Among the winners of Tuesday's elections were fear and paranoia. In four cities in Ohio and Colorado, voters were persuaded by Big Green scare tactics to ban a safe and environmentally friendly technology that is making America energy independent. Measures banning the natural gas extraction process commonly called “fracking” were approved in three Colorado cities: Boulder, Fort Collins and Lafayette. A fourth measure in Ohio appears headed to passage as well.
Fortunately, the environmental extremists didn't win everywhere. Anti-fracking measures failed in Ohio's Youngstown and Bowling Green balloting. Fracking advocates also won in Broomfield, Colo., albeit by a narrow 51-49 percent margin. The anti-fracking forces have vowed to try again next election cycle and they will be back, with hundreds of millions of dollars from the same liberal foundations that funded this year's campaign...... It's no coincidence that the Matt Damon anti-fracking cinema flop “Promised Land” was partly financed by the United Arab Emirates of OPEC. The good folks in Colorado and Ohio who were scared into banning fracking thought they were protecting their environment. Sadly, they were actually harming it. To Read More....
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