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madamesilverspurs

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Sun Jul 21, 2013, 03:23 PM Jul 2013

Potentially explosive scrapped fracking pipes ...

Potentially explosive scrapped fracking pipes spur state, city warnings

Watch out for explosive fracking pipes on the side of the highway, at rest areas or other places where scrap fracking waste isn’t supposed to be.

That’s the message the Colorado Department of Transportation sent out to its employees, followed by warnings issued by the city of Loveland, Windsor-Severance Fire Rescue and other local governments.

“It has come to our attention that recycling businesses and landfills in Colorado are turning away customers who are trying to recycle and dispose of fracking pipe,” said a memo sent by the Loveland Fire Department to city employees.

“Fracking pipe is commonly used in Colorado oil/gas wells and contains explosive charges to perforate the tubing in the wells,” the memo said. “Sometimes these explosive charges do not detonate and are still ‘live’ within the pipe; therefore fracking pipe is considered to be extremely dangerous and should not be handled by any city employees.”

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Potentially explosive scrapped fracking pipes ... (Original Post) madamesilverspurs Jul 2013 OP
Oh crap...it just gets better and better.... dixiegrrrrl Jul 2013 #1

dixiegrrrrl

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1. Oh crap...it just gets better and better....
Sun Jul 21, 2013, 03:33 PM
Jul 2013

Everything about fracking is destructive.....and yet, we can't stop it?

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