Archives for 2013
delay, confuse, obfuscate
Several of the below issues have already been effectively adjudicated negatively in the first round of failed regs that conflicted with COGCC rules. Persistence in their inclusion reveals a purpose to delay oil & gas development by any means until leases run out on operators.
Enough with the oil & gas zoning edit committee sideshow.
RE:
Elbert County Oil and Gas Regulations/MOUs Update
September 14, 2013
The county commissioners continue to undermine public input. The commissioners and the Director of Community and Development Services have held meetings to rewrite the regulations in secret venues; public participation was denied. There is supposed to be an ‘editing committee’ meeting at the administrative building this Tuesday, the 17th, at 6:30 pm. The CDC director is going to present her rewritten regulations and ask to send them to the Planning Commission (their meeting will be held on the 26th).
If you can attend, stress the importance of:
1. No open pits should be used for fluid storage in the county. Only closed loop systems can be used in the county.
2. No flow back or produced water should be spread on open land or roads.
3. All residents, and other resources, should be used to determine if there are abandoned wells in the vicinity of new exploration.
4. Vapor recovery systems, to minimize escaping gas, must be required.
5. Increased setbacks from homes and public places must be required.
6. Extensive baseline water well testing (and continued testing) is imperative.
7. Elbert County should allow green frack fluid only. (This may be a ‘sore point’ and ultimately against State regulations (but will certainly help protect our water, for which the County does have a right to ask.))
Commissioner Schlegel has told us that he does not have to rule by ‘committee’; he wants to run us over for his own personal gain. Commissioner Rowland follows suit
Friday night light
Help Kickstart World War III!
antelope morning
3B or not 3B, not really the question
No one has questioned the necessity to mitigate faulty roofs, fix infrastructure, get new buses, etc. Everyone wants safe and secure schools. That has never been an open question.
Questions, however, have been raised about the numbers inflation that seems to have come sua sponte from the C-1 Board after the BRP and IAC work products were delivered. This line of questioning has enervated all manner of aspersions upon those asking the questions, impugning the motives of the questioners, and has shut down legitimate inquiries on several Facebook threads.
Public forums are not like C-1 Board meetings where directors control allowed speech. Out here in the world the 1st Am. protects civil speech, and financial questions about the 3B Bond justifications are certainly in bounds.
Reasonable people should keep asking questions until the answers come forth. Mr. Swan’s unprofessional theatrics bring discredit to the C-1 Board, and to the extent he speaks for the C-1 Board, make them look evasive and disingenuous.
After all, Swan’s not even a candidate. People want to hear the candidates speak. Swan should allow that speech to proceed without further interference from him, because he’s not adding any useful information for voters to make decisions about potential future directors for C-1.
Why “go here” at all with this comment? Because you have to call out bullies. You can’t just sit quietly while they tromp around hurting good people.
Broadmoor night shots
red line hypocrite
C-1 Bond language
Note where the C-1 Board increased the cost estimates used to justify the Bond.
More importantly, note how the ballot language – which will become the controlling law in this deal – clouds the source & use control of funding. The Board combined project estimates into ballot groupings, and then put everything under the funds flow from the BEST grants. Since the C-1 Board had analyzed the ballot language for some time before tonight -video- one could conclude that rigid internal control of Bond funds flow wasn’t an objective.
Also, the repayment cost of the debt of $3.8M is the real cost to the taxpayers. Focusing on the bond value as the measure of the impact of the debt, disguises the real cost of all the chosen projects. You need to add 40% to each project to estimate its indebted real cost. [Read more…]
Reeves, roof, BEST Grant
Subject: Fw: BRP
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 12:29:35 – 0700 (PDT)
From: Frank Reeves
To: <Members of BRP> [Read more…]
evenin’
more on the C-1 Bond experience
Brooks Imperial shared a link. [Read more…]
BEST Grants and C-1 Bond
Two BEST Grants for roofing at Singing Hills Elementary and Elizabeth High School are key justifications for the C-1 Bond issue planned for the November Election. [Read more…]
A straw man format
Fenner calls returning the proposed zoning language to the planning commission a “straw man format.” [Read more…]
Elbert County in a state of nature
BOCC & TOE, k. i. s. s. i. n. g.
One of the three theological virtues that Christians uphold is hope – hope for all things religious to exist and turn out for the best in eternity. That’s my layman’s take on the virtue; a theologian would probably say it differently. Without a doubt, most Americans are raised in a Christian ethical framework. Just as faith, hope and love infuse our theology, those virtues contribute to every other American milieu. One raised in America simply cannot avoid them. [Read more…]
Islam is not a peaceful religion
Standing before the BOCC
By definition, complaints not grounded in an injury, an injustice, or a wrong, are groundless. [Read more…]
The Museum of American Speed
We toured the museum yesterday. Each of these cars represent a story of a legendary racer or engineer or team who made a milestone in racing or automotive history. They’re owned by Bill Smith, founder of Speedway Motors in Lincoln, Nebraska, and these pictures only scratch the surface of his collection there.
