23 hours Ago
Cross Gold Mine application must be rejected The East Boulder Climate Change Group, of which I am a member, focuses on water and its relationship to climate change. We emphasize water conservation, water safety and raising public awareness about the looming peril of climate change. These concerns motivate our strenuous opposition to the reopening and expansion of the Cross Gold Mine in Caribou, Colorado.
The application currently before the Colorado Division of Reclamation and Mining Safety would expand the area of permitted mining more than 20 times. This would be detrimental to water safety and public health in much of Boulder Country and far beyond. We consider the treatment systems proposed in the application to be completely inadequate.
In addition to gold and silver mining, the proposed operation would entail underground mining for lead and zinc, known to be a hazardous activity. Existing tunnels would be expanded to allow extraction of 70,000 tons of ore per year for a period of 50 years. As much as 40,000 tons of waste rock would be created each year.
In addition to these perils, menacing extraction chemicals would be used, and a dangerous processing mill would be constructed on site. For all these reasons, reopening and expansion of the Cross Gold Mine is completely unacceptable. Such a proposal contradicts critical efforts to preserve our global environment.
If our children and grandchildren are to have a livable future, we must curtail, not expand, hazardous mining activities. The East Boulder Climate Change Group, and each of its individual members, urge prompt and complete rejection of the application to reopen and greatly expand the Cross Gold Mine Operation. Tom Mayer, Boulder As a senior driver, I’m happy with Tesla Good news! At age 80, I have noticed some degradation in my driving skills and find driving a bit tiring.
A friend took me for a drive in his self-driving (but monitored) Tesla, and I was thoroughly impressed. The car I wanted was in Gypsum, which is west of Vail. Our granddaughter drove us over, we picked up the car, plugged in our home address and set off.
The onboard computer monitors make sure you are awake and looking forward in case it needs to hand over operations to you. The Tesla drove the 160+ miles at the speed limit or less, through heavy traffic, construction and rain. I wasn’t sure about the Eisenhower Tunnel, so I took control through that.
Absolutely no issues at all. Arriving at our home, we still had a 52% charge and recharging only cost $5 on our home charger. Looking at a charging station map, there are stations all over the state and everywhere else.
You can take on enough power to run 200 miles in 15 minutes at most of these stations. The listed range on my model is 311 miles. (It also has the fastest acceleration of any car I have been in.
) Almost everything that I thought I knew about Tesla was false, incorrect or greatly exaggerated. That sounds familiar doesn’t it? It is the best car I have owned and ideally fills the needs of an elderly couple. With all the people who signaled that they were concerned about the earth by buying Tesla and now unloading them because the genius who created them is now trying to reform our bloated and corrupt government to serve us rather than we serving it, this is the time to buy.
Prices are excellent, leasing even more so. Larry Smith, Longmont We now have our own secret police This is great! We now have our very own version of the East German Secret Police! Their principal mission seems to be “disappearing” foreign graduate students who are deemed subversive and shipping them off to detention centers in Louisiana and elsewhere. Tools of the trade include plain clothes, masks and unmarked cars.
Perhaps, the next phase will offer rewards to citizens who inform on their neighbors, friends and family. This program would offer the potential for supplemental income (or, at least, preferential treatment) to pensioners when the Social Security checks stop coming. I vaguely remember when this was the greatest country in the world! Bob Luhr, Boulder.
