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Lawsuit Forces Govt To Disclose Extent Of Offshore Fracking In Gulf of Mexico
Lawsuit Forces Government To Disclose Extent Of Offshore Fracking In Gulf of Mexico
6/7/2015
In August of last year, 21.6 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico were auctioned off to the dirty energy industry(Obama Opened Floodgates for Offshore Fracking in Recent Gulf of Mexico Lease) so that they could expand their offshore fracking activities in an area that was still reeling from the effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
As DeSmog’s Steve Horn reported at that time, many of the leases sold by the government in August were located in the Lower Tertiary Basin, an area defined by hard-to-penetrate rock where the crude is located in deep water, making the practice of hydraulic fracturing exceptionally risky and prone to environmental disaster.
It wasn’t until the lease sale that the media — and the American public — became painfully aware of the fact that we know so little about what the industry is actually doing in the Gulf of Mexico. It was this lack of knowledge that led the Center for Biological Diversity to file a lawsuit against the government to compel them to release that info.
This past week, that lawsuit was settled in Washington, and now the government will have to reveal the extent of fracking activities in the Gulf of Mexico.
...So far, we know that at least 115 offshore fracking wells are currently in operation in the Gulf, but the settlement will force the government to disclose the number of operations, the companies that have obtained leases, and the extent of chemical dumping from fracking activities.
The industry is currently allowed to dump fracking wastewater that is laced with fracking chemicals directly into the fragile Gulf ecosystem, and the lawsuit will unfortunately not be changing that practice. ....
,,,Industry officials have also said they plan to increase the use of fracking techniques to exploit wells in deep Gulf waters, and with more than 4,000 platforms in the region, the Center claims that the scope offshore fracking could be “staggering.”,,,
http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/06/07/lawsuit-forces-government-disclose-extent-offshore-fracking-gulf-mexico
6/7/2015
In August of last year, 21.6 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico were auctioned off to the dirty energy industry(Obama Opened Floodgates for Offshore Fracking in Recent Gulf of Mexico Lease) so that they could expand their offshore fracking activities in an area that was still reeling from the effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
As DeSmog’s Steve Horn reported at that time, many of the leases sold by the government in August were located in the Lower Tertiary Basin, an area defined by hard-to-penetrate rock where the crude is located in deep water, making the practice of hydraulic fracturing exceptionally risky and prone to environmental disaster.
It wasn’t until the lease sale that the media — and the American public — became painfully aware of the fact that we know so little about what the industry is actually doing in the Gulf of Mexico. It was this lack of knowledge that led the Center for Biological Diversity to file a lawsuit against the government to compel them to release that info.
This past week, that lawsuit was settled in Washington, and now the government will have to reveal the extent of fracking activities in the Gulf of Mexico.
...So far, we know that at least 115 offshore fracking wells are currently in operation in the Gulf, but the settlement will force the government to disclose the number of operations, the companies that have obtained leases, and the extent of chemical dumping from fracking activities.
The industry is currently allowed to dump fracking wastewater that is laced with fracking chemicals directly into the fragile Gulf ecosystem, and the lawsuit will unfortunately not be changing that practice. ....
,,,Industry officials have also said they plan to increase the use of fracking techniques to exploit wells in deep Gulf waters, and with more than 4,000 platforms in the region, the Center claims that the scope offshore fracking could be “staggering.”,,,
http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/06/07/lawsuit-forces-government-disclose-extent-offshore-fracking-gulf-mexico
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