Four Decades
Fracking Spills
industry boosterism
Recently Colorado's Governor Hickenlooper recorded a radio ad that claimed "we have not had one instance of groundwater contamination associated with drilling and hydraulic fracturing" since 2008. A simple public records search shows this to be untrue - there have been dozens of spills that have contaminated groundwater since 2008. In Weld County alone, 44% of the 615 spills since 2008 have contaminated groundwater supplies.
On February 27, 2012 Clean Water Action and 12 of our partners delivered a letter to Gov. Hickenlooper expressing dismay over this claim in an ad sponsored by the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, the industry's main trade group. Read the letter below and download a letter to the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, asking them to address the inaccuracies in the ad.
Colorado Currents | Winter
Inside
frack attack across colorado's front range!
Northern Colorado, home base to Colorado Clean Water Action in Fort Collins, is in the midst of the biggest fracking boom in the United States. Weld County, just east of Fort Collins, has more active oil and gas wells than any county in the U.S, with nearly 18,000 wells. As a geologic formation called the “Niobrara Shale” is drilled for oil and gas, 10,000 to 20,000 more wells could be added. The Niobrara is a deep shale rock layer that requires hydraulic fracking to get out the oil and gas. As is the case with shale gas fracking across the U.S., the issue is extremely controversial in northern Colorado. Recently, cities and counties up and down the Front Range have been dealing with the consequences of drilling and fracking.Colorado Currents
Protecting your rights
Colorado Currents Summer 2011
We’ve had a busy summer at Clean Water Action in Colorado. Our door-to-door campaign is moving forward to protect the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) a federal grant program that provides funding for parks, open space, and water recreation across Colorado. We’ve knocked on thousands of doors encouraging our supporters (you!) to contact Congressman Cory Gardner to encourage him to support LWCF.