Voters in Fort Collins, Colorado last year sent a clear message: no fracking in our city.

But their vote putting a five-year ban on fracking was upturned on Thursday when a Colorado judge overturned the ban, ruling that it “impedes a state interest and prohibits what the state law allows.”

The Coloradoan reports that “the court declared that the five-year halt to new development violated the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Act, initially passed in 1951, which declares that oil and gas activity in Colorado is above all a state priority.”