Colorado’s oil and gas wars broke more than two decades ago as the industry and local communities found themselves at loggerheads over the race to pull fossil fuels from lands stretching from the Utah border to the Kansas state line.
Twenty years on it looks like the battle still has legs.
The most recent skirmish broke out in March when Conservation Colorado filed four ballot measures aimed at tightening oil and gas operators’ liability for damages and cleanup of contaminated groundwater.
The volley was in response to a “right to natural gas” ballot measure by Advance Colorado, which describes itself
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