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Roan Plateau
Sunday, July 8 at 2:00 PM

Steve Harmening of Denver writes:

i’ve been to virtually every place in this state that was worth seeing and somehow i never made it to the Roan Plateau and i’ll bet 98% of the people along the front range have never been there either.
Having said that i’d also like to point out 2 things: there is no such thing as greedy oil companies, if they didn’t have customers just like me and all the complainers, they wouldn’t be up there looking for product to sell to us. They’re not hoarding it or something.
Secondly, I guess it’s ok to cut down all the forests in places like Iowa and Illinois so they can grow the food we need to survive and i guess it’s ok to have dirty car factories in Detroit and St. Louis, to have the dirty factories that make all the other things that our civilization needs \[and wants\] to survive in comfort, but heaven forbid Colorado has to chip in, solely because of the fact that we have mountains. What hypocrisy.

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READER COMMENTS

Harmening the Great has spoken. He has been to every mall and fast food stand within 20 miles of his home, and his fat ass doesn't care about the Roan. Now the rest of you stop being such mean spoilsports.

Posted by UYRMN on July 8, 2007 05:31 PM

Uhhh, Colorado is ALREADY 'chipping in' with some 50,000 gas wells on the way (regardless of what happens to Roan), new uranium leasing, oil shale on the horizon...

Iowa was primarily grass and prairie.

"There is no such thing as greedy oil companies..." OK, I'll just let that one collapse on its own (lack of ) merit...

Posted by Oliver on July 9, 2007 06:50 AM

I see an entirely new concept in land stewardship.

If Steve Harmening has never been someplace it does not deserve protection.

So simple it is astonishing we didn't think of this long ago.

Steve could you compile a list of all the places you have been so we can bulldoze the rest?

Posted by Colorado Dave on July 9, 2007 09:16 AM

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