8 barrels of fresh, clean drinking water is what companies like Chevron use to get just one barrel of crude #oil from the fields of #KernCounty, California. 83% of Kern Countys fresh water from the California Aqueduct goes not to residents or to #farmers, but to the #OILgarchy who super heat the water and suck up the last drops of oil remaining in fields they have harvested and profited from for nearly a century. Companies like Chevron pay no money to California or the residents of Kern County for this precious commodity - clean water. Jeremy Miller, writing for Orion Magazine, spent more than a year researching and documenting this crime against humanity and the environment, releasing his report in 2011. [ARTICLE] orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6047/
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 11:15:20 +0000
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