Tag: Lafayette
Lafayette City Council kills “civil disobedience” clause of Climate Bill of...
Lafayette City Council last night voted against the “civil disobedience” clause in its community Climate Bill of Rights, the most contentious piece of a...
Lafayette’s Climate Change Bill of Rights: A small town grapples with...
The absence of three of its seven members Tuesday evening prompted the Lafayette City Council to postpone its vote on a controversial proposed Climate...
Lafayette’s proposed Climate Bill of Rights would protect protest against oil...
Lafayette is eyeing a citywide policy that would codify residents' right to a healthy climate — and to defend that right with civil disobedience....
Map plots boomtime drilling spills (lots of them) in Colorado
Election season will heat up. The battle for local control over the oil-and gas industry will rage. And drilling will continue at its breakneck pace , which will mean more accidents and spills.
Coloradans eye rulings around country in favor of local fracking bans
BOULDER -- Supporters of local bans on the oil-and-gas drilling process known as fracking celebrated a key high court victory in Pennsylvania last week.
Polis to Colorado Oil and Gas Association: ‘Stop suing the communities...
Colorado Congressman Jared Polis is having a particularly passionate populist week. He has taken on opponents of immigration reform and oil industry frackers, arguing on behalf of immigrant families and local community zoning rights.
Fracked citizens to Hickenlooper: ‘Can You Hear Us Now?’
These citizen votes came as a result of grassroots efforts, and they came in an off-cycle election year with low turnout, an election situation which always favors conservatives and conservative outcomes.
Greeley Weighs Proposal to Add More Fracking Wells Within City Limits
Today in Greeley, the city at the heart of Colorado's Front Range "frack country," a seven-member planning commission will consider a proposal by oil and gas company Synergy to add three more well-drilling facilities "and related equipment" to a site already being drilled in a scenic residential neighborhood roughly three miles from the city center. Synergy is one of the companies working the boom in natural-gas extraction in area of the rich Wattenberg Field, which stretches under most of north-east Colorado. The boom is mostly the product of the effectiveness of hydraulic fracturing, the extraction technique where millions of gallons of a mixture of water, chemicals and sand is blasted deep into the earth to free trapped gas.