Via Orion Magazine, a report on the watergy nexus in Kern County, California: IN THE CALIFORNIA OIL TOWN OF TAFT, in the stifling hundred-degree heat of July, Agnes Hardt, the eighty-two-year-old curator of the West Kern Oil Museum, tells me to look up Stanley Cooper. I was interested in seeing the natural oil seeps and […]
Read more »Via ThinkProgress, another report on Texas’ watergy crisis: How dry is it in Texas? So dry some residents are wishing for a hurricane to replenish the aquifer. So dry that many Texans are now against using water to frack for oil, which is famously called Texas Tea. Every fracking job requires several million gallons of […]
Read more »Via Circle of Blue, a report on a team of American and Chinese water and energy specialists who are meeting in Beijing with the environmental scientists and sustainability experts of the Development Research Center of the State Council, the government research group that provides policy recommendations to China’s highest executive agency: Almost three years ago […]
Read more »Via North Dakota’s InForum, an interesting article on a new state report that shows the volume of water used to produce oil in the booming Bakken Formation appears to have plateaued after more than four years of rapid growth: The volume of water used to produce oil in the booming Bakken Formation appears to have […]
Read more »Via The Guardian, an interesting article on how the fracking boom sucks away precious water from beneath the ground, leaving cattle dead, farms bone-dry and people thirsty: Beverly McGuire saw the warning signs before the town well went dry: sand in the toilet bowl, the sputter of air in the tap, a pump working overtime […]
Read more »Via EDF’s Energy Exchange blog, a look at Texas’ efforts to manage the watergy nexus: As we’ve highlighted in previous posts, water and energy regulators often make decisions in silos, despite the inherent connection between these two sectors. Texas is no exception. Two very important and intertwined events are happening in Texas right now. First, […]
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