{"id":20439,"date":"2016-05-05T05:57:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T10:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20439"},"modified":"2016-05-05T05:57:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T10:57:07","slug":"the-movement-to-stop-fossil-fuel-development-is-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20439","title":{"rendered":"The Movement to Stop Fossil Fuel Development Is Winning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Movement to Stop Fossil Fuel Development Is Winning<\/a><\/h3>\n
Colorado\u2019s high court today\u00a0struck down<\/a>\u00a0the rights of Coloradans to enact local\u00a0fracking<\/a>\u00a0bans. It\u2019s no surprise, given the massive sway of the oil and gas industry in the state. The suit was brought against Longmont (which passed a popular fracking ban in 2012) by Gov.\u00a0John Hickenlooper and his industry cronies. While it\u2019s easy to be discouraged by this decision, the fact is, it will help activate citizens to pass statewide ballot measures to ban fracking in November.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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And let\u2019s not forget: The movement to stop fossil fuel development just keeps winning.<\/p>\n

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On Earth Day, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo put a\u00a0stop to the Constitution pipeline<\/a>, a dangerous project to shipped fracked gas from Pennsylvania into New York, intersecting almost 300 bodies of water. His action sent a clear message that protecting the safety of the state\u2019s drinking water was more important than expanding Big Oil\u2019s profits. And the move didn\u2019t come out of nowhere; the same grassroots pressure that successfully pushed Cuomo to ban fracking in 2014 pushed him to reject this dirty fracked gas pipeline.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t just Earth Day that brought good news for the planet. Two days before, the Kinder Morgan energy behemoth\u00a0canceled a gas pipeline<\/a>\u00a0that would have run through parts of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The company faced stiff opposition from activists and residents of the towns where the pipeline would have been constructed.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s good to see Big Oil pull the plug on a bad idea, citizens must put pressure on their elected officials to make sure fossil fuels stay in the ground. That\u2019s what the residents of Prince George\u2019s County in Maryland did this month, convincing the county council to\u00a0pass a resolution banning fracking<\/a>. The vote was unanimous.<\/p>\n

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The Movement to Stop Fossil Fuel Development Is Winning Colorado\u2019s high court today\u00a0struck down\u00a0the rights of Coloradans to enact local\u00a0fracking\u00a0bans. It\u2019s no surprise, given the massive sway of the oil and gas industry in the state. The suit was brought against Longmont (which passed a popular fracking ban in 2012) by Gov.\u00a0John Hickenlooper and his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5503,8375,13727,328,331,412,13730,13728,13729,1729,13726],"class_list":["post-20439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-colorado","tag-ecowatch","tag-fossil-fuel-development","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-fracking","tag-hydraulic-fracturing","tag-john-hickenlooper","tag-local-laws","tag-longmont","tag-oil-and-gas-industry","tag-wenonah-hauter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20440,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20439\/revisions\/20440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}