Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper at a rally in October 2014. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)
The same political firm that managed Gov. John Hickenlooper’s re-election bid and and is overseeing Tuesday’s inaugural festivities designed a web site for an environmental group that wants the governor and his oil-and-gas task force to recognize the impact the extraction industry is having on Colorado families.
The political firm is Onsight Public Affairs, whose client is . And to make things even more interesting, some of the firms promoting fracking in Colorado also .
Is Onsite representing competing interests, the governor who supports responsible fracking and oil-and-gas drilling and a group concerned with the impact of fracking?
Not at all, said whose first political job was for Clean Water Action.
“We all want the same thing,” he said. “We all want the rules the gas commission puts out to protect Colorado’s families and the environment, while also ensuring the industry continues to prosper.”
Clean Water Fund wrote the copy for the website:
“We’ll feature Coloradans — with their families, at their schools, in their communities — standing in front of the drilling rigs that surround their lives. By now, you’ve heard the debate and the arguments, but our families, our communities, and our quality of life should be at the center of these discussions. Governor Hickenlooper and Colorado’s Oil and Gas Task Force need to know how fracking is infringing on our freedoms and disrupting our lives.”
Hickenlooper last year . As part of the deal, four proposed ballot measures — two supported by the oil and gas industry and two opposed by the industry and financed by Democratic Congressman Jared Polis — would be withdrawn. And the governor convened an 18-member task force to make recommendations on oil and gas issues to the administration and the 2015 legislature. The task force meets against Thursday.
