By Aileen Yeung After facing statewide defeat last year, the usual “ban fracking” suspects have had to retreat all the way to Boulder, Colo., where they demanded a ban on oil and natural gas development at a county commissioners’ hearing on Tuesday, recycled the same flawed talking points they have used exhaustively in the past, upped the extreme rhetoric and antics – and still face an uphill battle to ban oil and natural gas development even in a place characterized as “[u]ndoubtedly … the bluest of the blue in Colorado.”
A sign left outside the Boulder County Commissioners’ hearing on oil and natural gas
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