Colorado: Let Communities Decide Whether to be Fracked or Not
- by: Kristi Arnold
- recipient: John Hickenlooper, Colorado Governor
Letting communities decide whether to ban fracking or not where they live is the right thing to do.
Suing our communities for outlawing fracking is ridiculous.
The proposal by the Colorado Community Rights Network to allow community-initiated fracking bans should be fully supported.
"Today, communities across the country are finding that they don’t have the right to make critical decisions for themselves -- such as the right to say 'no' to fracking or factory farming, and the right to say 'yes' to sustainable energy and food systems," the organization says on its Facebook page. "[They're also] finding that our structure of law elevated corporate decision making over community decision making."
Lafayette, Colo., resident Cliff Willmeng, who was key in the getting the city's voters to enact a fracking ban as a leader of East Boulder County United, told The Daily Camera that the measure wouldn't just be about fracking, but would "establish the local supremacy of municipalities over state preemption so they can make a decision about their health and welfare."
In their response to the COGA lawsuit, East Boulder County United wrote:
"Behind the corporate lawsuits is the industrial assertion that people are subordinate to mineral interests, and that Colorado citizens do not have the right to protect themselves from a known physical danger."
Act now by signing this petition to keep our rights to govern our own communities where they belong, with the people!
Dear Gov. Hickenlooper,
We the undersigned ask that you support letting communities decide whether to ban fracking or not where they live. It's the right thing to do.
Suing our communities for outlawing fracking is ridiculous.
The proposal by the Colorado Community Rights Network to allow community-initiated fracking bans should be fully supported.
"Today, communities across the country are finding that they don’t have the right to make critical decisions for themselves -- such as the right to say 'no' to fracking or factory farming, and the right to say 'yes' to sustainable energy and food systems," the organization says on its Facebook page. "[They're also] finding that our structure of law elevated corporate decision making over community decision making."
Lafayette, Colo., resident Cliff Willmeng, who was key in the getting the city's voters to enact a fracking ban as a leader of East Boulder County United, told The Daily Camera that the measure wouldn't just be about fracking, but would "establish the local supremacy of municipalities over state preemption so they can make a decision about their health and welfare."
In their response to the COGA lawsuit, East Boulder County United wrote:
"Behind the corporate lawsuits is the industrial assertion that people are subordinate to mineral interests, and that Colorado citizens do not have the right to protect themselves from a known physical danger."
Act now by signing this petition to keep our rights to govern our own communities where they belong, with the people!
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