Take Note!

WCC's 30th Annual Meeting on October 2
Planting Prosperity:
Local Foods & Sustainable Communities

Amendments 60, 61 & 101: Both conservative and progressive organizations are pulling together in western Colorado and across the state in opposition to these three fiscal ballot measures. Our state's economy is already fragile so to lose an estimated $6.3 billion annually from our state and local governments' budgets would be devastating. WCC encourages you to vote NO on Amendments 60, 61 & 101.

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Oil & Gas Drilling: On August 30, the Colorado Public Utilities Commission held a public meeting in Grand Junction on the implementation of House Bill 1365, which aimed to improve Denver air quality by reducing emissions from coal-fired power plants. WCC was unable to support this bill in the 2010 state legislature because it incentivized natural gas use for power generation. This could potentially increase Western Slope gas drilling and its impacts on human health and the environment.

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Senator John Kerry has sent out a letter to other members in the US Senate seeking support for the Endocrine Disruption Prevention Act. The Act authorizes the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to conduct research as the critical first step in identifying and regulating endocrine disrupting chemicals. The fluids used in natural gas extraction may contain many of these chemicals! Click here to learn more and send a message to Congress.

Uranium Mill: The Colorado Department of Public Health & Environnment (CDPHE) has received Montrose County's comments on Energy Fuel's proposed Piñon Ridge Uranium Mill in the Paradox Valley. CDPHE held a public hearing in Montrose in June and another in Naturita in July to gather public comment on the county's report.

CDPHE is expected to make a decision on the permit early next year.  Meantime, it is important to keep the issue in the public eye.  Letters to the editor are helpful in shaping public opinion: copy yours to both local and Denver newspapers.

ALSO, please sign the petition urging the CDPHE to deny the permit for this mill. We believe that this proposed uranium mill will negatively impact the public health and safety, as well as the environment and long-term economic stability of the surrounding region now, and far into the future. 

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