Politics

Lawmakers Defeat Fracking Bills

KUNC | By Bente Birkeland

Published February 7, 2012 at 6:38 AM MST

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A pair of Democratic bills aimed at reducing the impacts from hydraulic fracturing failed in a house local government committee on Monday. Each faced stiff opposition from members in both parties.

KUNC’s State Capitol reporter Bente Birkeland has more.

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Bente Birkeland

Bente Birkeland is an award-winning journalist who joined Colorado Public Radio in August 2018 after a decade of reporting on the Colorado state capitol for the Rocky Mountain Community Radio collaborative and KUNC. In 2017, Bente was named Colorado Journalist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), and she was awarded with a National Investigative Reporting Award by SPJ a year later.

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