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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

Fracking: Chemicals, Cancer, and Relative Risks

by Donovan Schafer | 11:01 am, March 27, 2012

The Colorado School of Public Health (CSPH) at the University of Colorado recently announced an article that will be published this month in the journal Science of the Total Environment. The article is based on a study of air pollution resulting from oil and gas development (including hydraulic fracturing or “fracking”) in Garfield County. According [...]

The Truth About Fracking and Water Scarcity

by Donovan Schafer | 11:28 am, March 21, 2012

This post will be the first in series on hydraulic fracturing (”fracking”), in which Independence Institute research associate, Donovan Schafer, will take on specific issues related to fracking. In this post he focuses on the claim that fracking will deplete Colorado’s water resources. Enjoy!
Two recent articles—one in the Denver Post and another in the Huffington [...]

Fracking bills: regulations in search of problems

by Amy Oliver | 3:24 pm, January 25, 2012

Two bills concerning hydraulic fracturing can be summarized best as excessive regulations in search of problems. I consulted with Doug Flanders, director of policy and external affairs for the Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA), who provides a summary of each bill citing statistics from the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC), the state [...]

Commerce City should consult with Greeley before fracking vote

by Amy Oliver | 10:22 pm, January 24, 2012

Commerce City is twisting itself in knots over whether or not to allow hydraulic fracturing within its city limits. The City Council delayed the moratorium vote for another month so it could discuss the issue further according to reports from 9 News.
Commerce City officials would be wise to head north and seek counsel from Greeley. [...]

Salazar defends fracking; waiting for the “real facts.”

by Amy Oliver | 3:40 pm, December 13, 2011

While the Denver Post played the role of Rocky Mountain eco-Chicken Little of record, another news outlet — the Casper Star-Tribune — reported former Colorado Senator and current Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s opinion of the EPA’s premature press release about a “draft finding” regarding a link that may or may not exist between hydraulic fracturing [...]

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