{"id":42043,"date":"2018-12-28T08:55:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T13:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42043"},"modified":"2018-12-28T08:55:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T13:55:41","slug":"fracking-future-shock-in-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42043","title":{"rendered":"Fracking Future Shock in Colorado \u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/12\/28\/fracking-future-shock-in-colorado\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Fracking Future Shock in Colorado \u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p>If fracking treated all people equally, that is, if every person in Colorado were threatened with anywhere from 10 to 50 fracked wells in their neighborhood, the oil and gas industry would be long gone.\u00a0But it doesn\u2019t, so only a minority of Coloradans reap the whirlwind in the state\u2019s fracking fields.<\/p>\n<p>That Prop 112, a citizen setback initiative, made it onto the fall ballot and that about one million Coloradans supported it shows there is growing public awareness and concern over industrial fracking.\u00a0It mandated 2500 foot drilling setbacks from homes and other essential human resources such as watercourses.\u00a0The oil and gas industry defeated the initiative by spending $40 million to create uncertainty about the factual health and safety hazards of fracking. That money onslaught influenced statewide politicians from both parties who didn\u2019t want those deep pockets turned inside out on them. For too many, it appears, the business of government is business.<\/p>\n<p>As a species we hate uncertainty.\u00a0\u00a0Like the cigarette industry before it, the oil business and their political allies have adopted uncertainty as their life blood.\u00a0Sure, many people get sick living near fracking sites, but some don\u2019t, say they.\u00a0The air quality along the front-range is deteriorating and is a threat to all, but it\u2019s not all the fault of frackers in Weld County, say they.\u00a0And so it goes, for certainty is elusive in the complicated world we\u2019ve created.<\/p>\n<p>Still, some things about fracking are certain. As an example, fracked wells decrease in production very rapidly, after which they must be properly closed. The state contains over 100,000 wells, and about half are closed or inactive. \u00a0A small subset, of roughly 720 wells, are called orphaned wells.\u00a0\u00a0These are wells where ownership can\u2019t be determined.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fracking Future Shock in Colorado \u00a0\u00a0 If fracking treated all people equally, that is, if every person in Colorado were threatened with anywhere from 10 to 50 fracked wells in their neighborhood, the oil and gas industry would be long gone.\u00a0But it doesn\u2019t, so only a minority of Coloradans reap the whirlwind in the state\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5503,5493,331,1729,23646],"class_list":["post-42043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-colorado","tag-counterpunch","tag-fracking","tag-oil-and-gas-industry","tag-philip-doe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42044,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42043\/revisions\/42044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}