Next time around, it’s going to be much harder for big national environmental groups to pretend they’re homespun, grassroots and local.
One of the anti-fracking signature gatherers is actually pinning the blame on Denver’s homeless population.
Even without anti-fracking measures on the ballot, environmental politics will continue to play a huge role in Colorado elections this year.
If the anti-energy agenda becomes the law of the land in Colorado, the damage to the energy sector will just be the beginning. A new report shows every business and every household will feel the impacts and the entire state economy will struggle.
Far-left activists with 350.org are gathering signatures for this year’s anti-fracking measures. Their leader says he wants to “drive a stake through the heart” of the fossil-fuel industry, one of Colorado’s biggest employers.
No matter what happens “state-by-state” and “county-by-county,” a national fracking ban is the real goal, according the Democratic presidential candidate.
Roughly 90 percent of land across Colorado would be walled off, with an even greater impact in the handful of counties where most of the state’s oil and gas production takes place.
Inside the Democratic coalition, there’s a battle raging between the party’s blue-collar and environmental factions. But senior party leaders are trying to play down the conflict and its impact on household energy bills.
The activists needed to subvert the peer-review process because their research methods were, in a word, junk. Across several states, the activists actually used buckets lined with plastic bags to take air samples.
An example of Polis aiding anti-fracking activists came during the historic September 2013 floods — Polis legitimized the “ban fracking” activists by demanding a congressional hearing into the “toxic spills.”
Clearly, anti-fracking activists in Colorado must be hoping public officials and the press can’t remember what happened two years ago.
In a wide ranging, heavily footnoted report released July 30, the Minority Staff of the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works demonstrates the confluence of the Environmental
