DENVER — A years-long fight over how close oil and gas drilling can safely be to places where people live and work is coming to a head with an unprecedented November ballot measure that would ban such operations within at least half a mile of homes, schools, businesses and waterways.
Energy choices we are making include – how much intrusion into communities will be allowed for oil/gas drillers and frackers?
Aside: Wind turbines and solar panels do not explode, produce toxic fumes, poison wells.
DENVER — A years-long fight over how close oil and gas drilling can safely be to places where people live and work is coming to a head with an unprecedented November ballot measure that would ban such operations within at least half a mile of homes, schools, businesses and waterways.
Proposition 112 is pitting homeowners against Fortune 500 companies and even neighbor against neighbor. The stakes involved are immense in a state that is the nation’s seventh-largest oil producer and fifth-biggest supplier of natural gas.
Opponents say increased setbacks would put tens of thousands of people out of work, plunge Colorado into a recession and jeopardize U.S. energy independence. An industry-backed political action committee,
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“Opponents say increased setbacks would put tens of thousands of people out of work”
Has everyone gone mad??!! With the toxins produced and let loose by fracking, drilling for oil and spills near homes and ponds and rivers, who the hell is going to be left standing to go to work when they’ll all be sick and dying? People are too stupid for words since they refuse to see the big picture and only think of the short term and not the long term issues that are going to result from continuing to allow fracking sites and oil wells within the immediate vicinity of homes and playgrounds and schools, etc. Sigh! I throw my hands up!
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They gave us the exact same argument here in Taranaki, Shelby. This issue of setbacks is now the sole focus of our lawsuit that has been in environmental court since March. We initially filed suit against Taranaki District Council, but two other councils and the oil/gas companies joined the opposition against us. The hearings are over now – and we’re supposed to receive a preliminary ruling any day now.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/102220662/grassroots-environmental-activist-group-amass-80000-war-chest-to-take-council-to-court-over-drilling-rules
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I wish you success! I truly do!
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Thanks, Shelby. I appreciate the support.
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