoted the president of a small oil producer in the region, Santa Maria Energy, as saying that the formation would be “California’s way out of the ‘fiscal toilet’.” Fox News gushed about the region’s potential for “making California the country’s top oil producer and revving up the state’s economy like a smaller shale-oil deposit did for North Dakota.”Īs usual, the purveyors of this pablum were mainly interested in generating buzz, not investigating the reality. “ Vast Oil Reserve May Now Be Within Reach,” declared The New York Times. In February, coverage of California’s Monterey Shale exploded in the mainstream press. Read it here: Monterey Shale isn’t all it’s fracked up to beĪ detailed new report on California’s Monterey Shale finds previous claims about its potential were vastly overstated. Widely touted as the next big play in fracking, the Monterey looks to be a dud. Interactions, locomotion and gunfights seamlessly combine in a single, pioneering VR game.For SmartPlanet this week, I featured a new report by geoscientist David Hughes, which is the first publicly available empirical analysis of actual oil production data from the Monterey shale formation in California. Save the day, to save the world.Ĭreated from the ground up for VR devices, Fracked pulls the action-adventure genre to revolutionary new heights through intuitive 1:1 VR gameplay. Fracked is in-your-face action with a cutting commentary on corporate greed and the climate change emergency. Across one day, take on an interdimensional army that combines hive mind mentality and gun-wielding supremacy - the perfect targets to unload round upon round into. The corporation dug too deep unleashing the ‘Fracked’ from the depths below. Reach out and hold on for your life as you climb and zipline far above the ground or perform audacious base-jumps to elude your foes. Physically lean into the bends on your skis to master the slopes at high speed. Venture through a harsh and dangerous mountain locale by seamlessly transitioning between a host of first-person free movement methods. Move freely around the battlefield to outflank, outsmart, and outgun an escalating threat with your arsenal of deadly, fully interactive weapons. Experience innovative VR gunplay that ingeniously blends improvised run and gun combat with a 1:1 grabbable cover system. Grab your gun, cock it, and take aim as a maverick war hero thrown back into the fight. Playable on Valve Index, HTC Vive, Meta Rift S, and Meta Quest and Quest 2 via Oculus Link. Alone, on the edge and really fracked off, humanity’s survival is in your hands. Take aim and run head-first into explosive action as you shoot, ski, and climb your way across an extreme adventure. Stranded in a remote mountain facility, you play as a reluctant hero forced into a final stand between the planet and a legion of interdimensional enemies. Uncompromised, audacious, and unashamedly stylish, Fracked grabs your VR headset by the motion controllers and delivers an ass kicking virtual reality game that has been made from the ground up for virtual reality platforms. The award-winning action adventure, now on PC VR!įrom the creators of the ground-breaking Phantom: Covert Ops, Fracked seamlessly collides relentless “run and cover” gunfights with free and fluid skiing and climbing, in trailblazing fashion.
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