Waterkeeper Alliance vs. Chevron: Round 1
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Chairman of the Board of the Waterkeeper Alliance, is asking Chevron Gas to re-inject their wells in order to help the residents and businesses of Cook Inlet. Kennedy wrote a letter to the president of Chevron stating “As the energy debate turns to drilling for oil and gas off our coastlines and beaches, Cook Inlet provides an important example how Chevron and other oil corporations will treat our national heritage,” Kennedy told the Alaska Journal of Commerce. “Chevron has the technology and the money to stop the dumping in Cook Inlet tomorrow. So why don’t they? The technology to properly treat these wastes – through re-injection – clearly exists, and it’s been demonstrated in Cook Inlet and elsewhere for years,” Chevron responded saying the levels of discharge were fine and not dangerous. It’s a hot topic is because it is the only coastal body of water where the oil and gas industry is permitted to discharge drilling and production wastes.
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- 09.03.08
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