SICKENING: Obama’s offshore fracking dumps billions of gallons of toxic chemicals into ocean, threatening marine life with total extinction
by: Isabelle Z.
NaturalNews.com
Thursday, July 14, 2016
A report issued by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) last month showed that the Obama administration issued more than 1,200 licenses for offshore fracking in the years from 2010 to 2014. Those with even the slightest familiarity with the effects of fracking will surely find this outrageous, but the rest of the story is even worse.
A lawyer for the CBD, Kristen Monsell, said that authorities reached this decision without even taking the time to carry out any sort of environmental analysis to assess the impact on fracking-endangered species, nor did they involve the public in their decision. She expressed concern that the government would allow this without first studying the impact that dumping these chemicals directly into the ocean would have on species and habitats.
The controversial offshore fracking process, which entails injecting water, chemicals and sand into rocks at high pressure to spur the flow of gas, has been carried out in hundreds of wells situated in the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the habitat of loggerhead turtles. Billions of gallons have been dumped into the ocean as a result of fracking.
Fracking has revolutionized the oil industry, and it is having an equally transformative effect on the environment – and not in a good way. The CBD has found that oil companies habitually used more than 10 highly toxic chemicals off the coast of California that had the power to harm or even kill marine species. In addition, a 2014 report by the NGO said that fracking could expose coastal areas to pollutants in the air that lead to cancer and many other illnesses.
Chemicals used in fracking among the world’s most toxic
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