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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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Signatures turned in on oil and gas, payday loan initiatives
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Petition signatures for proposed Colorado ballot measures to cap payday loans and to increase the setback for new oil and gas drilling activity around homes made their way to Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams’ office Monday. Backers of Initiative 126, the payday loan initiative, turned in 188,045 signatures at 11 a.m. Monday. Supporters of…
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Insidious Initiative 97 would destroy Colorado’s oil and gas economy
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After decades of hard work, Colorado has a diverse and growing economy. Every sector of that economy is important, but the energy sector plays a critical role. Colorado’s business community will always be ready to defend it. Energy producers in Colorado literally fuel every other sector of the economy. With locally sourced and affordable energy,…
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Initiative 97: Oil and gas combatants argue over rules
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The two sides around Colorado’s oil and gas fracas took different tacks this week as an Aug. 6 deadline looms to get on the November ballot. The industry noted that only about half the money to support Initiative 97 appears have been raised in Colorado. (Never mind that most of the industry is based outside Colorado.)…
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Signature gatherer for oil and gas ballot measure has left Colorado
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One of the contractors collecting petition signatures to get a measure increasing restrictions on Colorado oil and gas operations on the November ballot has pulled out of Colorado, and some of its employees are left unpaid. Six other firms are still collecting signatures for Initiative 97, which would force oil and gas operations to be…
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Oil and gas money flows into local elections seeking a bang for the buck
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Money from the oil and gas industry and its supporters has been flowing into municipal elections in the suburban oil patch north of Denver -but while the bucks have been big by local standards, so far the bang has been small. The most recent foray into community elections came in Erie on April 3, when $55,000…
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LOMAX | Federal judge’s ruling on ‘Raise the Bar’ could prove a hollow victory for activists
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The activists behind a failed government takeover of Colorado’s healthcare system – which would have raised state taxes by a massive $25 billion – are celebrating right now. Not a victory at the polls, of course, but a series of two rulings from a federal court judge in Denver in mid-February and again last week. The rulings targeted Amendment 71, or “Raise the Bar,”…
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A gusher of bucks flows into Erie races from pro-oil and gas group
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Vital for Colorado, a statewide business coalition friendly to oil and gas interests, is backing various “pro business” candidates in the town of Erie to the tune of a combined $55,000. The Boulder Daily Camera reports that the group over the last few days has been spending to support mayoral candidate Dan Woog and trustee…
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Colorado mayors sign letter touting benefits of solar energy
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DENVER – Eight current or former mayors from Colorado signed a letter in support of more solar energy that was endorsed by a bipartisan group of 180 mayors from across the country. “Cities across Colorado should take steps to switch to solar energy,” said Garret Garner-Wells with Environment Colorado, which released the letter Wednesday. “By…
