Environment

Let your voice be heard

February 5, 2012
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Let your voice be heard

A public open house on oil and gas regulations for Longmont will be held from 4:30 to 6:30 PM on February 6, 2011, in the lobby of the Council Chambers. At 7:00 PM three city boards will receive information from staff and hear testimony from citizens.

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We occupy. We hope you will, too.

January 31, 2012
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We occupy. We hope you will, too.

We occupy Wall Street and elsewhere to illuminate a diseased condition.

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City misses the mark on public notification

January 28, 2012
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City misses the mark on public notification

Ex-mayor Baum recently said in a radio broadcast that “drilling was nothing new,” that “it had been in the works for a year and a half.”

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NOT in Longmont’s backyard!

January 24, 2012
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NOT in Longmont’s backyard!

For all those climate change deniers who have convinced themselves that greenhouse gases are not man-made, here’s a great big wake-up call.

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Fouled Forever by Fracking

January 20, 2012
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Fouled Forever by Fracking

I have very strong misgivings about the XL pipeline proposal. Governor Brownback tells us that it will bring “good times” to Kansas but I have good reasons to doubt it.

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Times-Call editorial naive and shortsighted

January 12, 2012
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Times-Call editorial naive and shortsighted

The City Council, city staff and the Times-Call should take oil and gas industry arguments with a grain of salt and pay attention to the mounting evidence that argues differently.

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Neo-Liberal Economics and the decline that followed

January 9, 2012
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Neo-Liberal Economics and the decline that followed

"... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of this country will endeavor to prolong its reign..." Abraham Lincoln, 1864

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Say No to Cougar

January 4, 2012
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Say No to Cougar

Inviting the oil industry into Longmont is a bad idea.

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WTP: “…as slippery an organization as one finds in modern politics.”

January 3, 2012
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WTP:  “…as slippery an organization as one finds in modern politics.”

“In the real world of politics, the 'quid pro quo' of both direct contributions to candidates and independent expenditures on their behalf is loyalty. And, in practical effect, experience teaches us that money corrupts, and enough of it corrupts absolutely.”

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Erie Rising

January 2, 2012
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There's a new website dedicated to Erie, Colorado families and their concerns regarding the natural gas drilling and fracking in the community.

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Do you know who wants your water?

December 13, 2011
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Do you know who wants your water?

The mountain stream water that Longmont sold to a company for fracking is irrevocably removed from the hydrological system.

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Coombs/Levison support drilling moratorium

December 12, 2011
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Is Longmont going to become a ‘Drilling’ sacrifice zone?

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Cory Gardner and friends cause “dust up”

December 10, 2011
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Cory Gardner and friends cause “dust up”

Cory Gardner creates dust-up over non-existent farm dust rules.

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City Council refuses moratorium

December 10, 2011
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City Council refuses moratorium

Longmont City Council refuses to take time-out to study fracking.

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Super Advisory Committee to hear about drilling

December 2, 2011
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Super Advisory Committee to hear about drilling

Public invited to hear experts presentations on oil and gas drilling in Longmont/hydraulic fracturing (fracking).

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