Longmont's citizens voted in favour of a fracking ban, 60% to 40%, in 2012 After five towns in Colorado voted to ban fracking in 2012, it seemed the tide had turned against the process. But two years ...

STAR’s current focus is on convincing the ECMC ( Colorado Energy and Carbon Management Commission) commissioners to deny the ...

Fracking is a way for the natural gas industry to drill deep into shale gas deposits, but some worry that the gas itself and the fluids used in the process may contaminate local drinking water ...

Coming off fresh victories in three Colorado cities — and nearly a fourth — anti-hydraulic fracturing activists in the Rocky Mountain State are looking toward a potential statewide referendum on ...

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Natural gas is widely touted as a 'green fuel'. But as Paul Thacker found in Colorado, fracking's national 'ground zero', it's anything but. Lives and health are being ruined by pollution from ...

DENVER (Reuters) - A Colorado environmental group is reviving a push to get an anti-fracking measure on the U.S. state's November ballot, just two weeks after a prior sponsor said it was halting its ...

A battle over oil and gas drilling in residential areas was fought in the Colorado legislature this spring, with Democrats and environmental groups seeking to impose rules that would push fracking ...

Cities of Longmont and Fort Collins had passed laws to ban or delay fracking. — -- The Colorado Supreme Court ruled today against two cities' attempts to limit fracking, saying the legislation ...

After five towns in Colorado voted to ban fracking in 2012, it seemed the tide had turned against the process. But two years on, it's a very different story. Colorado is one of the crucial "swing ...

Image caption, Longmont's citizens voted in favour of a fracking ban, 60% to 40%, in 2012 After five towns in Colorado voted to ban fracking in 2012, it seemed the tide had turned against the process.

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