Which lawmakers will support transparency over lobbyists

by Amy Oliver | 2:44 pm, April 19, 2012

COST just received word that HB 1252, a bill that would require Colorado’s institutions of higher education to make public financial information accessible online, finally will be heard in the House Appropriations Committee next week.  An amended version of sponsor BJ Nikkel’s bill passed the House education committee on February 27.
Sources tell us that the [...]

Not much BTU for the buck

by Amy Oliver | 2:43 pm, April 6, 2012

Congressman Cory Gardner was on my radio show this morning defending his plan to first extend and then phase out the production tax credit (PTC) for wind energy. My colleague Michael Sandoval and I are on record as opposing the PTC, and all other energy subsidies. Now we have additional evidence that renewables are so [...]

Poetic justice for an eco gangster

by Amy Oliver | 2:57 pm, April 3, 2012

Score one for common sense. The Colorado Public Advocate reports that Dr. Ann Maest, a scientist with Boulder-based Stratus Consulting, dropped out of an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) mining conference this week in Denver amid challenges to her credibility following accusations that she fudged data to support a massive lawsuit against Chevron and its drilling [...]

Baker out at PUC

by Amy Oliver | 8:59 am, March 31, 2012

Public Utilities Commissioner Matt Baker is leaving the PUC to join the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a left-leaning non-profit, as “an officer in its Environment Program” foundation officials announced yesterday. Former Governor Bill Ritter appointed the environmental activist Baker in 2008, and his term had expired without current Governor John Hickenlooper acting to reappoint [...]

Confiscating your water rights

by Amy Oliver | 12:25 pm, March 29, 2012

This column appeared originally in the Greeley Tribune on Thursday, March 29.
Colorado Ballot Proposal Would Confiscate Water Rights
by J. Craig Green, PE
In this November’s election, voters may be asked to destroy Colorado’s system of water rights. A pair of ballot proposals would confiscate the water rights of cities, water districts, farmers, and ranchers.
The Colorado Constitution [...]

Fix is in: Senator misses testimony, knows to vote with Xcel

by Amy Oliver | 6:02 pm, March 21, 2012

Senator Betty Boyd, a democrat member of the State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee, was not present in the committee hearing for any of the testimony either for or against HB 1172, the carbon tax repeal. Yet she knew exactly how to vote — against electricity ratepayers, against the environment, and for Xcel Energy.
According to [...]

Pat Stryker waiting for more taxpayer money to fund Abound

by Amy Oliver | 6:44 am, March 20, 2012

Leftist billionaire heiress Pat Stryker is waiting to see if taxpayers via the Department of Energy (DOE) will throw another $10 million at Stryker’s failed thin-filmed solar panel manufacturer Abound Solar before she puts any more of her own money into the Colorado-based company reports Eric Wesoff of GreenTech Media:
The firm awaits $10 million from the DOE [...]

Chevy instructs how to gouge Colorado taxpayers

by Amy Oliver | 9:26 pm, March 16, 2012

Buy a $40,000 Chevy Volt and taxpayers in Colorado and across the country will pick up nearly one third of the cost plus provide a permit to use Colorado’s HOV lanes free. Chevy blasted a “radio advisory,” which I received for my show on News Talk 1310, bragging about taxpayers footing the bill:
Colorado residents who [...]

SB 93 a perversion of transparency

by Amy Oliver | 6:11 pm, March 16, 2012

The first step toward religious persecution is identification, and that is exactly what Senator Morgan Carroll wants to force hospitals to do that don’t perform abortions or provide other services based on “religious beliefs or moral convictions.”  SB 93, her bill that passed the Colorado state senate on along a party line vote, would require:
A [...]

Taxpayers still on the hook for Abound employees?

by Amy Oliver | 12:00 pm, March 14, 2012

Are taxpayers still paying for Abound Solar employees despite the company’s cost saving measure of laying off 70 percent of its work force? Could be and the figure is nearly $2 million.
Late last month Colorado-based Abound Solar announced layoffs of 180 full-time and another 100 part-time employees so the thin-filmed photovoltaic manufacturer could “re-tool” to [...]

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