With Ban on Drilling Practice, Town Lands in Thick of Dispute

This old farming town near the base of the Rocky Mountains has long been considered a conservative next-door neighbor to the ultraliberal town of Boulder, a place dissected by the railroad and where middle-class families found a living at the vegetable cannery, sugar mill and Butterball turkey plant. But this month, Longmont became the first town in Colorado to outlaw hydraulic fracturing, the oil-drilling practice commonly known as fracking.

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