Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Benzene, broken pipeline, denver, energy, oil sands, peak oil, petroleum, Platte River, refinery, Sand Creek, Suncor, toxic leak
From a new article by Bruce Finley in the Denver Post.
Yes, this is Denver drinking water. They don’t even know where the leak is.
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bicycling, bike commuting, commuting, denver, mode share
…with a whopping 2.2% mode share.
From http://denverurbanism.com/2011/10/denver-hits-2-2-bicycle-commuter-mode-share-for-2010.html and the Community Survey.
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What's in black ooze near Colorado river? Benzene and a mystery – latimes.com.
The short article passes over some choice tidbits, the fact that the health dept. knew about this for a month and did nothing until a fisherman wrote about the spill on his blog, that the dudes at the nearby water treatment plant had to wear respirators due to mystery fumes for a week but nobody thought to trace the source, etc.
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The streets were a mess but the path was plowed. Two big thumbs up.
Industrialized Cyclist Notepad 