Back in Boulder, on Monday, Erica Meltzer at The Daily Camera reported on how the flood waters had
reached fracking wells.
Not exact matches
Rival Whiting Petroleum Corp, the biggest producer in North Dakota's Bakken formation, will stop
fracking new
wells by the end of March, but would «consider completing some of these
wells» if oil
reached $ 40 to $ 45 a barrel, Chairman and CEO Jim Volker told analysts.
He obviously also does not realize that once this decsion was
reached, a reversal would require changing again the SGEIS which will now presumably point out the problems with
fracking as
well as the Health Department's study.
But Clarens says
fracking fluids could theoretically leak into aquifers, because the
wells must be dug through shallow layers where the aquifers lie in order to
reach shales.
I write because history shows us — heck, The Daily Show and Roxane Gay and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and thousands of journalists and bloggers and working poets and writers literally show us every day — that it's the
best weapon against hopelessness and despair and loneliness, mightier than tear gas and homophobia and injustice and corrupt politicians and
fracking and every other evil in the world, and every bit as necessary for
reaching our human potential as oxygen is for continued function of the brain.