Colorado puts public lands in private hands
I arrived back in Denver yesterday to find the government tearing through Colorado's environment like the Denver Outlaws through the MLL. The Bureau of Land Management has really lost its mind. From today's Denver Post:
Seven oil and gas drillers are choosing the company that will study how much drilling should be allowed on 1.5 million acres of public land in northwestern Colorado and will pay most of the study's costs... The current plan for BLM-administered lands surrounding Meeker would allow for 1,100 wells. But oil and gas companies would like to drill as many as 15,000 wells over the 15- to 20-year life of the plan.
That's private companies like Chevron and Exxon deciding what to do with public land. Public, as in, "the public owns it."
This comes less than a month after Gov. Bill Owens vetoed HB1095, which would have encouraged the government to purchase environmentally sound products, and HB1309, which would have strengthened Colorado's air quality standards.
You know what's going to be sweet? Picking out gas masks for my children. I can see it now. We'll be registered for gifts at Baby Gap, Babies R Us and the Baby Pollution Filter Superstore.
Seven oil and gas drillers are choosing the company that will study how much drilling should be allowed on 1.5 million acres of public land in northwestern Colorado and will pay most of the study's costs... The current plan for BLM-administered lands surrounding Meeker would allow for 1,100 wells. But oil and gas companies would like to drill as many as 15,000 wells over the 15- to 20-year life of the plan.
That's private companies like Chevron and Exxon deciding what to do with public land. Public, as in, "the public owns it."
This comes less than a month after Gov. Bill Owens vetoed HB1095, which would have encouraged the government to purchase environmentally sound products, and HB1309, which would have strengthened Colorado's air quality standards.
You know what's going to be sweet? Picking out gas masks for my children. I can see it now. We'll be registered for gifts at Baby Gap, Babies R Us and the Baby Pollution Filter Superstore.
3 Comments:
One more reason for all of us to get behind Bill Ritter for Governor. Regardless of his less than fully satisfactory stand on reproductive rights, do we really want Beauprez wielding the veto pen? Ritter is faantastic on every other issue and at the assembly he made clear that he supports making birth control, including emergency birth control widely and easily available, will restore funds to Planned Parenthood and will never support the criminalization of women and their doctors. Let's get a grip and support the guy who will sign all the great legislation we can pass.
Great point. Ritter would have signed these bills. Beauprez, not so much.
I don't know much about Colorado politics here in the midwest, but whoever supports private drilling in public land has to go.
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