[CRNMC] nearly 3 billion gals of frack water dumped in CA acquifers

[Baile Oakes]

Ed, Please tell me this is a big joke !

Right ?

We seem to be living a horror story.

All good energy being sent to all affected by this atrocity.

First jet fuel in the colorado that is sent into drinking and agriculture supplies, and now this.  

No such thing as organic produce grown with this shit.


On Oct 13, 2014, at 8:20 AM, edward Oberweiser wrote:

> You Thought California's Drought Couldn't Get Any Worse? Enter Fracking.
> 
> —By Tom Philpott
> 
> | Fri Oct. 10, 2014 2:22 PM EDT
> 
>  Pumpjacks extract oil from an oilfield in Kern County, in California's ag-heavy Central Valley. Christopher Halloran /Shutterstock
> I have a great idea. Let's take one of the globe's most important agricultural regions, one with severe water constraints and a fast-dropping water table. And let's set up shop there with a highly water-intensive form of fossil fuel extraction, one that throws off copious amounts of toxic wastewater. Nothing could possibly go wrong ... right? Well...
> 
> Almost 3 billion gallons of oil industry wastewater have been illegally dumped into central California aquifers that supply drinking water and farming irrigation, according to state documents obtained by the Center for Biological Diversity. The wastewater entered the aquifers through at least nine injection disposal wells used by the oil industry to dispose of waste contaminated with fracking fluids and other pollutants.
> 
> The documents also reveal that Central Valley Water Board testing found high levels of arsenic, thallium and nitrates—contaminants sometimes found in oil industry wastewater—in water-supply wells near these waste-disposal operations.
> 
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