New group revives fracking setback initiative for November ballot

DENVER — Anti-drilling advocacy group Safe & Healthy Colorado said it will start a new signature-gathering effort to put a question to the voters in the November elections requiring a buffer between heavily-populated areas and oil wells, weeks after a similar measure was cancelled by its sponsor.

Under Initiative 174 as proposed by the Denver-based group, any new oil and gas development would be banned from being built within 2,500 feet of homes, schools, hospitals, public areas and areas with heavy contaminants designated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a “superfund” site. 

Any wells…