BLM pulls North Fork oil leases
The North Fork Valley has a reprieve from drilling after a turnabout by the Bureau of Land Management. Drilling, however, still could come to the stretch of the Gunnison River, but it…
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Commenting is not available in this channel entry.Jesus, that is the worst job of journalism I have seen in quite some time. The last sentence mentioned organic farming. Is Harmon so stupid or so right-leaning that he fails to recognize that the North Fork Valley has strived to become one of the best organic areas in the country. Organic vineyards, orchards, vegetables, alfalfa hay and cows. What better way to ruin that than to start pumping fracking fluid into our ground water. He lives in Grand Junction, just downstream from the disaster in Parachute, Rifle and Silt and the whole Roan Plateau. Ask the locals there how great things are. They can start their domestic water wells on fire. The people there are pissed off, because it has changed their entire lives. Gas rigs, traffic, polluted air and water and the man-camps with characters that tend to cause problems in small towns. We don’t want or need any of it. Somebody in the BLM finally figured it out. Thank God.