Category: Colorado
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Gasland’s Impact on the Explosive Growth of the Anti-Fracking Movement
ECOWATCH — Three years later, anti-fracking activism has grown into a full-fledged national movement. Its members are diverse, ranging from homeowners displaced by the shale gas industry’s harmful activities, to farmers …
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Democracy in Action as Fracking is Voted Down in Colorado Springs
BE THE CHANGE — Fortunately, the concerned citizens of Colorado Springs prevailed in convincing the majority of city council members that fracking is not safe. Now the city must …
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Campaign Kicks Off to Ban Fracking in Michigan
COMMITTEE TO BAN FRACKING IN MICHIGAN — In Michigan we have the constitutional power to write our own laws through a ballot initiative and put them before the voters. Other states threatened by fracking, such as New York and Pennsylvania, do not have this option …
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Coalition Acts to Protect Longmont’s Constitutional Right to Ban Fracking
EARTHWORKS — “Rather than sue communities acting to protect their public health, industry and the state should be addressing legitimate community concerns by putting the public’s health before industry profits …
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Fracking: What’s That Smell?
MICHAEL BRUNE — Natural gas boosters like to claim that it is a climate-friendly energy source, supposedly because it’s not as dirty as other fossil fuels. That’s like saying it’s safer to be attacked with a knife than a gun …