Initiatives to Limit Fracking Appear Headed to Colorado's 2016 Ballot

SUGAR LAND--May 22, 2015--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper kept anti-fracking citizen initiatives off the ballot last year when he created a task force to recommend ways to minimize land use conflicts that can occur when siting Oil & Gas facilities near homes, schools, businesses and recreational areas. The task force spent six months gathering public comment and considering ways to balance quality-of-life issues with energy development. The task force recommendations, delivered in late February, amounted to a Rorschach ink-blot test on oil and gas development: citizen activists decried the report for not addressing their concerns about local control, while members of the state's Energy Industry praised the task force's forward progress.

Within this article: Status of Colorado task force recommendations on fracking.