By: Paul Muldowney

Paul Muldowney — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:56:32 +0000

Good point John about the air quality, standards and monitoring. How do we get that? We haven’t had the ability to monitor the components of the air other than Carbon monoxide and dust. What about the nitrous oxide, VOC’s, the same things they look for on the east slope.
With evaporation ponds to be placed up wind of us and under the inversion, what will be in that air? They have ozone in Pinedale Wy from drilling activity even during the winter and they don’t have the same environment as we do to trap the same stuff from the same activity.
Is this something our County Commisioner Craig Meis with his background could answer?

By: John B.

John B. — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:46:42 +0000

There may be people locally who don’t want any energy extraction activity at all but I sure don’t know any and I know a lot of “environmentalists”. The issues are the space between drilling activity and peoples homes, making sure that our watersheds are adequately protected from pollution and coming up with baseline air quality standards that are monitored and enforced. All of these things can be done without ruling out gas drilling. It’s a matter of ensuring that the energy companies pay close attention to being good citizens. They have proven elsewhere in many cases that when there are minimal standards and concern for the environment short cuts will be taken that are costly to governments–you and I– to mitigate. It is our community and we are not out of line to try to protect it from greed and carelessness.

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