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The same Montrose County board of commissioners that recently kicked off a uranium mill hearing with the Pledge of Allegiance and then stood on a stack of apple pies in approving the domestic energy, freedom-from-foreign-oil benefits of a proposed uranium mill is now slamming the anti-American U.S. Census Bureau.
According to the Montrose Daily Press, commissioners [...]

The Aspen Chamber Resort Association’s board of directors Tuesday voted 12-2 to take on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for its questioning of global warming science and other policies it’s adopted that are aimed at thwarting climate-change legislation, according to the Aspen Times.

David Weigel at The Washington Independent reports on the latest resolution being pushed by Republican National Committee member Jim Bopp, the Indiana RNC member who admonished Chairman Michael Steele to embrace the word “socialists” in referring to Democratic lawmakers. Steele at the time was using the word “collectivists” and Bopp insisted that that word just [...]

A grass-roots citizen’s group troubled by air and water pollution from natural gas drilling in Garfield County expressed “extreme disappointment” Monday when the county commissioners voted 2-1 to oppose more federal oversight of the industry.

Even as the Garfield County commissioners today take up debate on a resolution regarding the FRAC (Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals) Act, an environmental researcher in New York released a damning report on the natural gas industry in that state.

The Garfield County commissioners Monday did decide to fire off a strongly-worded resolution condemning contamination of drinking water by the natural-gas industry. It just wasn’t the resolution some people expected.
Despite some speculation the commissioners might vote Monday on a resolution of support for the Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals (FRAC) Act, a measure introduced [...]

Kathy Hall, the Colorado Oil and Gas Association Western Slope representative infamously caught on film saying natural-gas drilling chemicals are so benign she’s had them in her mouth, resigned from COGA last week, according to the Denver Post.
In today’s Post, columnist Susan Greene confirmed what the rumor mill has been churning out for the last [...]

GLENWOOD SPRINGS — Everyone was a film critic Monday at a somewhat tense screening of the new anti-gas-drilling documentary “Split Estate” for the Garfield County commissioners. Most of the reviews — surprisingly, even from the industry — were glowing.

The Garfield County commissioners Monday will get a personal screening of the award-winning new documentary “Split Estate,” detailing environmental problems stemming from the most recent natural gas drilling boom in the central Rockies of Colorado and in New Mexico.
“What you don’t know CAN hurt you,” is the tagline for the film, named for division between [...]