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Oil spills in Colorado, too (thousands of times)

A drilling rig tower in Garfield County, which ranked second in the number of spills reported to the state | Denver Post

While it pales in comparison to the environmental devastation caused by the BP oil spill in the Gulf, oil is spilling in Colorado, too.

The Colorado spill is really spills — thousands of them that have spilled millions of gallons over the last 2.5 years.

From a story in this week’s Denver Post:

Oil and gas companies have reported almost 1,000 spills to Colorado regulators over the past 2 1/2 years, totaling 5.2 million gallons of drilling liquids and oil.

They ranged from small oil leaks from half-closed valves to thousands of barrels of tainted water that escaped from pits.

It’s far from the volume of oil now shooting into the Gulf of Mexico, but a Denver Post analysis of state spill reports shows that even far from offshore, drilling for oil can regularly create unintended messes.

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