Flooding Flushes Fracking Chemicals

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Colorado flooding has not only overwhelmed roads and homes, but also the oil and gas infrastructure stationed in one of the most densely drilled areas in the U.S. Although oil companies have shut down much of their operations in Weld County due to flooding, nearby locals say an unknown amount of chemicals has leaked out and possibly contaminated waters, mixing fracking fluids and oil along with sewage, gasoline, and agriculture pesticides.

“You have 100, if not thousands, of wells underwater right now and we have no idea what those wells are leaking,” East Boulder County United spokesman Cliff Willmeng said Monday. “It’s very clear they are leaking into the floodwaters though.”

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[laughinReaper]

I saw on the news tonight where emergency personal are putting on bio-hazzard suits the water is so contaminated. This area is going to be messed up for a long time.

 

[Mr. H.]

Why doesn't the thread title focus on ag chemicals instead?

 

[Star]

Why doesn't the thread title focus on ag chemicals instead?

There's a lot to be concerned about in Colorado's toxic flood waters. One of the problems with fracking chemicals is; the frackers think it's to scary to release their fracking recipes to the public but-----but if your concern is agricultural chemicals post something that can be discussed - otherwise you're just whining with nothing to back up your whine.

Colorado flooding may unleash fracking fluids - Sep. 18, 2013

A gas well is flooded near La Salle, Colorado. Some fear the floods may
unleash fracking toxins into the drinking water.​

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Not only have the Colorado floods claimed lives and thousands ofhomes,they have also hitoil equipment, sparking fears that fuel, heavy metals and hydraulic fracturing fluids may be seeping into the local water supply.

Over 1,800 oil and gas wells in areas of Northwest Colorado impacted by the flood have been turned off, according to the Colorado Oil and Gas Association.

The extent of the damage is not yet known, but local environmentalists have been posting photos of tipped over oil tanks, flooded well sites and broken pipelines. They fear the worst.

"The damage is not contained," said Robyn O'Brien, a Boulder resident and food activist. "The public is very concerned about it [and] its impact on water supplies, both for communities and for the massive amounts of farmland and livestock out here."

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[martybegan]

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Colorado flooding has not only overwhelmed roads and homes, but also the oil and gas infrastructure stationed in one of the most densely drilled areas in the U.S. Although oil companies have shut down much of their operations in Weld County due to flooding, nearby locals say an unknown amount of chemicals has leaked out and possibly contaminated waters, mixing fracking fluids and oil along with sewage, gasoline, and agriculture pesticides.

“You have 100, if not thousands, of wells underwater right now and we have no idea what those wells are leaking,” East Boulder County United spokesman Cliff Willmeng said Monday. “It’s very clear they are leaking into the floodwaters though.”

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Everything is included in flood waters, the fact you concentrate on fracking liquids shows your agenda quite clearly.

Also since floods contain SO MUCH WATER any contaminants are diluted by orders of magnitiude.

 

[Mr. H.]

Have Colorado's Floods Unleashed An Oil And Gas Disaster? Um, No. - Forbes

As the floodwaters rose last week operators activated heavy-duty valves to shut in more than 1,900 wells. There were a few minor spills. Anadarko appears to have lost two storage tanks containing about 450 barrels of oil (about 20,000 gallons) that got washed into flood waters. Noble had a couple wells and gathering pipelines leak small amounts of natural gas. The Colorado Oil And Gas Association says that they are investigating how many open pits containing produced water may have been scoured out by flood waters, but they reassure the anti-fracking crowd that there were no fracking operations being conducted, &#8220;This means no fracking fluids, no chemicals associated with fracking, nor equipment were on sites at the time of the flooding.&#8221;

Anadarko is working to trap any oil floating from their operations into the South Platte and St. Vrain rivers, as it should. But despite the cries of the anti-oil crowd &#8212; who are already using the flooding as an excuse to petition Gov. John Hickenlooper to ban fracking &#8212; this 20,000 gallons is no oil spill disaster.

 

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Colorado flooding has not only overwhelmed roads and homes, but also the oil and gas infrastructure stationed in one of the most densely drilled areas in the U.S. Although oil companies have shut down much of their operations in Weld County due to flooding, nearby locals say an unknown amount of chemicals has leaked out and possibly contaminated waters, mixing fracking fluids and oil along with sewage, gasoline, and agriculture pesticides.

“You have 100, if not thousands, of wells underwater right now and we have no idea what those wells are leaking,” East Boulder County United spokesman Cliff Willmeng said Monday. “It’s very clear they are leaking into the floodwaters though.”

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Everything is included in flood waters, the fact you concentrate on fracking liquids shows your agenda quite clearly.

Also since floods contain SO MUCH WATER any contaminants are diluted by orders of magnitiude.

Agenda? Of course fracking is on my agenda and-----and fracking should be on the agenda of all residents of planet Earth. Fracking causes global climate change/global climate change causes floods-----floods in CO. and-----and floods in CO. floods have caused many deaths and missing people, billions of dollars in damage and pollution that will stay with us and CO for long-long time.

Colorado is home to over 50,000 oil and gas wells...

Oversight of natural gas drilling and the wastewater produced by it falls to the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, which Wednesday released a statement that it "is aggressively assessing the impacts of the flood to oil and gas facilities," including by mapping drilling sites within flooded areas, tracking reports from the ground, and sending out inspection teams.

Water pollution from chemicals used in fracking (which include known carcinogens and endocrine disruptors) was a concern well before the flood. What's new is the concern that contaminated wastewater stored in tanks and even open pits may have been released into water and soils. "Any flood that breaches a wastewater pit will flush the waste and contaminated sediments into streams and rivers," Roy Jackson, an environmental scientist at Duke University, told FastCoExist. Then there's the pipeline infrastructure that supports the wells: One pipeline reportedly broke, and others sagged as the soil that supported them eroded. Emergency managers have advised residents to stay out of floodwater for fear of contact with chemical pollutants as well as sewage.

Willmeng calls the flooding "our worst nightmare," but also notes that it comes at a fraught time, as Colorado communities debate the role of fracking within their borders. This November, five cities will be voting on ballot initiatives to either ban hydraulic fracturing (in the case of the Lafayette Community Rights Act) or to put local moratoriums on gas drilling. "Colorado was in the process of rapidly becoming aware of the dangers of this industry prior to the floods," says Willmeng. He believes that process is about to speed up dramatically.
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[waltky]

Crops waterlogged from flooding...

Colorado Floodwaters Threaten Agriculture Sector
September 20, 2013 — Colorado farmers and ranchers are bracing for widespread damage to the agriculture industry, one of the state's leading economic engines, from deadly floodwaters that already have caused property losses estimated at nearly $2 billion.

The main concern is for the state's No. 1 cash crop, corn, which yields between 140 million and 180 million bushels annually, most of it for cattle feed, according to the growers' trade association, Colorado Corn. Cornfields along the flooded South Platte River could be lost if water that has swamped low-lying prairie fails to drain away before the October harvest, said Brent Boydston, vice president of public policy for the Colorado Farm Bureau. “The corn will rot... if it's underwater that long,” Boydston said, adding that waterlogged hay crops could become moldy and be ruined as well. Agriculture pumps $41 billion a year into the state's economy and employs - directly or indirectly - 173,000 people, according to the Colorado Department of Agriculture.

Cash from Colorado farm receipts alone totals $7.1 billion annually. Ron Ackerman, whose family harvests hay in La Salle, Colorado, in flood-stricken Weld County, said he fears their fall crop may be a total loss. “Our hay is standing in the fields covered in mud, and there's so much debris we can't cut it - it could damage our equipment,” he said. Ackerman, who also does work for corn growers in the area, said the inundation of their fields may destroy entire harvests, especially for silage that must be cut at the right time to be of any value.

Farm buildings in Johnstown, Colorado, are damaged following this past week's floods,

Wheat weather

For Colorado wheat growers, the state's second-largest cash crop, the additional moisture is expected to benefit the water-dependent grain. “Overall, this will have a positive impact,” said Darrell Hanavan, executive director of the Colorado Association of Wheat Growers. About 25 percent of Colorado's wheat farms lie in the drought-stricken southeastern corner of the state, which has received some of the rain associated with flooding farther to the north but not enough to cause harm, he said. Farmers in the fertile region of northeastern Colorado face additional challenges if irrigation lines that are their lifeblood end up damaged by flooding, or if they cannot run combines through soaked fields, the farm bureau's Boydston said.

Governor John Hickenlooper said at a news conference on Thursday that irrigation systems in some areas had been largely washed away. Even if farmers manage to harvest their crops, damage to transportation and other infrastructure could prevent them from getting their produce to market, or hinder ranchers in getting their herds to feedlots, Boydston said. Terry Fankhauser, executive vice president of the 2,500-member Colorado Cattlemen's Association, said crop damage would also hit livestock producers. “Many of our ranchers are farmers as well, and the loss of silage and feed for herds could have a significant impact,” he said. Looking on the bright side, Fankhauser said, the floodwaters will go a long way in replenishing the state's drought-depleted reservoirs.

Colorado Floodwaters Threaten Agriculture Sector

 

[theHawk]

Agenda? Of course fracking is on my agenda and-----and fracking should be on the agenda of all residents of planet Earth. Fracking causes global climate change/global climate change causes floods-----floods in CO. and-----and floods in CO. floods have caused many deaths and missing people, billions of dollars in damage and pollution that will stay with us and CO for long-long time.

"global climate change causes floods"

Wow, there weren't ever any floods before global warming?

Can you really be this stupid?

 

[martybegan]

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Colorado flooding has not only overwhelmed roads and homes, but also the oil and gas infrastructure stationed in one of the most densely drilled areas in the U.S. Although oil companies have shut down much of their operations in Weld County due to flooding, nearby locals say an unknown amount of chemicals has leaked out and possibly contaminated waters, mixing fracking fluids and oil along with sewage, gasoline, and agriculture pesticides.

“You have 100, if not thousands, of wells underwater right now and we have no idea what those wells are leaking,” East Boulder County United spokesman Cliff Willmeng said Monday. “It’s very clear they are leaking into the floodwaters though.”

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Everything is included in flood waters, the fact you concentrate on fracking liquids shows your agenda quite clearly.

Also since floods contain SO MUCH WATER any contaminants are diluted by orders of magnitiude.

Agenda? Of course fracking is on my agenda and-----and fracking should be on the agenda of all residents of planet Earth. Fracking causes global climate change/global climate change causes floods-----floods in CO. and-----and floods in CO. floods have caused many deaths and missing people, billions of dollars in damage and pollution that will stay with us and CO for long-long time.

Colorado is home to over 50,000 oil and gas wells...

Oversight of natural gas drilling and the wastewater produced by it falls to the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, which Wednesday released a statement that it "is aggressively assessing the impacts of the flood to oil and gas facilities," including by mapping drilling sites within flooded areas, tracking reports from the ground, and sending out inspection teams.

Water pollution from chemicals used in fracking (which include known carcinogens and endocrine disruptors) was a concern well before the flood. What's new is the concern that contaminated wastewater stored in tanks and even open pits may have been released into water and soils. "Any flood that breaches a wastewater pit will flush the waste and contaminated sediments into streams and rivers," Roy Jackson, an environmental scientist at Duke University, told FastCoExist. Then there's the pipeline infrastructure that supports the wells: One pipeline reportedly broke, and others sagged as the soil that supported them eroded. Emergency managers have advised residents to stay out of floodwater for fear of contact with chemical pollutants as well as sewage.

Willmeng calls the flooding "our worst nightmare," but also notes that it comes at a fraught time, as Colorado communities debate the role of fracking within their borders. This November, five cities will be voting on ballot initiatives to either ban hydraulic fracturing (in the case of the Lafayette Community Rights Act) or to put local moratoriums on gas drilling. "Colorado was in the process of rapidly becoming aware of the dangers of this industry prior to the floods," says Willmeng. He believes that process is about to speed up dramatically.
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So much reguritated environmentalist crap.....

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Why doesn't the thread title focus on ag chemicals instead?

Because that doesn't jibe with the ignorant, counterproductive, anti-US, left wing agenda.

 

[frigidweirdo]

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Colorado flooding has not only overwhelmed roads and homes, but also the oil and gas infrastructure stationed in one of the most densely drilled areas in the U.S. Although oil companies have shut down much of their operations in Weld County due to flooding, nearby locals say an unknown amount of chemicals has leaked out and possibly contaminated waters, mixing fracking fluids and oil along with sewage, gasoline, and agriculture pesticides.

“You have 100, if not thousands, of wells underwater right now and we have no idea what those wells are leaking,” East Boulder County United spokesman Cliff Willmeng said Monday. “It’s very clear they are leaking into the floodwaters though.”

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But some rich people made more money, so WHO GIVES A FUCK? that's the message that the right will send out.

 

[westwall]

Why doesn't the thread title focus on ag chemicals instead?

There's a lot to be concerned about in Colorado's toxic flood waters. One of the problems with fracking chemicals is; the frackers think it's to scary to release their fracking recipes to the public but-----but if your concern is agricultural chemicals post something that can be discussed - otherwise you're just whining with nothing to back up your whine.

Colorado flooding may unleash fracking fluids - Sep. 18, 2013

A gas well is flooded near La Salle, Colorado. Some fear the floods may
unleash fracking toxins into the drinking water.​

NEW YORK (CNNMoney)
Not only have the Colorado floods claimed lives and thousands ofhomes,they have also hitoil equipment, sparking fears that fuel, heavy metals and hydraulic fracturing fluids may be seeping into the local water supply.

Over 1,800 oil and gas wells in areas of Northwest Colorado impacted by the flood have been turned off, according to the Colorado Oil and Gas Association.

The extent of the damage is not yet known, but local environmentalists have been posting photos of tipped over oil tanks, flooded well sites and broken pipelines. They fear the worst.

"The damage is not contained," said Robyn O'Brien, a Boulder resident and food activist. "The public is very concerned about it [and] its impact on water supplies, both for communities and for the massive amounts of farmland and livestock out here."

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Chemicals used in agriculture are far, far, more deadly. And yet you ignore them. Why?