HomeMy WebLinkAboutConstituent Letter - Mail Packet - 2/14/2013January 22, 2013
City Council
City Hall
Soo LaPorte Ave
Fort Collins, CO 80521
Dear Fort Collins City Council,
RECEIVED
FEB 13 2013
City Manager's Office
Don't follow in L.ongmont's footsteps. They got sued for creating a ban on fracing and Fort
Collins will also get sued as Governor Hickenlooper and the Attorney General stand firm on the
issue — they support hydraulic fracturing and they have every reason to support this technology.
The majority of Coloradans also support this technology.
In the history of hydraulic fracturing in Colorado, the state Oil and Gas Conservation
Commission has never connected this technology to environmental or human degradation.
There is no reason to support this ballot measure unless you want to help push the agenda of
outside activists and a VERY small group of Colorado citizens who will take every measure
possible to try to stop energy development.
Energy production is critical to the state of Colorado, its communities and the United States.
Our vast and proven reserves can only be developed if hydraulic fracturing is used. The COGCC
takes their job seriously and ensures the technology is practiced safe. Ever -evolving rules and
checks and balances are created to make sure the health of our environment and citizens is not
compromised. In over 50 years the state of Colorado cannot point to one instance where
degradation was caused by hydraulic fracturing.
Environmental activists are embracing the opportunity to push their personal agenda forward
by influencing Fort Collins in a negative and manipulative fashion. We need to ignore the public
debate, as it is infested with misinformation, half-truths and outright lies about the technology.
Instead, we need to focus on what experts say. According to the Obama Administration and the
EPA, this technology is safe.
Don't pursue this discussion if you care about the people in Fort Collins as it will stifle the jobs
and economic benefits they will receive from the oil and gas industry.
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