Four local anti-fracking initiatives approved last week by voters in Colorado and Ohio should have roughly the same impact as outlawing surfing in Denver or cliff-diving in Cleveland, reports The Washington Times.
That’s because there’s virtually no hydraulic fracturing taking place in any of the communities that approved the fracking bans, reports Valerie Richardson of The Times.
Food & Water Watch, an anti-fracking group, trumpeted the Nov. 5 votes as “historic victories” for the movement, even as critics dismissed the votes as purely symbolic, given the noticeable lack of oil and gas development in those communities, reports The Times.
