Posted on 10/28/2013 7:04:16 AM PDT by cutty
Massive storms dumped “biblical rainfall amounts” across nearly 2,000 square miles of Colorado last month, according to the National Weather Service.
The raging floods that followed killed at least eight people, damaged or destroyed nearly 2,000 homes, and wrecked more than 200 miles of state highways and 50 state bridges.
The Denver Post ran a front page aerial photo headlined, “Front Range Flooding: Oil spilling into mix,” showing a trashed stream bed with brown stains near a “damaged tank” that “leaks crude.”
Opportunistic flocks of Big Green eco-vultures already embroiled in five local anti-fracking ballot measures pounced on the tragedy as a propaganda vehicle.
Their basic strategy was to pose as "mom-and-pop victims with no money to stop this spilling, but Big Bad Oil is putting zillions into the campaign.”
In fact, the opposite was true
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Activists almost always lie. They must.
Oil is a natural substance. Whenever it spills, nature breaks it down and it goes away. Notice the big gulf spill.
It wasn’t oil that stained the water. It was raw sewerage. Human Feces.
0 was vacationing in CO?
Liberals almost always lie.
It is the same deception tactic used by Satan.
...But something happened this time around. During flood recovery, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment sampled water from eight rivers and found “no evidence of pollutants from oil and gas spills in rivers and streams affected by flooding.”
Then why was the water stained brown in those aerial photos CNN and the Denver Post published? Matthew Allen of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said, “The total reported amount of oil spills is small compared to the solid waste.”
It was human feces, “20 million gallons, just so we're clear, of raw sewage,” said Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper. In fact, the statewide 45,000 gallons of spilled oil would just wet the bottom of an Olympic-size swimming pool's 660,000 gallons.
The Denver Post was outraged. Editorial page editor Vincent Carroll wrote, “the shameless use of Colorado's floods to attack drilling,” a long piece ripping the unethical tactics of the fracktivists.
But who paid for all that unethical fractivism? Find out tomorrow in this same space in part two.
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