<div dir="ltr">Thanks for this one, Madge. Beth B<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Madge Strong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mstrong@willitsonline.com" target="_blank">mstrong@willitsonline.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Dumping Toxic Wastewater Into Scores of <u></u><u></u>California<u></u><u></u> Aquifers</span></font></b></strong><u></u><u></u></p>
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regulators allowed the oil industry to drill hundreds of wastewater disposal
wells into aquifers with water suitable for drinking or irrigation, newly
released documents show. Now the Center is calling on the EPA to immediately
shut down these operations -- which are illegal -- to protect <u></u><u></u>California<u></u><u></u>'s water
during an unprecedented drought.<br>
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Last summer the state's Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources issued
emergency shutdown orders for multiple injection wells in <u></u><u></u>Kern<u></u> <u></u>County<u></u><u></u>
after they were found to be dumping wastewater into aquifers containing
drinkable water.<br>
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But documents show that the agency has allowed hundreds of other injection
wells to dump oil wastewater into protected aquifers around the state, from <u></u>Monterey<u></u> <u></u>County<u></u>
and sites near <u></u>San Luis Obispo<u></u> to Kern and <u></u><u></u>Los Angeles<u></u><u></u> counties.
Oil industry wastewater is an extremely salty fluid that typically contains a
wide range of contaminants. It can also contain fracking chemicals.<br>
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"<u></u><u></u>California<u></u><u></u>'s
drinking water aquifers shouldn't be garbage dumps for the oil
industry," said the Center's Kassie Siegel. "Both common sense and
federal law require the EPA to shut down every illegal wastewater well
immediately."<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><h1 style="text-align:left"><font size="1"><span style="font-weight:normal">"The
trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've
seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as
speaking out. There's no innocence. Either way, you're accountable.”</span>
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