Colorado's oil and gas industry goes after reporters and signature gatherers in new fracking fight
With large oil and gas reserves, Colorado often is at the center of the nation's fossil fuel wars.
MARK HAND AUG 16, 2018, 5:07 PM
As Colorado gears up for another fight over oil and gas drilling near homes and schools, this time the fossil fuel industry is reportedly doing whatever it takes to win.
In the latest flare-up, the oil and gas industry used a website to single out individual journalists for criticism. At the same time, pro-industry protesters were reportedly shadowing canvassers who were gathering signatures to get a measure — Initiative 97 — on the November ballot that would increase the distance between drilling sites and homes.
Colorado Rising, the anti-fracking group behind the ballot initiative, issued a statement last week claiming “harassers were paid to intimidate petition circulators and discourage voters from signing” the petition to get the initiative on the ballot.
Anne Lee Foster, a Colorado Rising volunteer, told Colorado Public Radio that an anonymous employee at Anadarko Petroleum shared an internal document that appeared to ask employees to report when they see Initiative 97 canvassers. The letter includes an email address and a text message hotline, Foster said.
https://thinkprogress.org/colorados-oil-and-gas-industry-goes-after-reporters-and-signature-gatherers-in-new-fracking-fight-711c2b01fc4b/
Does this sound like someone that is doing the same thing at the Department of Justice.....................and he committed treason along with his other playmates..................and he had his playmate tell the whole world that he helped him win an election...................
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough......................vote
