fracking
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Q&A with Christine Berg: Proudly progressive Lafayette mayor jousts with oil and gas
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She’s a fully engaged environmental activist and green-energy advocate; she’s a hard-charging, small-city mayor who is duking it out with the oil and gas industry as well as the state government over her community’s attempts to curb drilling; she’s a mom. And it all fits together pretty seamlessly if you’re Christine Berg, especially as mayor…
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Q&A with Dan Haley: On Colorado’s battleground — and sometimes common ground — over oil and gas
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News folk tend to develop an unusual skill: They can take heat while shedding light. Maybe that’s why the Colorado Oil & Gas Association hired Dan Haley a few years ago to be its president and CEO. The career journalist and esteemed former editorial page editor of the Denver Post doesn’t shy away from a dust-up,…
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With lone candidate dropping out, Colorado Green Party lacks a gubernatorial candidate
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Veronique Bellamy of Longmont – the lone Green Party gubernatorial candidate – says she has withdrawn from the race for governor. “I announced earlier this year that, on the advice of officials within my political party, that I would drop out of the race in order to allow the state party to build our base,”…
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Activist message to Oil and Gas commission: Stop the Martinez appeal
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Stop the Martinez appeal. That was the message from more than 60 people who crowded the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission meeting. It was standing room only at the Chancery Building in Denver Monday with several spilling out into the hallway as they waited to voice health and safety concerns. One protester even gave…
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Fracking opponent and supporter get poetic on Twitter about drilling risks, benefits
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A pair of #copolitics Twitter accounts threw down Friday in an impromptu, virtual poetry slam about fracking, or hydraulic fracturing – the polarizing practice of pumping pressurized fluid deep into the ground to free up fossil fuels. First, the anonymous Twitter account Piceance Watchdog – named after Northwest Colorado’s Piceance Basin, which holds vast quantities of…
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Louisville senator wants local control over gas, oil, fracking
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“It’s just the right thing to do,” said Sen. Matt Jones, D-Louisville, who’s drafting a bill to give local government control over oil and gas exploration and production. “Local governments plan, zone and deny requests all the time,” Jones said. “It should be the same for oil and gas and fracking, especially following the tragic explosion…
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Experts: Fracking is safe
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Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” has been a hot topic in Colorado for the last few years, but policy and energy industry experts worry that information overload has left much of the public confused about what is fact and what is fiction. “There are a lot of misconceptions out there,” says Kelly Sloan, Energy Policy Fellow…
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Colorado tilts left in local elections in the year of Trump
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Well past dark on Tuesday, Dan Thomas dropped off his ballot before the polls closed at the Denver Elections Office just across Civic Center park from his office. “It was on my desk,” he said of his ballot. “I saw it walking out, and I don’t want a black mark that says I’m a bad…
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Fracking foes win the day in Broomfield, but next they go to court
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Broomfield voters gave a 57 percent edge to giving local government more say-so on whether oil-and-gas wells are safety and healthy. At the very least it was a major moral victory for opponents of the oil-and-gas industry in the fast-developing countryside north of Denver. Industry and business coalitions on the right, and environmental groups on…
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LOMAX: Broomfield paper trail leads to Sierra Club and other ‘Big Enviro’ groups
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National environmental groups have a First Amendment right to campaign at any level of government they choose – federal, state or local – just as the business community, energy workers and regular citizens have free-speech rights to oppose these campaigns. For the record, I work on the pro-business side of the street with a group…