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February 25, 2009 06:18 PM UTC

If Kathy Hall said it....Face-the-State thinks it's good to go

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  • by: ClubTwitty

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It must be true.  

Or apparently that is enough ‘fact’ for Face-the-State to launch into a speculative article “Could Curry be the next Buescher.”

The tale turns on this ominous quote by oil and gas mouthpiece and known dissembler Kathy Hall:

According to Kathy Hall, western slope director for the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, Colorado has already seen a loss of about $3 billion in drilling activity since the new regulations passed last year. The economy of Curry’s western slope district relies heavily on the energy industry.

“The drop in drilling translates into a loss of millions of dollars of severance tax revenues,” said Hall. “[Curry] is going to have to answer to her voters why she worked so hard to destroy an industry that supplies money to local municipalities, schools and fire districts.”

Kathy Hall has a head full of rocks.  As is well-documented, drilling activity has been plummeting all across the globe–in Colorado, in Texas, off-shore, and even in Siberia.  New regulations were not passed last year; they won final approval by the COGCC and now have to go before the legislature–before they take effect a couple of months hence.

If Kathy Hall is an idiot…what does that say about ‘Face the State’?

Besides relying on a fundamentally faulty premise without any context (and thus falsely implying that new rules not yet put into effect not last year in Colorado have caused the oil and gas industry to crash here while it is doing just fine, drilling up a storm, everywhere else), Face-the-State ignores the most obvious factors that led to Beuscher’s defeat.

Mesa County is a Republican stronghold.  

In Gunnison  County, the BOCC is made up of three Democrats–in Mesa County it is three Republicans.  

In Gunnison County, voters in 2008 supported Obama for president at 63% while in Mesa County voters supported McCain by 64%.  John Salazar and Mark Udall won Garfield Gunnison [typo-CT]  County; Wayne ‘Who?’ Wolf and Bob Schaffer won Mesa County.  

Curry’s district does include some of Garfield and Pitkin  counties, but its Glenwood,  Carbondale and Aspen.

It’s disappointing when anyone prints disproven talking points from disreputable sources.  To use them to craft a spurious piece of thinly veiled threats is scurrilous.  

Certainly political analysis from a blog that calls itself ‘Colorado’s Front Page’ and the ‘Go To’ political news resource, might actually include politics and news in its analysis before constructing a story around a weave of verbal fantasy.  Or not, apparently, if you are Face-the-State.

 

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    3. Yes, exploration is down across the globe. But Colorado also is about to implement regs that will further discourage exploration and will cost jobs here.

      To blame the cuts in exploration only on the drop in oil prices and pretend that the Colorado regs  are having no impact is disingenuous.

      dis?in?gen?u?ous?   ?[dis-in-jen-yoo-uhs]  Show IPA

      -adjective

      lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere: Her excuse was rather disingenuous.

      2. If the new (not yet implemented) rules were really of such concern to O&G, then they would be accelerating drilling and permitting activity in Colorado these last few months before the rules take effect.

        The fact that drilling and permitting is instead slowing down in Colorado (at almost exactly the same pace as in other western states) indicates that it is the overall economy, NOT the rules that are affecting O&G decisions.

      4. From the Craig Daily Press:

        In his State of the County address Tuesday, [Moffat County] Commissioner Tom Mathers said that TransВ­Canada, a Canadian natural resource pipeline company, will not build its Pathfinder natural gas line through Moffat County this year because of the economy and the state’s new oil and gas rules.

        Jeff Comstock, Moffat County Natural Resources DeВ­В­partment director, also connected the state’s new rules with TransCanada’s decision to delay construction after the Commission’s regular meeting Tuesday morning. Contrary to those claims, TransCanada officials said the state’s regulations have nothing to do with the company’s decision.

        “The ongoing conversation in Colorado around what should be appropriate and not appropriate for oil and gas leasing in no way, as far as I know, impacted Pathfinder,” said Scott Farris, TransCanada director of government relations. “In fact, it did not impact Pathfinder. That was simply due to the current economic conditions and the credit crunch that our equity partner faced.”

        While Moffat County officials cling to their ideology and fear-mongering tactics, the industry spokesperson denies that the new rules had any influence on their decisions.

        So, who is it who fits the definition of disingenuous?

        1. He’s handpicked by Hall.

          At least Club 20 doesn’t throw out members it doesn’t agree with, as the Grand Junction chamber of commerce does.

          But Gunnison County recently quit on its own.

          1. but, I think it is down to Club 16 now, maybe Club 15. The “all oil and gas, all the time” philosophy of ” the Queen of Gas”, Kathy Hall, is beginning to wear very thin across the western slope. With the State and Feds in the hands of the Dems, Her Majesty and “the Prince of COGA”, Sen. Penry are running short of allies to cover their backsides.  

  2. But the reality, which is pretty well documented, is that it is not a “news” or “journalism” operation but a GOP-funded mouthpiece that uses misinformation to promote the messages the Republicans want to advance. The track record of both Face the State and its “managing editor” Brad Jones is pretty clear:

    http://colorado.mediamatters.o…

    http://colorado.mediamatters.o…

    Yes, the website is way unbalanced to credibly carry the “news” facade and Jones pretty much has established an identity as the GOP’s errand boy, one who in his public appearances frequently makes it clear he has little to no understanding regarding the issues he’s discussing at the time.

    So, this latest bit is not too surprising.

    1. According to some of the Blame Colorado First &copy people that just by talking about severance is enough to crater the entire world energy market.  No need to actually put rules and regulations into place; just talking about Colorado is very, very powerful.

      Colorado according to those people is more powerful than China, Russia, Venezula, and the middle eastern oil producers.

      Colorado has oil, gas and coal.  It will be removed from the ground no matter what rules and regulations are placed on the drillers, producers and mining operations.

  5. Oil and gas lobbyists forget to mention that Colorado has one of the lowest severance tax rates of all natural gas producing states, which should be a big incentive to stay. So why the slowdown in CO?

    –Too much natural gas on the market and nowhere to store it

    –No pipelines to better markets

    –International and national economies (Most of the natural gas companies have a major interest in the crude oil business, too.)

    Colorado’s new Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission rules have very little to do with what’s going on with the world as far as energy development. But the new rules have everything to do with protecting our environment and health here in the state.

    With oil and gas lobbyists outnumbering legislators something like 10 to 1, it’s time for citizens to step forward and tell their legislators to vote the new rules in.

    PS: And that will checkmate the likes of Kathy Hall.

    And the case with Bernie Buescher? Mesa County lost a strong voice in the majority party in state government (Rep. Bradford is really bringing in the bacon, heh) and the Democrats gained one hell of an SOS.

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