Posted on 04/15/2014 7:53:51 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
Colorado ping!
Driving up I-25 through Weld County towards Fort Collins, you see plenty of rigs. But compared to a coal mine, power plant, steel mill; they are trivial.
The people in these areas welcome the work and enjoy the balance. It’s the people in Lo-Do,Cherry Creek and Boulder who are alarmed.
Still there can be compromise. Say no rigs west of I-25? Then they can live out their dream of an unobstructed view of the Front Range.
East of I-25, meh. There’s nothing until Kansas.
But that cloud of marijuana smoke that envelops the state will cause the population to be cool with things just the way they are (Rats everywhere).
Let’s hope so!
“But that cloud of marijuana smoke that envelops the state will cause the population to be cool with things just the way they are (Rats everywhere).”
The dopers will forget what day the election is on. I want all democrats to be stoned, drunk and horny on election days maybe then they won’t vote or at least only vote once.
well said
Even the Dems like to hunt in CO. Governor ChickenPooper is going get knocked out over the gun grab.
My thoughts are that the CO natives will rout the Californicators this time.
Excuse me......f**king = fracking.
And it’s not like people are going to complain that you obscured their view of Kansas.
So... that means he helps Republicans get elected ?
I’d be surprised if Polis was not an out-of-state transplant who needed a new nest to crap in...sounds like a Californicator in spirit, if not in fact.
Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
The article says the bill would put fracking decisions in the control of cities and counties. Why would this be a problem? We don’t believe in local decision making? I’ve driven across the state of Colorado from the east. Your’re right, nothing until the Front Range.
interesting ... their top dog is biting some hands? Might cause an over-the-top inside fight between some of the big dogs and little dogs and leave the blue dogs turning red? Might be just enough to tip or scrape the scales and some fish lose their heads or minds. Would be an interesting fight.
95% of last year's drilling was in Weld County, so your idea appears good. However, areas just east of the Front Range axis are prime, and they are west of I-25. That encroaches on Boulder, Longmont and Loveland. Though the issue is heated, it is focused on a much smaller area than the article implies. Loveland has set a fracking moratorium vote for July 29th, which is unlikely to pass (perhaps that's why they set the vote) and would be beyond the city's powers if it did. The local rights fracking issue is limited to Boulder County: Boulder and Longmont.
The oil companies would do well to cool their heels until this blows over, and to drill where they won’t face opposition.
Political consultants and TV station managers may be salivating, but Hickenlooper and Udall are privately steamed at Polis, who, in pushing these initiatives, is throwing them under the bus... "You don’t have to be a Svengali to see this is a slow motion train wreck for Mark Udall and every other Democrat up and down the ballot," says Josh Penry, a former Republican state lawmaker and gubernatorial candidate now working in the oil and gas industry... "You essentially have a small cadre of burned-out Occupy Wall Streeters and an egomaniacal congressman from Boulder with a little money burning a hole in his pocket about to thoroughly jeopardize the re-election of Mark Udall and John Hickenlooper... In 2004 and 2006, when the Democrats were laser-beam focused on building a governing coalition, the progressive roundtable would’ve absolutely crushed this kind of idiocy."
Many moons ago, I worked gas wells in Western CO, near Rifle, and iirc, the oil/gas patch out there extends up to Craig. There is also considerable interest in the Green River Shale, as soon as someone figures out how to extract the oil. Hydraulic fracturing isn’t the only variety of fraccing out there (The US Government even tried a nuke downhole), so be careful what you ban where, ‘cause you might want it later.
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