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Comment on ProPublica: New Study Predicts Frack Fluids Can Migrate to Aquifers Within Years by Brad

Brad — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:43:41 +0000

If these fluids are so safe, why are they injected deep underground?

Comment on ProPublica: New Study Predicts Frack Fluids Can Migrate to Aquifers Within Years by billgeo

billgeo — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:17:02 +0000

all this frenzy is so lazy and unwarranted…first of all frac fluids are way way less toxic than many household chemicals and further way way way less toxic than actual oil and gas. do you get my point? fracking is not an issue, but we have been producing oil and gas for 100 years (and fracking for 60 years). So Henny Penny how about you take a chill pill try to understand why you are so upset and then make an educated comment.

Comment on Home by ThinkAboutIt

ThinkAboutIt — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 18:35:50 +0000

It might be worth looking at Justice Hobb’s entire career, including time served in the Peace Corps, as a 6th grade and university level teacher on environmental law, and for the EPA. Too often, rather than make a reasoned argument, the person is attacked and assumptions made about their motivations.

There is a lot at stake in regards to how we manage and allocate Colorado’s water– and these initiatives make sweeping changes that would likely have many unintended consequences, create uncertainty for many of our economic sectors that are vital to the future (agriculture being one of the key ones– but private land conservation is another, in which valuations of conserved lands and water could be thrown into question.) There are many opportunities to collaborate to evolve water law and practice to meet many needs and sustain our economy. Why not work together on those?

FYI, here’s Justice Hobb’s bio from the court’s website at: http://www.courts.state.co.us/Bio.cfm?Employee_ID=65. He’s a distinguished jurist and dedicated to public education through the Colorado Foundation for Water Education and many other means. Feel free to disagree with him, but attacking his person and motives is a weak argument at best.
Justice Gregory Hobbs: CAREER: Appointed by Governor Roy Romer to the Colorado Supreme Court April 18, 1996. Retained by Colorado voters after a two-year provisional term for ten-year terms commencing January 1999 and January 2009. Practiced law for 23 years, with emphasis on water, environment, land use, and transportation. Former senior partner, Hobbs, Trout & Raley P.C.; Partner, Davis, Graham & Stubbs; First Assistant Attorney General, Natural Resources Section, State of Colorado; Enforcement Attorney, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Law Clerk for Judge William E. Doyle, U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. Taught sixth grade in New York City and served with the Peace Corps in South America.

PROFESSIONAL: Member, American, Colorado and Denver Bar Associations, American Bar Foundation, Colorado Bar Foundation. Admitted to practice in Colorado and California (inactive). Former Adjunct Professor, Environmental Law, Master’s Program in Environmental Policy and Management, University of Denver.

CIVIC: Vice-President, Colorado Foundation for Water Education; Co-Convenor, Dividing the Waters (Western Water Judges Project). Former Vice Chair, Colorado Air Quality Commission. Former Member, Regional Air Quality Council, Metropolitan Transportation Development Commission, Governor’s Water Roundtable, Governor’s Transportation Roundtable, and Wilderness Air Quality Related Values Task Force. Member, Colorado Authors League. Author of In Praise of Fair Colorado, The Practice of Poetry, History and Judging (Bradford Publishing Co. 2004); Colorado Mother of Rivers, Water Poems (Colorado Foundation for Water Education 2005); The Public’s Water Resource, Articles on Water Law, History, and Culture (Continuing Legal Education in Colorado Inc. 2007) and Living the Four Corners, Colorado Centennial State at the Headwaters (Continuing Legal Education in Colorado Inc., 2010).

PERSONAL: Born December 15, 1944, in Gainesville, Florida. Received B.A. in History, Magna Cum Laude, from University of Notre Dame, 1966. J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall), 1971, Order of the Coif, Supreme Court Editor, California Law Review. Spouse Bobbie served as Director of the Children’s Garden Montessori School for 31 years in Denver before her retirement. Children: Dan and Emily. Grandchildren Joni, K.J., Shannon, Ella, and Quinn.

Comment on FAQ by Rob

Rob — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 23:23:34 +0000

Actually, Montana generally follows the prior appropriation doctrine. To the extent it does not, water is a subject of constant litigation and discord. Throwing out a system that works for one that, like Montana’s, is often dysfunctional is just nuts.

Comment on Sign Up to Help by Joe Wezensky, MD

Joe Wezensky, MD — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 03:20:49 +0000

The families in question have been added to a big class action suit so I’m no longer in the loop, unless later if they want me to testify.

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Comment on Home by Jim K

Jim K — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 22:04:49 +0000

I challenge anyone who would vote to sell water rights to the fracking industry, to spend just one ten hour day without taking a sip of any liquid and then cast their vote on wasting water. I have been there, and it gives you a new perspective on preserving water. On top of wasting the water they purchase, they are also polluting wells in the surrounding area. Any of you politicians up for the challenge?

Comment on Sign Up to Help by Lu Hoxeng

Lu Hoxeng — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:43:14 +0000

Getting that information would be so helpful. Any legal people out there who can help?

Comment on Sign Up to Help by Megan

Megan — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 03:01:42 +0000

I am a highschool student willing to do anything to help. Conserving water has become my first priority. I am willing to provide any help with petitions and/or gatherings. I am apart of a very environmentally centered club at school called PeaceJam. We have clubs all around Colorado and many other states. If needed, we can provide any assistance.

Water is the most important resource and it needs to be protected.

Thanks!