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In a time when California faces an historic drought, the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit has uncovered that state officials allowed oil and gas companies to pump billions of gallons of waste water into protected aquifers. Investigative Reporter Stephen Stock reports in a story that aired on November 14, 2014. (Published Friday, Nov 14, 2014)
State officials allowed oil and gas companies to pump nearly three billion gallons of waste water into underground aquifers that could have been used for drinking water or irrigation.
Those aquifers are supposed to be off-limits to that kind of activity, protected by the EPA.
Its inexcusable, said Hollin Kretzmann, at the Center for Biological Diversity in San Francisco. At (a) time when California is experiencing one of the worst droughts in history, were allowing oil companies to contaminate what could otherwise be very useful ground water resources for irrigation and for drinking. Its possible these aquifers are now contaminated irreparably.
Californias Department of Conservations Chief Deputy Director, Jason Marshall, told NBC Bay Area, In multiple different places of the permitting process an error could have been made.
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Waste-Water-from-Oil-Fracking-Injected-into-Clean-Aquifers-282733051.html
Maru Kitteh
(28,342 posts)Nebraska, Kansas, etc.; you might want to think about pushing up those already inevitable dates for converting to dry land crops.
midnight
(26,624 posts)safe drinking water. What does the Gov. Jerry Brown that help promote safer alternative energy in California say about this
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)RiverLover
(7,830 posts)Fracking is a crime against humanity. All that $$$ spent on extracting gas while wrecking the water, soil, & air could be spent on building alternative energy source infrastructures. If the oil industry hadn't bought our politicians. If private financing of campaigns & lobbyists didn't direct our policies...
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)fatting up their bank accounts, never mind the other living creatures including us.
TRoN33
(769 posts)Forever irreparable damage to our natural aquafiers. But our own government and these fricking corporationist plebs doesn't give any sh*t about it.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)the fascism/corporatism in the air?
ProdigalJunkMail
(12,017 posts)I do not think it means what you think it means...
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)me, don't post cute pictures.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)no reply to my request....well when you have a term to explain the situation in this country I'll continue to use those definitions, which IMO are ever changing and not locked into what they were 70 to 80 years ago SMH
ProdigalJunkMail
(12,017 posts)we were off for my birthday brunch.
I was trying to suggest that the people (EPA and state gov't) using the term 'protected' when referring to the aquifer don't seem to know what the word means if they allowed it to be fouled by the toxic sludge resulting from fracking.
sP
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)jumped to a conclusion about the photo I thought it was about my other post. Sleep is a good thing and lack of it is bad and this past week or so it's been the latter for me. I hope you had a great brunch and I wish you Happy Birthday!!!!!
ProdigalJunkMail
(12,017 posts)very easy to mistake meaning here... i should have been more clear.
thank you for the birthday wishes... it was a good one!
sP
blackspade
(10,056 posts)The mating song of the bought politician....
Vinca
(50,310 posts)DFW
(54,445 posts)The mistakes were not made on the part of the oil companies. They KNEW what they were doing. The mistakes were made on the part of the politicians that allowed them to contaminate the aquifers. Like the detonation of an atomic bomb, it cannot be reversed or cancelled. Unlike the detonation of an atomic bomb, it was done for one reason and one reason alone: money.
When you kill someone with a knife or a gun on the street and take their money, you go to jail or get the death penalty. Because this affects millions and they will die slowly instead of right away, is that a reason to let the perps off without so much an an arrest?
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)pa28
(6,145 posts)Reminds me of that passage from The Godfather where they talk about how the best kind of business is the one that makes new business for itself.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)the problems for sure, money makes the world go around the world go around......
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)This industry has no boundaries, no soul
The brain of it is directly connected to it's colon.
State officials of California should take big straws and suck this stuff back into their gullet.