It looks like the mystery of a loud boom heard near Lochbuie, Colorado has been solved.
Read on to see how we uncovered the COGCC accident report for this location.
Lochbuie Boom
How much water does fracking use, Part II
In Part I, we showed how Crestone Peak Resources had used 160,349,639 gallons of water to frack the 13 wells at the Waste Connections and Pratt sites. Sadly, it gets worse. Between the Morgan Hills, Woolley-Becky, and Woolley-Sosa sites, Crestone Peak Resources used 225,137,194 gallons of water to frack 22 wells.
So all together now:
Crestone Peak Resources has used three hundred eighty-five million, four hundred eighty-six thousand, eight hundred thirty-three gallons of water to drill 35 wells on five pads in Erie, Colorado.
See also:
- Extreme Reach Wellbores Require Extreme Water Use
- Draco OGDP Cumulative Impacts Analysis
- How much is 10 million gallons of water?
- Water usage for Hydraulic Fracturing in Broomfield, Colorado
- Water Usage for Hydraulic Fracturing in Erie, Colorado
- How much water does fracking use, Part VI
- How much water does fracking use, Part V
- How much water does fracking use, Part IV
- How much water does fracking use, Part III
- How much water does fracking use, Part II
How much water does fracking use?
Recently, we stumbled upon FracFocus, an additional resource linked from the COGCC complaint site. FracFocus allows the public to view “Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Product Component Information Disclosure” documents that include some summary information for each well, as well as a detailed chemical composition of the fluids injected at each well head. We ran the numbers for Waste Connections and Pratt, and came up with a single catastrophic statistic: 160,349,639 gallons of water.
Erie town trustees tell angry residents they were unaware of venting near school, launch probe
With the support of neighbors from surrounding communities, Erie residents voiced their concerns about the volatile organic compounds released at the plug & abandon operations near Aspen Ridge Preparatory School and the Kiddie Academy of Erie.
Why I am an Activist
This article is reprinted from the Holiday 2017 issue of Elife.
Continue reading “Why I am an Activist”ac·tiv·ist noun /ˈæk.tÉ™.vɪst/a person who believes strongly in political or social change and takes part in activities such as public protests to try to make this happen [ref]http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/activist[/ref]
Erie neighbors concerned about new gas pipeline close to homes
Once again, Jennifer Kovaleski from 7News is in Vista Ridge to talk about fracking. This time, it’s the raw natural gas gathering lines being installed within 100 ft of existing homes by Anadarko Petroleum. Once they start building units in the Red Tail Ranch development, homes will be even closer to this line.
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Erie neighbors host demonstration in front of nearby fracking site
The Erie Protectors hosted a community photo shoot to replicate a photo taken by concerned community members in December 2014 to protest Crestone Peak Resources’ activities at the Waste Connections and Pratt sites just north of Vista Ridge in Erie, Colorado. We had a wonderful morning meeting like-minded neighbors opposed to oil & gas activities in our neighborhoods.
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Boulder County debates new oil and gas operations
Boulder County residents are mobilizing to show their opposition to a proposal by 8 North LLC, a subsidiary of Extraction Oil & Gas, who plan to drill on lands between Lafayette and Erie.
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Neighbors are fed up with fracking smells, noises in Erie subdivision
Jennifer Kovaleski from Denver’s 7NEWS came to Erie to interview two residents about the odors and noise coming from the Pratt site just north of the Vista Ridge development in Erie, Colorado.
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Erie goes further than the state to prevent another Firestone tragedy
On Tuesday, September 12, the Erie town trustees passed an ordinance requiring oil & gas companies to provide maps of all new and existing oil and gas pipelines in the town by October 2018.
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