colorado fracking ban
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Oil & gas measures fail signature test, appeal considered
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It’s official, the fight against fracking has reached a dead-end in this 2016 election year in news perhaps not surprising to Colorado Democrat Gov. John Hickenlooper. The governor this week predicted the demise of two ballot initiatives that would have sought to limit hydraulic fracturing operations in the state. Turns out he was right. Neither of…
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Buck property rights bill generates same result as 2015
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“This is totally about property rights,” state Rep. Perry Buck, R-Windsor, said about her House Bill 1181. But the bill is also about the right to drill for oil and gas in Colorado’s urban and suburban Front Range or to be financially compensated if you are prevented from drilling. That’s why the one paragraph bill…
