fracking
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LOMAX: Broomfield paper trail leads to Sierra Club and other ‘Big Enviro’ groups
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…
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Big gun Bill Owens — the former guv — opens fire on Broomfield ballot issue
You know the war over Broomfield’s anti-fracking proposal – or any pending ballot issue, for that matter – is heating up when a former governor steps into the fray. Republican Bill Owens, who served as Colorado’s chief exec until 2007, took to the airwaves and digital media this week with a video denouncing Question 301…
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SPONSORED CONTENT: Multiple Studies: Fracking does not contaminate groundwater
At least eight studies across the United States over the past three years have confirmed that fracking does not contaminate groundwater. From Colorado State University to Yale University to the U.S. Geological Survey, experts have found no evidence that hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as “fracking,” is causing contaminants to seep into drinking water wells “There…
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Broomfield as ‘petri dish’? Group of locals forms to fight ballot measure on drilling
The perennial face-off over fracking is of course a four-way fight: While the oil and gas industry has been duking it out with activists opposed to drilling, the state of Colorado has been going toe-to-toe with local governments over who has the power to regulate drilling in the first place. It is the latter clash…
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As if Colorado needed more evidence that the fracking debate has gone hyper-polar …
… A group of anti-fracking protesters in Boulder (OK, so that’s redundant; everyone in Boulder is against fracking) converged on what they thought was the residence of Boulder County Commissioner Elise Jones over the weekend. The fracktivists’ planned stunt – donning HAZMAT gear and presenting a “Green Washing Award” to Jones at her house –…
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Renewable energy as an electricity source has turned the corner in Colorado
A recent poll conducted by Chris Keating of Keating Research, a polling and survey firm that consults primarily for Democrats including Gov. John Hickenlooper and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, reveals that Colorado’s political environment parallels the nation’s, but preferences on energy issues are distinctly Coloradan. The results come from 605 active voters, with a margin…
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Democratic primary rumble in governor’s race will cost bruises and lots of money
Two interesting questions arise for the Democratic primary race for governor: How much money will the races attract, and how much money will it take to gain the number of votes to win the race? The first question affects both primaries and the general election. The second question concerns mostly the general election. Money had…
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Insights: Hickenlooper-Kasich, is it just crazy enough to work?
In the yellow dog days of August, when the fish aren’t biting, the political anglers have more time to ponder. If talk turns to the presidential race in 2020 there’s no juicier summertime morsel than what’s next for John Hickenlooper, our moderate governor who has already written his book for national office two years ago.…
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Ozone fell in north metro Denver, even as oil and gas spiked, and fracking combatants agree, sort of
While ozone levels are falling in north metro Denver, both sides of the oil-and-gas development debate are taking a deep breath to explain why. State regulators report that emissions of volatile organic compounds, a key ingredient in ground-level ozone, have fallen by one-half in metro Denver and the northern Front Range, the battlefield over fracking.…