Editorial: Fracking, solar measures would further divide Colorado

Here we go again.

Even as the University of Colorado Boulder releases a study highlighting the importance of the oil-and-gas sector to the Colorado economy, extreme new ballot measures are being proposed that would devastate the industry in Colorado.

First the numbers: The Business Research Division at CU’s Leeds School of Business estimates that the oil-and-gas industry generated $31.7 billion for Colorado’s economy during 2014, including 38,650 direct jobs and an average wage of $105,000.

Much of that impact is felt in Weld County, which produced 86 percent of the state’s oil and 25 percent…