May 22, 2012 11:18 PM UTC

But Hick says you can drink it, right?

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• by: JeffcoBlue

(It tastes sort of like Tab – promoted by Colorado Pols)

Update: KJCT reports up to 2,000 gallons of tasty, refreshing frack fluid may have spilled.

KREX Grand Junction Channel 5:

A tanker truck carrying thousands of gallons of fracking chemicals rolled over on Highway 139 at mile marker 32 Monday afternoon.

Trooper Nate Reed with the Colorado State Patrol says the driver of the tanker truck was headed south on Highway 139 toward Grand Junction when he lost control, causing the truck to flip onto its right side.

Officials with the Lower Valley Fire District say approximately 50 gallons leaked into a nearby stream before they dammed the area to prevent it from being contaminated any further.

The EPA is on scene according to KREX, and they seem to be taking this very seriously for a substance Gov. John Hickenlooper says you can drink and that he has personally taken a swig of. Why doesn’t Hickenlooper head to the scene of this fracking fluid spill for a taste test?

But then he might have to explain how there are lots of different kinds of fracking fluids, and most of them aren’t the Potemkin drinkable CleanStim fluid that Halliburton executives take shots of with gullible governors. I doubt Hickenlooper will be taking any swigs of the fluid they actually spilled.

Sorry, I know he still deserves praise for holding his ground on civil unions, but Hickenlooper’s fracking foolishness should not be forgotten. We need leadership on many issues.