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Colorado Court Strikes Down Local Bans on Fracking

May 3, 2016

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Colorado’s Supreme Court on Monday struck down local government prohibitions on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, handing oil and gas companies a victory in a lengthy battle over energy production in the environmentally conscious state.

In separate rulings, the court said a moratorium in Fort Collins and a ban inLongmont were invalid because state law pre-empted them. A lower court had reached the same conclusion earlier.

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