The Cawelo Water District’s 20-plus-year old oilfield-to-farm water project in Kern County provides 10 billion gallons of much-needed water to farmers every year. As we have written previously, this produced water, when clean enough, is treated, tested and used to help produce the crops that...
Kern County’s Cawelo Water District (Cawelo) has released results from yet another third-party toxicological study concluding that low level organic elements found in oil field-produced water are not being absorbed into crops irrigated as part its innovative and decades-old water recycling program. The current study,...
Duke University researchers recently published a new study, which finds the volume and quality of water that returns to the surface during oil and natural gas development (which the study refers to as “FP water”) is almost entirely composed of naturally occurring formation brine (about 92 to 96...
At a time when water scarcity is a major concern to all Californians, a long-established partnership in Kern County continues to provide vital relief to farmers. Local energy companies are leaders in treating suitable oilfield-produced water which the Cawelo Water District then blends with other...
Ahead of next week’s primary in California – the nation’s third largest oil producing state – Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders shifted his focus to attacking energy production, holding a press conference in Monterey County (where there is no fracking) to reiterate his support for a...
It might surprise you that not everything in Dear Governor Brown – a recent “documentary” produced by activist actor Mark Ruffalo — is either a blatant falsehood or intentionally misleading: it is true that one of the 50 states is called “California” and it is...
Actor and activist Mark Ruffalo has released a new video that spreads misinformation about an admired water conservation program that is being used to mitigate California’s historic drought. While Ruffalo, a New York resident, doesn’t have to live with the consequences of his activism, we...
A recent report by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) – which finds that water usage for hydraulic fracturing varies across different basins in the United States, and that water use has ramped up as domestic oil and natural gas production has skyrocketed – has garnered...
This week the Los Angeles Times published an article with the alarmist headline “Central Valley’s Growing Concern: Crops raised with oil field water.” The problem with this, which becomes painfully clear from reading the article, is that there are no concerns being voiced from the...
Disputes over water have been a central element of California politics since the “water wars” of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that were sparked by William Mulholland’s famous aqueduct, which diverted water from Eastern to Southern California (and which was dramatized, with artistic...