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All I could do was shake my head in amazement as I read Dan Robinson’s ridiculous letter to the editor in the Aug. 24, 2008 edition of The Daily Sentinel. Mr. Robinson insinuated that County Commissioner Craig Meis gave Delta Petroleum preferential treatment during a recent hearing on the permitting of a natural gas compressor station that required a conditional use permit.
Had Mr. Robinson taken the time to attend the entire hearing item, he would have known that Commissioner Meis was thoroughly interviewed by County Attorney Lyle Dechant regarding his ability to participate in the hearing in an unbiased and impartial manner. Had there been any question as to Commissioner Meis’ ability to participate in this hearing item, Mr. Dechant would have requested that Commissioner Meis recuse himself from participating in this hearing item. This was not the case.
However, as is typical with the anti-natural gas crowd, Mr. Robinson came in at the last minute, spewed his canned glob of rhetoric and immediately left the hearing after providing his “testimony.” Pretty typical of the cowardly “hit-and-run for cover” antics of his ilk. Had Mr. Robinson bothered to stay for the entire hearing item, he would have seen that all three county commissioners truly struggled with how to best resolve the predicament before them.
To simply show up at a county hearing, take several cheap shots at Commissioner Meis, and then run out the back door without making the investment in his own personal time to hear the entire item, clearly demonstrates who is being biased and unreasonable.
MIKE GARDNER
Grand Junction
3 Responses to “Meis was questioned regarding conflict of interest”
Posted August 26th, 2008 at 2:45 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Mike Gardner does not know the facts here and Mr. Robinson does. We have obtained documents concerning the whole proposed Temporary Employee Housing Amedments question through the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA). These are most revealing. The documents demonstrate among other things for example that the proposed language of the amendments has routinely been coordinated at every step along the way with representatives of Delta Petroleum, Black Hills Petroleum, Plains Exploration and Production Company, and several other oil and gas or oil service companies. Letters and emails have flown back and forth between the County Commissioners and such people as John Martini who spoke longly and loudly at the meeting in favor of leaving the emendments as they were (i.e. without adequate protection for the land owner).
Commissioner Rowland excused this by saying that it was just communicating with the public!! Yet no such information was provided to the Western Colorado Congress whose legitimate interest in this issue is a matter of public record.
Posted August 26th, 2008 at 2:47 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
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Since Black Hills Petroleum is an acknowledged contributer to the political campaign of of Commissioner Meis and since his Company does business in several areas with Delta Petroleum, the whole affair once again has that bad odor of conflict of interest. It isperfectly legitimate for Mr. Robinson to ask: Whose interests are the County Commissioners serving??????
Posted August 26th, 2008 at 2:59 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Oh, well, if Lyle Dechant said it was ok….
Wait…you mean “M. Lyle Dechant”?
As in, “Maurice Lyle Dechant”?
nevermind, he’s an idiot.
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