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Oil and gas companies are drilling in California using a controversial method known as "fracking" with hardly any oversight. This leaves your groundwater at risk of potential contamination. We need your voice today to change that.
Fracking is the industry term for hydraulic fracturing, an increasingly infamous method of gas extraction that involves pumping pressured water mixed with a cocktail of industrial chemicals (usually kept secret by drilling companies) into gas wells. This highly controversial, dangerous drilling method has been linked to water contamination in other parts of the country. Recent reports show fracking has resulted in more than 1,000 documented cases of groundwater contamination, either through the leaking of fracking fluids and methane into groundwater or via above ground spills of contaminated waste water.
A common-sense bill -- A.B. 591, introduced by Democratic Assembly member Bob Wieckowski -- would ensure that California's citizens have access to information about fracking in our communities. 591 would require oil and gas companies to disclose -- for the first time -- when and where they're fracking, what chemicals they're using, and how much scarce water their operations consume. All of this information would be published on a public website, setting one of the highest bars for fracking disclosure in the nation.
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