Jared Polis: “We want to find a way where we empower local communities to…”

“I mean the real conflicts, you can't just ignore them. They don't go away between neighborhoods and communities and where and how oil and gas industrial activities are put near them. So yes, We want to find a way where we empower local communities to have a seat at that table, that we have larger setbacks unless everybody agrees, meaning the landowner wants them closer. And I think that we can do that and that will be really the challenge to show that we can solve that. And it's not just the environmental community and neighborhoods that are affected.” (01:57–02:08)

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