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madamesilverspurs

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27. Water - huge reason we protest fracking.

Sat Dec 1, 2012, 01:55 AM

Dec 2012

Weld County CO, where I live, is run by the all-republican county commission, and they brag loudly and often about the 19000+ fracking wells in the county. Farmers are plowing dust, ag takes a distant last place at water auctions. Each well requires upward of 7 MILLION gallons of water, water that can never be used for anything else. Cheney's company benefits from his bludgeoning congress into exempting fracking from the provisions of clean water legislation; the list of toxins in fracking fluids, including many carcinogens, is horrifying. None of this is helping our energy here at home, it's all getting exported.

They're poisoning all of us, but it's "just business". If Al Qaeda was doing this it would rightly be called terrorism.

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Ogallala Aquifer Only 20 Years Of Water Left >>> Stuff I Didn't Know [View all] KittyWampus Nov 2012 OP

Need more bad news? Sekhmets Daughter Nov 2012 #1

I don't understand these people's brain. nt kelliekat44 Nov 2012 #9

They honestly believe they are "better" and Sekhmets Daughter Nov 2012 #14

The average annual depletion rate between 2000 and 2007 was more than twice that during the previous Earth_First Nov 2012 #2

There was a huge spike in exports in that time: joshcryer Nov 2012 #13

The D4 area in the middle almost exactly matches the outline of the Ogallala: GliderGuider Nov 2012 #16

This is precisely why I believe it will depleat sooner. joshcryer Nov 2012 #17

yep. CrispyQ Dec 2012 #34

What annoys me is that most of what was grown Warpy Nov 2012 #3

And all the states over it are fighting about it. Are_grits_groceries Nov 2012 #4

makes me stop and think... janlyn Nov 2012 #5

Maybe people will begin to see the thing that all of these problems are revolving around. Gregorian Nov 2012 #6

No one wants to talk about the elephant in the room. luv_mykatz Dec 2012 #30

The outrage on this site when someone suggests we need to get our numbers under control, CrispyQ Dec 2012 #36

I'm so glad to see these posts this morning. Gregorian Dec 2012 #40

I suspect the reason they don't care about the tar sands pipeline is because magical thyme Nov 2012 #7

Where do you live? Sekhmets Daughter Nov 2012 #15

I was wonderin.g the same thing. Mojorabbit Nov 2012 #20

Exactly. Sekhmets Daughter Dec 2012 #32

If you find it, please let me know! nt Mojorabbit Dec 2012 #42

Your post hit a rather painful nerve here with me. I live on the Gulf of Mexico in Mississippi. Selatius Dec 2012 #31

I didn't realize so many 1%ers lived north of nowhere. CrispyQ Dec 2012 #37

It's shangri-la if you can afford to heat your home magical thyme Dec 2012 #45

We gotta come up with a plan to desalinate water from the ocean. Octafish Nov 2012 #8

The technology is already here. The will to do it is missing Kaleva Nov 2012 #11

Hi there tama Nov 2012 #19

Yes, I'm a Michigan Finn Kaleva Dec 2012 #24

Whenever anyone talks about using ocean water I worry about just what the effect on the ocean jwirr Nov 2012 #22

I don't think it'll be even noticeable Kaleva Dec 2012 #25

Sea levels are rising relatively rapidly tama Dec 2012 #26

For now. This is the same short sighted thinking that got us into the mess we are now in. Unlimited jwirr Dec 2012 #33

Conservation alone isn't the answer. Kaleva Dec 2012 #39

There is so much of it, that it may as well be considered a infinite resource like sunlight. Chan790 Dec 2012 #41

And we're looking at protracted droughts, so it's going to get even worse. joshcryer Nov 2012 #10

This is why both Bush's have bought 200,000 acre's (total) oldbanjo Nov 2012 #12

exactly, and it's in paraguay shanti Nov 2012 #23

Perhaps the Bush Family wants to become the "Saudis of water." (nt) KansDem Dec 2012 #29

ENRON was leading the way in Florida. Octafish Dec 2012 #43

Those natural prairie grasses have roots that are 5 ft deep toby jo Nov 2012 #18

Forestation + stop pumping ground except for household tama Nov 2012 #21

Water - huge reason we protest fracking. madamesilverspurs Dec 2012 #27

It is terrorism. nt tama Dec 2012 #28

This is why it has been said for years redqueen Dec 2012 #35

I just watched "Blue Gold" World Water Wars." CrispyQ Dec 2012 #38

Anyone remember.... HuskyOffset Dec 2012 #44