Victory at Boulder City Council on June 4, 2013. City of Boulder Approves One-Year Moratorium on Fracking. Supporters overflow into the lobby of the municipal building (see photo right). Link to Daily Camera story.
On Tuesday, May 7, Boulder City Council members directed City Attorney Tom Carr to draft an ordinance calling for a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing in the City of Boulder.
Link to Daily Camera story.
KGNU reporter Jim Pullen interviews Colorado residents whose health has been affected by fracking. The following material originally broadcast on KGNU has been edited by Frack Free Boulder.
Listen to 4-minute KGNU interview with people affected by fracking in Colorado.
Fracking Debate
April 10, 2013 Boulder Daily Camera Guest Commentary
In debate, Commissioner Elise Jones beats Governor Hickenlooper over Hydraulic Fracturing
“Fracking is like playing Russian roulette with our public health.”
- Commissioner Jones
Link to April 10, 2013 Op-Ed by Frack Free Boulder’s Neshama Abraham
Road Damage Caused by Fracking
“Externalities of shale: Road Damage”, originally published in Energy Policy Forum, April 4, 2013
Imagine how difficult it would be for oil and gas operators if to drill wells they had to put in their own infrastructure and maintain it at their cost? Maybe it’s time for a user tax on oil and gas operators so cities don’t get stuck with the road repair cost.
March 29, 2013 – Denver Post story about “Benzene from gas plant leak polluting groundwater”
Neshama Abraham of Frack Free Boulder commented on the above Denver Post story about water contamination from the still uncontrolled ongoing leak from a fracked well near Parachute Creek, Colorado.
January 24, 2013 – Boulder Daily Camera “County Commissioners Extend Moratorium on Oil and Gas Development”
January 17, 2013 – Boulder Daily Camera “CU-Boulder – NOAA study uncovers oil and gas emission’s ‘chemical signature’“
January 13, 2013 - Boulder Daily Camera - Guest Commentary “Time for Boulder to Ban Fracking” by Neshama Abraham of Frack Free Boulder
January 5, 2013 - Boulder Daily Camera Op-Ed “Facts on Fracking” by Sam Schabacker of Food & Water Watch
January 4, 2013 - Coal Country The Blog - “High Methane leakage rates from gas fields.”
January 2013 - Nature – The January edition of this scientific journal reports on “Methane leaks erode green credentials of natural gas”
December 31, 2012 - From Here to There Blog
June 20, 2012 – Boulder Daily Camera “Report: Volume of water used for fracking in Colorado could serve 79,000 households a year“
