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(Denver Post) Drilling rigs and housing development face off in Colorado suburbs

EXCERPT: Powered by the ability to drill 2-mile-long horizontal wells and release oil from hard shale with hydrofracturing, or “fracking,” drilling rigs are pushing closer to homes.

At the same time, suburbs are sprawling onto the plains — the six Front Range counties where drilling has occurred added nearly 105,000 residents between 2010 and 2013 — and at the edges, houses and drill rigs collide.

 

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Oil and gas boom hit northern Colorado

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_27522307/drilling-rigs-and-housing-development-face-off-colorado

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