Boulder: Commissioners Candidates Focus on Fracking
February 20th, 2012
BOULDER — Boulder County shouldn’t waste time tinkering with land use regulations in an attempt to reduce the potential public health and safety hazards that might come with using hydraulic fracturing to free up oil and gas deposits, a Boulder County commissioner candidate said Saturday.
Instead, commissioners should enact an outright prohibition against such “fracking” for future wells drilled anywhere in unincorporated areas of Boulder County, said Garry Sanfacon, even if that means paying to defend the county in any oil and gas exploration companies’ lawsuits that might result.
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Filed Under: ARCHIVES • Oil & Gas • Policy
Tags: Boulder County • Front Range • hydraulic fracturing • Longmont
Oil/Gas Industry: Trust us! We care, we really do. The rest of the us: No! 
Thanks for the info Fred! 
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