Faces of Fracking is an investigation into how the impacts of fracking are beingness felt inwards California.
This storey map visualization, built using d3.js, plots the locations of the 532 crude & gas wells inwards the LA Basin. As you lot scroll through the investigation the map besides plots the break of pounds of toxic chemicals released at each fracking site.
Continue scrolling together with the map zooms out to exhibit the 3,014 wells across California, where high–intensity production is either planned or already taking place, together with the 1,105 wells where waste materials is beingness injected into the ground. You tin besides sentiment the proximity of each of these wells to California's groundwater aquifers.
