On a Sunday evening in early April, workers at the edge of a field in Galeton lost control of the pressure at a new frack well. Boom! It was a blowout.
“It was probably 50 feet up there,” said Galeton resident Tony Ranalli. “It was shooting pretty high.”
Ranalli grabbed his son Cole, 11, and made a beeline for the local elementary school. They’d heard something big had happened and were curious to see it themselves. The parking lot offered a perfect view of the Bishop well pad in Weld County, which is operated by the oil and gas giant Chevron…