[CRNMC] Item re: Oil dumping into aquifers from Center for Biological Diversity

[Beth Brenneman]

Thanks for this one, Madge.  Beth B

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Madge Strong <mstrong at willitsonline.com>
wrote:

>        *Oil Industry Dumping Toxic Wastewater Into Scores of California
> Aquifers*
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> Internet. Fracking flavored water]California 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 California's water during
> an unprecedented drought.
>
> Last summer the state's Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources
> issued emergency shutdown orders for multiple injection wells in Kern
> County after they were found to be dumping wastewater into aquifers
> containing drinkable water.
>
> But documents show that the agency has allowed hundreds of other injection
> wells to dump oil wastewater into protected aquifers around the state, from
> Monterey County and sites near San Luis Obispo to Kern and Los Angeles
> counties. Oil industry wastewater is an extremely salty fluid that
> typically contains a wide range of contaminants. It can also contain
> fracking chemicals.
>
> "California'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."
>
> Read more in the *San Francisco Chronicle*
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