Will the Colorado River Get Fracked?

EcoWatch: Two months ago a story started ‘leaking’ out of Western Colorado about a fracked-gas pipeline break--loaded with cancer-causing benzene--with fluids heading toward and eventually into Parachute Creek which is a tributary to the Colorado River. As water wells close to the Creek started testing positive for benzene, and then as the Creek itself tested positive for benzene above drinking water standards, the news media started telling a story of how the Colorado River--a drinking water source for 35......

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