Long Beach: What the frack?! On Tuesday, March 24th, the state of California held an "Aquifer Exemption Workshop" to show oil industry representatives how to exploit loopholes for drilling and disposal projects to obtain aquifer exemption approval. Concerned water drinkers interrupted the state-sponsored workshop on how to get away with poisoning our drinking water.
As the presenter at the podium droned on about "EPA Aquifer Exemption Criteria," one woman stood up from her banquet table to declare: "I just have to say one thing. This is backwards. It was just announced in the news that industry injected 2,500 wells illegally... Shouldn't you be having a workshop on how to stop that instead of how to get around, to get exempt from these regulations?"
Another woman entered the room waving two bottles of brown liquid. "I actually brought some poisoned water to show everyone what we're going to be exposed to and forced to drink if this poisoning of our water by our regulators continues."
Approaching the podium and handing out the poisoned water, she asked, "Would you feel like drinking this water?"
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Californians Shame Regulators for Teaching Big Oil How to Skirt Law and Pollute Our Water