Hickenlooper’s Fifth Misdeed: Recording a misleading radio ad for oil & gas lobbyists

2013-08-7

In 2012, Gov. John Hickenlooper recorded a misleading radio ad paid for by the Colorado Oil & Gas Association. In the ad, the governor parses his words to make the claim that Colorado has not had a single instance of drilling and fracking contaminating groundwater, since 2008. “In 2008, Colorado passed tough oil and gas… Read more »

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Hickenlooper’s Misdeed #4 – Opposing local efforts to protect residents from oil & gas drilling pollution

2013-08-1

Gov. John Hickenlooper continues to oppose local efforts to protect residents from oil and gas drilling pollution, going so far as to sue local governments and taxpayers. In his most recent action, the Hickenlooper-appointed Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission openly joined the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, an industry lobby-group headed-up by CEO Tisha… Read more »

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The team of oil & gas lobbyists behind Gov. Hickenlooper’s agenda

2013-05-30

It should come as no surprise that in the 2013 legislative session alone, the oil and gas industry spent $1.06 million defending Gov. Hickenlooper’s pro-Big Oil agenda. As a Chesapeake lobbyist wrote in a January 2013 memo that the lobby firm accidentally emailed to state legislators, “[Gov. Hickenlooper’s] relationship to the oil & gas industry… Read more »

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