Drinking Toxic Oilfield Wastewater?

You might be, if you drink Sutter Home wines, according to a press handout from Food & Water Watch.

We’re not going into the histrionics in the release because all it says is that four water districts in California’s Central Valley buy wastewater from Chevron and other oil companies’ drill sites and sell it to produce growers.

What it doesn’t do is tell us whether this adversely affects the crops.  There’s not a shred of evidence in the handout that the practice puts humans at risk.  But we suspect mainstream media will give the story a good ride, and Food & Water Watch will get a lot of donations as a result.  Which, we suspect, is what it’s all about.

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