andrew o’connor

$Outspoken fracktivist’s ballot drive for Colorado oil-and-gas tax hike cut short$

Outspoken fracktivist’s ballot drive for Colorado oil-and-gas tax hike cut short

May 1, 2017

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Dan Njegomir

Just last Friday we noted here that incendiary anti-fracking activist Andrew O’Connor of Lafayette was “poised to mount a petition drive for what could be the next big ballot battle with the oil and gas industry.” His proposal: doubling Colorado’s severance tax on oil and gas production. Not a fan of the industry, that O’Connor. You’ll…
Fracking foe, dogged by his comments, past, says, ‘I’m not the story here’

Apr 28, 2017

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Dan Njegomir

Andrew O’Connor’s business card says “Attorney at Law,” but his true calling these days seems to be fracktivist — a label he doesn’t reject. After all, he may well be Colorado’s most notorious anti-fracking activist at the moment. He got a national media mention last week for a recent letter to the editor published — and then hastily…
Letter endorsing anti-fracking violence penned by author of ballot issue to hike oil-and-gas tax

Apr 25, 2017

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Dan Njegomir

Remember that unsuccessful attempt in the legislature to toughen penalties for vandalizing oil and gas equipment? Child’s play. It turns out the author of a letter to the editor in Boulder’s Daily Camera that got a national media mention last week — for appearing to endorse outright violence against fracking operations — is the author of a pending statewide ballot issue to hike Colorado’s severance tax…

andrew o’connor

Outspoken fracktivist’s ballot drive for Colorado oil-and-gas tax hike cut short

Fracking foe, dogged by his comments, past, says, ‘I’m not the story here’

Letter endorsing anti-fracking violence penned by author of ballot issue to hike oil-and-gas tax