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Group behind oil-and-gas setbacks measure cancels rally, citing threats

By JOEY BUNCH 10/16/2018 | updated 7 years ago

Colorado Rising, the group backing Proposition 112 on the November ballot, has cancelled a rally in support of the oil-and-gas setbacks measure that had been planned in Greeley Friday, Oct. 19, saying that tempers are running too hot and some of its supporters are being intimidated.

Proposition 112 would bar oil and gas operations within 2,500 feet of homes, businesses and schools. Opponents said that would virtually ban the industry from working on privately owned lands in Colorado, cost the state and local tax bases about $1 billion a year and seriously hamper a major employment industry in the state.

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In canceling the rally, Colorado Rising on Tuesday cited these incidents:

“Fear and intimidation tactics are nothing new to volunteers in support of better health and safety protections from oil & gas development,” Colorado Rising spokesperson Anne Lee Foster said in an email to reporters Tuesday.

When Colorado Politics asked about the situation, Dan Haley, president and CEO of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, said this via email: “Death threats are absolutely inappropriate and cross a very serious line. We need a return to a high level of civil discourse and civil dialogue in this state.”

The organizer of the pro-Proposition 112 rally, Megan Meyer, said she was one of those who has received threats.

“It was going to be a family event, and now I just don’t want anyone to get hurt,” she told the Greeley Tribune newspaper. “I think tensions are just a little too high in Weld County right now.”

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(Photo by Andy Colwell for Colorado Politics)
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