Energy-rich Colorado becomes setting for fracking fight

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 6:50 am by Bloomberg in Hydraulic fracturing, Natural gas Comments() | E-mail | Print Colo. Oil and gas drilling in Colorado is no longer confined to the state's most rural areas. Energy companies are moving to drill in populous Front Range communities prompting local planners to suggest regulations that energy companies complaints far exceed county authority. Politicians from both parties are calling for legislation clarifying that locals can't set their own rules when it comes to drilling.(AP Photo/Ed Andrieski) Stan Dempsey, an oil and gas lobbyist, raced from one committee hearing to another in Colorado’s statehouse this spring, defending the industry against an...