Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Colorado local governments are worried that global warming might melt their ski season.
Latest legal fight accusing oil companies of climate change launched in Colorado
Sebastien Malo
APRIL 18, 2018 / 9:00 AM
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Three Colorado communities filed a lawsuit against oil companies on Tuesday, launching the latest legal battle seeking damages for what they claim are the costs of adapting to climate change.
The lawsuit, filed in Colorado by the city of Boulder and the counties of San Miguel and Boulder, accuses Suncor and Exxon Mobil Corp of creating a public nuisance by producing and selling fossil fuels that cause climate change.
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Suncor and Exxon “sold and promoted fossil fuels knowing that climate impacts were substantially certain to occur if unchecked fossil fuel use continued,” the communities said in the complaint.
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Their region of Colorado is vulnerable to a wide range of climate threats, from droughts that imperil farming to warm winters that harm the ski industry, they said.
“Climate change is not just about sea level rise. It affects all of us in the middle of the country as well,” said Elise Jones, a Boulder County commissioner, in a statement.
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My thought – why should fossil fuel companies continue to sell their products in places where those products are no longer welcome?
Fossil fuel companies should respect the will of the people, by negotiating an orderly withdrawal of their services from counties and states which no longer want their evil dispatchable energy. Colorado counties opposed to fossil fuels could use this negotiated period of orderly withdrawal as an opportunity to restructure their winter economy around solar energy and wind power.
Isn’t anyone countersuing because of the threat to supplies of life giving cheap energy. Whatever happened to the good folk of Colorado. They became a blue state and then surrendered to a “progressives” designer brain education.
In Alberta in Canada the oil industries were booming and attracted a flood of lefty labor out into a province that had been conservative for a century. This new demographic voted in a soshulist gov who introduced a carbon tax on top of an industry struggling economically. Now they are unemployed like they were back east. Ontario is another hundred year old conservative province that 8n the last 25 years went over to the “progressives” and they are now a have not province. Sheesh, folks this formula has failed everywhere it has been tried.
Well I guess I will just ski in Whitefish, MT. I will not be going back to CO. and support such propaganda and stupidity. How I sue CO for using Exxon’s product; that them using oil is destroying skiing.
Snow is natural. The state should not be allowed to remove it.* The pictured truck with plow is obscene.
*I read a rant the other day that fighting invasive plants and animals is racist. Snow is invasive weather. Hmmm . . . Invasive Weather© could replace Climate Change.
I live in Colorado and certainly hope the local mini mart continues to sell gasoline. Weekends during ski season Interstate 70 has bumper to bumper traffic as thousands of cars inch their way from the cities of Denver and Boulder to Breckenridge, Vail, Winter Park and all the other ski resorts along the I-70 corridor. Maybe the government should sue itself, there are eleven coal mines operating in Colorado. I’m sure the state issued permits for these mines. I’m no genius but even I know that without fossil fuels civilization will collapse in a few days.
Good night