California government allows fracking companies to inject 3 billion gallons of wastewater into aquifer despite worst drought ever
by: Jennifer Lea Reynolds
NaturalNews.com
Friday, January 22, 2016
At a time when California is facing droughts of historic proportions and its residents are in desperate need of water, government officials have admitted that errors have been made in which billions of gallons of wastewater has been re-injected into underground aquifers where high-quality drinking water resides.
“It’s inexcusable,” said Hollin Kretzmann, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity in San Francisco. “At (a) time when California is experiencing one of the worst droughts in history, we’re allowing oil companies to contaminate what could otherwise be very useful ground water resources for irrigation and for drinking. It’s possible these aquifers are now contaminated irreparably.” He went on to explain in a video that at least nine cases of well operations have injected a whopping “3 billion gallons of toxic oil industry wastewater into aquifers that were clean and supposed to be protected under federal and state law.”(1)
A press release from the Center for Biological Diversity states that the “current extent of contamination is cause for grave concern” and that “the long-term threat posed by the unlawful wastewater disposal may be even more devastating.”(2)
Arsenic, thallium found in well water samples within a mile of residential areas
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