Colorado. Floods + Fracking + West Nile Virus = We are Fracked.

[evildevil]

Flooded Colorado’s worries turn to chemical contamination and disease
New dangers may be posed by fracking chemicals and West Nile virus

The rains may have stopped, but Colorado’s problems are far from over.

The most immediate danger posed by the state’s record-breaking floodwaters are the closed roads and bridges that continue to leave

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[kyra_neko_rei]

If fracking ever gets a tag of its own, can it please be "fracking assholes"?

[shortsweetcynic]

oh, cosigned.

[wrestlingdog]

I approve!

[seishin]

love it!

[ar_feiniel_]

What a mess. I was literally there less than 2 weeks ago visiting family. It's hard to believe that half the places I saw in Boulder, and the finished basement room of a family member that I slept in, are ruined.

And now this. Ugh.

[idemandjustice]

In addition to people I know who've lost their homes, I keep thinking about the businesses in Boulder. There was a little diner called North Broadway Coffee Shop (they may have changed it to North Boulder Cafe), that had the cheapest and best pancakes anywhere. It was a family business, and the owner, Julie, always chatted with my husband and me when we came there. I know that was where some of the worst of the flooding occurred. I don't know if they'll be able to recover. I'm not just sad that I may never have pancakes there again, I'm also really worried about all the people who had businesses there, who may not be able to come back from this disaster. And people's jobs... it's just awful.

[shortsweetcynic]

same with the sylvan dale guest ranch in loveland. my mom works there and it's...absolutely destroyed. everyone but essential management has been laid off, operations are suspended indefinitely...it's a horrible, horrible situation.

there's already a fundraiser to try to help get them back on their feet, and people who are local are stepping in to try to help rebuild...but nothing of their future is certain, and it's heartbreaking.

http://www.coloradoan.com/viewart/20130917/NEWS01/309170037/Flood-decimates-Loveland-s-Sylvan-Dale-Guest-Ranch

[ar_feiniel_]

Boulder's got money and a tourist industry -- I'm hoping/guessing that it will overall make out ok. It doesn't help my cousin's basement, and yeah there are probably going to be some lost businesses, but I think the overall economy will make it.

[romp]

I'll be interested to follow this. The company that wanted to put a pipeline through northern BC to the coast promised $3 billion for clean-up. But what's to say that's the ceiling for clean-up and recovery? How do you clean up a water table? Streams? And the list goes on, at least for BC.

Sorry, Colorado. Crazy that we allow companies to take the resources of our land for a huge profit and then hope we don't have to pay for too much of the damage.

[evildevil]

this video explains that used water from fracking cant never be cleaned.

[romp]

thanks

[kitanabychoice]

That's an awesome video, thank you for posting it! I've always been pretty uneducated on the fracking topic, so this helps me a lot.

[wizard_alien]

Also heard stories that cautioned people, to look out for snakes. Ugh this is all just awful.