This Map Shows Where Offshore Fracking Has Occurred in the Gulf of Mexico

[Judi Lynn]

This Map Shows Where Offshore Fracking Has Occurred in the Gulf of Mexico
Thursday, 30 June 2016 00:00
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report

Last week, a Truthout report exposed new details on the use of fracking technology in undersea oil-and-gas wells in the Gulf of Mexico, where fossil-fuel firms are allowed to dump billions of gallons of wastewater mixed with chemicals. From 2010 to 2014, federal regulators approved hundreds of permits and permit modifications to allow private companies to use fracking, acid treatments and other technologies to maximize oil-and-gas production in the Gulf, according to a trove of government documents released under the Freedom of Information Act. The Center for Biological Diversity, which fought in court to have the documents released, used 1,200 of these permit documents to map out fracked wells in the Gulf, including one well that was connected to a flow line that spilled 90,000 gallons of oil into the Gulf last month. The Center and Truthout are still waiting on federal officials to release more records, so the scope of fracking in the Gulf is likely even larger.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/36643-this-map-shows-where-offshore-fracking-has-occurred-in-the-gulf-of-mexico

(See the link for the map.)

[newthinking]

1. Thanks JL

Our oceans are so abused these days

[Dustlawyer]

2. That part just East of Galveston Bay is where I spent my summers as a kid, teenager,

adult, and father with kids. I cannot take my grandkids though. Flesh eating bacteria, red tide, toxic tad balls, and sewage make it a bad, unhealthy environment. The state gets their cut and the big oil companies enjoy their playground.

We must break the control over our politicians who need more and more money to run. Publicly Funded Elections!

[snot]

3. ^THIS^

[shadowmayor]

4. Nothing to see here folks

Now move along and let the experts handle this. You see, corporations are people - so what could possibly go wrong?

[MisterP]

5. besides, the Gulf was dirty already!