Opinion: The health risks of fracking justify Adams County’s new regulations

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Written By Harv Teitelbaum

This JeffCo resident thanks you for being a good neighbor

Despite the self-interested pleas and organized letter-writing campaigns of Colorado’s oil and gas industry, Adams County Commissioners voted to enact reasonable restrictions and regulations on fracking and fracking-related activities.

Kudos to them for their courage in the face of special-interest pressure, and congratulations to Adams County residents and the rest of us in neighboring counties, who at some point may see lower levels of toxic threats to our health, safety, and welfare…

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Harv Teitelbaum

Mr. Teitelbaum received his master of arts degree in Environmental Studies and Ecopsychology from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. He also holds a bachelor of science degree in Business Administration from Regis University in Denver. Harv was an adjunct instructor of Environmental Science for ten years. Before entering the formal teaching profession, he worked with the Colorado Division of Wildlife for five years giving wildlife education workshops and writing curricula on Colorado's biodiversity, ecosystems, and river monitoring and was Executive Director of a local Soil and Natural Resources Conservation District.

He lives with his wife (a semi-retired psychiatrist) and three dogs in the foothills of the Rockies in a Ponderosa pine forest, on which he practices sustainable forestry for fire mitigation and for his home’s biofuel back-up to geothermal and solar panels. Harv is one of about a dozen recognized master recreational tree climbing instructors in the world and was founding president of the nonprofit Global Organization of Tree Climbers (GOTC).

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