Environmentalists Uncover Documents Revealing Feds Quietly Permitted Gulf Fracking

[nationalize the fed]

The federal government has been permitting offshore fracking in the Gulf with no site-specific analysis of the threats to imperiled species or the environment.


Alternet, Sabrina Canfield July 8, 2016

Federal regulators quietly gave the green light to more than 1,200 oil company fracking operations in the Gulf of Mexico between 2010 and 2014, according to documents environmentalists obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.



At least 630 wells were fracked along the coasts of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama during that four-year period, and more than 76 billion gallons in fracking waste were dumped into the Gulf in 2014 alone, the documents show.

They were obtained as part of an agreement between the federal government and the Center for Biological Diversity to settle a lawsuit challenging the government's failure to disclose documents under the FOIA detailing the scope of offshore fracking.

The center in turn shared the data obtained with Courthouse News Service.

Shell, ConocoPhillips, Chevron and BP are among the companies fracking in the deep waters off the Gulf Coast, according to a separate document, which was obtained by Al Jazeera and placed online...snip
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Drill Baby Drill!

[cprise]

1. Anything to drive oil prices down

[rhett o rick]

2. Fracking is the bridge to a clean energy future.

The peons can drink bottled water sold by Nestlies a TPP supporter.

[Duppers]

3. Hell bent on destruction.

As if it won't affect them, their children, or grands.

Shame shame shame!! O admin.