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Extreme Drought in CA Triggers Halting Fracking Waste Injection Avoid Aquifer Contamination

2014-07-18 22:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: California officials have ordered an emergency shut-down of 11 oil and gas waste injection sites and a review of 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 state`s Division of Oil and Gas and Geothermal Resources on July 7 issued cease and desist orders to seven energy companies warning that they may be injecting their waste into aquifers that could...

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