says Boulder Regional Sustainability Coordinator Jonathan Koehn.
Really? Really? Do you have to live within the 24 square miles to say something this stoopid. Let me paint a clear picture:
IF the City of Boulder purchases natural gas that’s NOT from fracking, they are still taking advantage of the fact that the cost of natural has been lowered and the abundance has been increased by fracking. If Boulder is really so noble, and so stoopid, I suggest they should also be stoopid enough to pay the cost of natural gas as if fracking was not being used as a method of extraction. Certainly Al Gore or one of his cronies can determine what the cost of natural gas “should be” if no fracking was taking place.
To purchase, or pretend to purchase, natural gas that has not been extracted with fracking technology is intellectually dishonest even if it’s doable. Boulder will still benefit from fracking regardless of what technology is used to extract their specific molecules of natural gas. This type of thinking really needs to be “shut down”.
