A dustup between politicians and landowners at an oil and gas royalty owners meeting in Grand Junction last weekend underscores the complexity of the new drilling regulations – and the heated emotions they stir in some mineral-rights holders.
Despite an exemption from a proposed cap on greenhouse gas emissions, Big Agriculture has declared war on clean energy legislation making its way through Congress.
Grist has the details on what it describes as a sop to large agribusinesses to continue its old, polluting ways:
The failure of the $2 billion New Frontier Bank of Greeley April 10 has left farmers and dairy owners struggling to find agriculture loans to finance the impending growing season, The Greeley Tribune reports. “This is the time of year when farmers need to rely on a line of credit,” said Tony Miller, president of First FarmBank of Greeley.
Way back in late 2006 former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack ran for the democratic nomination for president — for a whole three months until he gave it up in Feb. 2007. While on the routine nationwide criss-cross tour to make the case for his candidacy Vilsack, long known as a pragmatic centrist, launched into a rather fiery Q&A following a speech at the University of Colorado Law School.
Those remarks could serve as an interesting predictor of Vilsack’s approach to food, farming and energy as Pres.-elect Barack Obama’s newly nominated U.S. Agriculture Secretary.
The writer and activist Michael Pollan has no interest in becoming Barack Obama’s Secretary of Agriculture, thank you very much, even though there are a lot of people who think he’d be perfect for the job.
Yesterday, President-elect Barack Obama went after subsidies to wealthy farmers as “a prime example” of the abusive federal spending he hopes to rein in from his perch in the White House. He forgot to mention that, as a senator, he endorsed the bill in May, even as critics pointed out that the eligibility rules allow millionaires to be subsidized with taxpayer dollars.
Our Washington Independent colleague Mary Kane posts a fascinating story on the complex causes, bad timing and market forces coming to bear on worldwide food prices. And a little examined issue could have a big impact right here…
A bill to help short-handed Colorado farmers is being criticized by some as the wrong way to address the shortage of agricultural workers in the state.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) yesterday announced $1.3 million in grants to 21 states to promote agriculture market research ranging from grading goats to pushing prawns.
While all of the grants were relatively small, averaging about…
Colorado Confidential perused recent newspaper headlines across the Western Slope to give you a glimpse of current issues. Water, air quality, growth impacts…it’s definitely a land of transition and loss.
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