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June 18, 2014 08:30 AM UTC
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Gessler wins! Honey Badger 2014!
(in before Moddy)
The local control is political theater because, in reality, very few people consistently support "local control."
Mostly, people wave the "local control" flag when it something they support, and try to override local control when it's something they oppose.
It seerms to me as a general rule that Republicans promote local control as a means to loosen rules and regulations while Democrats use them to tighten rules and regulations. That may explain the perceived inconsistency.
The Democratic strongholds–at least Denver and Boulder–have voted to permit pot shops, whereas the less Democratic ones have mostly voted to restrict or prohibit them completely.
Yeah, but that's pot, not oil and gas. Pot is MUCH more dangerous.
The exception that proves the rule.
I understand the angst by both sides, but in my personaly opinion neither gets a pass from me at the ballot box. I'll be looking for a candidate that understands the industy's fugitive emissions and their contribution to climate change; I'll be looking for a candidate that vows to take on the issue of our obscene severance tax structure. Will we ever tire of being robbed? This is becoming a classic industry play. The legislature can't deal with the severance tax without a referred measure – something neither side of the aisle will tackle. The alternative would be for our Governor to exert his leadership (and ties to the industry) ala Ritter in 2008 when he promoted Amendment 58. That isn't going to happen either. So, while everyone points fingers at everyone else, the industry will benefit, to the tune of billions, extract the resource and be gone. And we'll be sitting here a decade from now, robbed, pants down and wondering what in the hell just happened.
Local control can't fix the severance tax issue. It can, however, start the 'reigning in' of the industry – and hopefully be a first step to the severance rate discussion.
It appears at this point that I'll be an undervote unless something changes.
You are being way too rational.
These ballot issues will be voted on EMOTIONALLY. "No rig in my backyard".
None of this would be happening if Jared Polis hadn't decided to extort the state. Everyone is working under the threat of Polis's ballot measures. You're damn right no Republican should support that, and if Hickenlooper wasn't terrified of Jared Polis's millions, he would say the same thing.
I find it fascinating that you wholeheartedly support fracking and then at the same time claim Polis is extorting the state, with no sense of irony whatsoever. Top shelf Moddy !
Republicans go so far repeating the brainwashing they've been programmed with, they forget that they are supporting an industry that holds every property owner without mineral rights in the state hostage.
You work for the bad guys, Moddy. How does that feel?
Not to worry, Moddy. Your oil & gas masters will match Polis dollar for dollar.
If history is any guide Gertie, it wil be more like 10-to-1 (while they're simultaneously clutching their pearls).
If you want to talk extortion, let's talk about this. Or perhaps you have no effing idea what the word 'extortion' means.
Where'd this come from, Michael? All I see is that it was published using WordPress.
From Aspen's Community Office for Resource Efficiency (www.aspencore.org)
The oil and gas industry is extorting the state, not Jared Polis. As Bowman has pointed out many times, the rate of severance taxes they pay in relation to profits made is ridiculous.
There are several environmental groups behind these ballot initiatives, not just Polis. And, as I'm sure you've noticed, there is no consensus, even on here, as to which initiatives should go forward. Polis is, at this point, financially backing only one or two of the ones that may make it to the signature-gathering stage.
What all the ballot initiatives have in common is a concern for the health of rural Coloradans who have fracking and oil and gas production in their communities. There is plenty of evidence of negative health impacts on Coloradans from pre-birth, which you should as a pro-life person be concerned about, through elderly people. These effects include severe birth defects, asthma, cancer of various kinds, and elevated blood levels of toxins. If you want, I'll put all the links in, but I'm guessing that you have read, or at least seen, the articles and studies.
The basic idea of "local control" is that communities should be fully informed of, and capable of making their own decisions about the possible health impacts on their citizens vs. possible economic benefits to their communities.
How exactly is that "extortion"?
Another CRED-aligned astroturf organization just launched another website, "Big Green Radicals". On the front page they describe Mark Ruffalo as a carpetbagger; there is an interesting line-up of 'radicals', some local, they are 'exposing'.
CRED is a jointly funded project of Anadarko and Noble Energy ,both based in Texas and "Big Green Radicals" is a project of the "Environmental Policy Alliance" (EPA) based in Washington DC.
Me thinks someone is getting awfully nervous.
If you made 'the list' and you're reading this, "Well done."
They are getting nervous. Every MSNBC show or online vid has a pro-fracking ad or three attached to it.
They have forgotten the lessons of the recall; people eventually just tune their crap out.
Who'd have thunk we'd ever long for the day when all we had to suffer was the nice lady in the black pant suit?
Wait – who was the lady in the pant suit? I probably don't watch enough TV.
Pretty blonde lady who used to tell us all about how awesome the oil and gas companies were. She starred in a few commericals for other products, until she landed a regular gig.
The truth is the industry is not in the midst of a renaissance, but a retirement party. Renewables are fast approaching a price point so low that fossil fuels simply can't compete, even without factoring in the costs of their externalities.
The future belongs to those who embrace it – for those who don't, perhaps elective office really wasn't meant to be in your future.
i'm sure you have seen her, mama. She has been selling gas by telling lies for several years now. She does commercials for API (American Petroleum Institute), telling Americans how the salvation of mankind lies in using as much natural gas as we can.
Clean air and water, 11 million jobs, and national security…all we gotta do is "drill,baby, drill".
Enough with the black pant suit already!!!! This is what leadership looks like…
The lady in the black pantsuit.
None of this would have happened if the oily boys were such a bunch of rapacious fucks, totally unwilling to exercise any minimal decency and restraint. And, you know it!