amy oliver cooke
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Xcel ratepayers would get a bum deal under Colorado Energy Plan
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Late last summer, and with great fanfare, Xcel Energy announced its proposal to close the Comanche I & II power units in Pueblo a decade ahead of schedule. They offered as replacement the euphemistically titled “Colorado Energy Plan” (CEP), a massive $2.5 billion fuel-switching scheme to move its Colorado customers away from baseload, reliable hydrocarbons…
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The secret to Colorado’s economic success? The Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights
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The latest Census Bureau data released earlier this year shows that Colorado’s population has grown by nearly two-thirds since 1992, one of the fastest increases in the country. If you are part of the more than 2 million new residents who have arrived over this time, there are a few things you should know: Avoid I-70 on…
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#Retweet: Here are the best tweets this week in Colorado politics
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– Jon Caldara (@JonCaldara) March 12, 2018
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Q&A w/Jimmy Sengenberger: ‘Most likely to become president’? He’ll settle for being the next Rush Limbaugh
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Jimmy Sengenberger was that way-older-than-his-years, way-ahead-of-the-pack kind of kid you sort of admired and sort of envied – and, admit it, sort of resented – back in middle school. He began listening to Rush on the radio at 12 and was attending Arapahoe County Republican Men’s Club breakfasts by 13. He was putting together high…
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The price tag for 100 percent renewable energy? $45 billion, says Independence
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Free-market think tank Independence Institute released a study Thursday that concludes the all-renewable-energy plans of two Democratic gubernatorial contenders – former state Sen. Michael Johnston and U.S. Rep. Jared Polis – would add $45 billion to Colorado ratepayers’ utility bills. Independence called Polis’s and Johnston’s goal of fossil-fuel-free power generation in Colorado by 2040 a…
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Colorado Energy Plan is good in theory, terrible in reality
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Xcel Energy recently announced that it would use Governor John Hickenlooper’s July executive order calling for climate change policy as reason to bypass the Colorado state legislature and seek regulatory approval of a “Colorado Energy Plan,” which would retire early almost 700 megawatts of coal-fired generating units to be replaced with a new natural gas…
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Q&A w/Amy Oliver Cooke: ‘I always try to defer to individual freedom’
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Call Amy Oliver Cooke an energy feminist; call her a mother in love with fracking. Just don’t call her late for the debate. It’s something she does with gusto; for 10 years, she was a familiar presence on northern Colorado’s airwaves with her Amy Oliver Show on Greeley’s News Talk 1310 KFKA-AM radio. Today, she is Executive…
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Pioneering initiative Western Way doesn’t need anyone’s blessing to be regarded as conservative
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The Independence Institute needs to officially drop its self-appointed role as Colorado’s conservative police because it just executed a no-knock raid on the wrong house. The institute has a bad habit of glancing over another individual or group and decreeing whether or not it is conservative. In a July 10 piece, Amy Cooke of the…
