Dear Friend,
Common Sense Policy Roundtable (CSPR) continues to create economic impact studies separating facts from fiction. CSPR’s goal is to be the go-to fiscal policy think tank for Colorado’s economic future. Where appropriate, CSPR is, and will be, the objective and factual resource Colorado’s citizens and public policy makers can look to when considering important economic issues influencing Colorado’s economy today and in the future.
In 2014, CSPR was tasked to provide information in a major economic public policy debate facing the state hydraulic fracturing. Public policy discussions ranged from a complete statewide fracking ban to various drilling setback scenarios. Our charge was to present reliable economic research about the potential changes in Colorado’s energy policies. The facts and figures we provided using the REMI dynamic econometric model became the centrally cited data used in the debate…