What do lawmakers expect to happen to public support after extended periods of high gas prices, increased utility rates, and potential power shortages during the bitter cold winter months?
One of Colorado’s largest anti-fossil fuel activist groups has taken credit for a stunt relying on a significant amount of crude oil-derived airplane fuel to protest crude oil production in a message on Monday to a small handful of oil and gas proponents.
We cannot deny the devastating effects the entirety of the Green New Deal will have on our state. Unfortunately, the first wave of it has already crashed into Colorado.
Of course, like the capitol district in the dystopian Hunger Games movies, the progressive power structure of the Denver-Boulder would fight to keep them subjugated, and not allow them to be free, despite their repulsion of the rural, Trump-voting rubes.
“Obviously, it’s going to have an effect, with Greeley being one-third of Weld’s population. That is a significant part of the population that is directly related and can be effected by whatever happens in the oil and gas industry. So that has to be taken seriously.” — Greeley Mayor Pro Tem Robb Casseday.
Prop 112 threatens oil and gas development statewide by making it impossible to move product from wells to processing facilities.
“We need to have some tough conversations. I’m happy to participate in some tough conversations, so long as workers are at the table and not on the menu.” Gary Arnold, business manager for the Local Pipe Fitters Union #208, which is opposing 112.
The two candidates running for Colorado’s Attorney General this November have nearly nothing in common. Even the one thing they kind of agree on — the mental health aspect to the gun control debate — they are still worlds apart on what that should look like.
“We know from our polling…if we put (the hospital provider fee) on the ballot it would be a tough thing to pass right now…”
Recent radio and TV ads have been urging Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet and his colleagues to reject a House-passed bill that would allow the U.S. to resume crude oil exports after a 40-year ban prompted by the Arab oil embargo.
The question for Sen. Udall — if your concern is “trains hauling explosive fuels” posing a danger to residents and businesses of Colorado, and with mounting evidence that pipelines are, in fact, the safest way to transport this new bounty of affordable and reliable energy, why do you oppose expanded pipeline construction?
The question for Sen. Udall — if your concern is “trains hauling explosive fuels” posing a danger to residents and businesses of Colorado, and with mounting evidence that pipelines are, in fact, the safest way to transport this new bounty of affordable and reliable energy, why do you oppose expanded pipeline construction?
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