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To: Brumar89 who wrote (940332)	6/15/2016 9:31:35 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1575622

Texas Officials Have Photos of Flood-Related Oil Spills, but No Record of Any Response AUSTIN — At the direction of state emergency managers, the Texas Civil Air Patrol took scores of photos of massive spills from oil wells and fracking sites during last year’s flooding of the Lower Trinity River. Yet the state agency in charge of responding appears to have no record of them in its spill database. The deficiency raises questions about whether state officials have any knowledge of the quantities and types of toxic substances that have flowed in recent years into the Trinity, as well as the Pecos, Red, Sabine and Colorado rivers, where energy-production sites have sprouted rapidly. To scientists and environmentalists, the apparent lack of record keeping is unacceptable. “If you’re making money off of a natural resource that I technically own part of, I want to know what you’re doing,” said Meredith Miller, senior program coordinator at the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University in San Marcos. Massive oil spills during Texas’ flooding in 2015 were captured by aerial photographs, but were not recorded, or treated, as spills by the state. insideclimatenews.org