From the Styx by Peggy Tibbetts

Last week on May 14, Lisa Bracken documented in photos and video how Encana workers botched the so-called clean up of a sludge pit full of fracing chemicals. Read the full story at Journey of the Forsaken.

Here’s the video:

As Lisa pointed out, the sludge pit is situated over an aquifer so the buried chemicals will continue to leach into groundwater, wells, and eventually West Divide Creek, and the Colorado River which supplies water for our valley and the western states. We have no way of knowing if our municipal filtration systems or our home filtration systems are capable of filtering out the chemicals because the energy companies will not tell us what chemicals they are using. We have to guess.

After watching the video, a tall cool glass of water will never look the same to me.

And some people still ask, “What’s the big deal about gas well drilling?”

Clean water. That’s the big deal.

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