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Allied organizations, COGCC, COGCC Rulemaking Hearings, SB-181

DAY 3 TESTIMONIES of note:

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Here is Part I of the COGCC Hearing recording:

Wed, Aug 26, 2020, Part 1, at time 1:35 –
This Environmental Groups panel contained great testimony from Mike Freeman, Christiaan van Woudenberg and Elise Bair.

Here’s an opening slide, which mentions the Larimer Alliance. Mike Freeman gave the opening remarks, which stressed some points that the COGCC should follow in setting future policy, including using the social cost of carbon, and doing cumulative impact analysis.

Christiaan van Woudenberg, a trustee of the town of Erie and director of Erie Protectors, spoke next, at about 1:35, and gave an impressive presentation that laid out how he and Erie neighbors, who live in the Weld County side of Erie (the other half to the west is in Boulder County), have been massively impacted by the number of gas wells in their neighborhoods — some as little as 500 feet away from homes . He has been fighting fracking in Erie since 2014.

Next to speak was Emily Bair(spelling?), at 1:56, related a dramatic personal story of how here 7 year old son suffered grave afflictions in 2017-18 from the environmental air pollution from the nearby gas wells. She spoke for so many other persons who have been afflicted by fracking in her testimony, and is living proof of what SB-181 was meant to address…and still needs to address.

Our Longmont

The longmont action alert, 8/24/20

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This is what I wrote to each Longmont City Council member today:

Dear Council member …:

Please renew the contract with Boulder Air during this Tuesday’s council meeting. Although I live in Fort Collins, I think it is important to continue monitoring the air quality at the Longmont and Boulder stations. I and other Ft Collins residents will be urging our city council to support creating such monitoring stations here. In fact, there should be a network of such recording stations throughout the Front Range, because this technology developed by Dr. Helmig is the only way we are going to be able to tell how much of our ozone and VOC pollution is coming from oil and gas operations, as distinguished from vehicular traffic.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Rick Casey

As you will see when you go to the Longmont City Council webpage, you will have to email each member individually, in the popup form that is attached to their name. If you copy and paste your message though, it goes pretty fast. Good luck!