The TPPF Take: Gov. Abbott is right. No more lockdowns.
“Lockdowns cost lives and livelihoods,” says TPPF’s Shelby Sterling. “If the goal here is to promote public health and wellbeing, then another lockdown isn’t the way. There are other, more effective ways to protect our most vulnerable and slow the virus’ spread that don’t involve destroying liberty or prosperity.”
The TPPF Take: The article uses several terms, including clean energy, that require closer consideration.
“Wind and solar might be 'cleaner' than fossil fuels in terms of air pollution—though the U.S. has reduced air pollution so much that our air quality is very close to natural levels—but wind and solar are far from being ‘clean’ in an absolute sense,” says TPPF’s Brent Bennett. “They require far more land and materials than denser forms of energy such as fossil fuels and nuclear, posing threats to wildlife and natural habitats.”
The TPPF Take: The problem in Colorado isn’t just the agency’s email, it’s the fact that the agency plans to increase and in some cases quadruple setback rules limiting where oil and gas can be harvested.
“This move would be a death blow to the state’s second-largest industry, which is already facing an uphill battle thanks to the COVID-19 shutdowns,” says TPPF’s Jason Isaac. “Oil and gas production employs more than 30,000 Coloradoans, supports hundreds of thousands of additional jobs, and produces 5-10 percent of the state’s economy.”
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