From ProPublica:
Federal environment officials have failed to adequately oversee hundreds of thousands of wells used to inject toxic oil and gas drilling waste deep underground, according to a new congressional report.
The report, released Monday by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, is critical of the Environmental Protection Agency’s inconsistent handling of safety inspections, poor record keeping, and failure to adjust its guidelines to adapt to new risks brought by the recent boom in domestic drilling, including the understanding that injection wells are causing earthquakes.
Let’s face it: Eventually we will be told that drinking water has been contaminated, as drinking water becomes more scarce. What we’re being told today: Fracking is making America energy independent.
We’re trading drinking water for “energy independence” in the form of fracking, as people like the Koch brothers and the oil industry promote campaigns to attack wind power and solar power.
This is capitalism at work.
