Right now, at least one candidate running for re-election in Garfield County is running on that very premise - that government needs to be given back to the people. Again and again industry has been favored over the interests of the public. The county already has so little to say about how industry operates in the county, that we really need someone to take into account the much bigger picture, balance the interests and think about the longevity and the economic sustainability of our region.

I say YUK to politics. It’s time regular people started looking out for regular people once again… if in fact, they ever did. The fact is that industry pollutes on a grand scale - though there are companies who do a much better job of stewardship than others.

These proposed regulations will help level the playing field and stop giving non-compliant fly-by-nighters the economic advantage over operators who try to do things right. Even if Meis can’t (or won’t) see the reasoning, the truth is that our broader economy, the folks that make a living from industry and our wildlife will only benefit from it.

What’s more asinine? Meis comments or his conflict of interest ”

The only answer to this one is;

The poster has the “Asinine Question of the Weeks” award.

Obviously this poster pops in and thinks that nobody else has posted any comments on the sunbect and spews forth with biased garbage with no connection to reality.

On Craig Meis comments that drilling is good for wildlife
What planet does Craig Meis live on? We live in an area surrounded by
drilling, sludge pits, strong odors, ungodly noise, bright halogen
lights all which go 24/7 and I will tell you the wildlife DO NOT like
it. Meis comments bring into question not only his motives and sense
but also those he associates with. We have seen what happens to
wildlife and it’s sad; they become confused and totally stressed which
means they either adapt or die off. Well pads have taken over their
food supply, calving areas and migration routes, they have no choice but
be near some pad somewhere - the pads are everywhere. Saying bulldozing
every tree and blade of grass is good for wildlife; is the most
ridiculous thing from Meis’s mouth lately - wildlife needs habitat - not
bare dirt to survive. Seen a good aerial map of the total destruction
lately? It will make you sick. Check out week 28 on
journeyoftheforsaken.com to see pictures of how much deer like life along
the trucking routes. Meis seems to think bare toxic dirt is just what
Colorado needs. He seems to think we all like it - just like the wildlife.
Reclamation doesn’t exist; unless it’s maintained and irrigated, only
noxious weeds thrive, and there goes our once beautiful state for many
generations.

Craig Meis owns Cordilleran Services and profits from
industry (especially when they mess up) by doing water testing. Seems it
would greatly increase his income by helping industry: the more industry
pollutes, more income for him. Since he is a commissioner, makes his
living from industry, is against COGCC rules (that we all desperately
need to protect us) I would say this is a conflict of interest. He
should either work as a commissioner for the public good
or work for industry. He’s made it clear he cannot do both. The taxpayers
are paying his commissioner’s salary, but he must have forgotten that part.
No wait, he is making money from both of us — taxpayers and the energy
industry. Wow - conflict of interest big time.

I am indeed proud of that film.

Is it possible to be a legend in a vacuum?

2 months in BC?

Any chance of a repeat this year?

I made a film for the DOW which was shown for years (and may still be for all I know) at the Visitor Centers on the major highways coming into the state. As background for that film I studied in some detail the history of hunting and fishing in the state. Some of that material was incorporated in the film. And whether or not you used that motivation for your statement, the facts as I stated them about the low level of game due to unregulated overhunting in the 1940s are true. Indeed that is why the DOW people make such a point of it; they intend to show that with the proper regulations and constraint on hunting and fishing, wildlife will increase.

As for my not knowing anything about public lands and wildlife, I probably spend as much time as any poster on this forum on public lands. Last summer I spent two months camping in the wilderness of northern British Columbia on an extended fishing trip.

And the data show a decrease in the figures obtained in the research: plain for everyone to see.

I picked the 40’s because the Colorado DOW (that is Division of Wildlife for you 52), which some people here think is so great has made that claim. I actually think that the DOW is wrong at least half the time so who knows!!!

In your mind the data may always show a derease!

Oh I am not a NRA member either!

He picks the 1940s because this was an era before regulations were really enforced. We have all seen the huge mountains of game killed by hunters during that period. Deer and elk (and trout) in Colorado were hunted and fished almost to extinction by an increasing and unregulated population. Let’s compare the situation to say the 1880s. Most of the scientific studies compare the population before and after drilling activities. The data always show a decrease in elk and deer population. So what we have here is not environmental hogwash but rightwing NRA type hogwash.