Flooding and possible fracking disaster in Colorado

[Lenina Rosenweg]

Its a liberal/left site but they have some good articles


Hundreds Missing as Historic Floods Continue to Ravage Colorado
'This is clearly going to be a historic event,' said National Weather Service Director Louis Uccellini

People are calling this a "1000 year disaster"of "biblical proportions"

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/15-2

The fun part may be the leakage of toxic chemicals from fracking sites


I see you've noticed the underwater wells in Weld County, Colorado. Amazing; we've emailed the Denver TV stations, other media, and state and local politicians. We've sent pictures that our members have taken. It's like the media and politicians have been TOLD not to say anything about it. There has been no mention of the gas wells on the Denver newscasts either last night or this evening although all stations have had extensive and extended flood coverage. You can see underwater wells in the background of some of the newscast videos, and yet the reporters say absolutely nothing.

Here's a picture one of our members took yesterday in Weld County, Colorado. We've got tons more on our website. Check it out. The tanks are tipping and, in some cases, have fallen over. They have to be leaking toxins into the flood waters. There have to be hundreds if not thousands of underwater well pads in Weld County as a result of the flooding.

http://www.sott.net/article/266396-Is-there-a-media-blackout-on-the-fracking-flood-disaster-in-Colorado

[Red Commissar]

If the extent of this is true, this would remind me of how the media kind of brushed over the coal sludge leak in Tennessee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Fossil_Plant_coal_fly_ash_slurry_spill). Not that it wasn't covered, but simply didn't get much attention- really an eye opener about "clean coal" technologies though, double that with the fact it was a TVA owned operation.

It doesn't help either that many media, even ones people associate with being liberal for what ever reason, have been getting sponsorships from energy companies for a long time, boosting for them in sometimes subtle ways.

There are more pictures of people from Weld County showing exposed wells here

http://weldairandwater.org/2013/09/14/114/

[Skyhilist]

Don't worry about it being a liberal site -- the mere occurrence of events does not have a political worldview in and of itself, so neither can the objective reporting of such events.

That said, the mainstream media including channels like MSNBC (alleged liberals) obviously have no desire to look at this objectively or even bring it up at all. Why? Because fracking is a win-win for vast majority of both the conservative and liberal bourgeoisie. Obama supports it (even though its extraction puts methane into the atmosphere, which is dozens of times more potent than CO2), and it makes a ton of money. That's all that matters to them, who gives a shit if it destroys the planet, right?

I remember at the "Forward on Climate Rally" in Washington D.C., there were an estimated 50,000 people there. I saw one mainstream news source cover it, and it was extremely brief. When it comes to things like perpetuating climate change that has bipartisan support, the best strategy for the bourgeoisie is just not to cover those opposing their agenda at all most of the time. The conservative networks will only bring it up to attempt to demonize us and the liberal networks will only bring it up to pretend like they give a fuck about this planet and will never show any viewpoints that shatter the frequently held illusion that liberal politicians are doing their best to stop climate change.

[Red Commissar]

With the flooding receding it seems some news media is bringing up the possible contamination from oil and gas operations, especially after 1900+ wells in the state were closed down by their respective operators.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57603336/colorado-floods-spur-fracking-concerns/
http://reuters.com/article/2013/09/18/usa-colorado-flooding-fracking-idINL2N0HE2GQ20130918
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/9/15/report-ruptured-pipelinegasleaksoilspillsincoloradofloods.html