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Timeline: Colorado’s Oil & Gas Explosion Problem

By Leigh Paterson | May 27, 2017
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Back-to-back oil and gas explosions and three deaths have Colorado’s Front Range communities on edge. This timeline lays out the many years of events leading up to these accidents. For more on the home explosion in Firestone and the oil tank explosion in Mead, check out our most recent post.

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Leigh Paterson is a reporter for Inside Energy, based in Wyoming.

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