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Fracking and Colorado Flooding Don’t Mix
Posted by EcoWatch: Phillip Doe on September 17th, 2013
EcoWatch: A lot is being written in the state and national press about the terrible human devastation week-long rain storms have created in Colorado. The impact has been greatest along what is known locally as the Front Range, the flat land directly east of the Rocky Mountains. The city of Boulder and smaller towns such as Lyons and Jamestown have been particularly hard hit, but no city along the front range from the Wyoming state line through Denver to Colorado Springs has been spared. In Colorado, we’ve...
Democracy in Action as Fracking is Voted Down in Colorado Springs
Posted by EcoWatch: Phillip Doe on March 29th, 2013
EcoWatch: If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them. --Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
Colorado Springs is Colorado`s second largest city. Perhaps unfairly, it is also known nationally as a bastion of conservative politics. Yet, a little over a week ago, on March 12, conservative and liberal--indeed people from every shade in the political spectrum--found common cause. They stood united...
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Comments Off on Democracy in Action as Fracking is Voted Down in Colorado SpringsAn Inside Look at Democracy in Action to Ban Fracking in Fort Collins
Posted by EcoWatch: Phillip Doe on March 6th, 2013
EcoWatch: I drove to Fort Collins, Colorado last night to testify in favor of a proposed ban on fracking within that city’s boundaries. When I got there I discovered the Colorado Petroleum Association, the political arm of the industry, had already issued a press release stating the council had passed the ban.
Sure enough, the council, after hearing several hours of citizen testimony voted 5-2 in favor of the ban, causing one activist to mutter in amusement that you just can’t underestimate the power of...
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