Water fouled with fracking chemicals spews near Windsor

[madamesilverspurs]

State regulators say at least 84,000 gallons of water contaminated with oil and chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing spilled from a broken well-head in a field about 4 miles north of Windsor.

A mechanical failure at about 9:30 a.m. Monday sent a smelly stream of steaming, greenish fluid onto soil and required fire trucks testing air every 30 minutes to ensure leaking natural gas was not about to explode and the use of a vacuum truck to try to suck up the liquid, state natural resources spokesman Todd Hartman said.



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[Berlum]

1. "We are gonna frack you up." - Oil & Gas Inc. (R) to Mother Earth

[madamesilverspurs]

6. That's a good one, will share it!

Now if it just had flames coming out of the faucet...


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[Autumn]

2. Send it to our Governor Hickenlooper here in CO

He likes to drink it, or so he says.

[Hard Assets]

4. That's why I'm all for primarying the Governor.

I hate pro-frackers.

Governor Hick happens to be one.

Let him put the fracked water in his beer and see how his drinkers like it.

I'm ready to run him out on the rail based on fracking alone.

[madamesilverspurs]

5. Governor Frackenlooper, you mean?

Not very happy with his "sip" of fracking fluids. One sip might not kill you, but slipping it into the water supply where it becomes part of everything we ingest is another matter, wish he'd figure that out! And I voted for him.


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[Autumn]

7. The problem is the money theses damn people in office get from this

industry. It's going to continue no matter who we vote for.

[madamesilverspurs]

8. Afraid you're right.

Our county commissioners have become completely deaf to anyone but the extractive industries. They just gave the okay to an industry explosives dump just north of here, just to add insult to injury. Then there's Cory Gardner, swimming in money from big oil/gas.


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[Hard Assets]

11. Any new and hungry progressive candidates ready to step up to kick Gardner out of Congress?

Gardner needs to be thrown out, preferably on a permanent basis.

[otohara]

9. Yes, Drink Up Governor

I'm not a fan of our millionaire guv.

[Hard Assets]

3. Saw it in the online rag this morning (while suspending my paper for a in-town vacation for two days

Really horrible.

Fracking should be banned in the state of Colorado. And order all oil & gas industry who uses our limited amount of water to pay a huge fine so big that they have to think about whether its worth it or not to frack in Colorado.

Also, I would enact a law that frackers who has damaged our environment are ordered to drink the toxic water that they used.

[littlemissmartypants]

10. Is it true that collecting your own rain water is illegal there? eom

[Hard Assets]

12. Yup, even collecting rain water is illegal

Stupid idiotic Governor.

He needs to drink the fracked water. Daily. While he's still a governor and a pro-fracker.