| inbluevt | Date: Tuesday, 2013/09/17, 10:13 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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“Another tank overturned and a fracking chemical warehouse flooded…” As alarmed citizens report the damage to each other out West, is anybody listening?
UPDATE 9/17/2013: An industry spokesperson in CO are now saying there are “thousands” of flooded fracking well pads. To see photos of leaning and upended storage tanks and flooded fracking well pads, see this post by Texas Sharon: Shocking Photos and an Update from the Colorado Fracking Flood Zone.
For years, concerned residents, activists and scientists from Texas, Pennsylvania and other fracked states have sounded the warning bell against fracking in floodplains. The 30-foot wall of water displacing Colorado residents right now is worsened by the fires which took out
trees which would have otherwise lessened this extreme flood. This is a “feedback loop” in which one aspect of climate disaster — fires — worsens another aspect — floods. Floods will continue to be more extreme and frequent due to climate change, which is greatly exacerbated by fracking.
Meanwhile the danger from fracking chemicals, condensate, and related
toxins leaking into waterways in floodplains is now acute.
In Pennsylvania there is plenty of fracking on floodplains, so call your State Senator to call for a statewide moratorium NOW and a permanent ban on fracking, storage facilities, compressor stations, or any aspect of shale gas infrastructure in floodplains right now. Join
moratorium rallies this Wednesday: Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.
Nex
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