Submitted by Dex Dunford via OilPrice.com,
As California grapples with a historic four-year-long drought, and farmers skimp on water for crops in the face of fines, oil wastewater is becoming both a laudable and uncomfortable answer to water woes.
Depending on who you ask, California’s drought may be over this spring. It may also never be over, with some scientists questioning whether groundwater reserves can ever reach pre-drought levels.
A psychic who claims to have accurately predicted natural disasters in the past has recently predicted that a massive earthquake of magnitude 7.0 or greater is due to hit California in 2016. Frankie MacDonald says that California will be split into two along the San Andreas fault line, splitting up major cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles and doing damage on buildings and freeways across the cities.
Via DoctorHousingBubble.com,
An official University of California report has concluded that there is a link between oil drilling and earthquakes. The 2005 spate of earthquakes in California’s Central Valley was triggered by oilfield injection underground, researchers say Yahoo News reports: The research links a local surge in oil company injection of wastewater underground, peaking in 2005, with an unusual jump in seismic activity in and around the Tejon Oilfield in southern Kern County. In Oklahoma and some other Midwestern states, the U.S.
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Just what we need, cornfield crucifixions.
Seriously though, this is very troubling. The Saudis are explicitly conserving their own resources at home, while exploiting land and water supplies here in America.
CNBC reports:
Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries are scooping up farmland in drought-afflicted regions of the U.S. Southwest, and that has some people in California and Arizona seeing red.