Colorado Supreme Court justices listen to appeals last December challenging the legality of Longmont s ban and Fort Collins’ five-year moratorium on fracking. The court ruled both illegal on Monday. (Cliff Grassmick, Daily Camera file)
Re: Colorado Supreme Court gets it right on fracking, May 3 news story.
So the Colorado Supreme Court has decided that local municipalities cannot block fracking from taking place in their communities. With this ruling, it becomes imperative that for the safety of neighborhoods and preservation of clean water and air throughout Colorado, it is time to do what New York and Massachusetts have already done, and that is to ban fracking in the state altogether. Despite the television blitz of advertisements paid for by the oil and gas industry touting the environmental friendliness of fracking, nothing could be further from the truth. Get busy, Colorado. This one needs to be put on the November ballot.
Susan Altenhofen, Fort Collins
This letter was published in the May 5 edition.
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