diff --git a/fog-google.gemspec b/fog-google.gemspec
index 6f49b2ee29..bb94259077 100644
--- a/fog-google.gemspec
+++ b/fog-google.gemspec
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
   spec.add_dependency "fog-xml"
 
   # Hard Requirement as of 1.0
-  spec.add_dependency "google-api-client", "~> 0.19.1"
+  spec.add_dependency "google-api-client", "~> 0.23.0"
 
   spec.add_development_dependency "coveralls"
   spec.add_development_dependency "mime-types"
diff --git a/lib/fog/compute/google/mock.rb b/lib/fog/compute/google/mock.rb
index 0b33349328..100d922ae2 100644
--- a/lib/fog/compute/google/mock.rb
+++ b/lib/fog/compute/google/mock.rb
@@ -181,25 +181,6 @@ def self.data(api_version)
 
                     }
                   },
-                  :backend_services => {
-                    "test-backend-service" => {
-                      "kind" => "compute#backend_service",
-                      "id" => "1361932147851415729",
-                      "creationTimestamp" => "2014-08-23T10:06:13.951-07:00",
-                      "name" => "test-backend-service",
-                      "description" => "",
-                      "backends" => [
-                        {
-                          "description" => "",
-                          "group" => "https://www.googleapis.com/resourceviews/v1beta1/projects#{@project}/zones/us-central1-a/zoneViews/name",
-                          "balancingMode" => "RATE",
-                          "capacityScaler" => 1.1,
-                          "maxRate" => 0.5
-                        }
-                      ],
-                      "selfLink" => "https://www.googleapis.com/compute/#{api_version}/projects/#{@project}/global/backendServices/test-backend-service"
-                    }
-                  },
                   :servers => {
                     "fog-1" => {
                       "kind" => "compute#instance",
diff --git a/lib/fog/google/shared.rb b/lib/fog/google/shared.rb
index 86ec2006e0..abcaba1398 100644
--- a/lib/fog/google/shared.rb
+++ b/lib/fog/google/shared.rb
@@ -42,12 +42,11 @@ def initialize_google_client(options)
           require "google/apis/compute_#{Fog::Compute::Google::GOOGLE_COMPUTE_API_VERSION}"
           require "google/apis/dns_#{Fog::DNS::Google::GOOGLE_DNS_API_VERSION}"
           require "google/apis/pubsub_#{Fog::Google::Pubsub::GOOGLE_PUBSUB_API_VERSION}"
-          require "google/apis/resourceviews_v1beta2"
           require "google/apis/sqladmin_#{Fog::Google::SQL::GOOGLE_SQL_API_VERSION}"
           require "google/apis/storage_#{Fog::Storage::GoogleJSON::GOOGLE_STORAGE_JSON_API_VERSION}"
           require "googleauth"
         rescue LoadError => error
-          Fog::Logger.error("Please install the google-api-client (>= 0.9) gem before using this provider")
+          Fog::Errors::Error.new("Please install the google-api-client (>= 0.9) gem before using this provider")
           raise error
         end