California just pass a fracking bill. We are now in for a real drought. Why Oil Companies Want California’s Water All Fracked Up! Big Oil Fracking Our Environment Fracking: Oil Shale Oil, Water and Politicians Do Mix By Roland Sheppard July 26, 2012 The Politicians, the Corporate Media and Their Subservience To Big Oil Are Fracking Up California’s Water Resources. San Francisco Chronicle Headline: New state water plan: tunnels under delta Today, I read, this above article in today’s San Francisco Chronicle with contempt for the corporate media and their politicians. With the new water bill, that is now being proposed by the big oil and energy and the political support by thier politicians (like Diane Feinstein etc., proposing the old defeated Peripheral Canal proposal. I think that we have a golden opportunity to unite everyone into the fight. Most people don’t know that the big energy companies control most of the water in the San Joaquin Valley. Now, with fracking profitable in California due to the high price of fuel, they want to frack California and our water resources required by the fracking process. (As they are trying to do in the rest of the country.) At the peak of California production in 1985, Kern County producers needed roughly four-and-a-half barrels of water to produce a single barrel of oil. Today, that ratio has jumped to almost eight barrels of water per barrel of oil. This use has been sanctioned despite the three-year drought that has ravaged the valley, causing reductions in the water delivered by the State and Central Valley projects canals. Not only are farmers generally short of water, dozens of small poor agricultural hamlets — including Alpaugh, Seville, East Orosi and Kettleman City — have been forced to tap groundwater. And that groundwater is often contaminated with agricultural pollutants, including arsenic and nitrates. — Oil and Water Don’t Mix with California Agriculture Shale is found in about one sixth of California. “The Monterey shale overlaps much of California’s traditional crude producing regions. It generally runs in two swaths: a roughly 50-mile wide ribbon running length of the San Joaquin Valley and coastal hills, and a Pacific Coast strip of similar width between Santa Barbara and Orange County.” —A Big Shale Play in California Could Boost the Golden State’s Oil Patch This need for more water, at the same time that the big energy companies have already sucking dry the Colorado water basin, at a time of drought in the southwest. (“The group, Western Resource Advocates, used public records to conclude that energy companies are collectively entitled to divert more than 6.5 billion gallons of water a day during peak river flows. The companies also hold rights to store, in dozens of reservoirs, 1.7 million acre feet of water, enough to supply metro Denver for six years.” — Oil, Water Are Volatile Mix in West, Energy Firms Buying River Rights Add to Competition for Scarce Resource) As fresh drinking water is depleted due to fracking, the Delta, San Francisco Bay, etc., will become even more polluted. Farmworkers and small farmers will have less safe drinking water, as the valley water table gets more polluted by the fracking process. In, addition fackin has been associated with earthquakes. ( Read Arkansas ‘Fracking’ Site Closures Extended As Earthquake Link Studied) There have been world wide struggles against the privatisation of water just as there have been war in the middle east for control and production of war. These wars are now coming home. With the recession/depression we will soon not be able to drink and eat unpolluted water and food. A basic ‘unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’. I think that all of these issues are now clear enough to begin to unite all, fight for, and win a better world. rolandsheppard/Site/Why_Oil_Companies_Want_CA_Water.html
Posted on: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 17:35:10 +0000
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