Study shows oil and gas industry wields ‘meta power,’ but Colorado residents are fighting back

Taking our government back from corporate interests…..”Colorado Rising, however, doesn’t have the funds to pay for pro-proposition television advertisements. Instead, the campaign for Proposition 112 is attempting to counter the industry with online videos.

On Wednesday, the group released its first campaign video in favor of the proposition.

The video shows scenes from an April 2017 natural gas fire at a home near a drilling site in Erie, Colorado that killed two people. Investigators traced the cause of the explosion to an uncapped flowline that had been leaking non-odorous natural gas into a family’s home for months. The gas came from a nearby well owned by Anadarko Petroleum.

In response to industry advertisements showing bucolic scenes in the state, Colorado Rising’s pro-proposition video says: “Coloradans live in the real world, not an oil and gas advertisement.”

Study shows oil and gas industry wields ‘meta power,’ but Colorado residents are fighting back

Citizens who live near energy infrastructure often feel disempowered, study says.