Here’s an interview with Mike King who is moving on from the Colorado Department of Natural Resources to Denver Water, from Bente Birkeland reporting for KUNC. Click through and listen to the whole interview. Here’s an excerpt:
Mike King, the executive director of Colorado’s Department of Natural Resources, is leaving the position at the end of January 2016 to become Denver Water’s new director of planning. Statehouse reporter Bente Birkeland sat down with him to talk about the future of the oil and gas and the state’s hydraulic fracturing debate, and his time heading the agency.
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On Advice For His Successor
“I hope you’re heart is strong. This is a position where you take a lot of criticism. You have to come in with a dose of humility and also a strong sense of right and wrong and know that people are not going to agree with you at every turn. That’s the hardest thing, is knowing that you’re making people mad.”