Quanah Parker Brightman's Testimony Against Fracking @ California State Senate Hearing
United Native Americans Testimony Against Fracking @ California State Senate Hearing
Lawmakers grill state oil regulators on oversight failures
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la...
On Tuesday, state lawmakers took their turn lambasting California's beleaguered oil and gas agency at a hearing in which senators called the agency's historic practices corrupt, inept and woefully mismanaged.
For two hours, legislators grilled the leaders of California's Department of Conservation, the Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources and the State Water Resources Control Board, seeking assurances that the state's dwindling water supplies are protected from toxic oilfield waste.
California orders 12 oil-field wells shut to protect groundwater
The hearing comes as officials from DOGGR deal with the aftermath of the admission that they for years inadvertently allowed oil companies to inject wastewater — from fracking and other production operations — with high levels of benzene, a carcinogen, into hundreds of wells in protected aquifers, a violation of federal law.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency has called the state's errors "shocking" and said that California's oil field waste water injection program does not comply with the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.
Putting these agencies in charge of fixing the problem is like putting the fox in charge of guarding the henhouse. (“For two hours, legislators grilled the leaders of California's Department of Conservation, the Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources and the State Water Resources...
Agency officials have attributed the errors to chaotic record-keeping and antiquated data collection. And local water officials said that initial tests on nine drinking water wells found no benzene or other contaminants.
Senators on Tuesday unfurled a litany of the agency's failings and asked how officials there can be trusted to address the problems.
State Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) called DOGGR's failings "endemic."
"There has been a serious imbalance between the role of regulating the oil and gas industry and the role of protecting the public," Jackson said.
Agency officials promised to do better and presented detailed plans to review the underground injection program.
Sign-on Letter in Support of the Protect our Public Lands Act of 2015
http://senate.ca.gov/media-archive#
03/10/2015 Joint Hearing Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee and Senate Environmental Quality Committee
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