More Than Green

Once the Yampa and Green mix, they take on the Green River’s name. The combined waters snake their way through steep chasms and chiseled plateaus rich with geological stories. The Green River Formation, a rock layer deposited in the Uinta Basin near the present-day river about 50 million years ago, not only preserves a large deposit of fish fossils but also holds one of the largest oil shale deposits in the world, making it an attractive extractive resource to the energy industry. Extraction by hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” uses between 1 and 5 million gallons of water per well over the well’s lifetime and contaminates the surrounding groundwater. There are currently over 60,000 active wells in Colorado and almost 25,000 in Utah. Once mined, burning fossil fuels also releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, warming an already arid West.

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