WTFrack.org FRACK-EXHIBIT III

FRACK EXHIBIT III

COLORADO

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 State of Greed

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The map illustrations below are of well locations in three counties North Eastern Colorado. The three counties alone comprise over 20,000 active O&G wells!  That's roughly 40% of the entire State of Colorado's active O&G count.  Just imagine, Colorado is talking about hosting over 100,000 active Oil & Gas wells!  That's sick! That's a 'State of Greed."

I surmise that the State of Colorado will be a Superfund State like no other.  Imagine just 10% of all active wells have or eventually will contaminate the natural resources. That's 10,000 contaminated areas in Colorado.  Colorado prides itself on having beautiful, pristine areas where other states may envy.  We'd like to ask the State of Colorado: "What the hell are you doing?" You must be in someones pocket or you have lost what it means to be a Coloradoan!  Our natural resources are worth more money than the state is gaining from the Oil & Gas industry.

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WTFrack.org Frack Exhibit II

FRACK EXHIBIT II

COLORADO

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WTFrack.org FRACK-EXHIBIT I

FRACK EXHIBIT I

COLORADO

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WTFrack.org has compiled a compendium of  images to illustrate the real devastation that the Oil & Gas Industry imposes on our natural lands.  The exhibit below is one of many that clearly show the massive scarring that occurs to clear a large space to 'frack' for oil and gas. The images below show visible fracking pad 'scars.' The scars are more than 2-5 times the size of a football field. 

We will also show you the 'open pits' that are a very hot topic of fracking discussion.  The open pits are either polymer lined pits or non-lined pits where up to >15 million gallons of 'produced water' is stored.  Produced water is a water & chemical cocktail mix that is used to frac a well.  We all know that there are more than 649 toxic chemicals found in frac fluid. This produced water is stored in an open pit (as shown) where it evaporates.  What are the chemical concentrations of this toxic cocktail that are evaporated in to the air? 

Some of the images contain visible wildlife 'social trails' where animals naturally walk towards a water or food source.  Are these open pits safe for wildlife such as birds, deer, elk, rabbits, small mammals, etc...?

Many of the images appear to show the natural resource visibly sterile.  Void of any vegetation whatsoever, even in areas where there are no active wells.  Would this indicate that remediation has not taken place or been successful by the COGCC? We urge the State of Colorado to investigate these areas and remediate them immediately.

The Oil & Gas Industry appears to have one vision.  Their vision is long-term natural resource destruction for short term monetary gains only to themselves. What will they destroy next?  Don't believe the rhetoric that is spewed in the media regarding the urgency to change to natural gas. If America invested it's brains and money in renewable energy innovation and production it could sustain itself for an unimaginably long time and still posses our oil reserves if we ever needed them.

What is the cost/benefit in this devastatingly ugly toxic venture? We dare say a picture is worth a thousand words, or a thousand lives.

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