Oil Waste Water and Erin Brockovich | UPROXX Reports

When massive companies like Chevron produce a barrel of oil, they also produce 15 barrels of briny water. In Kern County, CA the Chevron wastewater is treated internally, then mixed with other water sources, then sold to farmers at a discounted rate. For people trying to raise crops in a drought-ridden state, that makes a hell of a prospect. Not surprisingly, the technique has been going on for more than 20 years.

Here’s the rub: That water has chemicals in it, many of which Chevron considers to be proprietary to their oil extraction process. Their reluctance to make these chemicals public creates an information brown out. As a result, we don’t fully know what’s in the water that’s going into our food. Or, whether those chemicals have a propensity to transfer over to the food itself


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