Governor's Energy Office - Independence Institute

Big Wind and Solar Oppose Clean Energy 0
- Archive, ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT, Legal, Preferred Energy, Renewable Energy
- February 13, 2015
By Lexi Osborn In the upcoming weeks, House Bill 1118 will be up for debate in the State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee. This bill eliminates the restrictions on the hydroelectricity and pumped hydroelectricity that can be counted as a “renewable energy resource” to meet Colorado’s renewable energy standard. Currently, hydroelectricity is only counted towards
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Audit confirms our findings: mismanagement in state energy office 0
- Archive, ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT, Legal
- January 29, 2013
A 2011 Independence Institute paper was the first to suggest that the Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) needed a serious dose of transparency due to its inability to clarify how it spent millions of dollars of taxpayer money. Colorado’s State Auditor validated our findings in a recently released audit. Colorado’s Office of the State Auditor blasted
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How Long Will Hick Equivocate on Energy Policy?0
- Archive, ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT, Legal
- January 4, 2011
On energy policy, Governor-elect John Hickenlooper is perhaps the most masterful politician I’ve ever encountered. Coal, climate change, costs…these matters engender passions. They get people riled up. So it’s an awesome political trick that Hickenlooper has been elected mayor of this country’s finest city, and then governor of this country’s finest state, without revealing what
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