“We shouldn’t be afraid for our health when we step outside our own houses,” says one of the students in the video.
Students at a Colorado high school on Monday published a poignant video pleading with local authorities to ban a proposed hydraulic fracturing operation near their campus.
The video, produced by the Niwot High School Environmental Club in Niwot—a small town of 4,100 residents located about 35 miles north of Denver—calls on the Boulder County Commission to ban fracking. The students’ school is located just three miles from the proposed Crestone Peak Resources fracking site, which, with 140 wells, would be the largest such facility in Colorado.
“The idea that elected officials would allow for something that is so detrimental to the environment and to our health is mind-blowing,” said Niwot High freshman Desta Soma in the video.
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