A broken pipeline spilled about 80-thousand litres (667 Barrels) of crude oil into the ocean before it was shut off Tuesday, creating a slick stretching about 6 kilometres along the central California coastline. The slick stretched along the coast and was about 50 metres into the water. The 24-inch pipeline is owned by Plains All […]
Fracking not a concern in one community
Hydraulic fracturing may be controversial in California, but it’s not at all new. Fracking, has been happening for more than 40 years in Kern County, north of Los Angeles. There are parts of Kern County that are covered, as far as the eye can see, with oil wells. The town of Taft is at the […]
Fracking fluid versus aquifers
California officials have ordered an emergency shut-down of 11 oil and gas waste injection sites and a review more than 100 others in the state’s drought-wracked Central Valley out of fear that companies may have been pumping fracking fluids and other toxic waste into drinking water aquifers there. The orders were first reported by the […]