National “Ban Fracking” Activists Thirst for Attention in Colorado
Thursday May 12, 2016
Anti-fossil fuel activists, facing losses across the country and desperate to keep their campaign alive, are deploying increasingly extreme tactics to drum up attention. Today’s protest outside a Bureau of Land Management sale of federal land for oil and gas leasing in Colorado featured the usual suspects, including Greenpeace, 350.org, Food & Water Watch, and Rainforest Action Network, which are part of a larger campaign to “keep fossil fuels in the ground.”
Not only is it becoming more and more obvious that these activists are outnumbered by the overwhelming majority of Coloradans who support oil and gas development, but their campaign has been rebuked by Colorado’s elected officials, business leaders, and editorial boards and called “naïve” by Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell just last week. No wonder these activists are grasping at straws to keep their Colorado campaign alive.
