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Colorado regulators boost oil and gas setbacks from school and daycare playgrounds
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The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Tuesday unanimously approved new rules to increase setbacks between new oil and gas operations and schools as well as child care facilities. But some anti-fracking activists said the change will not keep them from pursuing legislation in 2019 or another ballot measure to increase oil and gas buffer…
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Initiative 97: Oil and gas setback proposal makes November ballot
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The initiative that may have had the hardest road to November’s ballot – Initiative 97, which would expand buffers between occupied buildings, “vulnerable areas” and new oil and natural gas development from 500 to 2,500 feet – has been certified by Colorado’s secretary of state. Proponents turned in 172,834 signatures, and a random sample deemed…
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Measures on property compensation, payday loans make Colorado’s fall ballot
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Colorado’s November ballot got a little more crowded Tuesday when two more measures fulfilled the requirements qualifying them for the general election. Initiative 108, which would require governments to compensate property owners when the government takes action that devalues property, and Initiative 126, which would reduce payday loan interest and fees, both turned in enough…
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Signatures turned in on oil and gas, payday loan initiatives
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Petition signatures for proposed Colorado ballot measures to cap payday loans and to increase the setback for new oil and gas drilling activity around homes made their way to Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams’ office Monday. Backers of Initiative 126, the payday loan initiative, turned in 188,045 signatures at 11 a.m. Monday. Supporters of…
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A Colorado energy-producing county says ‘no thanks’ to bigger drilling buffer
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Some of the most vocal supporters of pending legislation to create extra breathing room between schools and nearby oil and gas operations are those who live in the shadow of the drilling rigs. Yet, not all neighbors of drilling sites see things that way. The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports that the county commission in energy-rich Garfield County – site of much oil…
