Millions of litres of crude oil are spilled from pipelines every year in the United States, destroying land and polluting water. 1

Waste water from fracking operations, containing high levels of ammonium, selenium, lead and other toxic contaminants as well as high salts, is frequently spilled from unconventional oil drill sites poisoning streams and lakes. 2

Globally, over 300 million tonnes of CO2 are added to the atmosphere every year when waste gas is brunt at oil fracking wells.3

Shale gas and oil production is a form of unconventional mining that uses techniques like horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking).The United States is riddled with fracked oil fields. Here are some of the worst impacts: