Fracking Bans Enrage Coloradans Sitting on Energy Riches

November 17, 2014

Mineral owners left out of the energy boom in Colorado and other states are mobilizing to fight local fracking bans they say are depriving them of billions of dollars in oil and natural-gas royalties.

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper repeatedly invoked the rights of his state's 630,000 royalty holders to head off ballot measures that would have given local governments more control over energy drilling. Now owners of royalty interests are going public, organizing in an effort to exploit deposits that cities and counties have blocked them from developing.

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