The Denver Post Editorial Board March 24, 2016 It sounds fairly innocent: Why shouldn’t oil and gas companies “be treated just like any other industry,” as one state lawmaker insisted recently, when it comes to local land-use regulation? Well, that might be fine in a world in which every jurisdiction operated in good faith in…
Month: March 2016
The Pueblo Chieftain: Give rules a fair chance to work
DAN HALEY GUEST COLUMNIST February 27, 2016 Environmental activists often paint a picture of the oil and gas industry in Colorado as an unregulated Wild West, where there are no rules and no consequences. That image couldn’t be further from the truth. Since 2010, the state has created some of the most rigorous rules in…