BLM is resorting to divisive tactics
Dear Editor:
I am writing to address a front page article in the Montrose Daily Press on Jan. 23 entitled "State BLM head says gas lease decision sound." This is an intentionally misleading article that seeks to pit the coal industry against those in our community concerned about oil and gas development.
Who’s getting a slice of the pie?
Dear Editor:
Slice of the pie! Who is getting a slice of whose pie? A few weeks ago I was at a meeting where Heart and Soul representatives were putting on a presentation.
Do we have to drill everywhere oil/gas may be?
Dear Editor:
At the recent forum regarding hydraulic fracturing, I was struck by how the representative from the industry, Eric Sanford, downplayed the risks from this violent form of gas/oil extraction.
Community responds generously
Dear Editor:
This letter is long overdue, and I deeply apologize for its tardiness. I feel it quite necessary to write this letter to thank the fine citizens of Delta County. Once again, the St. Nicholas Project's Christmas Drive was a massive success.
Private property rights are under attack
Dear Editor:
It is fashionable for politicians to say they are for private property rights and that they are for jobs, but is all this just hypocrisy?
Delta County commissioners just turned down Jansens' "request" for a gravel pit, violating their property rights and killing jobs.
An update from The Abraham Connection
Dear Editor:
We are halfway through our third season of sheltering and feeding those in need in Delta County at The Abraham Connection/Delta County Homeless Shelter. Partly because we are becoming more well known and partly because people continue to struggle to make ends meet, we find ourselves poised to surpass last season's numbers.
Pedestrians’ deaths were totally preventable
Dear Editor:
It is very sad when an auto accident takes the lives of pedestrians — but downright tragic when that accident was preventable, long predicted, and entirely unnecessary. The loss of two lives on Highway 65 on Grand Mesa Saturday, Jan. 5, is one of those tragic accidents that never needed to happen.
New technology spurs USA’s capacity for production
Dear Editor:
Air-headed, knee-jerk, hand-wringing, flaming liberals such as some recent DCI letter-to-editor writers need to get off it. The new oil and gas drilling technology of directional drilling and multi-stage hydraulic fracturing has unquestionably turned the country around as to crude oil and natural gas productive capabilities.
Gun control is not the answer January 16, 2013
Dear Editor:
The Connecticut school shooting was tragic. No one can understand what the survivors and families are going through.
Educate yourself about fracking
Dear Editor:
The controversy about fracking continues in the letters to the editor. There seems to be much heat and little additional light.