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

[edward Oberweiser]

Baile,

I'm sorry to have to say no it's no big joke. It was reported in Mother
Jones Magazine and on KCET.

Ed

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Baile Oakes <baileoakes at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 <http://www.motherjones.com/authors/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
> <http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-175228745/stock-photo-kern-county-california-november-pumpjacks-extract-oil-from-an-oilfield-in-kern-county.html?src=YF0zeko-XyQ3h7QSJMh0Iw-1-1>
> /Shutterstock
>
> I have a great idea. Let's take one of the globe's most important
> agricultural regions
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/magazine/californias-central-valley-land-of-a-billion-vegetables.html?pagewanted=all>,
> one with severe water constraints
> <http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=10978> and a fast-dropping
> water table
> <http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/california/California-Drought-Threatens-Nations-Most-Productive-Farming-Valley-273339641.html>.
> And let's set up shop there with a highly water-intensive form of fossil
> fuel extraction
> <http://www.ceres.org/press/press-releases/new-study-hydraulic-fracturing-faces-growing-competition-for-water-supplies-in-water-stressed-regions>,
> one that throws off copious amounts of toxic wastewater
> <http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es5028184>. Nothing could possibly
> go wrong ... right? Well...
> <http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2014/fracking-10-06-2014.html>
>
> 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
> <http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/california_fracking/pdfs/20140915_State_Board_UIC_well_list_Category_1a.pdf>
> 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
> <http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/california_fracking/pdfs/UIC_WaterWell_Results_8-7-14.xlsx>
> 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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