RIFLE — U.S. Sen. Mark Udall told local officials this week that he believes hydraulic fracturing, a technique used for freeing up oil and gas deposits buried deep underground, is inherently safe and not a threat to human health.
“I want the industry to do everything possible to assure the public that fracking is safe,” Udall wrote in a follow-up e-mail to the Post Independent in Glenwood Springs, “including working with (the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) on their study, releasing the list of materials used, and being completely transparent. One well contaminated or one person made sick is one too many.”
Udall, a Democrat, met Tuesday with Garfield County commissioners as well as the mayors of Rifle and Silt and Rio Blanco County Commissioner Ken Parsons.
