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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
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Mark Schmitt (via The American Prospect): "In Frum's book, this ugly bit of identity politics is carefully nestled within thousands of words about policy. And this is how the code is supposed to work. The GOP's attack on 'liberals' was always an attack on people not quite like 'Americans'--secular, cosmopolitan, educated, egalitarian. When Republicans went after Michael Dukakis for his policies on crime, they weren't just saying his policies were bad. They were saying, he's not like us; he's a cold-blooded, academic mush-brain who wouldn't give his kids a whupping if they needed it."
Thanks to Digby for the link.
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2:32:31 PM
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Bill Barrett Corp. hopes to build a water treatment plant south of Silt in order to process water from operations, according to The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel. From the article:
A conservation easement may stand in the way of plans by energy developer Bill Barrett Corp. to build a water processing facility on a 280-acre ranch it owns south of Silt. A Garfield County commission hearing on the proposal was delayed recently so Barrett could seek a resolution to concerns, including the contention that the facility is not permitted by the easement. Martha Cochran, executive director of the Aspen Valley Land Trust, which owns the easement, said it appears Barrett's land representatives hadn't been aware of the easement, even though its corporate officials probably were. Barrett spokesman Jim Felton said the company has a different view of what the easement does or doesn't allow but that it is willing to sit down and try to find an acceptable resolution.
Barrett wants to build the plant on its Circle B Land Co. site off County Road 326, about nine miles south of Silt. It would collect water used at gas wells on the property and nearby, separate residual oil and recycle used water back into its operations. Its application says the facility would minimize "wasteful disposal and or the need for taking additional fresh water resources from the Colorado River."
The land trust says it obtained the conservation easement in 1997, before Barrett bought the ranch. Such easements, designed to limit development, can't prevent oil and gas drilling unless the owner of the minerals agrees to restrictions, which is why wells exist on the property, Cochran said. Felton said standard lease agreements allow support facilities to be developed. But the land trust maintains Barrett's right to develop its minerals doesn't include the right to build a water plant that also would serve wells beyond the ranch itself. The county's planning department has recommended that county commissioners turn down Barrett's proposal, only in part because of the conservation easement. Jim Rada, the county's environmental health manager, worries about the proposal's potential odor and noise impacts on nearby homes. The ranch has been the source of many odor complaints over the past three years, Rada wrote in a review of the proposal.
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6:29:21 AM
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From The AP: "Republican John McCain and Democratic U.S. presidential rival Barack Obama were trading barbs as they began crisscrossing three Western states that are likely to be pivotal battlegrounds that could decide the November presidential election. The two candidates recently have largely ignored Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama's long-shot rival, who campaigned Monday in Puerto Rico. The U.S. Caribbean territory's primary on June 1 is one of just three left as the intense months-long battle for the Democratic presidential nomination winds down and Obama looks to be the inevitable nominee. Obama was signaling, even before the Democratic primary campaign formally wraps up, that he intends to fight this fall for three Western states -- New Mexico, Nevada and Colorado -- that narrowly went Republican four years ago. 'We're going to fight as hard as we can in these states. We want to send the message now that we're going to go after them and I expect to win them," the Illinois senator said Monday in New Mexico.'
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