Tapwater Catches Fire After Natural Gas Drillers Move In

[Are_grits_groceries]

This Fort Lupton, Colorado couple's water catches fire. It didn't use to catch fire, not until the natural gas drillers moved in and contaminated the groundwater.

The couple says that when they complained to the gas company, the company said they conducted a study and found there was nothing wrong with the water that could be affected by the gas and oil drilling going on in their area.

http://vimeo.com/4680635

http://consumerist.com/5381677/tapwater-catches-fire-after-natural-gas-drillers-move-in

This would be interesting.

[Webster Green]

1. "Nothing wrong with the water" (except it is flammable)

Reminds me of the old Randy Newman song...

There's a red moon rising
On the Cuyahoga River
Rolling into Cleveland to the lake

There's a red moon rising
ON the Cuyahoga River
Rolling into Cleveland to the lake

There's an oil barge winding
Down the Cuyahoga River
Rolling into Cleveland to the lake

There's an oil barge winding
Down the Cuyahoga River
Rolling into Cleveland to the lake

Cleveland city of light city of magic
Cleveland city of light you're calling me
Cleveland, even now I can remember
'Cause the Cuyahoga River
Goes smokin' through my dreams

Burn on, big river, burn on
Burn on, big river, burn on
Now the Lord can make you tumble
And the Lord can make you turn
And the Lord can make you overflow
But the Lord can't make you burn

Burn on, big river, burn on
Burn on, big river, burn on

'Burn On" - Randy Newman

[Subdivisions]

2. Total coincidence. n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Gas Company remedy: Don't hold a lit flame by the faucet.

[havocmom]

4. Volatility not the only thing extraction industry does to water

Montana and EPA lost a court battle with extraction industry. They CAN throw water around and poison the ground.

http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_4c7d8f6c-b8d3-11de-a581-001cc4c002e0.html

Much of the underground water in eastern Montana & Wyoming is very salty (shallow sea here once, you know, back when the dinosaurs played on semi-tropical beaches in my 'hood). Too much at once turns things into a sort of poison, makes the ground crusty hard and is not good for plants. Hell, a good rain or snow runoff can leech salt and leave deposits in some places. So water in rivers where there is LOTS of snow runoff is pretty damned important. Clean water, that's the stuff!

Gas drilling can mean pumping water around, and drillers in these parts want to get water out of their way by pouring salty water into rivers. Guess we can't live without the gas, but we don't need water? Insanity.