special-use permit

Citizen activists in Battlement Mesa were feeling dejected late last week after the Garfield County Planning Commission gave the nod of approval to two natural gas wells operating inside their community without proper permits for nearly 20 years.
According to the Glenwood Springs Post Independent, the commission set some fairly stringent conditions for recommending approval of [...]

MONTROSE — Opponents of a proposed uranium mill in southwestern Colorado near the Utah state line may be pleased to hear that state officials in charge of overseeing the transport of incoming ore and outgoing yellowcake don’t actually consider such things “nuclear materials.”