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a Brown Wona t Cut Oil Industry Water Use Because of Tax Collection

2015-04-05 08:13:00| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

Governor Jerry Brown signed an executive order Wednesday implementing California's first-ever mandatory water restrictions that require cities and towns to cut their water usage by 25 percent over the next nine months. But Brown will not cut oil company water use for fracking because the industry pays over $20 billion in state and local taxes.

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Recycled Water Industry Suffers As Oil Prices Drop

2015-03-31 06:34:52| oilandgasonline Home Page

Dropping oil prices are a setback for recycled water companies that serve oil and gas industry sites and could slow technological advancement in this sector.

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Using steam to extract oil is bad for water, plus a worker boiled to death, critics say

2015-03-10 18:45:10| Energy - Topix.net

A hearing by state lawmakers Tuesday on problems in California's protection of drinking-water aquifers from the state oil and gas industry also is slated to focus attention on the way oil companies in the state use high-pressure steam to force up petroleum. State oil and gas regulators have acknowledged “routinely” allowing oil and gas producers to inject steam underground at pressure so high that it cracks open underground rock formations, in violation of state and federal regulation, according to a state Senate report prepared for Tuesday's joint hearing by the Senate's environmental quality and natural resources and water committees.

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Water Treatment Plants Scramble After Train Carrying Crude Oil Explodes

2015-02-18 09:54:49| oilandgasonline Home Page

A CSX-owned train carrying millions of pounds of crude oil derailed and exploded Monday afternoon in West Virginia, leaking its contents near the Kanawha River, a drinking water source for two counties.

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