Questions cracking Colorado’s oil and gas boom

Questions cracking Colorado’s oil and gas boom — in pictures

Industrial land available for development in Parachute. The current rise of hydraulic fracking in natural gas retrieval has given a cautious hope to the town’s inhabitants, amid increasing grassroots effort to implement a ban. Urquhart / Reuters

Liz Claus

Dec 20, 2014

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Amid years of economic boom powered by oil and gas drilling, Colorado has been wrestling with questions over fracking during the last few years, with local governments enacting bans and legal cases underway in several areas.