November 6, 2021

Radioactive Costs of Oil & Gas

The Financial Risk of Underbonded Wells – REGISTER for the FORUM
By Critical State

The growing threat of radioactivity inside the oil and gas industry is increasing companies’ cost of doing business as well as the financial risk to states …

July 22, 2019

Babies Born Near Oil and Gas Wells Are Up to 70% More Likely to Have Congenital Heart Defects

Researchers at the University of Colorado studied pregnant women who are among the 17 million Americans living within a mile from an active oil or gas well
By Julia Conley, Common Dreams, July 19, 2019

“In most places, detecting a

October 20, 2016

Opinion: The Sun Sets on Western Slope Farms

A nationally known food journalist, cookbook author and part-time Western Slope resident, asks for help in saving her community from fracking
By Eugenia Bone, 5280, October 18, 2016

Please sign this petition to save the North Fork Valley

How many …

September 23, 2016

Help Save Colorado's North Fork Valley

Please help, your letter CAN make a difference!
Write a letter (here is a sample comment letter for guidance), OR
create a letter online using this page from Citizens for a Healthy Community, OR
print, sign and mail this letter

February 1, 2016

CO & CA: Getting Gassed Together

The BIG NEWS was that two Colorado cities told the oil boys to take a hike
by Philip Doe, Counter Punch, January 29, 2016

In the past few weeks, something truly unusual happened here in Colorado.

It wasn’t that the …

April 17, 2014

Another City in CO Considers a Fracking Ban

The Sound of the Sixth Shoe Falling
By Phillip Doe, CounterPunch, April 16, 2014

Rarely do you hear squeals of glee when people are told the oil boys are coming to town. Usually you get the other reaction, which helps …

April 13, 2014

Sponsor Kills Oil Pipeline Bill

Colorado Rep. may file ethics complaint against lobbyist
By By Marianne Goodland, Journal-Advocate, April 5, 2014

The Colorado House voted to kill Senate Bill 14-093, which would have granted eminent domain rights to oil pipeline companies. The House’s action came …

December 7, 2013

Broomfield 5th City in CO to Pass Fracking Moratorium

Broomfield Certifies Fracking Recount, Opposition Mulls Challenge
By Grace Hood, KUNC, December 5, 2013

Broomfield officials have certified results on a recount of Question 300, formally ending the recount process on the measure that will impose a 5-year moratorium on

July 21, 2013

Drilling, Fracking Cause Concern

Medical workers urged to recognize exposure
By David O. Williams, The Durango Herald, July 20, 2013

A former president of the Colorado Medical Society calls the current hydraulic fracturing boom in the state’s gas and oil industry an “experiment in …

July 2, 2013

Scrap Frack Pipe is Potentially Explosive

Recyclers, landfills have stopped accepting the pipes over worries they may contain unexploded ordnance
By Bobby Magill, coloradoan.com, June 26, 2013

Frack waste can also be radioactive.  There is plenty of information on the web.
Here is a good place

April 26, 2013

Colorado 'promotes' natural-gas catastrophe that now threatens Colorado River

Joel Dyer of the Boulder Weekly reports how a slowly unfolding benzene-contamination disaster for a local creek and, ultimately, the Colorado River, was created by the conflict of interest in the state regulatory agency’s role as both purported regulator and …

March 20, 2013

Colorado Docs Chafe at Secrecy Oath Needed for Access to Chemical List

Doctors challenge confidentiality pledge.
By Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, March 20, 2013

This is identical to the medical gag order in Pennsylvania’s Act 13 which is currently being challenged.

Colorado doctors are challenging a confidentiality pledge they must sign …

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