John Hickenlooper Quotes

Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.

I think 'Gasland' is the doorway for a lot of people to see something happening in their backyard and realize the national and global implications.

I'm for the fracking. I think it's an opportunity for Ohio to really get a lot of jobs. But we have to do it right. We have to really take a deep breath, do it right, make sure the public is protected, make sure our land is protected.

Fracking is doable if there's full disclosure of all chemicals used. Secondly, science dictates the policy rather than politics. Third, there's collaboration between environmental groups and the natural gas industry.

There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future.

The issue of fracking is a stick in the hornet's nest.

We have very strong environmental laws in the United States and elsewhere around the world. The problem is that they're seldom enforced.

There are serious worries about unconventional gas and oil, especially those concerning the environment.

I'm not a scientist. If there is a risk to our environment, there will be no fracking.

I think the governor has short-changed the people of Pennsylvania with respect to shale gas, both with respect to the environment and the economy.

Economies are embedded inside ecosystems. Companies dependent on tourism, for example, are affected by low rainfall - there's less snow for skiers, and forest fires are more intense.

In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.

Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health.

No one does a better, cleaner, or environmental friendlier, than the United States, when it comes to drilling for oil, gas, coal, oil refineries and fish friendly hydroelectric.

I simply can't believe nice communities release effluents.

If it can't be proven that mountaintop removal mining is safe, we shouldn't allow it to continue.

Prior to that I testified before the Senate subcommittee addressing mountaintop removal.

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

When people are involved, accidents will happen…. You don’t want to drink frack fluid.

The current challenge facing the environmental authorities is how to properly deal with the environmental problems caused by economic development.

The lesson of Chernobyl is not an indictment of nuclear power as such. Nuclear power, designed well, regulated properly, cared for meticulously, has a place in the world’s energy supply.

To reap the benefits of GMO technology, the U.S. must ensure that decisions about our food system are made based on science, not innuendo.

If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy.

As a native Oklahoman, I'm dismayed by what fossil fuel pollution has done to the Sooner State.