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Oil Companies Putting US Environment ‘On Shaky Ground’ With Fracking

© Flickr / Bosc d'AnjouMany environmental organizations such as Greenpeace and Food and Water watch believe the new regulation gives far to much lenience to the Oil companies because regardless allowing fracking will still pollute the groundwater.
Many environmental organizations such as Greenpeace and Food and Water watch believe the new regulation gives far to much lenience to the Oil companies  because regardless allowing fracking will still pollute the groundwater. - Sputnik International
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Fracking activities performed by US oil companies are endangering the lands across the United States.

Oil field workers drill into the Gypsum Hills near Medicine Lodge, Kan. - Sputnik International
Oklahoma Fracking Controls to Fail Preventing Environmental Damages
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Oil companies are endangering the lands across the United States with their fracking activities, the Center For Biological Diversity Climate Media Director Patrick Sullivan told Sputnik.

"The more oil companies frack, the more contaminated wastewater they produce, and that dangerous waste is polluting our water and putting large parts of our country on shaky ground," Sullivan said.

On Monday, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission announced it would regulate five wastewater injection wells by limiting the amount of wastewater injected during the fracking process.

Oklahoma has recently been hit with numerous earthquakes, many of which have been attributed to the fracking practice’s injection of wastewater into the earth. The method has been heavily criticized for the associated environmental risks and its potential to trigger tremors.

Sullivan stated that the slowness of Oklahoma regulators to address the impact of fracking on the country’s lands displays a disturbing influence of the oil and gas industry over the state’s officials.

"Oil industry-earthquakes are wreaking havoc, and both state and federal regulators are doing very little to protect people and property from this inevitable result of fracking and oil production," Sullivan concluded.

On Tuesday, Oklahoma advocacy group Stop Fracking Oklahoma founder Kelley McDonald told Sputnik that the oil and gas companies will only follow the fracking mandates if they are forced to by possible penalties and criminal prosecution.

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