Oil Regulators Found Hundreds of Wells Violating Oklahoma Rules. Then They Ignored Their Findings.

https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-injection-wells-oil-regulators-database

revealing a pattern of rule violations by oil and gas companies that state regulators allowed to continue...

#Oklahoma #OilRegulators #PollutionCollusion #GovernmentCrime #CorporateCrime #Poison #WaterSheds #Corruption #Politics #USA

"As predators at the top of the chain, #otters help regulate fish and invertebrate numbers.

"Their presence signals something deeper, too: the #water is clean, the system productive, the ecosystem whole enough to support them again."

#rewilding #greatlakes #watersheds #ecology

https://www.rewildingmag.com/the-river-otters-remarkable-comeback/

Good to see this BUT where is the protective legislation and penalties for greedy, thirsty corporations? https://cabinradio.ca/279440/news/environment/land-water/canada-water-agency-gives-1m-to-mackenzie-river-protection/

#WaterisLife #watersheds #NWT #SubArctic #Boreal #Canada

“The watersheds most affected by declining snow water were the Okanagan in B.C., the Assiniboine-Red River basin in Manitoba and the Saskatchewan River basin.”

This will intensify.
#ClimateChange #Snowpack #Canada #Watersheds #WaterSupply
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/winter-snow-climate-water-9.7078119

My iPad picks random nature shots from my photo library as lock and Home Screen images. Smiled when I saw this one… not really a “nature shot”, but it is a nice reminder of a time when I made a local private forest company quite upset. 😂 😠 🌲 💧

#Mosaic #portalberni #forestry #water #watersheds

#ColquitzRiver had flooded out but has now receded. It will likely flood again because more rains are expected this week.

#Wsanec #Saanich #river #WaterLevels #weather #FloodWatch #VictoriaBC #YYJ #WaterSteward #WaterProtector #Nature #climate #environmental #watersheds #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #Tillicum #Colquitz

#30daymapchallenge Day 27 "Boundaries": imagining a North America with countries, states, and counties replaced by nested watersheds at multiple scales. I used data from the CEC's North American Environmental Atlas to map the major watersheds of North America using a color palette, text style, and overall aesthetic inspired by 1950s era political maps.

#Geography #Cartography #GIS #Watersheds #Bioregional