This image says it all, courtesy of Facebook:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

[FirstLight]

1. awesome...

hadn't seen this one, reposting for sure

[madamesilverspurs]

2. Reposting for sure.

Pic is of Colorado's Maroon Bells. And Colorado's fight against fracking is getting stronger.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Thanks for identifying the place; I recognized it but couldn't remember the name!

[hlthe2b]

6. near Aspen... Maroon Bells is one of the most photographed locales in the country.

So, it is very appropriately chosen for that anti-fracking message.

[In_The_Wind]

3. Indeed!

[leftstreet]

5. DURec

[femmocrat]

7. K & R

[rurallib]

8. frackin' right, frackin's wrong

[spanone]

9. k&r...

for my dear CaliforniaPeggy

[hootinholler]

10. Not only no... n/t

[classof56]

11. Wow--just wow!

I was raised in the Denver area, and trips to Aspen were among my favorite outings. Remember Maroon Bells well, and have a photo of it on my wall, a gift from a long-time friend whose husband is an amazing photographer. I was around in the "Don't Californicate Colorado" days and began to despair at the development going on among all that gorgeous scenery. I echo the sentiment here, big time, and feel sick at the thought of fracking happening there or anywhere in my old home state.

Let us keep fighting the good fight!

[William769]

12. Kick & recommended.

[Overseas]

13. K&R. Fracking Frenzy must be stopped now. Poisoning our water supplies needs to be a referendum.

Are we, the people of the state(s) affected, so desperate for natural gas that we willingly agree to poison our drinking water and rivers to get it?

Fracking has to be the second to last choice. It needs a moratorium for decades.

AFTER we have tried retrofitting to conserve the oil we have already drilled, doubling mileage standards on automobiles, transferring oil subsidies to wind and solar, and a lot of other things.

I can't accept pumping benzene and tolulene and other industrial chemicals, by the hundreds of thousands of gallons, into the shale underground because we've got to grab up every ounce of the earth's fossil fuels as fast as we can. Too many people have been hurt and more continue to be hurt.

No way. Poisoning our groundwater with hundreds of wells near important natural water supplies all over the country for an energy source that might last 100 years? That's a very short time of continued wasteful living for the permanent damage those wells and poisons cause.

Please see the update in Gasland II and take a look at the distribution of the wells, how they look on the landscape, and what illnesses the poisons continue to produce. There is so much pro-natural gas propaganda out there without a deep discussion of the short term and long term costs.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. Well said, and thank you.

Wish I could recommend your post.

[thablueprint.]

15. Funny and true

Not only that it's pretty brilliant, it should be spreaded across the web. Most of society doesn't know what dangers Fracking can lead to

[jimlup]

16. That's the Maroon Bells!

I am climbing all of Colorado's 54 14-thousand foot peaks. Those are the Maroon Bells near Aspen. They are on my list but I'm very wary of them. They are know to climbers as the "Deadly Bells" because the rock is all shit.

[awoke_in_2003]

17. They won't be happy...

until the have poisoned everything