From the Styx by Peggy Tibbetts

Here’s your comic relief for the week. Click through and read the comments too:

Energy industry: Maybe we’ll leave
By Bobby Magill

Colorado’s oil and gas industry is hopping mad about new energy development regulations being written by the state, so much so that industry members say it could force them to look outside Colorado for business …

Oh. Hey. Energy companies. Listen up. Before you leave, would you mind cleaning up this mess you made?

And this –

This too –

Oops! Don’t forget this one!

At the current level of production the energy companies will be here well past 2020.

Gee. If they start packing up now, maybe they’ll be out of here by 2030. We can always hope …

Wow. What a joke. These energy people think we’re so stupid.

So anyway, as promised, I bring you shiny new PDFs from last week’s (1/1 local Mayors meeting with Governor Ritter.

Governor Ritter’s press release: State, Feds to Continue Roan Plateau Discussions

Colorado Dept of Natural Resources letter to BLM – Re: Comments on Proposed ACEC Provisions in the Roan Plateau Resource Management Plan Amendment

Mountain Mayors letter to Americans for American Energy

It’s like The Rancher said in his comment about the Daily Sentinel article: “A lot of us who have Federal Land Grazing Permits have wondered why the state and federal governments have not subjected the oil&gas industry to the same environmental standards as the ranching community.”

Or any other individual, community, business, organization, or industry …

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