Colorado fracking vote could trigger more activism

Voter support for multi-year bans on hydraulic fracturing in at least three Colorado cities has drawn national attention, with many expecting more activism — both for and against the technique, better known as fracking — in the coming year. The oil and gas industry spent heavily on campaigns against the bans in Boulder, Lafayette, Fort Collins and Broomfield. The measures passed anyway in all but Broomfield, where at press time the result was still uncertain. Broomfield’s was the most closely…