Posted on 02/24/2015 7:16:19 PM PST by george76
An activist who was using his position on Colorado’s oil and gas task force to push for a New York-style ban on oil and natural gas development has given up on the fringe proposal for lack of support, according to documents released by state officials overnight.
The proposal’s demise is yet another defeat for national anti-fracking groups in Colorado, such as Food and Water Watch and the Sierra Club, which are desperately trying to reboot their failed campaign for an effective statewide oil and gas development ban. It’s also a reminder of how outside of New York, the “ban fracking” political campaign is failing nationally and at the state level, due to broad bipartisan support for increased domestic energy production.
Task force member and self-described “activist” Jim Fitzgerald – who has close ties to the anti-energy group Earthworks – proposed the statewide ban on oil and gas permitting
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Ever since the New York shale gas ban was announced in December 2014, Colorado anti-fracking activists who claimed to be supporters of “local control” over oil and gas development have revealed themselves once again to be campaigning for a statewide ban. Food & Water Watch even demanded the task force impose such a ban when the task force met in Greeley in mid-January. Fitzgerald’s intitial proposal, made just weeks after the Greeley task force meeting, would have immediately given Food & Water Watch and other “ban fracking” groups their wish.
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Keep your New York commie eco-wacko ideas out of my mountains! ;-)
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Great to see Colorado still has some fight in it for freedoms other than simply that of indulging in abusable substances.
A fervent “Amen” to that sentiment!!!
Thank you.
Good news. Thanks george76
I tell lefties who hate oil , coal, and gas production that they should not drive a car, heat their home , live / shop / work in a building that has used mining products, etc.
The Siera Club and other such whackjobs don’t give a damn about fracking: this is all part of the war against the automobile, and against personal freedoms in general, by depriving us of readily-available motor fuels.
Sierra Club...
This won’t be the end of it. Since they lost in the task force, they’ll be back with more ballot measures next election.
I agree.
They are just re-loading.
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