{"id":2447021,"date":"2019-07-31T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/go-west-blm-but-not-to-grand-junction\/"},"modified":"2019-08-01T12:59:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T18:59:55","slug":"go-west-blm-but-not-to-grand-junction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/go-west-blm-but-not-to-grand-junction\/","title":{"rendered":"Go west, BLM, but not to Grand Junction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Moving the Bureau of Land Management to the West is a good idea; 90% of BLM land is in the West, but not Grand Junction!<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">BLM personnel will already be coming in with plenty of oil and gas industry influence. Acting BLM Director Casey Hammond is committed to \u201creducing unnecessary regulatory burdens\u201d on the industry. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, a Rifle native, is a former oil industry lobbyist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Grand Junction is a hotbed of climate change deniers and drill-baby-drill types. Being surrounded by such influences is unlikely to change the mind of the BLM staff on the reality of climate change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Glenwood Springs, which has a blend of industry supporters and climate geeks, would be a much better choice. Perhaps the geeks could persuade the BLMers to put environment, public health, and the welfare of the planet ahead of corporate profits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Fred Malo Jr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Carbondale<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/go-west-blm-but-not-to-grand-junction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moving the Bureau of Land Management to the West is a good idea; 90% of BLM land is in the West, but not Grand Junction! BLM personnel will already be coming in with plenty of oil and gas industry influence. Acting BLM Director Casey Hammond is committed to \u201creducing unnecessary regulatory burdens\u201d on the industry. [&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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 05:41:23","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2447061,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447021\/revisions\/2447061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}