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Colorado\u2019s oil and gas industry goes after reporters and signature gatherers in new fracking fight<\/a><\/h3>\n

With large oil and gas reserves, Colorado often is at the center of the nation’s fossil fuel wars.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As Colorado gears up for another fight over oil and gas drilling near homes and schools, this time the fossil fuel industry is reportedly doing whatever it takes to win.<\/p>\n

In the latest flare-up, the oil and gas industry used a website to single out individual journalists for criticism. At the same time, pro-industry protesters were reportedly shadowing canvassers who were gathering signatures to get a measure \u2014 Initiative 97 \u2014 on the November ballot that would increase the distance between drilling sites and homes.<\/p>\n

Colorado Rising, the anti-fracking group behind the ballot initiative, issued a statement<\/a>\u00a0last week claiming \u201charassers were paid to intimidate petition circulators and discourage voters from signing\u201d the petition to get the initiative on the ballot.<\/p>\n

Anne Lee Foster, a Colorado Rising volunteer, told Colorado Public Radio<\/a>\u00a0that an anonymous employee at Anadarko Petroleum shared an internal document that appeared to ask employees to report when they see Initiative 97 canvassers. The letter includes an email address and a text message hotline, Foster said.<\/p>\n

Anadarko had not returned a request for comment from ThinkProgress at the time this article was published.<\/p>\n

With huge reserves<\/a> of oil and gas and an active environmental and clean energy movement, the state often finds itself at the center of the nation\u2019s fossil fuel wars. Oil and gas companies have increasingly been moving into suburban and urban areas<\/a> of Colorado in search of new drilling opportunities; at the same time, suburban sprawl is\u00a0colliding<\/a> with oil and gas fields as housing developers build new communities north of Denver.<\/p>\n

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Colorado\u2019s oil and gas industry goes after reporters and signature gatherers in new fracking fight With large oil and gas reserves, Colorado often is at the center of the nation’s fossil fuel wars. AN OIL DERRICK SITS INSIDE A HOUSING DEVELOPMENT IN DACONO, COLORADO. CREDIT: HELEN H. RICHARDSON\/THE DENVER POST VIA GETTY IMAGES As Colorado […]<\/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":[3,6],"tags":[4013,5503,1015,21404,1729,13480,16192],"class_list":["post-37027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-liberty","tag-activists","tag-colorado","tag-fossil-fuel","tag-mark-handaug","tag-oil-and-gas-industry","tag-reporters","tag-think-progress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37027","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=37027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37028,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37027\/revisions\/37028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}