{"id":2455270,"date":"2020-03-02T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T03:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/tipton-backs-glenwood-springs-in-opposition-to-mine-expansion\/"},"modified":"2020-03-03T08:31:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T15:31:01","slug":"tipton-backs-glenwood-springs-in-opposition-to-mine-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/tipton-backs-glenwood-springs-in-opposition-to-mine-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Tipton backs Glenwood Springs in opposition to mine expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dear Congressman Tipton,<\/p>\n

I am writing to thank you for your Dec. 5, 2019, letter to the Colorado state director of the Bureau of Land Management in which you requested that the BLM undertake an Environment Assessment for the proposal by the Rocky Mountain Resources Aggregates (RMR) to expand the existing mine. You stated: \u201cThere is a great deal of concern within the impacted communities regarding the potential for damage to the hydrology that feeds into the famed Glenwood Hot Springs by drilling these wells. Any such damage could prove beyond devastating for the community and the local tourist economy.\u201d You also expressed support for the position of the city of Glenwood Springs. Shortly after your request, the BLM did, in fact, decide that an EA would be required.<\/p>\n

While your letter did not need to describe the \u201cimpacted communities,\u201d I am confident that you will be thanked by virtually all of the residents of the Glenwood Springs area who would be affected by the enormous, negative impacts of the RMR proposal. In particular, the families who directly or indirectly depend on the tourism businesses must certainly appreciate your counsel to the BLM to show an \u201cabundance of caution\u201d.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, this egregious proposal by RMR \u2014 to expand from 23 acres to 320 aces and to remove 5 million tons of rock per year hauled by 450 truck trips a day through the downtown \u2014 has gotten statewide attention. The Denver Post Editorial Board expressed on November 14, 2019 that: \u201cRMR won\u2019t get a do-over if they destroy the complex structures that have fed the mineral-rich hot springs for millions of years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thank you, congressman, for listening to the city of Glenwood Springs, the Garfield County Commissioners (all pro-business Republicans), the Glenwood Springs Chamber, and the over 2,000 residents who joined the Citizens Alliance. You have demonstrated that you are both pro-business and pro-environment.<\/p>\n

James W. Light<\/p>\n

Chaffin Light Management, Basalt<\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Congressman Tipton, I am writing to thank you for your Dec. 5, 2019, letter to the Colorado state director of the Bureau of Land Management in which you requested that the BLM undertake an Environment Assessment for the proposal by the Rocky Mountain Resources Aggregates (RMR) to expand the existing mine. You stated: \u201cThere […]<\/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":["post-2455270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 12:48:28","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'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\/2455270","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=2455270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2455284,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455270\/revisions\/2455284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}