Despite a morning announcement that officials had reached a deal to pull down four potential ballot initiatives related to the oil and gas industry, Monday ended without the sides behind the measures backing down.
And the campaign to ramp up regulations on drilling wells turned in more than 120,000 petition signatures on each of two proposed constitutional amendments that the compromise is intended to head off.
Backers of Initiative 121 — a proposal to bar cities that ban fracking from receiving…
Despite a morning announcement that officials had reached a deal to pull down four potential ballot initiatives related to the oil and gas industry, Monday ended without the sides behind the measures backing down.
And the campaign to ramp up regulations on drilling wells turned in more than 120,000 petition signatures on each of two proposed constitutional amendments that the compromise is intended to head off.
Backers of Initiative 121 — a proposal to bar cities that ban fracking from receiving…