An environmental activist associated with the Sunrise Movement harangued former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper for suing a Colorado town in 2013 that voted to ban hydraulic fracturing.
“Gov. Hickenlooper thinks he can get away with suing his own constituents AND still get enough support to run for congress,” the Sunrise Movement noted in a Monday tweet.
The organization, a youth-led group that promoted the Green New Deal in 2019, criticized the Democrat for supposedly “helping big oil execs.”
The Sunrise Movement tweeted a video of a man confronting Hickenlooper, who took part in a lawsuit in 2013 targeting Longmont, Colorado’s, citywide ban on a gas drilling technology.
The group has since removed the tweet.
“How can we trust you to fight for the people in the climate crisis when you continually support oil and gas executives?” the man in the video said.
Hickenlooper tried to deescalate the situation and pleaded with the activist to be quiet so he could respond to the questions.
Hickenlooper, a Democrat campaigning for a U.S. Senate seat in 2020, asked the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission to drop the lawsuit against Longmont, which had voted to ban the natural gas extraction technique.
Colorado sued after the city voted in 2012 to ban fracking.
The former Colorado governor worked out a deal in 2014 to persuade fracking opponents to withdraw two anti-fracking ballot measures in exchange for a dismissal of the lawsuit.
Environmentalists have worked for years to nix the widespread use of fracking in the state.
Read rest at Daily Caller
What is conveniently left out by the “activists” is the fact that the Longmont fracing ban violated State Law as a municipality (at the time) could not override a legal industrial process established by statute that was regulated by the CO Oil & Gas Conservation Commission. Commonly referred to as the Rule of Law. To get to the bigger point, what clean, scalable & sustainable alternative is the Sunrise Movement proposing to REPLACE fossil fuels, currently 80% of our nations primary energy? That essential question never seems to enter into the discussion…
The Sunrise Movement sounds like some kind of freaking liberal cult just like the Extinction Rebellion a whole bunch of loose nuts falling from the nut tree rolling around getting under foot and making you fall Yes we have nuts lots and lots of nuts Come Jays and Squirrels come and gather the nuts
The Sunrise Movement is not a youth-led group. It’s yet another adult-run group using kids as props just as St Greta of Thunberg is run by adults, including but not solely her parents.