Posted on 05/22/2015 8:24:53 AM PDT by george76
The U.S. Department of the Interior should do all it can to keep open the Colowyo coal mine in northwest Colorado, U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton and Sen. Cory Gardner, both Colorado Republicans, said in a letter to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell.
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Colowyo Mine employs 220 people in Moffat and Rio Blanco counties and has a payroll of about $20 million, Tipton wrote to Jewell, asking that Interior react quickly to a federal court ruling that could force closure of the mine.
“The adverse effects of shutting down this mine go beyond the jobs at the mine that would be lost,” Tipton and Gardner wrote.
“We surely do not need to impress upon your office the potentially devastating impact of reducing operations at two of the counties’ largest employers as well as one of the largest electricity providers in the western half of the state,” the letter said.
Jewell ought to use “all appropriate measures” to prevent the closure, Tipton and Gardner said.
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Rio Blanco and Moffat counties have “taken multiple hits from rulings and administration policies,” Tipton said, noting that the energy industry stands to be harmed by a potential listing of the greater sage-grouse under the Endangered Species Act.
The mine has been operating for eight years in compliance with the permit already
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What needs to be done is the repeal of the Endangered Species Act which has been turned into a all purpose bludgeon to strike at everything the communist environmental left wants to stop.
Why should anyone have to beg the government to allow them to do business?
The communists want to destroy the country.
Is this just one of those “snail darter” environmentalist roadblocks? Or is something deeper (heh) going on here?
The ecos want to close all energy production.
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