According to the federal Bureau of Land Management, 95% of new wells in Colorado are fracked, but if anti-energy fractivists have their way, the only thing that will get fracked is Colorado’s economy.
After years of protesters clad in gas masks and costumes crashing city council meetings, producing shoddy documentaries, and an overall assault on oil and gas development, the industry in Colorado is fighting back.
A new group — Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development (CRED) — launched this week with the backing of two independent oil and gas companies operating in Colorado, Noble Energy Inc and Anandarko Petroleum Corp.
As the group announced in a press release:
(DENVER) – A new public education effort in Colorado began today aimed at informing the general public about the energy, economic and environmental benefits of safe and responsible oil and natural gas development. Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development (CRED) began airing radio advertisements with a simple and clear message: get the facts on fracking first before making a decision.
Typically lasting only 3-5 days, hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as fracking, fracing and/or hydro-fracking, is a brief and temporary phase, but essential to today’s advanced oil and natural gas drilling development process. Fracking increases our domestic energy production in Colorado, ultimately reducing energy costs to all consumers. The oil and natural gas produced from fracking has become an important revenue source that if eliminated, would cripple the federal, state and local governments. Without it, Colorado and the nation will not be able to realize its full energy and economic potential.
“While fracking may be a non-controversial technique in the energy industry, it has become a target, often intentionally misused, misrepresented and unfortunately substituted as a four letter word by some,” said Jon Haubert, the organization’s Communications Director.
The stakes of this fight are enormous, as a recent CU Boulder Leeds School of Business study found that the oil and natural gas industry pumped $29.6 billion into Colorado’s economy in 2012. It accounted for 110,000 high-paying jobs and $1.6 billion in tax revenue.
The group has launched three radios for its kickoff. Check them out below, replete with a voice over eerily reminiscent of the Bud Light “Real Men of Genius” voiceover guy.
Wow, the rhetoric in this post is so juvenile that it's hard to believe anything that's claimed. All that seems important is to make childish statements like the one about Romanoff "sloppy kisses." You have a better chance of Santa Clause telling you the truth than this swill.
Of course he is! I would love to see if this douche would allow fracking in his backyard!
You've copied and posted twice. PS. Real people don't talk in general talking points unless they are part of the industry. Let me ask you, are you paid, or in any way connected with someone who is directly paid by the fracking industry? I notice that "Coloradans for Responsible Energy" even admits that they are backed by companies. Not some grass roots organization fighting against the "protestors in gas masks". Please. I'm not fooled into thinking that Big Oil is suffering some injustice. I used to not care too much about this issue, but after seeing this, it has helped galvanize me to speak my mind, and become involved. Thank you.
All of this is company backed. It makes me ill when they are advertising to kids and trying to put a "family theme" on fracking. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!? We Coloradans will not fall for it. Try again. Executives are getting this money, and Colorado families and their children, and the polluted water and land they inherit as adults, are paying for that.
Deregulate? Deregulation screwed Montana's citizens.
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The focus of their mission statement is to help the Colorado and US economy "realize it's full energy and economic potential", and if we don't then we're "crippling" ourselves. Sounds like such a 'soul-seling' argument. They want to pay Coloradans a fraction of what they gain. We need private research to better understand the environmental and geological impact of fracking. Not testimony from the companies with everything to gain.
The contaminates in the Platte river has virtually no oil in it. Its nearly all sewage.
Isn't Anadarko the company with all the leaking and floating infrastructure contaminating the S. Platte River?
Because oil and gas people are our neighbors and friends. They send their kids to the same schools, they attend the same churches. They are not evil people. They provide jobs and affordable energy that helps poor people afford their energy needs. It is not in their best interest to kill or mame their customers and employees.
Because oil and gas people are our neighbors and friends. They send their kids to the same schools, they attend the same churches. They are not evil people. They provide jobs and affordable energy that helps poor people afford their energy needs. It is not in their best interest to kill or mame their customers and employees.
Anadarko CEO James Hacket compensation, Forbes: $25.92 million.
Noble Energy CEO Charles Davidson compensation, Forbes, $33.44 million.
Real men of infinite wealth, and why you need to be convinced that their pipelines are safe. Maybe they will allow us all to just move into their neighborhoods, which I would bet a very far from Firestone Colorado.