Community convenes for Colowyo ( Coal mining & electric power Jobs: Colorado )

Steamboat Today ^ | July 31, 2015 | Patrick Kelly

[george76]

Craig community leaders hosted a meeting Thursday at Moffat County High School to provide a brief update on the situation at Colowyo Coal Mine, answer questions and facilitate public comment on the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement’s environmental assessment.

Ray Beck, Craig mayor, opened the gathering by telling the audience about the economic significance of Colowyo mine’s 220 jobs to Craig and Northwest Colorado.

“This is not the time to slow down,” Beck said, emphasizing the importance of community feedback on the development of the mine’s new environmental assessment.

When the OMSRE’s recommendation to approve mining plans for Colowyo’s South Taylor Pit was successfully challenged in federal court, the presiding judge determined that public comment was not adequately sought — this time around Colowyo officials, Craig community leaders and OSMRE are trying to ensure sufficiency of the assessment’s public comment is uncontestable.

“Look at this room and how many people showed up on very short notice to be a part of this,” said Christina Oxley, Craig Chamber of Commerce executive director to the approximately 100 people gathered in MCHS’ auditorium. “Any organization with an ounce of common sense would rethink attacking the industry and livelihoods of people who can and will band together to fight.”

[george76]

>> Lets see if I get this right.

Dept. of interior issues a permit 10 years ago, which causes investors to risk millions of dollars to build mines which positively affect the lives of tens of thousands of people by creating jobs and fuel for a power plant. Fast forward 10 years and some eco terrorists find an Obama appointed judge to rescind the permit and the only protection these tens of thousands of people have is the Dept. of interior, IF it decides to act on their behalf, can challenge this judges ruling?

If ever there was a case for giving federal scum the finger and going on with business as usual this is it. <<

ht: RightOnTheBorder

[george76]

He promised he would destroy the coal and electric production industries.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3308892/posts?page=8#8

220 people working at Colowyo, some 180 more at the Trapper Mine, and 300 at the power plant, coal is the economic backbone of the region

[MileHi]

ALL fedgov employees are now the opposition.

[jazusamo]

Sadly our nation is becoming more like Nazi Germany since 0bama took the _residency in the WH.

[kitchen]

Eye of the Storm

Toss in another 200+ from Twenty mile and maybe 100 from the 2 unit Hayden Station that live in Moffat County, the rest in Rio Blanco and Routt. Add those bread winners to the ColoWyo, Trapper, and 3 unit Craig Station employment and that's a big hit on a 15k population.

[george76]

This would really hurt the retail, restaurants, and other middle class businesses & their employees & tax revenue.

Delta County schools, etc. also got hit hard after the mines there were closed.

[familyop]

All: if you don’t know who they really are, you won’t have a chance of stopping the damage that they’re causing. People in your county and state government are supporting them. Local, retired NIMBYs are supporting them. Your corporate bosses are supporting them.

United Way Listing
http://www.centerfornonprofitexcellence.org/nonprofit-directory/wildearth-guardians

It’s many of your own neighbors with big government incomes and delusions about how much their properties are worth. They want to drive out all of the “riff-raff” (people who produce).

Here’s one piece of advice. Those of you in developments with large lots, fence your places. A little work won’t kill you. Stop talking about ranching in CO. Most of those folks aren’t really ranchers. Most of the real ranchers have already been robbed and have moved on. The ranching publicity is part of the big tourism draw and bait for the federal government (not to mention a bragging point for those fat with debt/revenues and cash flow from big entertainment).

Talk about farming in CO instead. Dress downscale during the summer. Shed pretenses. Find out who your neighbors are. Try wearing occasionally wearing overalls to town. Attend a county commissioners’ meeting once in a while. You might be shocked at how communistic (and stoned) at least some of them are.

Republican and Democrat, they’re lefties, and they’re local. Otherwise, your counties wouldn’t be so regulated up and obsessed with nonexistent property values. Focus on bringing property taxes down, too.

Oh...we’ll see you’uns around, ya hear?

;-)

[familyop]

Oh, and don't forget to run ads for "cheap land in Colorado" in the newspapers of small towns in places like the Ozarks. Ads in those papers are cheap. Otherwise, the flood of folks from New Jersey, New York and California will continue to dominate local CO politics.

[george76]

The old Ted Turner trick.

After the eco-NAZIs destroy the local farms, ranches , etc. - he runs in to buy at bankrupt prices. Then builds an eco-lodge like near Las Vegas, New Mexico ( Vermejo Park Ranch ) where he over charges local to access their historical hunting, fishing, logging, etc. Spanish land grant [ from before there was a Mexico].

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1931858/posts

[george76]

What Turner Owns.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1966587/posts

El Jefe is worth hundreds of millions and owns at least 20 properties — Fidel Castro’s luxurious life on his secret island getaway at Cayo Piedra where Ted Turner, Barbara Walters, and Erich Honecker, communist leader of the German Democratic Republic ..

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3288294/posts