Floods and fracking

[madamesilverspurs]

Okay, with all the flooding we're getting even more concerned about those open pits and tanks where they store the "produced" water from fracking wells. We've also been concerned about the fumes that escape their "safe closed systems" on their storage tanks --the pic shows one of the condensate tanks at a well pad. So very not good!



http://www.greeleytribune.com/news/8116812-113/wcr-update-closed-greeley

[Stargazer99]

1. how long is it going to take before the common man

finally gets fed up? My guess is when many become sick, die and lose their homes, etc
this is what happens when you worship mammon, which the Bible warned you about

[rdharma]

2. I will be all for fracking..... when I see a fracking advocate drink a cup full of fracking fluid!

Just 8 fluid ounces. What's the problem with that?

[pscot]

3. Much as I'd like to blame fracking for all our ills

You have to note the fact that the amount of ran that fell in the ara was a once in 1000 years event:

Boulder's total 3-day rainfall as of Thursday night was 12.30". Based on data from the NWS Precipitation Frequency Data Server, this was a greater than 1-in-1000 year rainfall event. The city's previous record rainfall for any month, going back to 1897, was 9.59", set in May 1995. Some other rainfall totals through Thursday night include 14.60" at Eldorado Springs, 11.88" at Aurora, and 9.08" at Colorado Springs. These are the sort of rains one expects on the coast in a tropical storm, not in the interior of North America! The rains were due to a strong, slow-moving upper level low pressure system to the west of Colorado that got trapped to the south of an unusually strong ridge of high pressure over Western Canada. This is the same sort of odd atmospheric flow pattern that led to the most expensive flood disaster in Canadian history, the $5.3 billion Calgary flood of mid-June this summer. The upper-level low responsible for this week's Colorado flood drove a southeasterly flow of extremely moist tropical air from Mexico that pushed up against the mountains and was lifted over a stationary front draped over the mountains. As the air flowed uphill and over the front, it expanded and cooled, forcing the moisture in it to fall as rain. Balloon soundings from Denver this morning continued to show levels of September moisture among the highest on record for the station, as measured by the total Precipitable Water (PW), which is how much water would fall at the ground if the entire amount of water vapor through the depth of the atmosphere was condensed. Four of the top eight all-time September highs for Precipitable Water since records began in 1948 have been recorded over the past two days

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html

[rdharma]

4. Climate change then?

Hmmmm?

[Champion Jack]

5. Funny, those once in a thousand year weather events seem to be happenning more and more...

Around here we have been fighting the gasholes about putting their "ponds" and tanks in the flood plain....