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Oil drilling boom brings trouble to farm, ranch lands

2015-09-13 01:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: Carl Johnson and son Justin, who have complained for years about spills of oilfield wastewater where they raise cattle in the high plains of New Mexico, stroll across a 1acre patch of sandy soil lifeless, save for a scattering of stunted weeds. Five years ago, a broken pipe soaked the land with as much as 420,000 gallons of wastewater, a salty drilling byproduct that killed the shrubs and grass. It was among dozens of spills that have damaged the Johnsons` grazing lands and made them worry...

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