Let's take a walk back to the past since John Stroud isn't going to let any historical data into his piece today.
1. GarCo commissioners have never, ever said they were against air monitoring nor have they ever dropped the ball in any way on performing studies. They stood up to the very poor output of the HIA study because it was filled with holes and they had hired the study for specific scientific data not speculation. At that time, they stepped up their already in place air monitoring controls and sat back to see where it all landed.
2. The recent "scientific" independent study that was ostensibly "leaked" to eco-pen style paparazzi and then "found" its way plastered all over the worldwide web as a result is hysteria. BOCC is accurate on that point.
With that said, SandBox scoffs at the commissioners this morning with their ostensibly placed 'political' rhetoric.
How very convenient it is that whenever there is pressure put on you by the loudest or most powerful social groups in the county; you stand up and go for dotting the 'i's' and crossing the 't's'. Except of course when the power group in front of you happens to be more powerful politically and socially than the loudest.
What will it take? More 'shock-jock' style blogs like this one? More 'bethatesantero' and 'Just Anita' campaigns against gas companies and law enforcement in local chat rooms? More tabloid style eco-pen paparazzi stalking the gas wells?
Hmmmm....or just maybe all it will take...
Is an election.
For the record, 'SandBox Nanny's' personal view on the smoldering issues with Garfield BOCC and Garfield GOP is that they are not political in nature. They're personality and business ethics based. Still nothing that a good epiphany found in the heat of a hot election race won't 'cure'.
John Stroud:
"“One of the goals here is to not use fear, and to have good information instead of reacting to the pressures of politics,” Commission Chairman John Martin said at the work session.
“We need to have facts instead of hysteria,” he said.
The Board of County Commissioners will formally consider the additional expenditure at an upcoming regular meeting.
Currently, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) also contributes about $87,000 annually toward the air quality monitoring in Garfield County.
“I would like to encourage the state to pay for more of this,” Commissioner Mike Samson suggested...."
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"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
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Why is it that the only time BOCC gets game on is when they're pressured by gas activists? There's going to come a time when there won't be any excuses left on why they ignore all else.
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