- Gas Industry Successfully Overturns Colorado Fracking Ban– By Farron Cousins, DeSmogBlog – 27 May 13 http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/17631-gas-industry-successfully-overturns-colorado-fracking-banThe townspeople in Fort Collins were greeted with some unfortunate news earlier this week, as their city council decided to overturn a banon hydraulic fracturing that had been in place for only a few short months. The decision to overturn the ban was based solely on the threat of a lawsuit from the oil and gas industry.The mere threat of a lawsuit from the only fracking company in town – Prospect Energy – was enough to send the city council cowering in submission, placing the entire town at risk of the negative health impacts associated with fracking.
The gas industry was aided in their efforts by Colorado’s Democratic Governor Hickenlooper, who warned the town of Fort Collins that if the ban were to remain in place, they could face legal intervention from the state itself.
Hickenlooper’s announcement is less than surprising. He has received more than $45,000 from the energy industry during his campaigns, along with another $104,000 from the real estate industry (a sector that stands to gain a lot with the leasing of property to fracking.
- Written anonymously, the Monsanto Protection Act allows corporations to sell genetically-modified seeds even when federal courts have blocked them from doing so. http://www.jeffmerkley.com/petition/monsanto/ sign the petition to stop this.
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Secretly Buying Access to a Governor
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By THE EDITORIAL BOARD OCT. 7, 2014Addicted to each other’s power and money, the political parties and their corporate donors are constantly trying to enlarge their relationship out of sight of the American public. An accidental Internet disclosure last month showed that the stealthy form of political corruption known as “dark money” now fully permeates governor’s offices around the country, allowing corporations to push past legal barriers and gather enormous influence.
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