Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Global Warming Resulting In Record Snowpacks -- More Than Enough Water Is Going To Flow Into Missouri River for Fracking

Link here (regional links break often and break early).
Snowpack in Wyoming’s mountains stood at 129 percent of the historical average for this point in the year. All basins were sitting above average, ranging from a high of 159 percent in the Upper Bear River Basin of southwest Wyoming to 103 in the Belle Fourche Basin of northeast Wyoming.

In the Upper North Platte Basin, the snowpack was 150 percent of average. The NWS projects a high potential for headwater spring snowmelt flooding there, with the snowpack trends at or surpassing the record years of 1982, 1986 and 1997.

In the western Big Horn Mountains, the snow-water equivalent sits at 120 to 140 percent of average.

That is at or beyond the record water years of 1986, 1997 and 1999.
More than enough water is going to flow into the Missouri River for fracking.  US Army Corps of Engineers now charges a "storage fee" for storing water behind the dam -- don't even get me started. 

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