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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCalifornia: Waste Water from Oil Fracking Injected into Clean Aquifers
State officials allowed oil and gas companies to pump nearly three billion gallons of waste water into underground aquifers that could have been used for drinking water or irrigation.
Those aquifers are supposed to be off-limits to that kind of activity, protected by the EPA.
Its inexcusable, said Hollin Kretzmann, at the Center for Biological Diversity in San Francisco. At (a) time when California is experiencing one of the worst droughts in history, were allowing oil companies to contaminate what could otherwise be very useful ground water resources for irrigation and for drinking. Its possible these aquifers are now contaminated irreparably.
Californias Department of Conservations Chief Deputy Director, Jason Marshall, told NBC Bay Area, In multiple different places of the permitting process an error could have been made.
Those aquifers are supposed to be off-limits to that kind of activity, protected by the EPA.
Its inexcusable, said Hollin Kretzmann, at the Center for Biological Diversity in San Francisco. At (a) time when California is experiencing one of the worst droughts in history, were allowing oil companies to contaminate what could otherwise be very useful ground water resources for irrigation and for drinking. Its possible these aquifers are now contaminated irreparably.
Californias Department of Conservations Chief Deputy Director, Jason Marshall, told NBC Bay Area, In multiple different places of the permitting process an error could have been made.
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Waste-Water-from-Oil-Fracking-Injected-into-Clean-Aquifers-282733051.html
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California: Waste Water from Oil Fracking Injected into Clean Aquifers (Original Post)
spanone
Nov 2014
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Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)1. At some point, you really have to wonder...
Are these guys really trying so hard to be the bad guys from "Captain Planet"?
itsrobert
(14,157 posts)2. As long as a human doesn't urinate in the aquifer
they would have to pump it all out to the ocean
immoderate
(20,885 posts)3. It's that THIRD PERSON, who makes all those ERRORS...
So what can we do about THAT?
--imm