KREX Weather
Grand Junction
Montrose
Glenwood Springs
Grand Junction
59.0 °
Montrose
53.0 °
Glenwood Springs
43.0 °
Tanker Carrying Fracking Chemicals Rolls Over on Highway 139 by
KREX News Room
|
This content requires the latest Adobe Flash Player and a browser with JavaScript enabled.
Click here for a free download of the latest Adobe Flash Player.
 |
You have indicated this comment should be removed.
The comment has been submitted for review. Thank you .
John said on Wednesday, May 23 at 10:36 AM
Hate to break it to you enviroidiots but no industry is environmentally neutral. Wind farms kill birds. Solar panels bring shade to the desert harming lizards and allow undesirable vegetation to grow. Dust from county roads harms plants and make them un paletable to the deer. Let's all just go naked and walk everywhere. But then we would all get skin cancer. Great.
rms said on Wednesday, May 23 at 8:18 AM
This state has been bought and paid for by the Oil and Gas Lobby - we will not know the insanity of this decision for decades to come. There is no way this is an environmentally neutral industry. Money or the promise of economic gain makes otherwise responsible individuals do dangerous things. Colorado needs to protect its water resources. Water is more precious than a few years of financial gain provided by the limited resouces of gas and oil. Protect Federal Lands, protect the natural beauty of Colorado and our water supplies and then we will be able to leave a true legacy to the generations who come after us.
FracXpert said on Wednesday, May 23 at 6:42 AM
The tanker was carying ethyl nitrate which is not a fracturing chemical. It is a flammable chemical used to produce drugs, dyes and perfumes. The truth about fracturing is that it is leading the U.S. towards energy independence and the largest producer of oil in the world. It will be nice when we begin exporting oil and bringing down our national debt.
Anonymous said on Tuesday, May 22 at 10:40 PM
The fracing oil companies tell us fracing is safe. But lookee here...there's HAZMAT people all over the place. Yes we rely on the oil industry for a lot of things, but polluting the water we drink should not be part of the deal. As for solar energy...we live in a fracing desert, for fracs sake, with 300 days of sunshine...solar nrg...duh. There's hundreds os miles of nothing heading west of here, and that has to be done is solar panels put on the ground, then a cable back to Grand junction and we'd all have enough electricity.
Sheeeez said on Tuesday, May 22 at 5:57 PM
How many houses polute our skylines and farming land?? Not to mention your sewers leaking into our drinking water...Nitrates in the ground where feed lots once exsist....Rigs move houses stay...
Patch Pride said on Tuesday, May 22 at 5:27 PM
Please educate yourselves if you are going to ramble on about your non-sense. It's frac ... no K. Solar Power huh? Well that's pretty smart .. not sure your entire life can run on that .... I mean you will have to take your electric car to the grocery store, however, without oil/gas, you won't have tires, belts, etc to make it run.... you'll push it I guess .... I am sure that will help the environment out too. It'll slow traffic, but you do what you gotta do I suppose. Oh, and I hope you don't need much from the store, since it's all delivered there by semi's that need those tires and belts and things to run too..... grow a garden, live in a hole, and don't wear clothes. Everything stems from the oil/gas industry in one way or another. But keep bashing how horrible everything is .... while you sit at your computer (that's plastic & metal)... yep, still oil/gas products.
Rebecca Parkins said on Tuesday, May 22 at 1:36 PM
It maybe 99% water when it goes in the ground but before its mixed at the drill site its 100% chemicals, many that are cancer causing and neurotoxic. If its waste water coming out of the well its mixed with water. Depends on if this truck was going to the site or coming from it. There is so much cover up in this industry that the true impact may be years coming out.
Random Action said on Tuesday, May 22 at 11:35 AM
Google Protect Our Water. Ban Fracking In PA for 3 petitions to Ban Fracking, and to read Congress's report released about the contents in Frack Fluid. Scary.
randomAction said on Tuesday, May 22 at 9:53 AM
please post my comments. It feels like censorship if you don't. I adhered to your rules. They are factual polite and informative. Thank you
John said on Tuesday, May 22 at 9:37 AM
Do you know for sure these were fracturing chemicals? Where did you get your information? Your competition says they were fuel additives.
Dona Syman said on Tuesday, May 22 at 9:08 AM
Ban Fracking! The Oil companies think they can do whatever they want to the planet, as if fossil fuel is the end all be all, when solar power is a viable alternative. Solar Power = People Power! No Drill, No Spill!
Don'tworry said on Tuesday, May 22 at 8:51 AM
Not to worry, it's %99 water right?
Add a comment
Most Popular