Ten Reasons to End Fracking Now

1. 1

   Fracking threatens our groundwater.
2. 2

   Wastewater from oil fields where fracking has occurred is used to irrigate crops.
3. 3

   Oil extraction in California has an ugly track record of leaks and spills.
4. 4

   In a time of record drought, fracking uses a lot of water.
5. 5

   Fracking is likely to cause earthquakes in California.
6. 6

   Fracking threatens endangered wildlife.
7. 7

   Around half a million people in California live within one mile of a well that has been fracked or otherwise stimulated.
8. 8

   Fracking uses a cocktail of highly toxic chemicals.
9. 9

   The EPA allows offshore fracking wells to dump toxic wastewater directly into the Pacific Ocean.
10. 10

    What we don’t know about fracking in California is frightening.

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Kern County By the Numbers

• 50,000
  Total active injection wells statewide
• 2,553
  Total injection wells illegally permitted to inject into potential drinking water sources
• 532
  of the Illegal injection wells are used for disposal (381 active)
• 176
  of the Illegal disposal wells were permitted to inject into high quality drinking water aquifers (128 Active)
• 13
  gallons of waste water for every gallon of petroleum