SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California oil and gas regulators have refused for nearly a year to release findings of what they termed a “highest-priority” investigation of possible oil field contamination into the water aquifers that serve millions of people in and around Los Angeles.
Concerns about the safety of oil field injection wells in the region are among many dogging state oil and gas regulators.
California is under orders from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to do more to protect drinking-water aquifers from contamination by the oil and gas industry. California is the country’s No. 3 oil-producing state.
Oil and Gas companies are rethinking traditional approaches to Information Governance.
Home to more than 18 million people, the Los Angeles basin is also the scene of a more than century-old oil industry that peaked in the 1930s but continues today.
A separate, state-commissioned report by the California Council on Science and Technology and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory this month on the safety of the process known as fracking noted that a half-million Los Angeles-area residents live, work or go to school within a mile of an oil well that is being created by the intensive method of hydraulic fracturing. Read more
