Our Clean Air Blog
Rocky Mountain Clean Air Action is moving its blogging to the Our Clean Air blog. All our old posts will continue to be here, but from here on out, Rocky Mountain Clean Air Action is blogging at Our Clean Air.
Rocky Mountain Clean Air Action is the only group dedicated to protecting clean air for healthy children and healthy communities in Colorado and the surrounding region. We are fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, all donations are tax deductible. Online at www.ourcleanair.org.
Rocky Mountain Clean Air Action is moving its blogging to the Our Clean Air blog. All our old posts will continue to be here, but from here on out, Rocky Mountain Clean Air Action is blogging at Our Clean Air.
UPDATE: The Salt Lake Tribune voiced its support for Rocky Mountain Clean Air Action's efforts in an editorial, stating:
The EPA and the state should demand that companies do whatever it takes to keep pollution within limits and to levy consistent fines when they don't. With Salt Lake Valley air getting dirtier every year, we don't have time for governmental squabbling.
First the Denver Post wanted to open up for oil and gas drilling western Colorado's Roan Plateau. Now the Post agrees with Governor Ritter that parts of the Roan should be kept safe from drilling.
Not only that, but Colorado stands to truly gain $1 billion in the next 10 years just by saving and planning better, even without drilling the Roan.
Despite it's claimed interest in looking out for Colorado's future, the Denver Post has yet to call for any reform in the way the oil and gas industry is taxed, or the way oil and gas drilling revenue is saved or distributed. Like the industry fringe, all the Post seems capable of doing is calling for more drilling.
Yet if more drilling was our salvation here in Colorado, we'd be saved by now.
Like Americans for American Energy, the Denver Post has really shown that it lacks credibility when it comes to the issue of the Roan Plateau.
Two studies printed in the New England Journal of Medicine earlier this month confirm yet again what many of us already know: Clean air is great!
Governor Ritter must have forgot to tell his staff at the Air Pollution Control Division that Colorado now has a goal of reducing greenhouse gases by 80% by 2050 to help keep the climate safe.
Although Colorado's clean air laws prohibit anyone from building a source of air pollution without a permit, one oil and gas company seems to think it's above the law.
DJ Beaupeurt at the BLM confirmed that construction has been ongoing for some time. The compressors are supposed to be up and running w/in 1 month. I asked whether it was standard BLM procedure to allow ground work before final permits have been issued. DJ said that she had the draft permits in hand and that all permits were supposed to be finalized before the plant was up and running.In other words, the BLM is actually letting oil and gas drillers build their compressor stations before they get final permits. That's like letting someone drive before they get their driver's license.
While the the Rocky Mountain News today reports that Colorado has missed out on $2,000,000,000 in tax money from oil and gas drilling, the Denver Post is worried that not enough land in western Colorado is being opened up for drilling.