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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:40 p.m. Monday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State oil and gas regulators say they’re launching an investigation of operations in a Kern County oil field after a series of large, uncontrolled crude petroleum releases near Chevron wells — including one that has continued on and off for more than 16 years and may have spewed out more than 50 million gallons of crude oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources, known as DOGGR, served Chevron with a notice of violation on Friday, ordering the company to stop major, uncontrolled surface flows at a site called Gauge Setting 5, or GS-5, in the Cymric oil field. Oil has been flowing from the location since March 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11769242,news_11760192,news_11761141,news_11762422\" label=\"Chevron's Kern County Spill\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order comes as DOGGR says it’s stepping up enforcement of a regulation that took effect in April banning the uncontrolled surface flows, which the agency and petroleum operators call “surface expressions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One such release occurred over the last three months near a damaged and abandoned Chevron well in an area of the Cymric oil field designated 1Y. The flows in that incident, which began in May and stopped earlier this month, dumped about 400,000 gallons of crude into a dry creek bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOGGR has issued two notices of violation so far in connection with the 1Y episode, the precise origin of which is still under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Putting an End’ to Surface Expressions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In an email Sunday, agency spokeswoman Theresa Schilling said that in light of the April rules barring surface expressions, “DOGGR is looking to put an end to their occurrence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schilling also acknowledged that the driving force behind the surface expressions is an oil extraction method that Chevron and other operators in the Cymric field rely on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The roughly 11,000-acre Cymric field, in the Temblor Range foothills about 35 miles west of Bakersfield, is the scene of extensive steam injection operations— a technique in which high-pressure steam is forced deep into the ground to free oil trapped in underground formations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally, that freed crude petroleum is pumped to the surface through well bores and shipped by pipelines or tankers for processing. But that’s not what’s been happening around the leaking Chevron wells, where crude oil, steam and water have apparently moved laterally underground until they find a vent or create a sinkhole that allows the material to come to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The steam injection wells are the source of heat and pressure that drive surface expressions,” Schilling said Sunday. But she added that further investigation is needed to understand exactly how that underground heat and pressure is resulting in the surface flows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuNJOh6k4pk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get to the bottom of the expressions, Schilling said, DOGGR “is exploring swift next steps to evaluate and investigate the oil field as a whole.” She said that investigation will include independent experts, including staff from Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uncontrolled flows at sites GS-5 and 1Y — locations that are just 1,000 feet apart in an area studded with dozens of active and abandoned steam injection wells — will likely be at the center of the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GS-5 is the site of a flow that began in March 2003 and has recurred in a series of surface expressions in the immediate vicinity. In response to the flows, Chevron built a collection facility in 2012 from which oil is pumped into a pipeline or sucked up by vacuum trucks for processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>84 Million Gallons Released\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A Chevron spokeswoman said Sunday that about 2 million barrels of oil and water — 84 million gallons have come to the surface at GS-5 since March 2003. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company told DOGGR last year that it estimated the liquid flowing at the site to be 60% to 80% oil. At At the lower concentration level — 60% oil — that would put the volume of crude that has come to the surface at about 50 million gallons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron data provided to DOGGR shows the amount of liquid flowing at GS-5 has increased dramatically in recent years, from an average of about 250 to 1,100 barrels a day. The flow appeared to spike this summer after the May 10 appearance of the new surface expression at site 1Y, at one point hitting 3,000 barrels — 126,000 gallons — a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770580\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-27-at-6.00.30-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-27-at-6.00.30-PM-1200x872.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"465\" class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-11770580\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-27-at-6.00.30-PM-1200x872.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-27-at-6.00.30-PM-160x116.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-27-at-6.00.30-PM-800x581.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-27-at-6.00.30-PM-1020x741.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-27-at-6.00.30-PM.png 1762w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State regulators have issued notices of violation for three uncontrolled crude oil releases in Cymric oil field, west of Bakersfield. \u003ccite>(Carto)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Chevron’s operational priority is the prevention of all seeps,” company spokeswoman Veronica Flores-Paniagua said in an email. “We are committed to stop this seep and are working toward that goal. There has been no impact to personnel, groundwater, surface water, wildlife or agriculture” from the GS-5 releases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOGGR’s notice of violation for the GS-5 surface expressions came as yet another uncontrolled release appeared near a Chevron well in Cymric field. The new spill, consisting of about 14,000 gallons of oil and water, appeared late Aug. 21 about 750 feet from GS-5 and 1,800 feet from 1Y.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOGGR issued a notice of violation against Chevron for the \u003ca href=\"https://w3.calema.ca.gov/operational/malhaz.nsf/f1841a103c102734882563e200760c4a/e5053a6535edfa038825845e002a602a?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,chevron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new spill\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has ordered Chevron to explain what caused the most recent release and halt steam injection work 300 feet around it, among other orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Status of Cleanup\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On Friday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11769242/chevron-kern-county-cymric-mckittrick-oil-spill-clean-up\">KQED reported\u003c/a> that state regulators said they did not how how long it would take for crews to clean up the 1Y spill that started in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those flows, from half a dozen separate points, dumped crude oil and water into about 1,000 feet of a stream bed that runs from the flank of the Temblor Range toward the San Joaquin Valley to the east. At the site of the spill, the seasonal creek runs through a maze of oil wells and pipes used in the steam injection and oil recovery process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drone video recorded last week shows that crews using bulldozers and other heavy equipment have removed contaminated soil from roughly 600 feet of the creek bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department of Fish and Wildlife spokesman Eric Laughlin said in emails over the weekend that work to clean up the rest of the befouled stream bed has been suspended for the time being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cleanup operations have been on hold so that wells in the area can be diagnosed to determine the cause of the expressions,” Laughlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That investigative work could lead to more releases, Laughlin said. Once the work is done, the cleanup will continue, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials have come under increased scrutiny for their oversight of oil and gas drilling in recent months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In mid-July Gov. Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11760751/newsom-fires-state-oil-agency-chief-amid-spike-in-fracking-approvals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fired the head of DOGGR\u003c/a> in the wake of disclosures the agency had dramatically increased the number of fracking permits it was issuing and that some agency employees owned stock in the companies they regulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot said his agency would investigate DOGGR’s issuance of so called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/environment/2019/08/13/california-natural-resources-secretary-probe-dummy-oil-gas-files-doggr/2001602001/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dummy files\u003c/a>” to petroleum companies after the Desert Sun reported that the agency may have granted permits for steam injection oil operations without doing the required safety review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Story updated at 3:40 p.m. Monday to clarify the source of Chevron’s estimate that the flow at site GS-5 is 60% to 80% oil.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order comes as DOGGR says it’s stepping up enforcement of a regulation that took effect in April banning the uncontrolled surface flows, which the agency and petroleum operators call “surface expressions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One such release occurred over the last three months near a damaged and abandoned Chevron well in an area of the Cymric oil field designated 1Y. The flows in that incident, which began in May and stopped earlier this month, dumped about 400,000 gallons of crude into a dry creek bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOGGR has issued two notices of violation so far in connection with the 1Y episode, the precise origin of which is still under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Putting an End’ to Surface Expressions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In an email Sunday, agency spokeswoman Theresa Schilling said that in light of the April rules barring surface expressions, “DOGGR is looking to put an end to their occurrence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schilling also acknowledged that the driving force behind the surface expressions is an oil extraction method that Chevron and other operators in the Cymric field rely on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The roughly 11,000-acre Cymric field, in the Temblor Range foothills about 35 miles west of Bakersfield, is the scene of extensive steam injection operations— a technique in which high-pressure steam is forced deep into the ground to free oil trapped in underground formations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally, that freed crude petroleum is pumped to the surface through well bores and shipped by pipelines or tankers for processing. But that’s not what’s been happening around the leaking Chevron wells, where crude oil, steam and water have apparently moved laterally underground until they find a vent or create a sinkhole that allows the material to come to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The steam injection wells are the source of heat and pressure that drive surface expressions,” Schilling said Sunday. But she added that further investigation is needed to understand exactly how that underground heat and pressure is resulting in the surface flows.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/kuNJOh6k4pk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/kuNJOh6k4pk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>To get to the bottom of the expressions, Schilling said, DOGGR “is exploring swift next steps to evaluate and investigate the oil field as a whole.” She said that investigation will include independent experts, including staff from Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uncontrolled flows at sites GS-5 and 1Y — locations that are just 1,000 feet apart in an area studded with dozens of active and abandoned steam injection wells — will likely be at the center of the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GS-5 is the site of a flow that began in March 2003 and has recurred in a series of surface expressions in the immediate vicinity. In response to the flows, Chevron built a collection facility in 2012 from which oil is pumped into a pipeline or sucked up by vacuum trucks for processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>84 Million Gallons Released\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A Chevron spokeswoman said Sunday that about 2 million barrels of oil and water — 84 million gallons have come to the surface at GS-5 since March 2003. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company told DOGGR last year that it estimated the liquid flowing at the site to be 60% to 80% oil. At At the lower concentration level — 60% oil — that would put the volume of crude that has come to the surface at about 50 million gallons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron data provided to DOGGR shows the amount of liquid flowing at GS-5 has increased dramatically in recent years, from an average of about 250 to 1,100 barrels a day. The flow appeared to spike this summer after the May 10 appearance of the new surface expression at site 1Y, at one point hitting 3,000 barrels — 126,000 gallons — a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770580\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-27-at-6.00.30-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-27-at-6.00.30-PM-1200x872.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"465\" class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-11770580\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-27-at-6.00.30-PM-1200x872.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-27-at-6.00.30-PM-160x116.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-27-at-6.00.30-PM-800x581.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-27-at-6.00.30-PM-1020x741.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-27-at-6.00.30-PM.png 1762w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State regulators have issued notices of violation for three uncontrolled crude oil releases in Cymric oil field, west of Bakersfield. \u003ccite>(Carto)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Chevron’s operational priority is the prevention of all seeps,” company spokeswoman Veronica Flores-Paniagua said in an email. “We are committed to stop this seep and are working toward that goal. There has been no impact to personnel, groundwater, surface water, wildlife or agriculture” from the GS-5 releases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOGGR’s notice of violation for the GS-5 surface expressions came as yet another uncontrolled release appeared near a Chevron well in Cymric field. The new spill, consisting of about 14,000 gallons of oil and water, appeared late Aug. 21 about 750 feet from GS-5 and 1,800 feet from 1Y.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOGGR issued a notice of violation against Chevron for the \u003ca href=\"https://w3.calema.ca.gov/operational/malhaz.nsf/f1841a103c102734882563e200760c4a/e5053a6535edfa038825845e002a602a?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,chevron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new spill\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has ordered Chevron to explain what caused the most recent release and halt steam injection work 300 feet around it, among other orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Status of Cleanup\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On Friday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11769242/chevron-kern-county-cymric-mckittrick-oil-spill-clean-up\">KQED reported\u003c/a> that state regulators said they did not how how long it would take for crews to clean up the 1Y spill that started in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those flows, from half a dozen separate points, dumped crude oil and water into about 1,000 feet of a stream bed that runs from the flank of the Temblor Range toward the San Joaquin Valley to the east. At the site of the spill, the seasonal creek runs through a maze of oil wells and pipes used in the steam injection and oil recovery process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drone video recorded last week shows that crews using bulldozers and other heavy equipment have removed contaminated soil from roughly 600 feet of the creek bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department of Fish and Wildlife spokesman Eric Laughlin said in emails over the weekend that work to clean up the rest of the befouled stream bed has been suspended for the time being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cleanup operations have been on hold so that wells in the area can be diagnosed to determine the cause of the expressions,” Laughlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>State regulators say they don't know how long it will take for crews to clean up contaminated soil from a Kern County creek bed in the wake of the biggest California oil spill in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the massive release of crude petroleum from a Chevron oil well near the town of McKittrick \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11766115/state-agency-hopeful-chevrons-massive-kern-county-spill-is-finally-over\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seems to have ended\u003c/a>, the timeline for hauling away soil contaminated by the spill is unclear.\u003cbr>\n[aside postID=\"news_11760192,news_11761141,news_11762422\" label=\"Chevron's Kern County Spill\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The full extent of the required site remediation is not known at this time and will be fully scoped with appropriate regulatory agencies,\" Eric Laughlin, a spokesman for the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, said in an email Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials say the flow of crude oil and water stopped on Aug. 2. Chevron says 1.34 million gallons of oil and water have been recovered in the area since the spill began in early May. About 30 percent of that total, about 400,000 gallons, was petroleum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For weeks, contractors have been hauling away contaminated soil from the site and taking it to San Joaquin Valley dumps -- including two facilities that handle hazardous waste. Recently posted \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuNJOh6k4pk&feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drone video\u003c/a> (below) suggests the job is far from complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The footage gives a detailed view of the roughly 1,000 feet of stream bed that was fouled after oil began flowing to the surface near a damaged Chevron well in the Cymric oil field, 35 miles west of Bakersfield. The most recent footage, from earlier this week, shows heavy equipment continuing to work on an extensive section of the oil-soaked channel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Kern County environmental activist called the video \"eye-opening\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This just shows a different perspective of ... what we're dealing with here locally,\" Gustavo Aguirre Jr., a Bakersfield project coordinator at Central California Environmental Justice Network, said after viewing the footage. \"You see the flow of this toxic crude and wastewater. God knows what it has in it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/kuNJOh6k4pk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video shows the course of a stream that flows down from the eastern slopes of the Temblor Range toward the valley below. That part of California is dry, with the nearby town of Taft getting an average of about 6 inches of rain a year. But the region occasionally sees heavy rain, which would send runoff down the stream, including through the area polluted by Chevron's Cymric spill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laughlin, the DFW spokesman, was asked whether state officials were concerned about well operations in the area in the event of strong rains in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chevron has contingency plans in place to handle heavy rains,\" he said in his email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as the job ahead, Laughlin said crews will work to remove the contaminated soil \"until clean dirt is observed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers have taken most of the soil that's been removed from the site to the McKittrick Waste Landfill, Laughlin said. Some of the material has been taken to two hazardous waste dumps -- Clean Harbors, west of the town of Buttonwillow, and Waste Management's King County facility in Kettleman Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguirre raised concerns that oil from the accident was being dumped closer to San Joaquin Valley communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It becomes part of this bigger problem. You take one toxic substances from one location to another,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months state officials and Chevron have said that the spill did not affect wildlife in the area. They said that crews had worked to keep birds and animals from the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last week they said that had changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"An oiled bird, a lesser nighthawk, was recovered from the site on Aug. 14. It was transported to a wildlife care center, where it later had to be euthanized,\" the Office of Spill Prevention and Response \u003ca href=\"https://calspillwatch.wordpress.com/tag/cymric-oil-field-incident/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted\u003c/a> on the agency's site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron has said the spill's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11762422/chevron-says-attempt-to-seal-off-well-may-have-triggered-big-kern-county-oil-spill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">probable cause\u003c/a> is related to its work to seal off a damaged and abandoned oil well. The company said its attempts to confirm the source of the original leak and shut it down unleashed even higher flows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources issued two notices of violation and ordered Chevron to \"take all measures\" to stop the flow and prevent a recurrence of the releases. 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"content": "\u003cp>State regulators say they're cautiously optimistic that a major release of crude oil from a Chevron well in Kern County — an episode that has continued for three months — is finally over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron told state officials Wednesday that more than \u003ca href=\"https://w3.calema.ca.gov/operational/malhaz.nsf/f1841a103c102734882563e200760c4a/bb2e042b371df3d88825844f004e673d?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,chevron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1.3 million gallons of oil and water\u003c/a> have flowed to the surface in the Cymric oil field, 35 miles west of Bakersfield, since May 10. An estimated one-third of that, or 445,130 gallons, is believed to be crude petroleum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"The Chevron Oil Spill in Kern County\" tag=\"kern-county-oil-spill\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11760192/chevron-well-has-leaked-a-quarter-million-gallons-of-oil-in-central-valley-since-may\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spill\u003c/a>, which Chevron and the state's Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) describe as a \"surface expression,\" has led to a major cleanup operation near the town of McKittrick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A DOGGR engineering team at the release site says all of the vents associated with the incident \"became inactive\" late last week, according to Don Drysdale, a spokesman for the state Department of Conservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're hopeful that the surface expression has ceased but mindful that we need to continue monitoring the situation and looking into the causes of this unusual incident,\" Drysdale said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Laughlin, a representative for the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, expressed caution about the situation because the flow has previously stopped and started several times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are still monitoring the site as cleanup operations continue,\" he said, adding that the last flow was last Friday, Aug. 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials say a civil engineer deemed a portion of the site safe last week, so contractors could begin hauling away contaminated soil from the 1-acre spill site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second section of the site has not yet been declared safe, Laughlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron had hired two Bakersfield contractors to work on the cleanup job, Advanced Industrial Services and Sturgeon Services, according to Morgan Crinklaw, a spokesman for the oil company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State regulators recently brought in nine \u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/dog/Pages/Chevron-Cymric-oil-spill.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">experts\u003c/a> from the Sandia, Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories to help evaluate the causes of the protracted release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron has said the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11762422/chevron-says-attempt-to-seal-off-well-may-have-triggered-big-kern-county-oil-spill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">probable cause\u003c/a> was related to its efforts to seal off a damaged and abandoned oil well. The firm says its attempts to confirm the source of the original leak and shut it down unleashed even higher flows in the weeks after the initial problem was discovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOGGR has issued two notices of violation to Chevron and ordered the oil company to \"take all measures\" to stop the flow and prevent a recurrence of the releases. Chevron is appealing the state's order, which it says lacks specifics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Despite the appeal, Chevron continues to do work required in the order to ensure the seepage ceases and clean up the surface expression,\" Drysdale said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spill has added fuel to arguments by environmental groups who want California to shift more aggressively away from oil and gas and believe state regulators are too soft on the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's shocking that it's taken this long for the company and state officials to stop this dangerous pollution,\" said Clare Lakewood, a staff attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, in an emailed statement Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident is also expected to be the focus of legislative \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11762169/key-state-lawmakers-to-call-for-hearings-into-chevron-oil-spill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hearings\u003c/a>. The chairs of the state Senate and Assembly committees overseeing much of California's oil industry say they plan to scrutinize the cause and response to the spill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials say a civil engineer deemed a portion of the site safe last week, so contractors could begin hauling away contaminated soil from the 1-acre spill site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second section of the site has not yet been declared safe, Laughlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron had hired two Bakersfield contractors to work on the cleanup job, Advanced Industrial Services and Sturgeon Services, according to Morgan Crinklaw, a spokesman for the oil company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State regulators recently brought in nine \u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/dog/Pages/Chevron-Cymric-oil-spill.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">experts\u003c/a> from the Sandia, Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories to help evaluate the causes of the protracted release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron has said the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11762422/chevron-says-attempt-to-seal-off-well-may-have-triggered-big-kern-county-oil-spill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">probable cause\u003c/a> was related to its efforts to seal off a damaged and abandoned oil well. The firm says its attempts to confirm the source of the original leak and shut it down unleashed even higher flows in the weeks after the initial problem was discovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOGGR has issued two notices of violation to Chevron and ordered the oil company to \"take all measures\" to stop the flow and prevent a recurrence of the releases. Chevron is appealing the state's order, which it says lacks specifics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Despite the appeal, Chevron continues to do work required in the order to ensure the seepage ceases and clean up the surface expression,\" Drysdale said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spill has added fuel to arguments by environmental groups who want California to shift more aggressively away from oil and gas and believe state regulators are too soft on the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's shocking that it's taken this long for the company and state officials to stop this dangerous pollution,\" said Clare Lakewood, a staff attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, in an emailed statement Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident is also expected to be the focus of legislative \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11762169/key-state-lawmakers-to-call-for-hearings-into-chevron-oil-spill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hearings\u003c/a>. The chairs of the state Senate and Assembly committees overseeing much of California's oil industry say they plan to scrutinize the cause and response to the spill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As Dave Noerr drove his truck through the Cymric Oil Field, sun gleamed on hundreds of oil-pumping units plunging into the ground and pulling back up again in slow motion. Workers drove white pickup trucks on private roads owned by the different petroleum companies operating here in California’s oil country, while large pipes snaking through the desert hills carried oil and water to processing facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in Kern County — an hour’s drive west of Bakersfield — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11762863/as-chevron-gets-ready-to-appeal-state-order-kern-county-spill-continues-to-grow\">over 1 million\u003c/a> gallons of a mixture of oil and water have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11760192/chevron-well-has-leaked-a-quarter-million-gallons-of-oil-in-central-valley-since-may\">seeped\u003c/a> from a well that Chevron says it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11762422/chevron-says-attempt-to-seal-off-well-may-have-triggered-big-kern-county-oil-spill\">attempting to reseal\u003c/a>. The incident was first detected in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noerr, the mayor of nearby Taft and an oil man himself, pointed in the direction of the spill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Due north, all up in those valleys, it’s up in there,” Noerr said Tuesday, motioning toward a location hidden in a sea of oil machinery and sagebrush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Barry Koerner, McKittrick Elementary School superintendent']‘Even if the kids were here, it’s not something that we would be concerned about.’[/pullquote]Even though the oil spill is the largest in California since 1990, the site is accessible solely via a private road manned by a security guard. If you live or work nearby, chances are you can’t see the oil spill, you can’t smell it and oil is not in the water. Noerr is confident Chevron will keep it that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody spills anything, including hydrocarbons, on purpose,” Noerr said. “The largest group of people that understand the benefits, and yet also understand the potential negatives, are those people that live here and work in this industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11763741\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11763741\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Oil-pumping-units-as-seen-from-the-basketball-court-at-McKittrick-Elementary-School-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Oil pumping units as seen from the basketball court at McKittrick Elementary School.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Oil-pumping-units-as-seen-from-the-basketball-court-at-McKittrick-Elementary-School-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Oil-pumping-units-as-seen-from-the-basketball-court-at-McKittrick-Elementary-School-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Oil-pumping-units-as-seen-from-the-basketball-court-at-McKittrick-Elementary-School-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Oil-pumping-units-as-seen-from-the-basketball-court-at-McKittrick-Elementary-School-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Oil-pumping-units-as-seen-from-the-basketball-court-at-McKittrick-Elementary-School-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oil pumping units as seen from the basketball court at McKittrick Elementary School. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Six miles down the road is McKittrick, population 115. The town has one school, a fire station, a small cluster of dusty houses and mobile homes, and several businesses — including a mini-mart and Mike and Annie’s McKittrick Hotel, Penny Bar and Cafe, the local lunch spot for oil workers at lunchtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Whitteker, a crane operator who has worked in the oil fields for 50 years, ate at Mike and Annie’s earlier this week as the other men in work boots, hats and collared shirts — most of them oil workers who live in Taft or Bakersfield — dug into their cheeseburgers and burritos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Brandon Edwards, who lives in McKittrick']‘It’s oil fields. They got spills out here all the time.’[/pullquote]“People are anti-oil, anti-oil companies,” Whitteker said. “I think it’s ridiculous because our world runs on oil. All the plastic in your car. The baggies you put your lunch in. Your shoes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the men having lunch said they had not heard about an oil spill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sabrina Ballou, who works at the diner, toasted bread and poured gravy over biscuits in the kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if she had heard about the oil spill, Ballou replied over the sizzle of hamburger meat on the grill: “I’ve heard about it, haven’t seen it. They’ve got it handled. It’s what they do around here. Nothing new for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They take it pretty serious around here,” said Ballou, whose husband drives a vacuum truck. “They try not to mess up the environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11763742\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11763742\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Sabrina-Ballou-has-worked-at-Mike-Annies-McKittrick-Hotel-Penny-Bar-and-Cafe-for-ten-years.-Her-husband-works-in-the-oil-industry.-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Sabrina Ballou has worked at Mike & Annie's McKittrick Hotel, Penny Bar and Cafe for ten years. Her husband works in the oil industry\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Sabrina-Ballou-has-worked-at-Mike-Annies-McKittrick-Hotel-Penny-Bar-and-Cafe-for-ten-years.-Her-husband-works-in-the-oil-industry.-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Sabrina-Ballou-has-worked-at-Mike-Annies-McKittrick-Hotel-Penny-Bar-and-Cafe-for-ten-years.-Her-husband-works-in-the-oil-industry.-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Sabrina-Ballou-has-worked-at-Mike-Annies-McKittrick-Hotel-Penny-Bar-and-Cafe-for-ten-years.-Her-husband-works-in-the-oil-industry.-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Sabrina-Ballou-has-worked-at-Mike-Annies-McKittrick-Hotel-Penny-Bar-and-Cafe-for-ten-years.-Her-husband-works-in-the-oil-industry.-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Sabrina-Ballou-has-worked-at-Mike-Annies-McKittrick-Hotel-Penny-Bar-and-Cafe-for-ten-years.-Her-husband-works-in-the-oil-industry.-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sabrina Ballou has worked at Mike & Annie’s McKittrick Hotel, Penny Bar and Cafe for 10 years. Her husband works in the oil industry. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘You Don’t Really Think a Lot About It’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oil-pumping units and Chevron’s facilities can be seen from the playground at McKittrick Elementary School. The school’s logo displays a yellow cartoon oil tower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if the kids were here, it’s not something that we would be concerned about,” said Barry Koerner, superintendent of McKittrick Elementary School, as he cleaned out his office in preparation for the new school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Out here, you don’t really think a lot about it. A lot of people, I think, picture it like Hawaii with a magma flow,” Koerner said, chuckling. “And it’s not like that. It’s not like it’s going to come overtake the school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11763761\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11763761\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_2Dave-Noerr-is-the-owner-of-Huddleson-Crane-Service-Inc.-in-Taft-and-the-mayor-of-that-town-qut-800x602.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Noerr is the owner of Huddleson Crane Service, Inc. in Taft and the mayor of that town.\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_2Dave-Noerr-is-the-owner-of-Huddleson-Crane-Service-Inc.-in-Taft-and-the-mayor-of-that-town-qut-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_2Dave-Noerr-is-the-owner-of-Huddleson-Crane-Service-Inc.-in-Taft-and-the-mayor-of-that-town-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_2Dave-Noerr-is-the-owner-of-Huddleson-Crane-Service-Inc.-in-Taft-and-the-mayor-of-that-town-qut-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_2Dave-Noerr-is-the-owner-of-Huddleson-Crane-Service-Inc.-in-Taft-and-the-mayor-of-that-town-qut-1200x904.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_2Dave-Noerr-is-the-owner-of-Huddleson-Crane-Service-Inc.-in-Taft-and-the-mayor-of-that-town-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_2Dave-Noerr-is-the-owner-of-Huddleson-Crane-Service-Inc.-in-Taft-and-the-mayor-of-that-town-qut.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Noerr is the owner of Huddleston Crane Service Inc. in Taft and the mayor of that town. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Gov. Gavin Newsom traveled to McKittrick on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11763273/newsom-sees-progress-in-visit-to-chevron-oil-spill-site-emphasizes-need-for-accountability\">Wednesday\u003c/a> to see the cleanup, Koerner let the governor hold his press conference on school grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom called himself an environmentalist but said he doesn’t want to leave oil families behind as the state moves away from fossil fuels — noting he wanted to act “thoughtfully.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m passionate about low carbon green growth,” Newsom told reporters in the school’s library. “I want California to continue to lead internationally. I’m taking the baton from a very progressive governor, but I want to take further steps than the previous administration in this space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More on the Kern County Oil Spill\" tag=\"kern-county-oil-spill\"]Koerner guessed most locals didn’t know Newsom was in town until after he had left and the story of his appearance made the news. Koerner said he had not received official notice or information about the spill from the oil company and thought he might not be the only one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman representing Chevron and a number of state and local government agencies said McKittrick residents have not been contacted, but a website with information about the spill was launched. Chevron also reached out to local leaders, said another spokesman, who works for the oil company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unless there’s a flyer (at the) post office or they have a relative that works out there in the cleanup, I’m going to guess they probably don’t even know about it,” Koerner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the spill might end up benefiting some families, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For some people it’s job security, ’cause they belong to a cleanup service. So now they’ve got a call that they’ve got to get out there and put in some overtime, make a little extra money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11763743\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11763743\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_McKittrick-resident-and-oil-worker-Randel-Allen-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"McKittrick resident and oil worker Randel Allen\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_McKittrick-resident-and-oil-worker-Randel-Allen-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_McKittrick-resident-and-oil-worker-Randel-Allen-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_McKittrick-resident-and-oil-worker-Randel-Allen-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_McKittrick-resident-and-oil-worker-Randel-Allen-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_McKittrick-resident-and-oil-worker-Randel-Allen-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">McKittrick resident and oil worker Randel Allen. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Down the street from the school, oil worker Randel Allen and his cousin, Brandon Edwards, were working on a motorcycle outside the trailer where they live. Unlike others in McKittrick, they had heard about the spill — on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s oil fields,” said Edwards. “They got spills out here all the time. But I don’t even know how big it is, like visually, looking at it, so I can’t really say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if he was concerned, Edwards responded, “Not really. Look where we live. There’s oil fields and oil all around us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen expressed some worries and said Chevron should be able to clean up its mess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What if it was to (happen) right here in one of these ditches close to town? I mean, what are they going to do?” Allen said. “Thank God it’s away from town.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11763758\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11763758\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Pumping-units-in-the-Cymric-Oil-Field-where-an-oil-spill-began-in-May-after-Chevron-says-workers-attempted-to-reseal-an-abandoned-well-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Pumping units in the Cymric Oil Field, where an oil spill began in May after Chevron says workers attempted to reseal an abandoned well.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Pumping-units-in-the-Cymric-Oil-Field-where-an-oil-spill-began-in-May-after-Chevron-says-workers-attempted-to-reseal-an-abandoned-well-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Pumping-units-in-the-Cymric-Oil-Field-where-an-oil-spill-began-in-May-after-Chevron-says-workers-attempted-to-reseal-an-abandoned-well-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Pumping-units-in-the-Cymric-Oil-Field-where-an-oil-spill-began-in-May-after-Chevron-says-workers-attempted-to-reseal-an-abandoned-well-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Pumping-units-in-the-Cymric-Oil-Field-where-an-oil-spill-began-in-May-after-Chevron-says-workers-attempted-to-reseal-an-abandoned-well-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Pumping-units-in-the-Cymric-Oil-Field-where-an-oil-spill-began-in-May-after-Chevron-says-workers-attempted-to-reseal-an-abandoned-well-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pumping units in the Cymric Oil Field, where an oil spill began in May after Chevron says workers attempted to reseal an abandoned well. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Even though the oil spill is the largest in California since 1990, the site is accessible solely via a private road manned by a security guard. If you live or work nearby, chances are you can’t see the oil spill, you can’t smell it and oil is not in the water. Noerr is confident Chevron will keep it that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody spills anything, including hydrocarbons, on purpose,” Noerr said. “The largest group of people that understand the benefits, and yet also understand the potential negatives, are those people that live here and work in this industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11763741\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11763741\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Oil-pumping-units-as-seen-from-the-basketball-court-at-McKittrick-Elementary-School-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Oil pumping units as seen from the basketball court at McKittrick Elementary School.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Oil-pumping-units-as-seen-from-the-basketball-court-at-McKittrick-Elementary-School-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Oil-pumping-units-as-seen-from-the-basketball-court-at-McKittrick-Elementary-School-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Oil-pumping-units-as-seen-from-the-basketball-court-at-McKittrick-Elementary-School-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Oil-pumping-units-as-seen-from-the-basketball-court-at-McKittrick-Elementary-School-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Oil-pumping-units-as-seen-from-the-basketball-court-at-McKittrick-Elementary-School-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oil pumping units as seen from the basketball court at McKittrick Elementary School. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Six miles down the road is McKittrick, population 115. The town has one school, a fire station, a small cluster of dusty houses and mobile homes, and several businesses — including a mini-mart and Mike and Annie’s McKittrick Hotel, Penny Bar and Cafe, the local lunch spot for oil workers at lunchtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Whitteker, a crane operator who has worked in the oil fields for 50 years, ate at Mike and Annie’s earlier this week as the other men in work boots, hats and collared shirts — most of them oil workers who live in Taft or Bakersfield — dug into their cheeseburgers and burritos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“People are anti-oil, anti-oil companies,” Whitteker said. “I think it’s ridiculous because our world runs on oil. All the plastic in your car. The baggies you put your lunch in. Your shoes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the men having lunch said they had not heard about an oil spill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sabrina Ballou, who works at the diner, toasted bread and poured gravy over biscuits in the kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if she had heard about the oil spill, Ballou replied over the sizzle of hamburger meat on the grill: “I’ve heard about it, haven’t seen it. They’ve got it handled. It’s what they do around here. Nothing new for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They take it pretty serious around here,” said Ballou, whose husband drives a vacuum truck. “They try not to mess up the environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11763742\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11763742\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Sabrina-Ballou-has-worked-at-Mike-Annies-McKittrick-Hotel-Penny-Bar-and-Cafe-for-ten-years.-Her-husband-works-in-the-oil-industry.-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Sabrina Ballou has worked at Mike & Annie's McKittrick Hotel, Penny Bar and Cafe for ten years. 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Her husband works in the oil industry. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘You Don’t Really Think a Lot About It’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oil-pumping units and Chevron’s facilities can be seen from the playground at McKittrick Elementary School. The school’s logo displays a yellow cartoon oil tower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if the kids were here, it’s not something that we would be concerned about,” said Barry Koerner, superintendent of McKittrick Elementary School, as he cleaned out his office in preparation for the new school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Out here, you don’t really think a lot about it. A lot of people, I think, picture it like Hawaii with a magma flow,” Koerner said, chuckling. “And it’s not like that. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Koerner guessed most locals didn’t know Newsom was in town until after he had left and the story of his appearance made the news. Koerner said he had not received official notice or information about the spill from the oil company and thought he might not be the only one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman representing Chevron and a number of state and local government agencies said McKittrick residents have not been contacted, but a website with information about the spill was launched. Chevron also reached out to local leaders, said another spokesman, who works for the oil company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unless there’s a flyer (at the) post office or they have a relative that works out there in the cleanup, I’m going to guess they probably don’t even know about it,” Koerner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the spill might end up benefiting some families, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For some people it’s job security, ’cause they belong to a cleanup service. So now they’ve got a call that they’ve got to get out there and put in some overtime, make a little extra money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11763743\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11763743\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_McKittrick-resident-and-oil-worker-Randel-Allen-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"McKittrick resident and oil worker Randel Allen\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_McKittrick-resident-and-oil-worker-Randel-Allen-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_McKittrick-resident-and-oil-worker-Randel-Allen-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_McKittrick-resident-and-oil-worker-Randel-Allen-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_McKittrick-resident-and-oil-worker-Randel-Allen-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_McKittrick-resident-and-oil-worker-Randel-Allen-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">McKittrick resident and oil worker Randel Allen. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Down the street from the school, oil worker Randel Allen and his cousin, Brandon Edwards, were working on a motorcycle outside the trailer where they live. Unlike others in McKittrick, they had heard about the spill — on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s oil fields,” said Edwards. “They got spills out here all the time. But I don’t even know how big it is, like visually, looking at it, so I can’t really say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if he was concerned, Edwards responded, “Not really. Look where we live. There’s oil fields and oil all around us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen expressed some worries and said Chevron should be able to clean up its mess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What if it was to (happen) right here in one of these ditches close to town? 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Cement is pumped into the hole to hold the casing in place and create a barrier around the casing to minimize the possibility of an uncontrolled flow of crude oil, natural gas and subterranean water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That flow could enter groundwater or adjacent layers of rock and gradually seep to the surface. In an extreme case, an uncontrolled flow could occur as \u003ca href=\"https://www.rigzone.com/training/insight.asp?insight_id=300&c_id=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a blowout\u003c/a>, an explosive release of oil and gas that manifests itself as a fire or oil gusher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron says that when it abandons a well, it plugs the bore hole with cement to a depth intended to ensure it's permanently sealed. If data from oil field monitoring raises questions about the seal — perhaps because of cracks in the cement plug — it may be \"re-entered.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Re-entry\" is essentially a \"redo\" of the abandonment process: Crews use instruments to investigate whether cement in the abandoned well is faulty. If it is, they use a special rig to remove the old cement from the bore hole, then replace it with new cement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron says that in May it was in the process of re-entering some of its abandoned Cymric wells to provide new cement barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company says that the initial flows from the previously damaged well, first reported to state officials on May 10, began when it was re-entered. The releases occurred again at a larger scale on June 8 when Chevron conducted a pressure test in the area to confirm the cause of the May flow. 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The firing came after reports surfaced of a dramatic recent increase in permits granted for hydraulic fracturing work and revelations that agency employees owned stock in the companies they regulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got to get some trust built back in that agency,\" said Henry Stern, D-Ventura, chairman of the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee, told KQED in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern says DOGGR should not have waited two months to publicize information about the spill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This has been going on for over two months now. It's just unacceptable,\" said Stern, who represents Porter Ranch, an area affected greatly by the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11748610/residents-renew-calls-to-shut-down-gas-facility-after-socalgas-blamed-for-aliso-canyon-leak\"> massive 2015 methane lake at the Aliso Canyon gas storage field\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at the DOGGR didn't respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Marshal was appointed acting supervisor of DOGGR effective last Thursday. The next day he ordered Chevron to \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11761141/state-orders-chevron-to-stop-massive-crude-oil-release-in-kern-county-oil-field\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">take all measures\u003c/a>\" to stop the flow of oil at the spill. That order came after the division issued two notices of violation against Chevron in connection with the spill and required a halt to similar oil well operations in a 600 feet radius around the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prompted by Wednesday's new leak, the agency expanded its requirements to cease oil work in the area to 1,200 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, two other state legislators, along with U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, are expressing concern about the spill and the agency that's looking into it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday Feinstein issued a statement calling the incident \"troubling\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Almost as troubling as the spill itself is that it occurred at multiple times for two months, but we just learned about it,\" Feinstein said. \"This is something the public should have been alerted to earlier. 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The incident, adjacent to a well site operated by Chevron, began in May and has occurred in an oil field where steam is injected deep into the ground to make crude petroleum easier to extract. \u003ccite>(California Department of Conservation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11761784\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/IMG_0156-e1563320600829.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11761784\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/IMG_0156-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steam vents from the ground at the site of \"surface expressions\" that have spilled nearly 800,000 of a crude oil-water mixture into a dry creek bed in Kern County. The incident, adjacent to a well site operated by Chevron, began in May and has occurred in an oil field where steam is injected deep into the ground to make crude petroleum easier to extract. \u003ccite>(California Department of Conservation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11761782\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/cymric-expression-e1563320124937.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11761782\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/cymric-expression-800x1236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1236\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drone image showing site of oil spill at Chevron well site in Kern County. \u003ccite>(California Department of Conservation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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