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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom has dropped a bid to add dozens of staff members to the agency that oversees oil and gas drilling in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s after a leading energy industry group \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817384/with-oil-industry-in-slump-state-offers-a-break-on-some-well-regulations\">asked his administration for help\u003c/a> as it deals with a severe drop in fuel demand due to the state’s coronavirus stay-at-home orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s initial 2020-21 state budget \u003ca href=\"https://esd.dof.ca.gov/Documents/bcp/2021/FY2021_ORG3480_BCP3875.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposed adding 128 analysts, engineers and geologists\u003c/a> to the California Geologic Energy Management Division, or CalGEM. Oil producers would have had to pay $24 million to fund the expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Earlier proposals to expand staff at CalGEM have been withdrawn due to COVID-related economic issues impacting that sector and our fiscal health in our state,” Natural Resources Agency Secretary Wade Crowfoot said Thursday after Newsom unveiled \u003ca href=\"http://dof.ca.gov/Budget/Historical_Budget_Publications/2020-21/May_Revision_Finance_Letters/documents/Resources%20Agency.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his revised budget\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But rest assured that CalGEM continues to ensure full regulatory oversight,” Crowfoot said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of March, the California Independent Petroleum Association — which represents 500 crude oil and natural gas producers — sent Crowfoot a letter urging the administration to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11812455/california-oil-producers-fighting-newsom-proposal-for-stronger-industry-oversight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drop the CalGEM proposal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CIPA said at the time that the costs and extra oversight would further hurt an industry struggling after a pandemic-driven collapse in demand for gasoline and jet fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This proposal would have increased staffing by an additional 40 percent while in-state production has gone down,” said CIPA CEO Rock Zierman in a statement to KQED on Friday. “Adding new positions would have added general fund pension obligations for taxpayers at a time when the state is facing a massive deficit and the governor is looking at ways to reduce all state operating costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increase in CalGEM’s staffing came after a year in which the agency — formerly known as the Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources, or DOGGR — had come under increased scrutiny. Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11760751/newsom-fires-state-oil-agency-chief-amid-spike-in-fracking-approvals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shook up agency management\u003c/a> last year after it came to light that it had dramatically ramped up approvals for drilling projects using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and that some senior staffers held investments in the companies they were overseeing as regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration described its proposal to expand CalGEM as designed to ensure that it could do a better job of overseeing often environmentally risky extraction techniques like fracking and cyclic steam injection. That steam process has been at the center of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11773382/chevron-faces-new-demands-from-regulators-as-kern-county-oil-releases-continue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">persistent problems\u003c/a> in the Cymric Oil Field in western Kern County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='oil-industry']A senior staffer with the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group that tracks the state’s oversight of oil drilling, criticized the Newsom administration for pulling back from its CalGEM expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During this public health crisis it’s more important than ever to protect the air we breathe and the water we drink from oil industry pollution,” said Kassie Siegel, director of the center’s Climate Law Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that the pandemic has wreaked havoc on Californians and the state budget, but cutting these positions won’t save a cent,” Siegel said, referring to the fact the added staff would have been paid for by the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration also recently signaled it is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817384/with-oil-industry-in-slump-state-offers-a-break-on-some-well-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">willing to postpone a deadline\u003c/a> for oil and gas producers to pay fees and submit plans to manage thousands of unused oil wells after a similar request from the petroleum association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Oil and Gas Supervisor Uduak-Joe Ntuk said despite dropping the increased CalGEM staffing, California regulators will provide strong oversight of oil and gas production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While earlier proposals to expand staff have been withdrawn due to COVID-related economic issues, all CalGEM regulatory operations, including field inspections and witnessing of tests, are continuing,” Ntuk said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All regulations remain in effect and operators are still accountable for meeting them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Kevin Stark contributed reporting to this story. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A senior staffer with the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group that tracks the state’s oversight of oil drilling, criticized the Newsom administration for pulling back from its CalGEM expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During this public health crisis it’s more important than ever to protect the air we breathe and the water we drink from oil industry pollution,” said Kassie Siegel, director of the center’s Climate Law Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that the pandemic has wreaked havoc on Californians and the state budget, but cutting these positions won’t save a cent,” Siegel said, referring to the fact the added staff would have been paid for by the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration also recently signaled it is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817384/with-oil-industry-in-slump-state-offers-a-break-on-some-well-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">willing to postpone a deadline\u003c/a> for oil and gas producers to pay fees and submit plans to manage thousands of unused oil wells after a similar request from the petroleum association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Oil and Gas Supervisor Uduak-Joe Ntuk said despite dropping the increased CalGEM staffing, California regulators will provide strong oversight of oil and gas production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While earlier proposals to expand staff have been withdrawn due to COVID-related economic issues, all CalGEM regulatory operations, including field inspections and witnessing of tests, are continuing,” Ntuk said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All regulations remain in effect and operators are still accountable for meeting them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Kevin Stark contributed reporting to this story. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:20 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State regulators announced Tuesday they’re imposing a moratorium on new permits for an oil extraction method that has been linked to what California’s top conservation official is calling “a crisis of oil leaks” — a series of uncontrolled crude petroleum releases from Chevron wells in Kern County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources announced Tuesday it won’t issue new permits for the technique, which uses high-pressure steam to release oil trapped in underground rock formations. Meantime, the agency announced, experts from Lawrence Livermore and Sandia National Laboratories will study conditions in the part of Kern County’s Cymric oil field where massive amounts of crude petroleum and oily water have flowed to the surface \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11769850/state-launches-probe-into-oil-field-spills-including-one-that-started-in-2003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">since 2003\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11760192,news_11762422,news_11777971\" label=\"Chevron's Out-of-Control Oil Field\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The releases, which regulators and the industry call “surface expressions,” gained widespread attention after \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 noreferrer\">KQED reported\u003c/a> a series of large, uncontrolled flows around Chevron wells that began in May and continue today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wade Crowfoot, the state’s secretary of Natural Resources, described conditions in the Cymric field as a “crisis of oil leaks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve experienced a spate of unpredicted, uncontrolled oil leaks this spring and summer,” Crowfoot said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOGGR, part of the California Department of Conservation, also announced it will refer dozens of pending oil company applications for hydraulic fracturing and other “well stimulation” methods to the Lawrence Livermore lab for third-party scientific review to ensure that they meet state safety and environmental standards. At the same time, DOGGR is asking a state audit agency to review its current permitting process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department also disclosed it’s launching a series of workshops to begin the process of writing new rules designed to protect communities and residents who live near oil and natural gas production sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom said the initiatives are part of California’s effort to achieve its ambitious climate change and energy goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>‘Necessary Steps’\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>“These are necessary steps to strengthen oversight of oil and gas extraction as we phase out our dependence on fossil fuels and focus on clean energy sources,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since May, large volumes of oil have alternately gushed or seeped out of the ground at the site of several high-pressure steam injection wells run by San Ramon-based Chevron in the Cymric field. The leak site is in the Temblor Range foothills 35 miles west of Bakersfield.\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 noreferrer\">first\u003c/a> in a series of major above-ground flows in the field continued from May through the beginning of August and prompted a major cleanup effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11770259/environmentalists-blast-chevron-state-regulators-over-kern-county-oil-releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Environmentalists\u003c/a> have called on the Newsom administration to be more aggressive in regulating the surface expressions, and\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11762169/key-state-lawmakers-to-call-for-hearings-into-chevron-oil-spill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> state lawmakers have scheduled\u003c/a> a joint Assembly-Senate hearing into the incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Wade Crowfoot, Secretary of California Natural Resources Agency\"]‘These surface expressions are illegal and cannot simply be the cost of doing business. Our focus is eliminating them.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New regulations that went into effect in April ban surface expressions, which have been part of the steam injection work for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11769850/state-launches-probe-into-oil-field-spills-including-one-that-started-in-2003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one series of leaks\u003c/a>, which began in 2003 and are collectively referred to by Chevron and regulators as GS-5, has led to the release of tens of millions of gallons of oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last several months DOGGR issued notices of violation to Chevron for GS-5 and the 2019 leaks and imposed orders to reduce steaming operations near the seeps. In one case, the division slapped Chevron with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11777971/top-state-lawmakers-question-chevron-oil-spill-fine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$2.7 million fine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>‘It Might Be a Really Long Pause’\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>But the seeps continue, with Chevron reporting two new uncontrolled flows in the last 12 days. (The new incidents are recorded in a state database \u003ca href=\"https://w3.calema.ca.gov/operational/malhaz.nsf/f1841a103c102734882563e200760c4a/2b9465fa02c82bf5882584b700025d8b?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,chevron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://w3.calema.ca.gov/operational/malhaz.nsf/f1841a103c102734882563e200760c4a/1f404c7304aeb7ec882584b3000040db?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,chevron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These surface expressions are illegal and cannot simply be the cost of doing business. Our focus is eliminating them,” Crowfoot said, describing the moratorium on high-pressure steam injection permits as “a pause.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It might be a really long pause,” Crowfoot said, which could lead to a ban of the practice in some areas. “There are other means of oil extraction that if they (the oil industry) choose to do, might cost them more but would be with less … risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Marshall, the acting head of DOGGR, said in an interview that Chevron is improving its handling of the leaks in the Cymric Oil Field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re getting a better handle on what’s going on out there,” Marshall said. “I think they had some production practices that they were just wash, rinse repeat. … (Now) we’re seeing a higher level of participation by some of the reservoir engineers rather than just production engineers — people who know more about the geology getting involved rather than just people who know how to construct wells.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron has repeatedly emphasized that its goal is to prevent the leaks and that it continues to work with regulators to address them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company says that recent surface expressions may be the result of its work to stop the GS-5 release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are committed to managing the field and reporting events as required. Safety is our top priority and we will continue to conduct activities to comply with agency requirements, while protecting people and the environment,” Chevron said in a statement last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes announced Tuesday by DOGGR affect only new applications for high-pressure steam extraction work, not existing wells that use the technique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both state regulators and Chevron officials have expressed concern that halting ongoing steam work could lead to subsidence in the Cymric field. That, in turn, could damage existing wells and lead to even bigger problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could start seeing well failures,” Marshall said. “You could cause surface expressions by doing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Newsom fired DOGGR Director Ken Harris and named Marshall as the agency’s acting chief. The moves came after the governor learned of a dramatic increase in permits granted for fracking and allegations that some senior officials in the division had stock in the companies they regulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumer advocacy and environmental groups who exposed those issues have called on Newsom to impose a moratorium on permits for fracking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOGGR, which will be renamed the Geologic Energy Management Division (CalGEM) next year, is not going that far. But it has requested an independent audit by the Department of Finance of its permitting process for fracking and steam injection jobs. That audit, which is expected to take several months, would be made public, according to Crowfoot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Earlier this summer concerns were raised about the permitting process, particularly for fracking. What we want to do is ensure public confidence in the process and frankly strengthen the process if there are ways we can do that,” Crowfoot said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that audit takes place, all fracking and steam injection permits — known as project approval letters and which typically cover multiple wells — will be reviewed by experts at Lawrence Livermore Lab. State officials say the division usually OKs about two dozen of the approval letters annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The division also plans to create new rules aimed at protecting the health and safety of people who live near oil and gas extraction sites. This could include barring the work near homes, schools and hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials plan to conduct a series of workshops in the coming weeks aimed at developing those new rules, which could go into effect in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>‘Turning of Tide’?\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Environmental and community activists responded positively to Tuesday’s announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center for Biological Diversity, which has been a harsh critic of state oil and gas regulators, praised Gov. Newsom for taking a “historic” step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kassie Siegel, director of the center’s Climate Law Institute, said in a statement: “This marks the turning of the tide against the oil industry, which has been allowed to drill at will in our state for more than 150 years. This is the kind of leadership necessary to make California the first major oil-producing state to phase out extraction and protect people and our planet from dirty fossil fuels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gustavo Aguirre Jr., of the Central California Environmental Justice Network, said the group supports the moratorium on high-pressure steam injection — a method he said raises a host of air- and water-quality issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no other way to tackle this than to have the state start moving away from permitting these practices that use so much water and create at least 10 times the amount of wastewater they use,” Aguirre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that his organization and its partners hope to see the state’s process result in new rules for safety zones around oil and gas production facilities. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The releases, which regulators and the industry call “surface expressions,” gained widespread attention after \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 noreferrer\">KQED reported\u003c/a> a series of large, uncontrolled flows around Chevron wells that began in May and continue today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wade Crowfoot, the state’s secretary of Natural Resources, described conditions in the Cymric field as a “crisis of oil leaks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve experienced a spate of unpredicted, uncontrolled oil leaks this spring and summer,” Crowfoot said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOGGR, part of the California Department of Conservation, also announced it will refer dozens of pending oil company applications for hydraulic fracturing and other “well stimulation” methods to the Lawrence Livermore lab for third-party scientific review to ensure that they meet state safety and environmental standards. At the same time, DOGGR is asking a state audit agency to review its current permitting process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department also disclosed it’s launching a series of workshops to begin the process of writing new rules designed to protect communities and residents who live near oil and natural gas production sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom said the initiatives are part of California’s effort to achieve its ambitious climate change and energy goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>‘Necessary Steps’\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>“These are necessary steps to strengthen oversight of oil and gas extraction as we phase out our dependence on fossil fuels and focus on clean energy sources,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since May, large volumes of oil have alternately gushed or seeped out of the ground at the site of several high-pressure steam injection wells run by San Ramon-based Chevron in the Cymric field. The leak site is in the Temblor Range foothills 35 miles west of Bakersfield.\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 noreferrer\">first\u003c/a> in a series of major above-ground flows in the field continued from May through the beginning of August and prompted a major cleanup effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11770259/environmentalists-blast-chevron-state-regulators-over-kern-county-oil-releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Environmentalists\u003c/a> have called on the Newsom administration to be more aggressive in regulating the surface expressions, and\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11762169/key-state-lawmakers-to-call-for-hearings-into-chevron-oil-spill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> state lawmakers have scheduled\u003c/a> a joint Assembly-Senate hearing into the incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New regulations that went into effect in April ban surface expressions, which have been part of the steam injection work for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11769850/state-launches-probe-into-oil-field-spills-including-one-that-started-in-2003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one series of leaks\u003c/a>, which began in 2003 and are collectively referred to by Chevron and regulators as GS-5, has led to the release of tens of millions of gallons of oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last several months DOGGR issued notices of violation to Chevron for GS-5 and the 2019 leaks and imposed orders to reduce steaming operations near the seeps. In one case, the division slapped Chevron with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11777971/top-state-lawmakers-question-chevron-oil-spill-fine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$2.7 million fine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>‘It Might Be a Really Long Pause’\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>But the seeps continue, with Chevron reporting two new uncontrolled flows in the last 12 days. (The new incidents are recorded in a state database \u003ca href=\"https://w3.calema.ca.gov/operational/malhaz.nsf/f1841a103c102734882563e200760c4a/2b9465fa02c82bf5882584b700025d8b?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,chevron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://w3.calema.ca.gov/operational/malhaz.nsf/f1841a103c102734882563e200760c4a/1f404c7304aeb7ec882584b3000040db?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,chevron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These surface expressions are illegal and cannot simply be the cost of doing business. Our focus is eliminating them,” Crowfoot said, describing the moratorium on high-pressure steam injection permits as “a pause.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It might be a really long pause,” Crowfoot said, which could lead to a ban of the practice in some areas. “There are other means of oil extraction that if they (the oil industry) choose to do, might cost them more but would be with less … risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Marshall, the acting head of DOGGR, said in an interview that Chevron is improving its handling of the leaks in the Cymric Oil Field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re getting a better handle on what’s going on out there,” Marshall said. “I think they had some production practices that they were just wash, rinse repeat. … (Now) we’re seeing a higher level of participation by some of the reservoir engineers rather than just production engineers — people who know more about the geology getting involved rather than just people who know how to construct wells.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron has repeatedly emphasized that its goal is to prevent the leaks and that it continues to work with regulators to address them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company says that recent surface expressions may be the result of its work to stop the GS-5 release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are committed to managing the field and reporting events as required. Safety is our top priority and we will continue to conduct activities to comply with agency requirements, while protecting people and the environment,” Chevron said in a statement last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes announced Tuesday by DOGGR affect only new applications for high-pressure steam extraction work, not existing wells that use the technique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both state regulators and Chevron officials have expressed concern that halting ongoing steam work could lead to subsidence in the Cymric field. That, in turn, could damage existing wells and lead to even bigger problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could start seeing well failures,” Marshall said. “You could cause surface expressions by doing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Newsom fired DOGGR Director Ken Harris and named Marshall as the agency’s acting chief. The moves came after the governor learned of a dramatic increase in permits granted for fracking and allegations that some senior officials in the division had stock in the companies they regulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumer advocacy and environmental groups who exposed those issues have called on Newsom to impose a moratorium on permits for fracking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOGGR, which will be renamed the Geologic Energy Management Division (CalGEM) next year, is not going that far. But it has requested an independent audit by the Department of Finance of its permitting process for fracking and steam injection jobs. That audit, which is expected to take several months, would be made public, according to Crowfoot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Earlier this summer concerns were raised about the permitting process, particularly for fracking. What we want to do is ensure public confidence in the process and frankly strengthen the process if there are ways we can do that,” Crowfoot said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Thousands of gallons of crude petroleum began spouting out of the ground near a part of Chevron's steam injection well network in a Kern County oil field over the weekend, prompting a new cleanup effort and state response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two new spills, one of which covered the length of two football fields, are in the northwestern portion of the Cymric Oil Field, in the same area where a \u003ca href=\"https://w3.calema.ca.gov/operational/malhaz.nsf/f1841a103c102734882563e200760c4a/01c634326454a660882584930083b750?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,chevron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">larger uncontrolled release\u003c/a> of 234,000 gallons of oil has taken place since August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780126\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1715px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11780126\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Oct.-14-2019-Cymric-surface-expressions-map-with-dates.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1715\" height=\"1188\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Oct.-14-2019-Cymric-surface-expressions-map-with-dates.jpg 1715w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Oct.-14-2019-Cymric-surface-expressions-map-with-dates-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Oct.-14-2019-Cymric-surface-expressions-map-with-dates-800x554.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Oct.-14-2019-Cymric-surface-expressions-map-with-dates-1020x707.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Oct.-14-2019-Cymric-surface-expressions-map-with-dates-1200x831.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1715px) 100vw, 1715px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map showing a series of uncontrolled oil releases in the 36W section of the Cymric Oil Field. \u003ccite>(Department of Conservation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \"seep\" in an area of the field called 36W began leaking a small amount of oil on Oct. 12 but has now stopped, according to Chevron and state officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early the next morning, a larger release in the same area began sending crude petroleum and water into a dry stream bed and land nearby. The company said late Monday that close to 10,000 gallons of oil has been released from the \u003ca href=\"https://w3.calema.ca.gov/operational/malhaz.nsf/f1841a103c102734882563e200760c4a/1b329a5325e473cf882584940001f564?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,chevron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second spill\u003c/a>, prompting crews to bring in vacuum trucks and begin cleanup work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That second release was initially described as \"very active\" with high energy steam and fluid, according to Teresa Schilling, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Conservation, which oversees the state's Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two spill locations are 340 feet apart, Schilling said, adding that there are no active wells or cyclic steam work near the new surface expressions, a term used by state regulators and industry officials to describe the oil releases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron said its work to stop a much larger and longer-term release, that's located close to 2,400 feet away, may be causing the new seeps, according to company spokeswoman Veronica Flores-Paniagua. That spill, known as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11769850/state-launches-probe-into-oil-field-spills-including-one-that-started-in-2003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GS-5 seep\u003c/a>, has released tens of millions of gallons of oil since 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chevron is currently executing a plan designed to stop the GS-5 seep by reducing the amount of steam being injected into the reservoir and balancing fluid withdrawal,\" Flores-Paniagua said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This continues to alter the distribution of energy in the reservoir and may lead to reactivation or new flow locations in the near term,\" she said, adding that the company's \"operational goal\" is to prevent the releases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11778272,news_11769850,news_11766115\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's Office of Spill Prevention and Response (OSPR) has sent crews to each of the new oil releases, according to Department of Fish and Wildlife spokesman Eric Laughlin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are still out there overseeing cleanup of the two areas,\" Laughlin said, adding that the oil had spread approximately 700 feet into the nearby stream bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it has for other oil releases in the field, Chevron is restricting access to the spill site, installing lights and a propane cannon to keep wildlife away, according to Schilling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists who've followed Chevron's problems in the Cymric Oil Field said the weekend spills raised a new round of concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can clearly see the issues in this region with practices such as steam flooding and injection to extract crude is a growing problem,\" said Gustavo Aguirre Jr., a Bakersfield project coordinator with the Central California Environmental Justice Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The question is for how much longer will we continue to dam off these stream beds from oil spills as the rain season is upon us? This is creeping into a disaster that we need to control right away,\" Aguirre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollin Kretzmann, an Oakland-based attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity, laid blame on DOGGR and called on Gov. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's Office of Spill Prevention and Response (OSPR) has sent crews to each of the new oil releases, according to Department of Fish and Wildlife spokesman Eric Laughlin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are still out there overseeing cleanup of the two areas,\" Laughlin said, adding that the oil had spread approximately 700 feet into the nearby stream bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it has for other oil releases in the field, Chevron is restricting access to the spill site, installing lights and a propane cannon to keep wildlife away, according to Schilling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists who've followed Chevron's problems in the Cymric Oil Field said the weekend spills raised a new round of concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can clearly see the issues in this region with practices such as steam flooding and injection to extract crude is a growing problem,\" said Gustavo Aguirre Jr., a Bakersfield project coordinator with the Central California Environmental Justice Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The question is for how much longer will we continue to dam off these stream beds from oil spills as the rain season is upon us? This is creeping into a disaster that we need to control right away,\" Aguirre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollin Kretzmann, an Oakland-based attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity, laid blame on DOGGR and called on Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration to revoke Chevron's oil permits, close down the company's wells and move away from fossil fuel production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These spills keep happening in California because our regulators haven't gotten tough with the oil industry,\" Kretzmann said. \"Relatively meager fines won't stop some of the world's richest companies from making big money while contaminating our state's air and water.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new spills began shortly after Chevron appealed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11778272/a-fine-fine-for-chevron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$2.7 million fine\u003c/a> issued by DOGGR in connection with a separate spill of close to 450,000 gallons of crude into a stream bed that took place between May and July in the same oil field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, OSPR announced that the \u003ca href=\"https://calspillwatch.wordpress.com/tag/cymric-oil-field-incident/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">months-long cleanup work\u003c/a> associated with that spill, in an area known as 1Y, was complete. The 1Y incident led to the death of four oiled birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New regulations went into effect in April, barring the oil releases. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11777971/top-state-lawmakers-question-chevron-oil-spill-fine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State lawmakers\u003c/a> plan to hold an oversight hearing on the spills this winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: This story previously reported that the recent leaks in the 36-W area were 750 feet away from the years long GS-5 spill. It was updated to state that the two sites are close to 2,400 feet apart. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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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. 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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. 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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>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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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"title": "State Says It Has No Idea How Long It Will Take to Clean Up Chevron's Kern County Oil Spill",
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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": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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? 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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. 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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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"content": "\u003cp>Nearly two weeks ago, the day after Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11760751/newsom-fires-state-oil-agency-chief-amid-spike-in-fracking-approvals\">fired California's top oil and gas regulator\u003c/a>, the governor said he does not have the legal authority to impose a moratorium on permits for hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The governor of California cannot do that,\" Newsom told reporters on July 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Laura Friedman, chair of the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources\"]'I don't think it's our responsibility to be expanding oil production and well stimulation in California.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, two key lawmakers — the chairs of the state Senate and Assembly committees overseeing large parts of the oil industry — say they're open to giving Newsom the power to bring new fracking operations to a halt in California, setting up what could be a significant battle with the powerful oil industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe that there would be support in the Legislature to provide him with that legal authority,\" said Assemblywoman Laura Friedman, D-Glendale, the chair of the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think it's our responsibility to be expanding oil production and well stimulation in California,\" Friedman added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm absolutely up for that partnership with this governor,\" said Henry Stern, D-Ventura, chairman of the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/dog/general_information/Pages/HydraulicFracturing.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hydraulic fracturing\u003c/a> is an oil well stimulation method aimed at getting fuel out of the ground by using water and chemicals to crack open geological formations, allowing oil and water under the ground to flow more freely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"The Kern County Oil Spill\" tag=\"kern-county-oil-spill\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil industry says the technique helps provide the nation with a consistent source of domestic energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists say the chemicals used in the technique lead to air and water pollution and the potential contamination of drinking water. The work has also been blamed for causing earthquake activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The energy industry plans to increase its use of hydraulic fracturing, according to Deborah Sivas, a Stanford professor of environmental law who directs the school's Environmental Law Clinic and is a critic of the practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's on the horizon that the oil companies want to increasingly use fracking in Southern California, where it's a technique that could potentially get more oil out of the ground. That's ramping up,\" said Sivas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To use the method, oil companies have to obtain permits from the state Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR), an agency that's been under increasing scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the division is overseeing the investigation and cleanup of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11762863/as-chevron-gets-ready-to-appeal-state-order-kern-county-spill-continues-to-grow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one of California's largest oil spills\u003c/a> in decades, the release of more than 1 million gallons of oil and water from a Chevron oil well site in Kern County, involving steam injection, a different method of oil extraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11763321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Newsom-at-Spill-Site-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Gavin Newsom is briefed by Billy Lacobie, of Chevron (right), and Jason Marshall (center), acting supervisor of the state Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) on Wednesday while touring the Chevron oil field near Bakersfield where a spill of at least 974,400 gallons of fluid have flowed into a dry creek bed.\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11763321\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Newsom-at-Spill-Site-800x558.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Newsom-at-Spill-Site-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Newsom-at-Spill-Site-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Newsom-at-Spill-Site-1200x838.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Newsom-at-Spill-Site.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom is briefed by Billy Lacobie, of Chevron (right), and Jason Marshall (center), acting supervisor of the state Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR), on Wednesday while touring the Chevron oil field near Bakersfield where a spill of at least 974,400 gallons of fluid have flowed into a dry creek bed. \u003ccite>(Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/Pool)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two weeks ago, the advocacy groups Consumer Watchdog and FracTracker Alliance released data showing that DOGGR had been issuing fracking permits at twice the rate this year compared to 2018. The groups also revealed that several agency employees owned stock in the companies they regulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor then \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11760751/newsom-fires-state-oil-agency-chief-amid-spike-in-fracking-approvals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ordered the firing of Ken Harris\u003c/a>, the head of DOGGR. Jason Marshall was appointed as acting supervisor of the division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom was asked about the change in leadership the following day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were conflicts that came to our attention. Those conflicts were real and very concerning,\" the governor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was then \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-gavin-newsom-oil-fracking-20190712-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asked if he was imposing a moratorium on fracking\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can't do that unilaterally. Legally you cannot,\" Newsom said. \"I have explored that during my transition,\" he said, adding that he has pushed for an overall transition from fossil fuel to more renewable sources of energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives of the governor's office did not return a request for comment on what led Newsom to come to that determination. A spokeswoman for the Department of Conservation, which oversees DOGGR, also did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor was asked about the issue again on Wednesday after he took a tour of the Chevron oil spill site in the area of the town of McKittrick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Legislature is going to need to make that determination. I certainly am inclined to investigate that and move in that direction,\" Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedman said she's open to working with Newsom to make sure he has the authority to issue a moratorium on new fracking permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We look forward to having a clean economy, using renewable sources of fuel. We have to start setting ourselves seriously on the road to accomplishing that. If the governor thinks he needs the Legislature's help ... to make that vision happen, I stand willing and able to do that,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern said the governor may already have the authority to issue a moratorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's got a lot on his plate. Now this one has got to move to the top of the agenda. It's an urgent situation,\" said Stern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern was an aide to then-state Sen. Fran Pavley when she wrote SB 4, state legislation that led to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new rules regulating hydraulic fracturing\u003c/a> in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Western States Petroleum Association, which represents the region's oil industry, told KQED that a halt in new fracking operations would hurt the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Shutting down oil and gas production would increase dependence on foreign oil from the Middle East, eliminate hundreds of thousands of good-paying careers — including opportunities for blue collar and labor workers — and make energy less affordable for middle and working class Californians,\" Catherine Reheis-Boyd, the association's president, said in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Historically, our industry has shown a willingness to collaboratively work with regulators and elected officials toward landmark environmental legislation like the Cap-and-Trade program and the (SB4), and we'll continue to work together to drive the most immediate improvements in carbon reductions, economic security, and reliable access to energy for all,\" Reheis-Boyd said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford's Sivas said DOGGR has the power currently to stop issuing fracking permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In my view, it could also issue a broader, sweeping set of regulations,\" she said. \"The agency and the governor could say, 'We've studied this and this is not a good way for California to go forward, and we're just not going to do fracking permits anymore.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil industry says the technique helps provide the nation with a consistent source of domestic energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists say the chemicals used in the technique lead to air and water pollution and the potential contamination of drinking water. The work has also been blamed for causing earthquake activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The energy industry plans to increase its use of hydraulic fracturing, according to Deborah Sivas, a Stanford professor of environmental law who directs the school's Environmental Law Clinic and is a critic of the practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's on the horizon that the oil companies want to increasingly use fracking in Southern California, where it's a technique that could potentially get more oil out of the ground. That's ramping up,\" said Sivas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To use the method, oil companies have to obtain permits from the state Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR), an agency that's been under increasing scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the division is overseeing the investigation and cleanup of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11762863/as-chevron-gets-ready-to-appeal-state-order-kern-county-spill-continues-to-grow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one of California's largest oil spills\u003c/a> in decades, the release of more than 1 million gallons of oil and water from a Chevron oil well site in Kern County, involving steam injection, a different method of oil extraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11763321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Newsom-at-Spill-Site-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Gavin Newsom is briefed by Billy Lacobie, of Chevron (right), and Jason Marshall (center), acting supervisor of the state Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) on Wednesday while touring the Chevron oil field near Bakersfield where a spill of at least 974,400 gallons of fluid have flowed into a dry creek bed.\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11763321\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Newsom-at-Spill-Site-800x558.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Newsom-at-Spill-Site-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Newsom-at-Spill-Site-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Newsom-at-Spill-Site-1200x838.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Newsom-at-Spill-Site.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. 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