Colorado boasts of the most tightly regulated, cleanest, and safest oil and gas industry in the nation.
But, then, “impossible” and “impractical” are exactly the conditions the anti-oil and gas crowd want to impose on the industry. Former Gov. John Hickenlooper boasted of imposing “the toughest emissions laws in the country.” But, the anti-oil and gas radicals really don’t just want a clean and safe industry, they want to regulate it out of existence entirely., would create additional new categories for violators – a kind of “Mortal Sin” infraction level.
These are some, though not all of the nefarious legislative concoctions floating around beneath the gold dome, and they are examples of the onslaught the industry has endured each session in recent years. Another thorough analysis of EPA data concluded that because a permitting ban would redirect oil and gas production to other states, “CO2e emissions would increase by 909,790 metric tonnes from the production alone.” That does not include any emission increases from having to transport more fuel into the state.