Much Ado About Thumping: Denver Post one-sided story

by amy | 1:18 pm, March 26, 2013

By Simon Lomax
Be afraid. Be very afraid…

That was the Denver Post’s front page article on March 16, which profiled a couple – Mieko and Charles Crumbley – who claim seismic surveying near Brighton, Colo. damaged a groundwater well on their property and put cracks in some of the walls in their home. But the oil [...]

Country can breathe sigh of relief. We’re still stuck with him…

by amy | 7:21 pm, March 4, 2013

By William Yeatman and Amy Oliver Cooke
As Coloradans we thought we might have to apologize to the rest of the country if President Barack Obama nominated former one-term Colorado Governor Bill Ritter to head the Energy Department. If the President wanted to make electricity costs skyrocket and the eco-left community happy, Ritter was his guy, [...]

NY Governor scared of his eco-left flank

by amy | 3:10 pm, January 9, 2013

For the last four years, the state of New York has imposed a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing supposedly to give Governor Andrew Cuomo time to study the process before making a decision on whether or not to lift it.
Four years seems like a long time to study a process that has been around for decades [...]

Hate fuels Boulder fracking debate

by amy | 9:12 pm, December 11, 2012

“The function of the Human Relations Commission is to foster mutual respect and understanding and to create an atmosphere conducive to the promotion of amicable relations among all members of the city’s community.” Boulder Human Relations Office
For a community with an “Office of Human Rights” and is home to a university with a multi-million dollar [...]

Fracking fuels hate in Boulder

by amy | 9:12 pm, December 11, 2012

“The function of the Human Relations Commission is to foster mutual respect and understanding and to create an atmosphere conducive to the promotion of amicable relations among all members of the city’s community.” Boulder Human Relations Office
For a community with an “Office of Human Rights” and is home to a university with a multi-million dollar [...]

Fun with Fracking…

by amy | 1:06 pm, September 21, 2012

Energy Policy Center Director Amy Oliver Cooke has fun talking energy, especially when wearing a hot pink “Mothers In Love with Fracking” t-shirt. Thanks to Tom Barry of The Villager for this photograph and his article on the American For Prosperity (AFP) event that featured Dick Morris. AFP invited Amy to be the warm up [...]

VIDEOS: The Truth About Fracking, Messaging for Women

by Jon Caldara | 2:09 pm, August 15, 2012

I want to give a big thanks to Amy Oliver Cooke for guest hosting my show while I was away. In the first episode, she sat down with former petroleum engineer Donovan Schafer to discuss fracking. Should we fear it like everyone seems to be telling us?

In the second segment, Krista Kafer joins Amy to [...]

Frack Attack: Cracking the Case Against Hydraulic Fracturing

by jlongo | 12:11 pm, July 26, 2012

A ban on fracking would not satisfy those who present general arguments against any kind of development. Acceptance of these arguments would require an outright ban on all oil and gas activities, new wind farm construction, electric transmission construction, residential housing developments, road construction, and the like. Before accepting any argument against fracking as sufficient grounds to restrict or ban its use, one should take that argument to its logical conclusion and consider the full set of repercussions. For if such arguments are granted valid status, they will be used again and again by whichever parties can benefit from shutting down any particular form of development.

Carbon Emissions are Down; Environmentalsts Throw a Hissy Fit

by Randall Smith | 9:17 pm, July 22, 2012

I remember many years ago, when I was still a young’un, RTD and others were promoting their new natural gas powered vehicles. They vehicles, they claimed, were better for the environment because they had lower emissions than similar diesel vehicles. Th…

Independence Institute Writers In The News

by Mike Krause | 2:38 pm, June 25, 2012

Pleas bargains, corporate welfare, twinkie taxes and fracking are all topics of recently published works by Independence Institute writers.
In the Colorado Springs Gazette, frequent Independence Institute guest author Ari Armstrong examines the consequences to the right of a jury trial from having over 97 percent of Colorado’s criminal convictions be from plea bargains.  Writes Ari:

Colorado [...]

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