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Two views on fracking bans (2 letters)

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A worker helps monitor water pumping pressure and temperature at a hydraulic fracturing and extraction site outside Rifle. A recent report found that if fracking were banned in the U.S., it would set off an economic downturn the equivalent of the financial crisis, the housing bust and the resulting Great Recession combined.
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A worker helps monitor water pumping pressure and temperature at a hydraulic fracturing and extraction site outside Rifle. A recent report found that if fracking were banned in the U.S., it would set off an economic downturn the equivalent of the financial crisis, the housing bust and the resulting Great Recession combined.

Re: Nov. 4 editorial.

Regarding your editorial opposing bans on fracking,do you read your own paper? Did you read the previous day’sarticle headlined“Huge cuts are needed to meet emissions goals”? It is urgent that we use other means to energize our planet and stop taking oil and gas out of the ground. We can create good jobs in the renewable sector to replace those lost in fossil fuel. Your editorial on fracking is completely unconvincing and irresponsible.

Bonnie Lowdermilk,Boulder

I would just like to say thank you for your work on this editorial. So rare is journalism this honest and forthcoming as to say that some demands of the public are, in fact, extreme. It feels refreshing to read something that informs and persuades constituents with fact rather than whatever impassioned argument they stumble upon.

Sarah Whisman, Walkerton, Ind.

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