The Colorado Frackflood Fuckup

[7wo7rees]

Our sister teaches at the university in Greeley. They sold their house in Longmont years ago, but her husband's business in Boulder was washed out. They are more concerned with those immediate threats, but it will become an issue for all of us downstream for decades to come.



Shocking photos and video: http://vimeo.com/rewilding/frackflood
http://www.texassharon.com/2013/09/16/shocking-photos-and-an-update-from-the-colorado-fracking-flood-zone/

We need the national news stations to go cover the environmental disaster that’s happening in Colorado right now.
http://www.pagosadailypost.com/news/23981/OPINION:_The_Unreported_Flood_Disaster/

“This is not going to be fixed overnight and the impacts and ramifications will linger for a long time,” he said.
http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/blog/earth_to_power/2013/09/colorado-floods-shut-down-hundreds-of.html?ana=e_den_nrg&page=all

[niyad]

1. k and r

[lunasun]

2. Drilling in a flood plain ? wtf?

[Uncle Joe]

3. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, 7wo7rees.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. Wanna bet they get charged ZIP in environmental damage?

[DeSwiss]

5. K&R

[suffragette]

6. Sounds very disturbing

Another link here:
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/09/17/2630131/oil-fracking-colorado-flooding/

[davidpdx]

7. I read that Texas Sharon's blog last night

The some of the comments on there are truly disturbing.

[Wilms]

8. ^

[snagglepuss]

9. k and r. Just read about on DU yesterday. This story needs

to go viral.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

10. Those tanks aren't used exclusively for fracking. Just sayin'