The state’s high court on Wednesday will consider Longmont’s voter-approved ban on hydraulic fracturing within city limits, and a fracking moratorium passed by the city of Fort Collins.
Longmont voters added the fracking ban to the City Charter in 2012, convinced that a city-negotiated set of regulations on oil and gas drilling didn’t go far enough.
Both the regulations and the ban brought lawsuits from the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, an industry trade group. The oil and gas regulations lawsuit was dismissed as part of a compromise brokered by Gov. John Hickenlooper before the 2014 election.
The suit on the charter ban, however, has progressed through district court and the Colorado Court of Appeals and is now before the Colorado Supreme Court.
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