{"id":800569,"date":"2019-10-21T14:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T20:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=373305"},"modified":"2019-10-21T14:00:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T20:00:34","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-vote-no-on-proposition-dd-to-protect-our-natural-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-vote-no-on-proposition-dd-to-protect-our-natural-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Vote no on Proposition DD to protect our natural environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/LettersWebCard-SDN1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>As a stand-alone proposition, the taxing of sports betting<br \/>\nis something probably a lot of us could support. It\u2019s the part of the vague<br \/>\nwording of Proposition DD that states that the increase in state taxes would be<br \/>\nused not only to pay for the regulation of sports betting but \u201cto fund state<br \/>\nwater projects and commitments,\u201d that should cause one to wonder what some of<br \/>\nthese projects and commitments might be. If you see the TV ads on Proposition<br \/>\nDD with the gorgeous mountain and river scenes, you might think the money would<br \/>\nbe used to save these treasures. But if you look carefully at the Colorado<br \/>\nWater Plan, as suggested by Susan Knopf in an Oct. 18 column in the Summit<br \/>\nDaily News where she endorses Proposition DD, you get a different take on the<br \/>\npriorities of many of the stakeholders that formulated the plan.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some \u201cwater projects\u201d that would likely be funded<br \/>\nas a consequence of the passage of DD:<\/p>\n<p>1. More dams on our rivers and more reservoirs that would<br \/>\nsupport more development and suburban sprawl.<\/p>\n<p>2. More water diversions from the already endangered<br \/>\nColorado and other river basins for commercial purposes.<\/p>\n<p>3. More millions of gallons of water for fracking oil and<br \/>\ngas wells to be drilled in Colorado. As the Boulder Weekly points out, the<br \/>\nso-named Mr. Fracking, Josh Penry, was a consultant pushing for the passage of<br \/>\nProposition DD.<\/p>\n<p>Why does American Rivers support DD? Check out where they<br \/>\nget their millions in funding. We can\u2019t continue to destroy our beautiful<br \/>\nnatural environment in the name of development. Please vote no on Proposition<br \/>\nDD.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-vote-no-on-proposition-dd-to-protect-our-natural-environment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a stand-alone proposition, the taxing of sports betting is something probably a lot of us could support. It\u2019s the part of the vague wording of Proposition DD that states that the increase in state taxes would be used not only to pay for the regulation of sports betting but \u201cto fund state water projects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-800569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 10:40:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}