ABSTRACT
The conflict created when water meets oil-and how to remedy their meeting-is a microcosm of contestations between rhetoric and reality that pertain to energy policy and climate science. The cognitive dissonance of such contestations are made most apparent when ruptures of oil and its associated infrastructure present facts and an evidential is. This chapter explores the potential for the act of rupturing-both physical and symbolic-to interrupt the science/policy impasse between facts/values and is/ought.
