Voters Will Decide On Strict New Oil and Gas Setbacks [Video]

Colorado voters are being asked to decide whether new oil and gas development should be pushed 2,500 feet away from homes, schools, parks, playgrounds, bodies of water and other "vulnerable areas."

The oil and gas industry is fighting Proposition 112, saying it would put much of the state off-limits to new development and cost many workers their jobs. Both candidates for governor, Republican Walker Stapleton and Democrat Jared Polis, have said they oppose the proposition.

Colorado Rising, the citizen-led operation pushing the setback ballot initiative, says it is the only pathway to protection for communities that have tried and failed to impose limits on oil and gas exploration close to neighborhoods.

“If it continues the way that the industry currently plans to do it in our communities, my fear is that I would have to move,” said Colorado Rising’s Suzanne Spiegel, a Boulder resident and supporter of Proposition …