Colorado Paper Refuses To Retract Letter Calling For Violence Against Frackers

[cstone]

I heard something on the news recently about an oil well exploding and killing some people. I've been away from the news for a few weeks so I don't have a good lock on when/where exactly this happened, but I thought it was here. This thread immediately jumped to mind.

Firestone house built in 2015 about 150 yards from a well drilled in 1993. Anadarko owns that well and about 3000 others in the area and they agreed to shut down all of the wells temporarily to conduct safety inspections while the investigation into the house explosion continues. At this point there is no evidence that links the wells with the explosion and it sounds like Anadarko is being proactive in their response. It doesn't stop the green/anti-fossil fuel crowd from marching forth with pitch forks and torches calling for the heads of all oil company executives.

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/04/26...use-explosion/

[Irving]

Yeah that's the one, thanks.

[brutal]

Firestone house built in 2015 about 150 yards from a well drilled in 1993. Anadarko owns that well and about 3000 others in the area and they agreed to shut down all of the wells temporarily to conduct safety inspections while the investigation into the house explosion continues. At this point there is no evidence that links the wells with the explosion and it sounds like Anadarko is being proactive in their response. It doesn't stop the green/anti-fossil fuel crowd from marching forth with pitch forks and torches calling for the heads of all oil company executives.

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/04/26...use-explosion/

One might possibly think the builder had some culpability?

[Rumline]

One might possibly think the builder had some culpability?

The builder?? How? They have no insight into where gasses might escape from a nearby well. If the land was platted and the build permitted properly, there's no way you could go after the builder.

[Irving]

It's difficult enough to go after a builder for things that they have screwed up, let alone for things that may not be related at all.

[cstone]

If someone were to attempt to hold the builder responsible, they may as well add the county/city for issuing the building permits. But this all would presuppose that the gas wells were at least partially responsible for the explosion. That cause has not been established and since the men who were killed were near the source of the explosion and they were working on a hot water heater, the first suspect cause would be something done by the deceased while working on the gas supply line in the home.

The woman who survived is a science teacher at Mountain Range High School (128th and Huron) in Westminster.

[BushMasterBoy]

Cut gas line from a well.

http://kdvr.com/2017/05/02/investiga...-and-gas-well/

[Grant H.]

Cut gas line from a well.

http://kdvr.com/2017/05/02/investiga...-and-gas-well/

I knew this was coming, being in the field I get to hear a fair amount. The COGCC preliminary findings showed no link, but then they find this "cut gas line" that was cut near the foundation (builder likely cut it), and it's on like donkey kong. No matter that for 2015 there were no issues even with production, and the well was shut in for most of 2016.

I still call BS. That well has been operating since late January this year, and they want to tell me that the gas leaked into the basement, where there are 2 open flames at all times (water heater and furnace pilot), and only on the day that the home owner and brother are replacing the water heater it builds up enough to ignite?

BS.

People are seeing a pay day from the "evil oil companies", and the liberal media can't help but report it as "evil oil corporation kills innocents"...

[roberth]

BS.

People are seeing a pay day from the "evil oil companies", and the liberal media can't help but report it as "evil oil corporation kills innocents"...

Yup, a payday for the "victims" of fracking. I'd wager the line was cut during the investigation into the explosion.

[Great-Kazoo]

I knew this was coming, being in the field I get to hear a fair amount. The COGCC preliminary findings showed no link, but then they find this "cut gas line" that was cut near the foundation (builder likely cut it), and it's on like donkey kong. No matter that for 2015 there were no issues even with production, and the well was shut in for most of 2016.

I still call BS. That well has been operating since late January this year, and they want to tell me that the gas leaked into the basement, where there are 2 open flames at all times (water heater and furnace pilot), and only on the day that the home owner and brother are replacing the water heater it builds up enough to ignite?

BS.

People are seeing a pay day from the "evil oil companies", and the liberal media can't help but report it as "evil oil corporation kills innocents"...

This falls on the inspectors who should have signed off the removed tank, cty insp who followed up etc. Unfortunately the lawyers always go after the deepest pockets.