Stopping offshore fracking is the best way to protect coastal environments and wildlife from this perilous practice. Offshore fracking in California also threatens blue whales, elephant seals and leatherback sea turtles because toxic oil and fracking chemicals pollute key habitat - in addition to contributing to climate change, which of course threatens all of us. A 2014 Center report, Troubled Waters, found that at least 10 fracking chemicals routinely used in offshore fracking in California could kill or harm a broad variety of marine species, including sea otters and fish. Offshore fracking poses unacceptable risks to public health and the environment, imperiling marine ecosystems and the communities that depend on them.
Oil companies are also using offshore fracking in the Gulf of Mexico. More than 200 wells have been fracked off the coast of California, using toxic pollutants that cause cancer, genetic mutations and other harmful impacts. Using new fracking technologies on aging infrastructure also increases the risk of accidents like the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill. To get more oil out of old wells, oil companies use toxic chemicals at high pressures to force oil out of subsea rock, producing large volumes of waste contaminated with chemicals that are known carcinogens or pose other health hazards. Oil companies are fracking offshore and dumping their toxic chemicals into the ocean.įracking and other unconventional production techniques, such as fracture acidizing, pose an urgent threat to marine wildlife and coastal communities.
Oil companies are playing risky business fracking our oceans.Ĭalifornia's coast is the latest target.
0 kommentar(er)
