Divide Creek Seep 2004 - characteristics of gas expression

Video of Divide Creek Seep 2004.

The seep you see on this video continues to this day.

This video shows some of the characteristics of gas expressing into divide creek and along the banks at the "Main Seep" area in May of 2004.

In 2004, this region was the focus of a massive natural gas well blow-out that released an estimated (and acknowledged) 115 million cubic feet of natural gas into the environment.

EnCana Oil and Gas, USA was found by the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission to have been responsible for this devastating event.

Despite that and despite that the seep is ongoing, and despite us have found a new seep on June 28, 2008, the COGCC continues to allow drilling of this extremely fragile area by the same operator who caused the seep in 2004. And, as of this post (08-02-08) the COGCC (same supervisor in charge of that and this investigation) continues to minimize the full scope of the new seep through a failure to fully investigate. They will not even test the ground water which we drink.

To follow the course of natural gas development and its impacts to this very special place in Colorado, visit journeyoftheforsaken.com

[This video was filmed 05-14-04]

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• contamination
• gas
• drilling
• environment
• EnCana
• Colorado
• Divide
• Creek
• Seep
• 2004
• 2008
• benzene
• geology