Shining light on fracking data in California

1. #FrackTracker
Shine light on
fracking data in CA
Source: Louise Pratt | http://www.flickr.com/photos/45359945@N04/

2. The Problem
Fracking in California is unregulated, leaving it up to
well owners to report accurate data. There are 1,509
known wells, and probably many more that remain
undocumented.
Some wells exist on or near seismic faults, while others
exist on or near porous, vulnerable groundwater
aquifers.
The Solution
Use FrackTracker to find wells near you, rate their
safety relative to other wells, and take action for
greater transparency and responsibility.

3. Chemical
Disclosure
Production
Data
Permitting
Data
Violations
Data
Overall
Grade
California
Texas
Colorado
Pennsylvania
North Dakota
SCORECARD:
STATE TRANSPARENCY &
OVERSIGHT
Criteria (letter grades):
● How often is data reported?
● How accessible/centralized are the
data?
● Is there an active alert system?
● What penalties do energy companies
face for not reporting?
● Where is the data?
● HOW CAN YOU IMPROVE THE DATA?

4. DATA WE HAVE:
● map of vulnerable groundwater (SWRCB)
● fracking well data (SWRCB)
● timeseries data of groundwater levels (DWR)
DATA WE WANT:
● timeseries data for water quality (SWRCB)
● PDFs of chemicals used in fracking (FracFocus)
● Assortment of supplemental data (list)
https://github.com/NewCaliforniaWaterAtlas

5. Map in progress: All California Groundwater (30yrs.)

6. Map in progress: Fracking and Vulnerable Groundwater

7. PDFs: Need to be scraped and parsed into a table

8. What can you do?

9. How to Help?
1. Teaching citizens how to keep tabs on
what’s going on near them.
2. Submit critical data.

10. How are we doing?
How much data have we collected?
What have we discovered?
What are improvements to our state
FrackTracking score since we started?
For improving Fracking Data in our state

11. Fracktracker
Shine light on fracking data in California
#TechRaking Team:
Agustin Armendariz
Chacha Sikes
Daniel McGlyn
Laci Videmsky
Scott Desrow
Stephen Stock
Matthew Green
Michael Stoll
Nathaniel Lash
Pamela Behrsin
Scot Hacker
Serdar Tumgoren
Vinnee Tong

13. Water Rights: Surface Water Diversions

14. New California Water Atlas
Making water understandable in California
http://ca.statewater.org
info@statewater.org
@CAWaterAtlas #cawater
Project Directors:
Chach Sikes
Strategy
@chachasikes
Laci Videmsky
Research
@videmsky