Colorado Organic Farmers Fight "Drill, Baby, Drill"

Denver Post (h/t Big Picture Agriculture):

The North Fork Valley has been compared to France's Provence region, but one thing you won't find in the pale browns and vibrant greens of Paul Cézanne's painting "Montagnes en Provence" are oil rigs.
They may, however, be coming to the North Fork, and this western Colorado valley is up in arms.
The federal Bureau of Land Management has proposed leasing 24,324 acres in 21 parcels abutting vineyards, orchards, organic farms and a dairy.
The valley now finds itself part of a wave of drilling activity — as oil companies scramble to unlock shale deposits — that has ignited community protests from Pennsylvania to Colorado's Front Range.
"We see this as a threat to our very existence," said Brent Helleckson, owner of Stone Cottage Cellars. "Organic farming, wineries, tourism, and oil and gas drilling are not a good fit."
Helleckson, 52, gave up a career as a Boulder aerospace engineer to make wine.

Again, there might be great money in the shale oil boom, but I'm not sad to be missing out on the headaches.  I'm not betting on the opponents of drilling in this fight.