Which Hickenlooper will Colorado get?

Which Hickenlooper will Colorado get?

August 14, 2020

What does John Hickenlooper have to say about VP pick Kamala Harris’ enthusiasm to , which would kill more than 200,000 jobs in Colorado?

His position hasn’t been consistent over the years…

2020 Campaign Hickenlooper: 

  • “My goal (as Governor) was to make fracking obsolete.” (April 15, 2020, )
  • At a townhall event, Hickenlooper said he’d of the green new deal
  • In November, Hickenlooper said he would “” than the green new deal.

Pre-2020 Hickenlooper:

  • and talked about how harmless it is at a congressional hearing.
  • In a 2016 “Colorado Matters” interview, Hickenlooper said that fracking “in real time, is dramatically cleaning  up our air and reducing our greenhouse gas emissions in a way that we could not  possibly do using solar or wind, without some more time for those technologies to lower their cost.”
  • In an interview with Boulder Magazine in 2011, Hickenlooper advocated for natural gas as a cleaner, cheaper, and safer alternative to imported oil & gas. 
  • At a 2012 , Hickenlooper said that the anxiety people have with fracking “isn’t directly connected to facts.”
  • Hickenlooper worked to to keep an anti-drilling initiative off of the ballot
  • Hickenlooper supported against communities that passed fracking bans

Energy development is one of Colorado’s primary economic drivers, and voters deserve to know which Hickenlooper they would get in November. 

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