Monterey Shale: Government believes there could be 15.4 BILLION barrels of crude oil buried beneath fertile California farmland

``California has an estimated 15.4 billion barrels of crude oil beneath its fertile farmland - and now companies are scrambling to get their hands on it, putting the lush landscape in danger... the oil could also prove a massive area of conflict between the oil companies and the state's powerful environmental interests, as campaigners protest against the use of fracking to extract it.''