May 12, 2015 06:39 AM UTC

Garfield County BOCC Eliminates 'Pesky Public' Middlemen

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GLENWOOD SPGS, COLO.-  The Garfield County Commission on Monday made a bold move to streamline government by cutting out the middleman.

Its own departments and the public have both been known to get in the way of greasing the skids for campaign funders, hampering the ability of those ‘people,’ as in We the ‘People’ ,  to extract more vital resources – cash money – from the county.  

Not our sister publication, the Glenwood Springs Post-Independent is reporting:

Following a public hearing May 4, county commissioners went against the unanimous recommendation of the county Planning Commission and agreed to allow the open storage pits without a permit, after [Tulsa based] WPX argued it needs the flexibility to use either tanks or pits, depending on the situation.

The Commissioners seemed to wonder: Why even have a Planning Commission if it can’t be over-ruled?  What kind of petty tyranny would that be?  

Surely it would be none worth funding like clock work with above-the-board, below-the-board, and board-upside-the-head of your opponent monies–perhaps they were thinking.  

Kirby Wynn, the county’s oil and gas liaison, reiterated at the May 4 hearing that odor complaints, including those associated with open pits, account for about a third of resident complaints that come to him.

The Planning Commission urged against allowing fracking pits as a use by right, saying they are too hard to distinguish from wastewater pits that do require permits.

County commissioners, however, supported the countywide exemption for fracking pits, including rural residential zones, on testimony from industry representatives that such facilities are typically located far away from residential areas.

The Commissioners seemed to realize that toxic open-air pits are only a problem for job-hating liberals and folks that have a problem with the occasional nose-bleed.  Or maybe they just don’t like the Red, White, and Blue?

For instance big-city people in Grand Junction and their left-of-Mussolini county commission, as reported in yet another unaffiliated media outlet, the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel have lately been suggesting that they might could possibly regulate something if they got around to it. 

As complaints about a smell emanating from the Deer Creek wastewater disposal facility near Whitewater continue to roll in, Mesa County leadership confirmed Monday it’s likely the facility’s operators will face potential revocation of their conditional-use permit.

Mesa County commissioners in November approved a two-year extension of the facility’s permit that allows its operation at 5180 U.S. Highway 50. Deer Creek operators said at the time a metallic stench that had crept from the facility into nearby homes starting last May had been mitigated in the fall with the help of aerators. But the smell returned, according to neighbors on and near Bridgeport Road.

Once again the Garfield County Commission has taken a stand for good government. By cutting out the governed.  

Now contributions can flow unimpeded through the total exploitation of our county’s people and resources.