initiative 97
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Answering your questions about oil & gas Initiative 97
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Initiative 97 is creating a lot of questions, and it’s only officially been on the November ballot since Wednesday. The ballot issue will ask voters to approve a bigger buffer zone for future oil and gas operations. A yes vote means you want new oil and gas operations on state-owned or privately-owned land to be…
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LOMAX | In a rare convergence, Polis and Stapleton both balk at drilling ban
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Jared Polis and Walker Stapleton both oppose a ballot measure that would effectively ban oil and gas development across Colorado. The two candidates for governor made this rare point of agreement very clear in speeches to the Colorado Oil & Gas Association’s annual conference this month. The ballot measure would ban drilling within 2,500 feet,…
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LOMAX | Anti-oil & gas Initiative 97 asks us to vote against our own best interests
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Investors: Don’t buy what political activists are trying to sell you in Colorado. I’m surprised this reminder is even necessary, given how anti-oil and gas ballot measures collapsed in 2014 and 2016. But according to the Denver Business Journal, this month’s signature submittal for anti-oil and gas Initiative 97 “rattled some investors,” with a $3…
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Hickenlooper, lawmakers stand with oil and gas at Denver COGA summit
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Gov. John Hickenlooper described the oil and gas industry as an economic partner that has tried to do right by Colorado’s environment in a lunch speech Tuesday. He spoke at the Colorado Oil and Gas Association’s Energy Summit in Denver, which continues Wednesday, when candidates to succeed Hickenlooper – Democrat Jared Polis and Republican Walker…
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Initiative 97 would gut oil and gas development, devastate Colorado’s economy
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Two years ago, Bridget was a single mom with plenty of worries, but few opportunities. She was on public assistance, with no place to call her own. Then, she found a job working in Greeley for an oil and natural gas company. The job gave her a good paycheck, health benefits, and a retirement plan.…
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Initiative 97: Republicans take official position against oil & gas setbacks
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Partisan sides have been taken on Initiative 97, the ballot measure aimed at expanding setbacks for oil and gas operations from homes. Colorado Politics was the first to report that the Colorado Democratic State Central and Executive Committee had taken a position in support of it. Now Republicans have done the same in opposition. In…
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Oops, turns out Denver Archdiocese didn’t endorse oil & gas ballot measure
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The Archdiocese of Denver showed up on Colorado Rising’s list of those endorsing Initiative 97, the ballot measure to increase setbacks for oil and gas operations from homes, schools and businesses. That was news to the archdiocese. Spokesman Mark Haas said the archdiocese has no record of O’Grady and had authorized no one to make…
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FEEDBACK | Dems for life push back; animal-rights groups draw flak
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Democrats for Life speaks for the voiceless In recent political advertisements and a letter to the editor from Ashlin Cross (“Being a Democrat means being pro-choice,” July 25), we are told that ensuring access to abortion is “progressive” and that to be a Democrat means being “pro-choice.” I beg to differ. There is nothing progressive…
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SPONSORED: New study defines the economic and fiscal impacts of Initiative 97
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2,500ft Setback Proposal would cost billions of dollars and thousands of jobs A proposed ballot measure to increase setbacks five times the distance of what is currently required for oil and gas operations will cost Coloradans more than 100,000 jobs by 2030 and have a devastating impact on the economy, according to a new study…
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Colo. campaign-spending initiative sets signature record
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Signatures for the last of seven measures that proponents hope to make it to the November ballot were turned in to the secretary of state just after 2:30 p.m. Monday. The last one turned out to be the biggest in terms of petition signatures, with more than 212,000 names – a new state record for…
