NFV delegation heads to DC to oppose gas leases

Citizens For A Healthy Community announced on Jan. 14 that residents from the North Fork Valley will meet this week with representatives from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), staff with Colorado Senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet, and Rep. Scott Tipton to urge the removal of all 20 parcels, and 20,555 acres, located in the North Fork Valley from the BLM's February 2013 oil and gas lease sale. The lease sale is scheduled for Feb. 14 at BLM state offices in Lakewood.

Jim Ramey, Citizens For A Healthy Community director, states, "Drilling in the North Fork Valley, if approved, is expected to harm the livelihoods of many North Fork Valley ranchers, farmers and vintners and threaten water and air quality for families and others throughout the North Fork Valley."

Local business owners and residents travelling to Washington, D.C. include Landon Deane, owner of the Eagle Butte Ranch in Paonia and the T-Lazy-7 Ranch in Aspen, Ty Gillespie, owner of Azura Cellars and Gallery near Paonia, Marley Hodgson, owner of the Smith Fork Ranch near Crawford, Pete Kolbenschlag, Paonia resident and owner of Mountain West Strategies, and Eugenia Bone, food and wine author.

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