Prop 112 threatens oil and gas development statewide by making it impossible to move product from wells to processing facilities.
With California billionaire Tom Steyer playing a huge role in down-ballot races, the Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry says state legislative races are “the most critical thing for this election cycle.”
Next time around, it’s going to be much harder for big national environmental groups to pretend they’re homespun, grassroots and local.
Even with the demise of anti-fracking ballot measures, energy remains a hot issue in Colorado elections this year, thanks to Tom Steyer and the presidential candidates.
One of the anti-fracking signature gatherers is actually pinning the blame on Denver’s homeless population.
Even without anti-fracking measures on the ballot, environmental politics will continue to play a huge role in Colorado elections this year.
If the anti-energy agenda becomes the law of the land in Colorado, the damage to the energy sector will just be the beginning. A new report shows every business and every household will feel the impacts and the entire state economy will struggle.
Far-left activists with 350.org are gathering signatures for this year’s anti-fracking measures. Their leader says he wants to “drive a stake through the heart” of the fossil-fuel industry, one of Colorado’s biggest employers.
La Plata County Commissioner Gwen Lachelt listed Earthworks as her employer in a donation to her own campaign last year. She says it’s a mistake, but it still raises new questions about her record.
Roughly 90 percent of land across Colorado would be walled off, with an even greater impact in the handful of counties where most of the state’s oil and gas production takes place.
If the anti-fracking ballot measures two years ago were “radical” and “extreme,” you’d better find some new adjectives to describe this year’s proposals.
In a wide ranging, heavily footnoted report released July 30, the Minority Staff of the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works demonstrates the confluence of the Environmental
