Hunters oppose Bear Ranch land exchange
Written by David Lien Wednesday, 15 February 2012 Delta County Independent Dear Editor: Over the last year or so, sportsmen who hunt on public lands in the vicinity of William Koch’s Bear Ranch (east...
View ArticleKoch’s robo call survey
Koch’s robo survey…Listen here A TRANSCRIPT OF A ROBO SURVEY ON THE SUBJECT OF THE PROPOSED BEAR RANCH LAND EXCHANGE Following is a transcript of a telephone RoboSurvey by a firm named Elkhurst...
View ArticleEnergy companies can’t be trusted
by John Gregory Delta County Independent Wednesday, 22 Feb. 2012 Dear Editor: It seems that the Delta County Independent and Gunnison Country Times continue to try to put a bright face on energy...
View ArticleGood neighbors
by Randy Sunderland Delta County Independent Wednesday, 02 Nov. 2011 Robert Frost, in his poem, “Mending Walls,” artfully shaped the question of good neighbors. In Delta County, the debate is less...
View ArticleThe Federal Register notice about the legal action against Gunnison Energy...
Federal Register /Vol. 77, No. 36 /Thursday, February 23, 2012 / Notices 10775 1 For purposes of this Complaint, we define the Ragged Mountain Area as covering roughly a region encompassed by the...
View ArticleUS Department of Justice’s charges against Gunnison Energy Co. and SGI
Case 1:12-cv-00395-RPM Document 1 Filed 02/15/12 USDC Colorado IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Civil Action No. ____________ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA U.S. Department of...
View ArticleFederal antitrust lawsuit settled
by Hank Lohmeyer Delta County Independent Wednesday, 22 February 2012 (The story below does not mention the fact that one or more of the gas leases underlie parts of the Bear Ranch and of the BLM...
View ArticleLand swap, potential drilling cause for uproar
by Gary Harmon The Daily Sentinel Friday, March 2, 2012 The isolation of the North Fork Valley is under assault as residents pick sides on the issue of how the stretch of barren adobe, rolling hills...
View ArticleLand swap opponent questions mayor’s decision
by Karen Fogg Delta County Independent Wednesday, 29 February 2012 Dear Editor: Many people who live in the Paonia area are upset that Mayor Schwieterman voted not to write a letter opposing the...
View ArticleWho’s the bad neighbor now?
by Ed Marston Delta County Independent Thursday, 01 March 2012 Dear Editor, On Nov. 22, 2011, DCI publisher Randy Sunderland wrote an editorial titled “Good Neighbors,” in which he said I was being...
View ArticlePowerful natural gas companies agree to a larger antitrust fine
by Tim Mutrie, Special to the Aspen Daily News Monday, April 22, 2013 CARBONDALE — Gunnison Energy and SG Interests, the two natural gas companies implicated in a 2005 collusion scheme to buy federal...
View ArticleABOUT: AN UPDATE ON THE NORTH FORK BLM GAS LEASE BID RIGGING CASE AND THE...
April 27, 2013 Dear Friend, In fall 2012, 72 of us wrote letters protesting a Department of Justice settlement of BLM gas lease bid rigging between Gunnison Energy and SG Interests that took place in...
View ArticleJudge Matsch decision on Gunnison Energy and SG Interests
Matsch decision, Dec. 12, 2012
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