OIL COMPANY CHEMICALLY LADEN FRACKING WATER USED ON YOUR CALIFORNIA VEGGIES…
Pact with devil? California farmers use oil firms’ water
By Veronique Dupont
Yahoo.com
7/3/2015
Bakersfield (United States) (AFP) – An efficient solution to a historic drought, or an environmentally risky pact with the devil?
That’s the question being raised by critics about Californian farmers who irrigate their crops with waste water supplied by oil companies, in an arrangement slammed as dangerous by environmental campaigners.
Driving into the parched region around Bakersfield, in the western US state’s fertile Central Valley, it is evident how closely the agriculture and oil industries are related.
Lines of orchards stand near fields of oil wells stretched out as far as the eye can see.
Eighty percent of the state’s oil production and 45 percent of the farming industry is concentrated in a single county, Kern County, said Madeline Stano of the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment.
With temperatures frequently exceeding 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in the summer, water is in scarce supply.
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