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A vicious cycle on Western wildfires
Posted by Denver Post: Editorial on September 2nd, 2013
Denver Post: The announcement from U.S. Forest Service Chief Thomas Tidwell was an ominous one.
With firefighting money running out, last month he ordered managers to divert money from other programs to fund firefighting.
On the one hand, it makes sense. At the height of firefighting season, you cannot risk having no cash to pay for fire suppression. It has happened so often it has a nickname: Fire borrowing.
The trouble with that scenario is it siphons money from the programs designed to lessen the...
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No state money for fracking bans
Posted by Denver Post: Editorial on March 9th, 2013
Denver Post: The governor seems to think there's a role for the state to play in helping compensate mineral rights owners who are denied royalties due to local fracking bans.
We disagree, and strenuously so. It's a bad idea from both practical and philosophical standpoints.
Last week, just after the Fort Collins City Council voted to ban fracking, Gov. John Hickenlooper visited with the city's newspaper, The Coloradoan.
He acknowledged the oil and gas extraction technique known as fracking was troubling...