{"id":11351,"date":"2015-08-21T17:45:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T22:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11351"},"modified":"2015-08-21T17:45:57","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T22:45:57","slug":"california-oilfield-operators-refuse-to-report-water-usage-in-violation-of-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11351","title":{"rendered":"California Oilfield Operators Refuse To Report Water Usage, In Violation Of The Law"},"content":{"rendered":"
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California Oilfield Operators Refuse To Report Water Usage, In Violation Of The Law<\/a><\/h3>\n

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How much water does California\u2019s oil and gas industry actually use? We still don\u2019t know, despite a 2014 law signed by Governor Jerry Brown that went into effect this year requiring companies to report on all water produced, used and disposed of by oilfield operations.<\/p>\n

Oil and gas regulators with California\u2019s Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR<\/span>)\u00a0missed the first reporting deadline<\/a>, April 30, claiming they had simply received too much data to process in time. But now we know there was probably another reason: hundreds of companies had flat out refused to obey the law.<\/p>\n

In fact, more than 100 companies still refuse to comply with the water reporting requirements\u00a0altogether.<\/p>\n

DOGGR<\/span>\u00a0extended the filing date for the first quarter of 2015 to June 1, and has now, at long last, released the first\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0on oilfield water usage and disposal \u2014 though more than 100 companies still haven\u2019t submitted any data to the state despite the extension.<\/p>\n

According to the report, just 166 oilfield operators filed their quarterly water report by June 1, prompting\u00a0DOGGR<\/span>\u00a0to issue 289 Notices of Violation to companies that failed to meet the extended deadline. Some 146 companies complied with the violation notices and did submit their water usage data, but 104 operators remain out of compliance and at risk of civil penalties.<\/p>\n

No fines or other penalties have been levied against noncompliant companies so far.<\/p>\n

DOGGR<\/span>\u00a0says the data it did receive, and on which the report is based, represents \u201capproximately 59 percent of the produced water, and 41 percent of the injected water during the first quarter.\u201d The agency did not verify the accuracy of the data self-reported by oilfield operators.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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California Oilfield Operators Refuse To Report Water Usage, In Violation Of The Law How much water does California\u2019s oil and gas industry actually use? We still don\u2019t know, despite a 2014 law signed by Governor Jerry Brown that went into effect this year requiring companies to report on all water produced, used and disposed of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[101,5317,3973,1278,2530,866],"class_list":["post-11351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-california","tag-desmog-blog","tag-jerry-brown","tag-oil-industry","tag-regulations","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11352,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11351\/revisions\/11352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}