Petition updateBan Oil/Gas Fracking in San Luis Obispo County, CA & underground pipeline in Nipomo, CA.How can be sure that our water/land will be safe from contamination?

Kim ChaffeeCupertino, CA, United States
Jul 16, 2017
Without a comprehensive environment study on the record about the state of affairs at the Arroyo Grande Oil Field. How can be sure that our water/land will be safe from contamination? As it stands the exemptions were issued without necessary environmental studies, some years ago. The water board has permission to test the water at the Arroyo Grande Oil Field, yet has not found the time to do it within the time period of over the last 10 years that it was operating on a non- environment review. We know that steel pipelines can corrode and fail and we know that cement seals and line oil wells can crack. With the past history of all spills, cracks and leaks that as occurred at the Arroyo Grande Oil Field. You would think that systematic tests of our water supply to detect not only pesticide residues, which should be done routinely, but also possible contamination from leaks and spills related to oil production and oil transportation at the very source of the operation would occur at some point. The priorities should be ASAP not the case unfortunately with the water board and A.G. Oil Field. Their contention is the further away from the A.G. Oil Field the better. Should we allow the Arroyo Grande Oil Field to police themselves? Or force the California regulators to do their job immediately not a decade, century or millennia from now.
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