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ED ANDRIESKI, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
This photo taken on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2012, shows a rig drilling for oil near a subdivision near Frederick, Colo. Oil and gas drilling in Colorado is no longer confined to the state's most rural areas. Energy companies are moving to drill in populous Front Range communities prompting local planners to suggest regulations that energy companies complaints far exceed county authority. Politicians from both parties are calling for legislation clarifying that locals can't set their own rules when it comes to drilling.

Obama promotes energy in state divided by it

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DENVER — President Barack Obama had good reason to choose Colorado for a backdrop Thursday talking about energy policies.

Where else have energy companies and environmentalists come together over a controversial drilling procedure? Colorado also has a booming solar-energy industry in the very county where Obama plans to stop Thursday on a five-state swing to promote policies outlined in his State of the Union address.

But Colorado is a state divided in some ways on energy production.

A compromise on the drilling procedure called fracking has been lauded as a national model for responsible energy development. But some say more needs to be done to regulate the drilling. And some Republicans and energy industry workers chastise the Obama administration's policies.


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