Colorado Republican Senator: Fracking is fine because water is supposed to burn
 

A Colorado state senator insinuated in an interview last month that water can naturally catch fire and therefore hydraulic fracturing is safe.

Sen. Randy Baumgardner, R-Cowdrey, made the statements on the daily television show ? The Pray in Jesus Name Project ? of Gordon Klingenschmitt, a Republican who is running for state representative in eastern El Paso County.

Baumgardner said in the interview that he has been to a number of fracking seminars where the "myths of fracking" have been debunked. He specifically addresses worries that fracturing introduces methane into water sources.

"If you go back in history and look at how the Indians traveled, they traveled to the burning waters and that was methane in the water and that was warmth in the wintertime," Baumgardner said. "So a lot of people, if they will just trace back the history, they will know how this is all ? a lot of it ? is propaganda."

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http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_26...#disqus_thread

ahh, now we know where the word firewater comes from...

Yup, these guys want to destroy our precious environment. They have to be stopped!

DENVER (AP) - Right-wing Gov. John Hickenlooper says legislation should result next year from a commission he's created to study hydraulic fracturing in Colorado.

The governor made the remarks Wednesday after speaking to industry leaders at the annual Energy Expedition Summit in Denver.

Hickenlooper called for a commission to study fracking as a compromise to prevent four competing ballot proposals from being on the November ballot. Two would limit fracking, including increasing the distance between homes and rigs.

The pro-industry initiatives would require fiscal impact statements on future ballot questions regarding energy development, and prevent municipalities banning fracking from collecting state revenue that comes from drilling. Hickenlooper told industry officials he wanted those two questions on the ballot, but they needed to go because of the compromise.

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Right-wing Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has made no secret of his support for hydraulic fracturing, but on Tuesday he went one big step further and testified that he actually drank fracking fluid.

?You can drink it. We did drink it around the table, almost ritual-like, in a funny way," Hickenlooper said before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.


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DENVER (CBS4) - A compromise on the contentious fracking debate in Colorado pulled together two opposing sides on Monday with a promise to ax four ballot measures that have divided the state on the issue.
That agreement among Right-wing Gov. John Hickenlooper, Rep. Jared Polis, environmental groups and the oil and gas industry creates an 18-member task force that will study fracking in Colorado and present recommendations to the state legislature. In exchange, they?ve asked that organizers pull two pro-fracking and two anti-fracking measures and that a lawsuit against the city of Longmont be dismissed.

methane in water supplies is VERY common. I don't have a horse in the race, but check out the movie fracknation.

The guy who did Gasland straight up lied about most of the key points in that movie 2c

The Governor of Colorado is a Democrat, thanks for adding your own slant. Maybe you subscribe to the burning water thingy too?

Less than 1% of well water contains methane, I wouldnt call that VERY common. It is 6 times greater near gas well sites. On a side note though, you do realize though the Indians traveled to hot springs, not methane sites, dont you? :1orglaugh

You don't say!

Burn baby burn!