Fort Collins Bans Fracking as Democracy Comes Alive in Colorado

EcoWatch: "If you don't fight for what you want, you deserve what you get." --Van Jones Almost exactly nine months ago on May 22, 2012, I wrote an editorial in the Fort Collins Coloradoan newspaper, Fort Colllins Should Ban Fracking. And yesterday, on Feb. 19, a sharply divided Fort Collins City Council voted 5-2 to ban fracking in the City of Fort Collins. Nine months ago the conversation around fracking was relatively new in Colorado and few people and environmental groups were directly addressing...

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