Category: Colorado
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Fracking Divide: Simulating Gas Development in Colorado’s Wild Wild West
SKYTRUTH — While gas wells, roads, pipelines, and other infrastructure could fragment the wilderness of the Thompson Divide, a wide-range of stakeholders and citizen groups have joined together out of concern for this valuable resource. Local citizens have …
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Fracking Ourselves to Death in Pennsylvania
TOMDISPATCH — Now, a new generation of downwinders is getting sick as an emerging industry pushes the next wonder technology—in this case, high-volume hydraulic fracturing. Whether they live in Texas, Colorado or Pennsylvania, their symptoms are the same: rashes, nosebleeds, severe headaches …
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Hydraulic Fracturing Faces Growing Competition for Water Supplies in Water-Stressed Regions
CERES — A new Ceres research paper on water use in hydraulic fracturing operations shows that a significant portion of this activity is happening in water stressed regions of the U.S., most prominently Texas and Colorado, which are both in the midst of …
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Corporate Profit Trumps Public Health in Colorado Fracking Vote
PHILLIP DOE — I went there to testify in favor of a bill, House Bill 1275. It was a modest bill. It simply asked that data on Front-Range citizen complaints about fracking be collected and examined by an independent body of scientists and health professionals. A preliminary report …
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Are People Living Near Fracking Sites Getting Sick?
GARY WOCKNER — On April 11,Colorado State Rep. Joann Ginal’s (D-Fort Collins) House Bill 1275 was heard, and died, in committee in the Colorado State Legislature. Rep Ginal’s bill asked and proposed to answer a very honest and simple question, “Are people living near …