{"id":7096,"date":"2015-04-04T07:18:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T12:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7096"},"modified":"2015-04-04T07:18:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T12:18:07","slug":"californians-outraged-as-oil-producers-frackers-excluded-from-emergency-water-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7096","title":{"rendered":"Californians Outraged As Oil Producers &#038; Frackers Excluded From Emergency Water Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-04-03\/californians-outraged-oil-producers-frackers-excluded-emergency-water-restrictions\" target=\"_blank\">Californians Outraged As Oil Producers &amp; Frackers Excluded From Emergency Water Restrictions<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>California&#8217;s oil and gas industry is estimated (with official data due to be released in coming days) to use\u00a0<strong>more than 2 million gallons of fresh water per day<\/strong>; so it is hardly surprising that, as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/usa\/246429-california-water-mandate-oil-companies\/\">Reuters\u00a0<\/a>reports, Californians are outraged after discovering that these firms are excluded from Governor Jerry Brown&#8217;s mandatory water restrictions,\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;forcing ordinary Californians to shoulder the burden of the drought.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/usa\/246429-california-water-mandate-oil-companies\/\"><em>From Reuters,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><strong>California should require oil producers to cut their water usage as part of the administration\u2019s efforts to conserve water in the drought-ravaged state, environmentalists said<\/strong>\u00a0on Wednesday.<\/div>\n<p>Governor Jerry Brown ordered the first statewide mandatory water restrictions on Wednesday, directing cities and communities to cut their consumption by 25 percent. But<strong>\u00a0the order does not require oil producers to cut their usage nor does it place a temporary halt on the water intensive practice of hydraulic fracturing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>California\u2019s oil and gas industry<strong>\u00a0uses more than 2 million gallons of fresh water a day to produce oil through well stimulation practices including fracking, acidizing and steam injection, according to estimates by environmentalists.<\/strong>\u00a0The state is expected to release official numbers on the industry\u2019s water consumption in the coming days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Californians Outraged As Oil Producers &amp; Frackers Excluded From Emergency Water Restrictions California&#8217;s oil and gas industry is estimated (with official data due to be released in coming days) to use\u00a0more than 2 million gallons of fresh water per day; so it is hardly surprising that, as\u00a0Reuters\u00a0reports, Californians are outraged after discovering that these firms [&hellip;]<\/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":[101,220,1466,3973,1729,866,4628],"class_list":["post-7096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-california","tag-drought","tag-fracking-industry","tag-jerry-brown","tag-oil-and-gas-industry","tag-water","tag-water-restrictions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7096","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=7096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7097,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7096\/revisions\/7097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}