Environmental Geochemistry Issues Semi-Monthly

Chevron Selling Treated Water to Cawelo Water District (Stephen HICKS, KERO 23ABC News ; July 26, 2015) http://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/chevron-selling-treated-water-to-cawelo-water-district072515 Response to Regional Water Quality Control Board Data Request, Reclaimed Water Impoundments Sampling:  Cawelo Water District Ponds Kern River Oil Fields, Kern County, California  [ AMEC Foster Wheeler Environment & Infrastructure, Inc. ; June 26, 2015] http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/centralvalley/water_issues/oil_fields/information/disposal_ponds/chevron/2015_0626_com_chevron_add.pdf N. B. :  Data results are found under  " Table 1 - Analytical Results Summary"  on page 6 of the aforementioned AMEC Foster Wheeler Environment & Infrastructure, Inc. report. Final Report - Monitoring Strategies for Chemicals of Emerging Concern (CECs) in Recycled Water  ( California State Water Resources Control Board ; June 25, 2010) http://www.waterboard...

Apache vow fight, lawmakers push bill, to block Oak Flat land swap - Cronkite News - Arizona PBS (Jamie COCHRAN, Cronkite News/Arizona PBS ; July 22, 2015) Related Story Apache Bring Oak Flat Copper Mine Protest to White House, Capitol (Jamie COCHRAN, Cronkite News/Arizona PBS , July 22, 2015) http://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2015/07/21/apache-bring-oak-flat-copper-mine-protest-to-white-house-capitol/ N. B. :   A link to the complete NDAA " defense bill " is embedded within the aforementioned Cronkite News/Arizona PBS article. Please refer to "Blog Archives" for my two former blog posts on this subject, as noted below: The New NDAA and Native American Lands                               December 5, 2014 N. B. :   A complete copy of the NDAA is available for perusal within this blog post, as well. Sacred Apache Land Grab Approved by U. S. Congress           ...

A continuation of my previous blog post subject on July 14, 2015 entitled " Abandoned, Orphaned, or Idle Oil and Gas Wells" is discussed in the following Associated Press (AP) Exclusive  involving temporary Oil well sealing problems within the Gulf of Mexico marine environment, as follows: AP Exclusive:  Gulf Oil Wells Lingering with Temporary Seals (Jeff DONN, Associated Press ; July 18, 2015) http://bigstory.ap.org/article/e68c094dbe7d4d1b91e3657c2314d364/ap-exclusive-share-aging-temporarily-sealed-wells-grows Other News... U. S. Outer Continental Shelf Oil & Gas Development - Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico BOEM to Offer Almost 22 Million Acres in the Gulf of Mexico for Oil and Gas Development [Caryl FAGOT, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management ( BOEM ) ; July 16, 2015] http://www.boem.gov/press07162015/ N. B.:  The "Western Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 246" discussed above is one of eight lease sales made available within the BOEM Outer Contine...

Article: Nexen pipeline leak in Alberta spills 5 million litres http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/nexen-pipeline-leak-in-alberta-spills-5-million-litres-1.3155907 Shared via the CBC NEWS Android App UPDATE 1 - Nexen Pipeline Leaks 31,500 BBL of Emulsion at Oil Sand Site (Nia WILLIAMS, Reuters; July 16, 2015) http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/17/nexen-pipeline-spill-idUSL2N0ZW34220150717 Selected Research Publications -- Defining Water-in-Crude Oil Emulsions: Crude Oil Emulsion Properties and their Application to Heavy Oil Transportation (LANGEVIN et al., 2004) http://ogst.ifpenergiesnouvelles.fr/articles/ogst/pdf/2004/05/langevin_vol59n5.pdf Understanding Water-Based Bitumen Extraction from Athabasca Oil Sands (MASLIYAH et al., 2004) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cjce.5450820403/epdf Our Current Understanding of Crude Oil Emulsions.  Recent Characterization Techniques and High Pressure Performance (SJÖBLOM et al., 2003) http://library....

USGS:  High Levels of Contaminants found in California Public-Water Supplies (Mario SEVILLA, KRON4.com ; July 15, 2015) http://kron4.com/2015/07/15/usgs-high-levels-of-contaminants-found-in-california-public-water-supplies/ N. B.:  The most recent USGS manuscript document entitled,  "Metrics for Assessing the Quality of Groundwater Used for Public Supply, CA, USA: Equivalent-Population and Area"   (BELITZ et al., 2015) is available for download at the end of the aforementioned KRON 4 News article. High Concentrations of Arsenic found in Some Kern County & Southeastern San Joaquin Valley Groundwater ( USGS - California Water Science Center ; June 9, 2012) http://ca.water.usgs.gov/news/2012/ArsenicFoundInKernCountySanJoaquinGroundwater.html

Article :    Alberta faces growing backlog of abandoned oil and gas wells (Brian STEWART and Terry REITH, CBC News ; July 14, 2015) http :// www.cbc.ca /news/ canada / edmonton / alberta -faces-growing-backlog-of-abandoned-oil-and-gas-wells-1.3150012 Shared via the CBC NEWS Android App Idle and Deserted Wells :  Who Plugs and Who Pays ? (HAGER and SHAW, 1999) http:// m.mayerbrown.com /files/Publication/a60f90b5-4e96-4830-8609-133cb24eef73/Presentation/ PublicationAttachment /2275b5bc-6f79-4840-b48c-199951cb9f76/ idleanddesertedwells.pdf Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Become Pollution Portals (Roberto SURO, New York Times ; May 3, 1992) http:// www.nytimes.com /1992/05/03/us/abandoned-oil-and-gas-wells-become-pollution- portals.html Oil , Gas & Geothermal - Idle and Orphan Well Program California Department of Conservation Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources ( DOGGR ) http://www.consrv.ca.gov/dog/idle_well/Pages/i...

Fracking's Water Footprint in on the Rise   (Natasha GEILING, ClimateProgress/ThinkProgess ; July 2, 2015) http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/07/02/3676624/fracking-water-usgs-study/ Recent Research Publications by Tanya J. GALLEGOS, USGS Hydraulic Fracturing Water Use Variability in the United States and Potential Environmental Implications (Accepted Manuscript, Tanya GALLEGOS et al., 2015) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015WR017278/pdf Trends in Hydraulic Fracturing Distributions and Treatment Fluids, Additives, Proppants, and Water Volumes Applied to Wells Drilled in the United States from 1947 -2010 -- Data Analysis and Comparison to Literature (GALLEGOS and VARELA, 2014) http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2014/5131/pdf/sir2014-5131.pdf# Data Regarding Hydraulic Fracturing Distributions and Treatment Fluids, Additives, Proppants, and Water Volumes Applied to Wells Drilled in the United States from 1947 through 2010 (GALLEGOS and VARELA, 2015) http://pubs...

At least 5,000 people under evacuation following Blount Co, Train Fire (WBIR Staff, WBIR 10News ; July 2, 2015) http://www.wbir.com/story/news/2015/07/02/mandatory-evacuation-underway-following-blount-county--train-fire/29605729/ Acrylonitrile   PubChem - U. S. National Library of Medicine (NIH) http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/acrylonitrile#section=Top Center for Disease Control (CDC) http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npgd0014.html BP Settlement Update BP Settles 2010 U. S. Oil Spill Claims for $18.7 Billion (Abhiram NANDAKUMAR, Ron BUSSO, and Kathy FINN, Reuters ; July 2, 2015)   N. B.:   "Timeline:  BP oil spill,  litigation at a glance" link available within the aforementioned Reuters article. BP Agrees to Pay $18.7 Billion to Settle Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Claims (Sarah KENT and Daniel GILBERT, Wall Street Journal ; July 2, 2015) http://www.wsj.com/articles/bp-agrees-to-pay-18-7-billion-to-settle-deepwater-horizon-oil-spi...

Californians Struggle for "Normal Life" without Water [Véronique DUPONT,  Agence Presse-France (AFP)/Yahoo News ; June 29, 2015] http://news.yahoo.com/californians-struggle-normal-life-without-water-015521480.html As Wells Dry Up, Monson Hopes for More than Talk about a Fix (Mark GROSSI,  Fresno Bee ; April 11, 2015) http://www.fresnobee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article19649274.html N. B.:    A link to County of Tulare website featuring a map indicating the 1,000 private landowner water wells that have run dry during the week of April 6, 2015 is available in the aformentioned  Fresno Bee  article. Status and Understanding of Groundwater Quality in the Two Southern San Joaquin Valley Study Units, 2005 - 2006:  California GAMA Priority Basin Project (BURTON et al., 2011) http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2011/5218/pdf/sir20115218.pdf PURE:  A Web-Based Decision Support System to Evaluate Pesticide Environmental Risk fo...